(IYULSKIY DOZHD, Marlen Khutsiyev, Soviet Union 1966, 109 min., Russian/subtitles)

When Lena decides that her fiancé is not the man she thought he was, the breakup causes her to reflect on her life and to wonder about the kind of world she and other members of her generation are set to inherit. Then, during a cooling rain, she meets Zhenya…An invaluable record of its moment, July Rain is an engaging portrait of ’60s Moscow youth—the first generation to have grown up far from the shadows of war and Stalinist repression. The well-loved soundtrack features the work of several Soviet pop superstars of the ’60s.