Rare Cinematic Gems Exploring the Legacy of Pervye ogni: Cult Guide

Dir: Yuri Tarich

A story of Belarusian children that are enrolled in a special school. The orphans live in gymnasium shelter under poor conditions and high-school students are showing interest in life in Soviet.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Put korablya perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Yuri Tarich

The soviet motor ship "Albanov", running into a submarine rock, crashes in North sea. Passengers and command on boats head for off-shore rocks and find temporal shelter. Getting a signal about the calamity of motor ship, detachment of divers-rescuers at the head with the chief of party - commissar Petrov - begin works on getting up "Albanov".

Dir: Yuri Tarich

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Bulat-Batyr perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the local population to Orthodoxy by force, the monks and soldiers meet a tough rebuff from the locals. The wife of the peasant Bulat dies, and his son Asfan is taken away in an unknown direction.

Dir: Yuri Tarich

A young Belarussian man joins Soviet partisans in order to fight Polish occupational forces in Belarus.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Lesnaya byl perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Yuri Tarich

Story about the military life of a young rebel and his youthful passion in Tsarist Russia.

Dir: Yuri Tarich

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Kapitanskaya dochka perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Early 1930s. A strike breaks out in one of the oil fields. The Romanian oil owners, interested in the strike, through the bribed deputy of the Polish Sejm, Staszewski, are trying to oppose the acceptance of the workers' demands and thus the end of the strike. The oil fields are transferred to the Polish military department. With the assistance of the same Stashevsky, now bribed by the Minister of War, the strike is suppressed with the help of regular army troops and gas bombs. The military industry receives the oil it needs, and the deputies of the Diet, despite the protest of the communists, finally approve the project to increase the armament.

Dir: Yuri Tarich

The unhappy fate of a serf who devises a flying apparatus, against the background of Czar Ivan IV in Russia's 16th century.