ghostofmyeyes wrote:John1212 wrote: I admit, I do not know who owns the copyright right now. I suspect that Mosfilm)
This movie is listed as being from 1972 where I've checked, and the significance of that is that the USSR didn't join universal copyright treaties until the following year. Movies from that time and earlier may for that reason be in the public domain in many countries.
But popular classics like this one could conceivably still be lucrative enough that someone could go to the trouble of wresting some of them out of the public domain (generally not easy to do in my understanding). I can't find any clear statement on who, if anyone, owns this movie now.
Here, I think you understand, there is another problem. In the USSR, each republic had its own large studios, such as local Hollywood (the central and largest, of course, was Mosfilm, as far as I know. I admit, I've never been particularly interested in the film industry.) And each had its own daughters. But that's not the problem, but the fact that the USSR collapsed, and now it's really hard to say who owns a particular film. If it's hard for you to think of a foreign country as an example, imagine that the United States has collapsed. Will all US films belong to California, or will it depend on how and where they were shot?(I admit, I do not know if there is a studio independent of Hollywood, and whether the studios of the USSR were free of Mosfilm, or whether it stood between the party and the studios)