USSR – rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st The Cave of Forgotten Films Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:38:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-rrficon2-32x32.png USSR – rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st 32 32 YEREVANYAN ORERI KHRONIKAN (1972) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/yerevanyan-oreri-khronikan-1972/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/yerevanyan-oreri-khronikan-1972/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:38:51 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=36537 In 1970s Yerevan, Armen, a compassionate archivist at the National Archives, spends his days helping ordinary citizens uncover forgotten truths about their past. Haunted by the human consequences of the records he handles, he becomes increasingly troubled by the way history can preserve injustice as easily as it preserves memory. As Armen struggles to reconcile his desire for truth with his concern for the people affected by it, his personal life and growing relationship with a young woman named Anahit intertwine with a profound meditation on memory, identity, and the weight of history.

Director: Frunze Dovlatyan. AKA Chronicle of Yerevan Days
Writers: Frunze Dovlatyan, Perj Zeytuntsyan.
Stars: Khoren Abrahamyan, Julietta Avakyan, Armen Ayvazyan, Leonard Sarkisov, Gurgen Janibekyan, Yelizaveta Khudabashyan, Ruben Martirosyan.
Cinematographer: Albert Yavuryan.
Composer: Avet Terteryan.

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Unless there’s an official release on Bluray this is probably the best quality copy we’ll see of this Armenian gem and of course it wouldn’t have been possible to see it if it wasn’t for the selfless work of an internet pirate who spent countless hours working on the restoration of this film working with multiple sources and combining them to create the best copy available, both in video and audio. Thanks a lot to sjostrom27 @KG for this restoration!

]]> https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/yerevanyan-oreri-khronikan-1972/feed/ 1 DZĪVĪTE (1989) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/dzivite-1989/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/dzivite-1989/#respond Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:08:12 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=36361 A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life’s work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas, thus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life, a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries. The film is based on Krišjānis Barons’ life during late 1800s and early 1900s – his childhood and youth in Latvia, studies and work in St. Petersburg and other places in Russia, his relationship with his faithful wife Dārta, and the awakening of the Latvian national self-awareness.

Director Aivars Freimanis and poet Jānis Peters worked on the screenplay for the film on Krišjānis Barons for many years, creating a sincere story about a great personality, but trying to avoid the traditional glorification of the Father of Dainas. The director wanted to make a film about a true personality, therefore he let loose his creative spirit, and Dear Life is not a “regular” biopic by any means. It surprises with various artistically and professionally challenging methods that attract the audience’s attention. The main characters, Krišjānis and Dārta, are played by two pairs of great actors, but the story is full of unexpected plot twists, merging the characters and events of the first national awakening with elements of the third national awakening that took place at the time when the film was made.

Director: Aivars Freimanis.
Writers: Aivars Freimanis, Janis Peters.
Stars: Valdemars Zandbergs, Leonîds Grabovskis, Velta Line, Indra Brike, Gundars Abolins, Maija Apine, Janis Baltvilks, Juris Bartkevics, Bruno Egle, Ivars Brakovskis, Dace Eversa, Ingmars Freimanis, Alvis Hermanis, Peteris Korsaks, Dita Krenberga, Vizma Kvepa, Kristine Lipina, Peteris Lucis, Aivars Neibarts, Arturs Nikitins, Regina Razuma, Aris Rozentals, Askolds Saulitis, Haralds Ulmanis, Hermanis Vazdiks, Varis Vetra, Juris Zagars.
Cinematographer: Valdis Eglitis.
Composer: Martins Brauns.

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]]> https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/dzivite-1989/feed/ 0 BALTIE ZVANI (1961) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/baltie-zvani-1961/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/baltie-zvani-1961/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:00:38 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=36399 The first film of Latvian cinema’s “new era”, that of the Riga School of Poetic Documentary Cinema. The story of a little girl in a white dress wandering the streets of Riga in search of the flowers she has seen in a shop window was originally conceived and shot as a short film, but its documentary character is so abundant and artistically valuable that this little film became a turning point in cinema history and the beginning of a new era.

Director: Ivars Kraulitis. AKA White Bells
Writer: Herz Frank.
Stars: Ilze Zarina.
Cinematographer: Uldis Brauns.

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]]> https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/baltie-zvani-1961/feed/ 1 HAKOB HOVNATANYAN (1967) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/01/hakob-hovnatanyan-1967/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/01/hakob-hovnatanyan-1967/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:28:50 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=35565 With a playful associative montage, Parajanov offers an overview of portrait paintings by Hakob Hovnatanyan, the “Raphael of Tiflis.” Combining sights and sounds from both Hovnatanyan’s paintings and 19th century Tbilisi, Parajanov’s short documentary can be seen as a direct precursor to The Color of Pomegranates (1969).

