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Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Popov

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fyodor Nikitin

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Cast: Leonid Ivanov-Rayev

In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yelena Kuzmina

Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marfa Lapkina

Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the...

Genre: Documentary

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Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nikolai Batalov

The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kuzma Yastrebetsky

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Boris Ferdinandov

In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the...

Genre: History

Cast: Vasili Yaroslavtsev

Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Gardin

Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Galina Vishnevskaya

Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nikolaj Panov

Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nina Shaternikova

A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivan Bykov

A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Alekseyev

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Cast: Olga Tretyakova

An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.

Genre: War

Cast: I. Arcana

When Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he’s called away to fight in World...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Tsesarskaya

A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gennadi Michurin