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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

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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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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fyodor Brest

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Cast: Leonid Ivanov-Rayev

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

The tragic story of a young woman named Yulia, who fell in love with a married man and lost her only child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olga Bazanova

Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go to...

Genre: War

Cast: Anatoly Alekseev

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gennadi Michurin

Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yelena Yegorova

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

This Russian documentary offered tantalizing glimpses of Afghanistan, which in 1929 was still one of the few heavily-populated areas in the world...

Genre: Documentary

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Directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatyana Guretskaya

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nikolai Batalov

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

A visual composition of the world.

Genre: Documentary

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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