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- DirectorRobert BressonStarsIsabelle WeingartenGuillaume des ForêtsJean-Maurice MonnoyerJacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsPierre ClémentiTina AumontSergio TofanoBernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski's 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-Vietcong student-protest present.
- DirectorMaximilian SchellStarsJohn Moulder-BrownDominique SandaMaximilian SchellBased on Ivan Turgeyev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy's father (Maximilian Schell). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970's Academy Awards.
- DirectorLaurence OlivierJohn SichelStarsJeanne WattsJoan PlowrightLouise PurnellNearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
- DirectorAleksander FordStarsGunther MalzacherElzbieta CzyzewskaPeter SteenBased on Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel, this is the story of life as a political prisoner behind the walls of a Stalinist labor camp.
- DirectorCasper WredeStarsTom CourtenayEspen SkjønbergAlf MallandIvan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp. The day begins with Shukhov waking up sick. For waking late, he is forced to clean the guardhouse, but this is a comparatively minor punishment. When Shukhov is finally able to leave the guardhouse, he goes to the dispensary to report his illness. It is relatively late in the morning by this time, however, so the orderly is unable to exempt any more workers and Shukhov must work. Based on the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsJames MasonVanessa RedgraveSimone SignoretFilm adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsGianni GarkoAgostina BelliRoberto MalderaThe patriarch of a wealthy family fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family to not let him back into his house, no matter how much he begs them.
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsWalter GillerGitte HænningJuraj HerzThree stories of adulterous temptation.
- DirectorLéonard KeigelStarsDita ParloMichel SuborSimone BachA countess married to Russia's envoy to the court of Louis XVI is a gambling addict and doesn't seem to mind that she loses nightly at the card table.Until a mysterious count entrusts her with a dangerous secret.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsOlivera MarkovicLjuba TadicKapitalina EricIn what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk.
- DirectorFerdinando BaldiHenri ZaphiratosStarsVladimir MedarLorella De LucaJean-François PoronDespite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach them how to become real Cossacks.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsTony CurtisYul BrynnerChristine KaufmannIn the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsBarbara SteeleJohn RichardsonAndrea ChecchiA vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.
- DirectorStellio LorenziStarsGabrielle DorziatArlette ThomasBetty SchneiderAnna Feodotovna Tomski, an old Russian countess, is said to be in possession of the "secret of the cards" that the famous magician Cagliostro once entrusted to her at the court of France. Her grandson Paul, an inveterate gambler, would like to have the secret so that he will no longer lose at the game, but the one who seems to be ready to do anything to obtain it is a German officer, Hermann, who claims to be in love with Lise, the countess' ward.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsMichèle MercierLidia AlfonsiBoris KarloffBoris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsSteve ReevesGiorgia MollScilla GabelThe story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsRossano BrazziIrasema DiliánGino CerviAn evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsCharles VanelDaniele SpalloneCristina GaioniIn 19th century Russia, an 8 year-old boy is sent from his home village to the big city to go to school. On his long way there, he gets to witness the often harsh realities of life in the steppe. Based on allegorical novel by Chekhov.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsSilvana ManganoVan HeflinViveca LindforsIn 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsMax von SydowEleonora GiorgiMario AdorfProfessor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a result somebody turns out Doggies. Unfortunately, experience proves that it is better for dog to remain a dog.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsYul BrynnerMaria SchellClaire BloomDrama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
- DirectorRolf HansenStarsHorst BuchholzMyriam BruEdith MillAt the end of the nineteenth century, Russia, Prince Nekhlyudov, on the verge of contracting a marriage of convenience, leads a superficial and mundane life. He is appointed juror in the trial of a woman in whom he recognizes Katyusha, a woman he once seduced and abandoned pregnant.
- DirectorFranz EichhornStarsOscaritoRenata FronziZé Trindade