83 Films & TV Shows Set In Russia During The 1940s
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The Turning Point
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sA Soviet 1945 film directed by Fridrikh Ermler based on a screenplay by Boris Chirskov. The film was one of the Cannes top prize winners of 1946.
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Days of Glory
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sA heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
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The North Star
🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sA rolling wall of hell that couldn't be stopped... A handful of men who had to stop it! — A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941.
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Two Soldiers
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sA story about the friendship between two young men, two soldiers - Arkady from Odessa and Sasha from Ural.
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Three Russian Girls
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sKiss me now -- for always ! — Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl From Stalingrad. Set just after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the film stars Anna Sten as Natasha, a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. American test pilot John Hill (Kent Smith), who'd been in Russia on a goodwill mission, is wounded in battle and brought to the hospital. As he slowly recovers from his wounds, Hill falls in love with Natasha. A last-act crisis develops when the hospital personnel are forced to move immediately to Leningrad as the Nazis advance.
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The Boy from Stalingrad
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sHollywood's first drama of Russia's young heroes. — If J.M. Barrie had had a hand in Tarkovsky's IVAN'S CHILDHOOD, it might like something like this bizarre boys' adventure confection. Surprised by the advancing German Army while gathering wheat outside their village, a spunky band of Russian adolescents employs a combination of wits and heroic self-sacrifice to defeat a Nazi battalion, blow up a tank, and save the people of Stalingrad from imminent destruction. A rarely-seen entry in Hollywoood's brief wartime spate of pro-Soviet propaganda films, THE BOY FROM STALINGRAD stars Serbian-American child actor Bobby Samarzich, who went on to found one of Southern California's greatest tamburitza bands.
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G.P.U.
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇮 Finland 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇷🇺 Russia The 1940s The 1930sOlga, a Russian refugee from Bolshevik terror, has joined the Soviet secret police to find the man responsible for killing her parents. Meanwhile, a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the communists.