Movies

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

The film depicted the revolutionary events of 1917 and included some documentary footage. The film has not survived.

Don Cossack Stepan Razin vowed to take revenge on the boyars for his tortured friends. Having led the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of...

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the...

The film tells about the life and work of the famous singer of the Kazakh people akyn Dzhambul Dzhabayev.

Chronicle of the life of Russian poet Michail Lermontov, from the final days of Alexandr Pushkin to the fatal destiny of the poet himself.

The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the...

An early film by Vsevolod Meyerhold.

The film depicts the life of Stepan Khalturin, a 19th-century Russian worker and revolutionary terrorist belonging to the Narodnaya Volya (People's...

Working with children led Barskaya to create superb direct sound and an inspired style of shooting. Don’t look for conventional cinematic...

The NEP era. Two families with the same surname, Ivanov, live in Leningrad. They are visited by American relatives, who turn out to be confused....

The film is based on real events and reveals the tragic episodes from the life of the Austrian biologist scientist-materialist Paul Kammerer...

In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment made up of communist Reds defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the...

A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky),...

The commander of the cruiser Zarya, nobleman Bersenev, sympathizes with the Bolsheviks, encouraged in part by Artem Godun, chairman of the...

Silva Varescu, a self-sufficient and professionally successful cabaret performer from Budapest, is about to embark on a tour of America. Three of her...

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.

A Jewish family grapples with issues of identity as local prejudice turns to violence. Adaptation of Yevgeny Chirikov's 1904 play The Jews.