Introduction Zarak is a 1957 British-American CinemaScope adventure film based on the 1949 book The Story of Zarak Khan by A.J. Bevan. It was directed by Terence Young with assistance from John Gilling and Yakima Canutt. Set in the Northwest Frontier (though filmed in Morocco), the film stars Victor Mature, Michael Wilding, Anita Ekberg, and… Read More
Introduction Shock Wavesis a 1977 American horror film written and directed by Ken Wiederhorn. The film is about a group of tourists who encounter aquatic Nazi zombies when they become shipwrecked. It stars Peter Cushing as a former SS commander, Brooke Adams as a tourist, and John Carradine as the captain of the tourists’ boat.… Read More
Introduction Zombie Lake (French: Le lac des morts vivants) is a 1981 Spanish-French horror film directed by Jean Rollin and Julian de Laserna. The film starred Howard Vernon as the mayor of a small French town that is plagued by Nazi zombies who were killed by the town’s villagers 20 years earlier. Outline The story… Read More
Introduction An elite black ops team battles for survival against an indestructible force of zombie ninjas. Outline A team of black ops must defeat an army of zombie ninjas, accidentally developed by a scientist working for an arms company, to protect their city. Cast Adam T Perkins … Dillon. Kira Caine … Mali (as Kira… Read More
Introduction Sekretnyi Farvater (aka “The Secret Fairway” or “Секретный фарватер”) is a Soviet four-part feature film based on the novel of the same name by Leonid Platov. Outline The action takes place in Baltic Sea during WWII in 1944-1945. The film tells about the commander of the torpedo boat Boris Shubin, who at the end… Read More
Introduction They Fought for Their Country (Russian: Они сражались за Родину, romanised: Oni srazhalis’ za Rodinu) is a 1975 Soviet war film based on the eponymous novel written by Mikhail Sholokhov and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. The film is the story of a Soviet platoon fighting a rearguard action during the German drive on Stalingrad.… Read More
Introduction At Home Among Strangers, A Stranger Among His Own (or Friend to Foes, Foe to Friends) (Russian: Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих; Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh) is a 1974 Soviet film starring Yuri Bogatyryov and Anatoly Solonitsyn and directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. Produced mainly in colour, some scenes are shot in… Read More
Introduction Trial on the Road (Russian: Проверка на дорогах, romanised: Proverka na dorogakh) is a 1971 black-and-white Soviet film set in World War II, directed by Aleksey German, starring Rolan Bykov, Anatoly Solonitsyn and Vladimir Zamansky. It is also known as Checkpoint or Check up on the Road. Outline The drama takes place in December… Read More
Introduction Afghan Breakdown (Russian: Афганский излом, translit. Afganskiy Izlom) is a 1991 war drama film about the Soviet-Afghan War directed by Vladimir Bortko and co-produced by Italy and the Soviet Union (Lenfilm). Michele Placido plays the protagonist, Major Bandura, a commander of a unit of Soviet paratroopers, co-starring with several popular Soviet actors. The movie… Read More
Introduction Leaving Afghanistan (Russian: Братство, romanised: Bratstvo) is a Russian war film directed and written by Pavel Lungin. Outline Set between 1988 and 1989 in the closing stages of the Soviet-Afghan War, the plot, based upon a true story, centres around the men of the 108th Motor Rifle Division, whose withdrawal from Afghanistan is put… Read More
