Race of the Century
Russian film transplanting the tragic tale of Donald Crowhurst into then-contemporary anti-capitalist thought.
Nikita Orlov
Casts & Crew
Leonhard Merzin
Elle Kull
Natalya Guseva
Rostislav Yankovskiy
Ģirts Jakovļevs
Also Directed by Nikita Orlov
This is a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics co-production. This film is set during World War II, and is about a female Russian soldier named Masha. She is on a mission to discover a secret Japanese base in Korea. Everybody who accompanies her on the mission shortly dies, and she’s forced to stay with a local fisherman. She is trying to get the information about the base location back to the Russian army, because if she doesn’t, the Japanese will unleash the “Sakura Plan”, which is an all-out biological warfare assualt on the world.
A family comedy about funny adventures of two six-graders during the summer vacations.
About Soviet and Japanese volley-ball players who are both rivals and friends. The events cover the period from the 1976 Montreal Olympics to the eve of XXII Olympics in Moscow.