For the most of us the fairy-tales are connected with memories from the childhood. I also liked to watch them and it's hard to find one which I don't know. The movies about wars, revolutions, collective farms and plants overflowed Soviet TV. Any kind of fantastic story gave much more pleasure for a kid's mind tired from endless propaganda. The historic of movie never would put together such different movies as these three on this page.

There is a strange statistic in Russian actors' life. It's hard to find another country, where children of famous actors and actresses become also very popular movie stars. Here you can see just a small part from a very long list of names. For example, to tell about Bondarchuk family it would be necessary to say about six persons. I've put at this page just the first names, which came on my mind. It's really interesting to see the similar faces, compare old and young generations.

Foreign stars in Russian films. - Polish actresses have played a special role in Russian film history. Their unusual beauty and noblencharm brought a lot of attention to their works, which became close and loved. Some of them are more popular in Russia than in Poland.

The famous German film-maker Oliver Hirschbiegel has released his new film - Downfall. The appearance of the Downfall has been greeted to numerous cheerful appraisals, as well as no less numerous condemnations, which, most likely, will continue as long as the film will be distributed.

The films about the Second World War. - After watching few Americans
movies about that war there is strong feeing that they tell about
another war. Perhaps, you would be interested in knowing Russian view at those events. People's destinies, emotions, love and sorrow... everything this doesn't stay us indifferent.

Meanwhile, to most of the Soviet people the name of Heinrich Müller did not become known until 1973, when the state television aired a 12-episode serial titled Seventeen Moments of Spring, directed by a former KGB officer, Tamara Lioznova. The success of the serial was preceded by similar success of the original novel (which became the basis for its script), written by Yulian Semenov, also a former intelligence and KGB officer...