All-Union Film Festival


The All-Union Film Festival was one of the most important film festivals of the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1958 and held regularly from 1964 to 1988. It was held annually from 1972 onwards, and bi-annually before that. Its time and location were determined by Goskino and the Union of Soviet Composers.
There were four categories among which prizes were handed out:
  • Fiction films
  • Documentaries, scientific-popular films, and film-journals
  • Fiction films for children and youth
  • Animated films

Locations

  1. 1964, Leningrad
  2. 1966, Kiev
  3. 1968, Leningrad
  4. 1970, Minsk
  5. 1972, Tbilisi
  6. 1973, Alma-Ata
  7. 1974, Baku
  8. 1975, Kishinev
  9. 1976, Frunze
  10. 1977, Riga
  11. 1978, Yerevan
  12. 1979, Ashgabad
  13. 1980, Dushanbe
  14. 1981, Vilnius
  15. 1982, Tallinn
  16. 1983, Leningrad
  17. 1984, Kiev
  18. 1985, Minsk
  19. 1986, Alma-Ata
  20. 1987, Tbilisi
  21. 1988, Baku