The cranes are flying which won an award in the Cannes Film Festival had the depiction of the love affair and tragedy during the world war. There was then the poster of Hamlet, the Russian screen version of Shakespeare's famous play. There were pictures of Hamlet, Ophelia, Queen Gertrude and Claudius, the evil king. In black and white, the poster brought in a scene from the court with burning torches.

Anne Karenina, based on Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece had its heroine torn between her lover and her child, ultimately resorting to throwing herself on a railway track. With her face awash with sorrow, Anne Karenina was shown draped in furs and silk. There was King Lear, another unfortunate protagonist, belonging to Shakespeare's imagination, who was cruelly treated by his two daughters. It was finally his youngest daughter who took care of him. The poster was in dramatic red and black.

Star of happiness was dedicated to the time when the Russian empire was being changed into a democratic society. The poster had the hero in front and in the backdrop were the women in his life, who were all exiled in Siberia.

There was the comedy by Leonid Gaiddar where smugglers tried to bring in jewellery into Russia hidden in bandages of patients. The poster is in blue and orange while the figures are in pale colours depicting bourgeois slapstick. Dauria is a film about World War 1 when the Russian society was split between those who supported the new regime and the other who went in for the old one, eventually a blood bath ensued. Andrei Rublov is a film about a famous icon artist and the poster is in red, brown and black, with the details of the hero done in modern, geometrical fashion.

Rasputin dominated Russian court before World War 1. The evil monk, with his wild eyes and flying hair was well depicted in the poster of The agony of Rasputin.

The two large rooms in the Russian Cultural Centre certainly reflected the culture and spirit of the Russian people in the past and present. Studying the posters one learnt of the joys and sorrows of Russians through the years, tracing the stories of images that belonged to the world of successful films.