Ilya Kopalin

First Flight to the Stars (1961)

The history of the Soviet space program and the flight of the world's first manned spacecraft "Vostok" piloted by Yuri Gagarin. ...

Warsaw Meetings (1955)

Documentary on the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students which was held from 31 July to 15 August 1955 in Warsaw. ...

Velikoye proshchaniye (1953)

March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze in solemn grief. The country escorts its father and leader, Joseph Stalin. ...

Day of the Victorious Country (1948)

Berlin Conference (1945)

Crimean Conference (1945)

The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalition was held from February 4 to February 11, 1945 in the Livadia Palace near Yalta. ...

The Court Is in Session (1943)

The world's first trial against German war criminals took place in Kharkov in December 1943. The film covers the trial of three Germans and one Russian: Corporal of German Secret Field Police Reinhard Retzlaw; Captain of the German Military Counter-Espiona ...

Moscow Strikes Back (1942)

A Soviet documentary chronicling the Battle of Moscow (October 1941 – January 1942), when Red Army forces repelled the German advance on the capital. Shot by numerous frontline cameramen, it combines harrowing footage of combat and civilian suffering wit ...

Three Songs About Lenin (1934)

This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. ...

One of Many (1931)

Directed by Ilya Kopalin. ...

World Without a Game (1966)

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema. ...

The Magic Beam (1963)

"The Magic Beam" is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s. ...