Vysota (The Height) (1957)

The movie focuses on a steel mill construction site and the hardships that the ironworkers have to deal with: including rain, stormy wind and human malice. Our readers may be pleased to know that it was in Stalingrad theater that the movie's main star Nikolay Rybnikov made his first steps towards the acting career.

The Girl Without an Address (Devushka bez adresa) (1957)

In Moscow, a young man is struggling to find the girl whom he briefly met on a train and fell in love with. The girl, in her turn, is more concerned with finding a job and her place in the world, but her outspoken personality and zero-tolerance attitude to injustice prevent her from staying anywhere loo long. A situation that would not be out of place even in today's Moscow!

Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm (Ivan Brovkin na tseline) (1958)

A hilarious – if somewhat sententious – comedy about the plowing of virgin lands, life values and life hardships. Moreover, it is this film that has inspired a myriad of young girls to tuck their trousers into high boots.

An Easy Life (Legkaya zhizn) (1964)

During the day, the movie's roguish protagonist is an ordinary manager at a dry cleaning service. And yet, when the darkness falls, he turns into… an undercover entrepreneur! Which is apparently a very bad thing. It is fascinating how the attitude to individual entrepreneurs and the self-employed has evolved during the mere 60 years.

Queen of the Gas Station (Koroleva benzokolonki) (1962)

A colorful and energetic comedy about a young female gas station attendant who is initially heartbroken about her dead-end job, but later would use her natural optimism and resourcefulness not only to change her own attitude but to transform the whole workplace.