“…This movie was commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet revolution.…”

“…This movie was commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet revolution.…”

“…Grandiose and festive celebration of Stalin.…”

“…Besides, it promotes Stalin's role in the progress that has been made since the "equalizing" Revolution.…”

“…The murder was used by Stalin to start the purges against the Zinoviev's Bolshevik 'old guard' in Leningrad.…”

“…The mosaic vision of 1953, the year of Stalin's death and a mounting anti-Semitic campaign. …”

“…In Stalin's Soviet Union political opponents were sent to labor camps scattered on the borders of the country. …”

“…The film glorifies the role of Stalin in the first post-revolutionary years.…”

“…Therefore the Party, following the directives of Stalin, decided to build a canal that connects the Baltic and the White Seas. " A special insight into the lives of the Soviet forced labour camps.…”

“…These survivors, released after Stalin's death, remained in Magadan because they had nowhere else to go. …”

“…Duration: 00:07:00 "Funeral" is an experimental film, a video-collage pieced together mostly from archival footage of the burial ceremonies of Lenin and Stalin. It does not only commemorates the Soviet funereal cult, but invokes the system on its own. …”

“…Verzio FF submission Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and other dictators appear on the labels of wine bottles sold in Italy. …”

“…A disheartening story of Stalin's paranoia and the price some people had to pay.…”

“…Although her work was banned and went unpublished for 17 years, her poem "Requiem" became the underground anthem for the millions who suffered under Stalin. This unique film, which uses Akhmatova's diaries for text, also includes portraits of Akhmatova's friends and contemporaries--Boris Pasternak, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mikhail Sostchenko.…”

“…Duration: 01:37:00 "Retro-phantasy" set in the 1930s, when Stalin allegedly endorsed the idea of sex-change operations for the purpose of providing more soldiers for the motherland. …”

“…The Stone Cross becomes involved in the celebrations to mark the birthday of "the father of communism", comrade Stalin.…”

“…The film applies Reich's theories of Orgone energy and analogies of Stalinism as a form of Freudian sexual repression.…”

“…The work was commissioned by Stalin himself, who asked Dovzhenko to make "a Ukrainian Chapayev", the Russian Red Army commander.…”

“…Duration: 01:32:00 "The Star" is a screen version of a 1947 story by the respected war writer Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913-62) shot in 1949 but released only after Stalin’s death in 1953. Stalin did not agree with the tragic finale, considering that it might ‘deter soldiers from becoming reconnaissance troops’. …”

“…The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. …”