De Laurentiis was able to use director Sergei Bondarchuk (who was Russian) to strike a deal with the Soviets that meant they could not only film Waterloo in the USSR, but would pay bargain ...

German and Soviet soldiers are shown as professionals ... The director of War and Peace and Waterloo wanted his film to be as authentic as possible. He made the actors spend days in military ...

But Poland’s post-Communist heir to the reciprocal rights of 1,100 Soviet films included in the same series of copyright deals, the Polish Film Institute, is a public, nonprofit body and cannot ...

Russian actor Oleg Vidov ... according to an official release. Vidov’s film credits include “Battle of Neretva,” “Waterloo,” where he worked alongside Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer ...

"Za nami Moskva" (Frontline Moscow), a popular Soviet-era war drama, is making its return to the international stage, some 40 years after the film first debuted. Mazhit Begalin's 1968 movie ...

When a young Viesturs Kairiss started to dream about becoming a filmmaker thirty-some-odd years ago, he knew his path wouldn’t be straightforward or easy. Before the fall of the Soviet Union ...