Ilya Kopalin Movies

Propaganda film about Soviet Latvia.Events in Latvia in 1940: the release of political prisoners, demonstrations in the streets of Riga, the Latvian...

The history of the Soviet space program and the flight of the world's first manned spacecraft "Vostok" piloted by Yuri Gagarin.

Three episodes comprise three songs sung by anonymous Soviet peoples about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

Documentary almanac directed by the great cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman about the life of the Soviet capital.

Commissioned as both a documentary and an information film for the citizens of Moscow prior to municipal elections, a tableau of Soviet life and...

The 1961 Nominee of the Palme d'Or as the Best Short Film.

Through the travelogue format, the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and detailed the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land....

Documentary film about the IV. the youth festival, held in 1953, in Bucharest.

Documentary on the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students which was held from 31 July to 15 August 1955 in Warsaw.

March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze...

“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of...

The film commemorates the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution by depicting major events in Soviet history from 1917 to 1957. It includes...

The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalition was held from February 4 to February 11, 1945...

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

A Soviet documentary chronicling the Battle of Moscow (October 1941 – January 1942), when Red Army forces repelled the German advance on the...

A documentary on the Fourth World Festival of Youth and Students that took place in the summer of 1953 in Bucharest.