Most Viewed From Sovkino

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nikolai Batalov

An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fyodor Nikitin

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

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

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivan Klyukvin

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

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

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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Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yevgeni Chervyakov

Khokhlova, a girl-reporter on a Moscow newpaper, falls in love with factory manager Petrovsky. To her he's the epitome of manliness--virile,...

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Cast: Yury Vasilchikov

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Alekseyev

The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fyodor Brest

A little girl denounce her evil step-father who plotted against the communist movement. The film, under the influence of Russian formalism, has some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatyana Mukhina

Chinese workers start a rebellion, arm themselves and take over the train on which they are travelling and manage to break through the frontier.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yakov Gudkin