Director: Sergei Parajanov. AKA Հակոբ Հովնաթանյան
Writer: Sergei Parajanov.

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]]> https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/01/hakob-hovnatanyan-1967/feed/ 1 MONANIEBA (1987) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2025/10/monanieba-1987/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2025/10/monanieba-1987/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:22:23 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=34373 Tengiz Abuladze’s black comic allegory – the first instance of a Soviet filmmaker directly confronting the legacy of Stalin’s purges – caused a sensation when it first aired on Georgian television. Unfolding over two timelines, the film combines absurdist parable with wrenching drama. When the corpse of the recently deceased mayor of a small town is repeatedly disinterred, its citizens must face up to the horrors of their buried past. Abuladze’s poetic film is a powerful act of cinematic testimony, combining religious symbolism with knowing references to the various ghosts of 20th-century totalitarianism.

Director: Tengiz Abuladze. მონანიება / AKA Repentance.
Writers: Tengiz Abuladze, Nana Janelidze, Rezo Kveselava.
Stars: Avtandil Makharadze, Ia Ninidze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ketevan Abuladze, David Giorgobiani, Kakhi Kavsadze, Merab Ninidze, Nino Zakariadze, Nato Ochigava, Boris Tsipuria, Akaki Khidasheli, Leo Antadze, Rezo Esadze, Mzia Makhviladze, Amiran Amiranashvili, Dato Kemkhadze.
Cinematographer: Mikhail Agranovich.
Composer: Nana Janelidze.

1987 Cannes Film Festival – Winner of the Grand Jury Prize.
1987 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.
1988 Golden Globes – Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

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]]> https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2025/10/monanieba-1987/feed/ 1 VECHER NAKANUNE IVANA KUPALA (1968) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2025/10/vecher-nakanune-ivana-kupala-1968/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2025/10/vecher-nakanune-ivana-kupala-1968/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:27:10 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=34245 Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won’t hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” (“St John’s Eve”) and Ukrainian folk tales.

Director: Yuri Ilyenko. AKA The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
Writers: Nikolay Gogol (stories), Yuri Ilyenko.
Stars: Boris Khmelnitskiy, Larisa Kadochnikova, Yefim Fridman, Boryslav Brondukov, Mikhail Ilyenko, Dmitri Franko, Dzhemma Firsova, Viktor Panchenko, Konstantin Ershov, David Yanover, Nikolai Silis, Aleksandr Sergienko.
Cinematographer: Vadim Ilyenko.
Composer: Leonid Grabovskiy.

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]]> https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2025/10/vecher-nakanune-ivana-kupala-1968/feed/ 1 SHEREKILEBI (1974) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2025/08/sherekilebi-1974/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2025/08/sherekilebi-1974/#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:58:21 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=33899 Two eccentrics who have ended up in jail due to their inability to conform build a fantastical flying machine to flee their grey reality. At once a bizarre comedy with bite about two outsiders in some indeterminate place at some indeterminate time, a plea for the power of dream and a concealed critique of the system.

Director: Eldar Shengelaia. AKA The Eccentrics / შერეკილები
Writer: Revaz Gabriadze.
Stars: Vasili Chkhaidze, Dato Jgenti, Ariadna Shengelaia, Boris Tsipuria, Abrek Pkhaladze, Merab Eliozishvili, Akaki Bakradze, Grigol Tkabladze.
Cinematographer: Geno Chiradze.
Composers: Jansug Kakhidze, Giya Kancheli.

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RIP Eldar Shengelaia (1933-2025)

]]> https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2025/08/sherekilebi-1974/feed/ 2 TETRI KARAVANI (1963) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2025/08/tetri-karavani-1963/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2025/08/tetri-karavani-1963/#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:58:09 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=33900 For generations, shepherds from villages high up in the mountains have been travelling with their vast sheep herds, moving them to distant pastures where they spend the long winter. Each of the villagers has a story to tell, intimated through flawless concision, while the film’s effortlessly fluid epic narrative is interwoven with lyrical passages, together creating a timeless cinematic poem about the primary values in life.

Directors: Tamaz Meliava, Eldar Shengelaia. AKA The White Caravan
Writer: Merab Eliozishvili. თეთრი ქარავანი
Stars: Spartak Bagashvili, Ariadna Shengelaia, Imedo Kakhiani, Giorgi Kikadze, Merab Eliozishvili, Dodo Abashidze, Gogutsa Kuprashvili, Valentin Donguzashvili.
Cinematographers: Leonid Kalashnikov, Giorgi Kalatozishvili.
Composer: Irakli Gejadze.

1964 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

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RIP Eldar Shengelaia (1933-2025)

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