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While a newly-built industrial bakery can produce bread, a three-person committee refused to sign acceptance documents citing numerous deficiencies. Lyonya Shindin, who works for a construction company, which built the bakery, follows the committee members traveling by train. His goal is to convince them to sign the documents before they arrive home. Ready to do it at any cost Lyonya starts scheming, and puts on acts to bond with committee members. Yet Yuri Devyatov, the chairman, is unmoved. Eventually Lyonya comes clean, and explains Devyatov that everything goes way beyond the unfinished bakery: the whole incident will be used to sack an honest and talented manager, who was forced to work on the bakery amid a lack of resources facing an impossible deadline. Devyatov learns that he was used as a pawn making a perfect way to deal with someone's enemies using an impartial man of stellar reputation.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min
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Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: East Germany, Soviet Union
Duration: 178 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 339
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 669
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic
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Film, based on Valeriy Musakhanov's novel about auto-racing, drivers and automobiles.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
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Private Life (1982)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
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Young lieutenant arrives to tank regiment stationed in the Central Asia. He uses unusual for Soviet Army methods to train his soldiers. It predictably leads to tensions with superiors and subordinates. However later it pays back during live exercises.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 27
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Country: Soviet Union
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 162
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 139
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Duration: 73 min
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Carnival (1982)
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
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Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
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On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
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A neurosurgeon returns back to the USSR from Sweden and has to deal with rejection - both at work and at home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
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The Second Circle (1990)
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A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
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In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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The Wishing Tree (1976)
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
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War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
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As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he is marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party. The French are defeated by Kutuzov in the Battle of Krasnoi. Andrei is recognized and is brought to his estate. He forgives Natasha on his deathbed. She reunites with Pierre and they marry as Moscow is being rebuilt.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min
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United States Senator, Andrew Ladd, revisits his life after a woman he loved, but only wrote letters to, dies. Having met as children the two grow apart as he enters politics and she aspires to be an artist. While success follows him, she has a more trying life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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