Cinematographic adaptation of classical Russian play “Dowry-less” by A. Ostrovsky. Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
The Bay of Death AKA Bukhta smerti (1926) Abram Room, Nikolai Saltykov, Leonid Yurenev, Vasili Yaroslavtsev
The mechanic on a battleship during the Civil War in Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution Read More »
The Village Teacher AKA Selskaya uchitelnitsa (1947) Mark Donskoy, Vera Maretskaya, Pavel Olenev, Daniil Sagal
Eve of the First World War. After graduating from high school in St. Petersburg Read More »
The Youth of Maxim AKA Yunost Maksima (1935) Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it… “an impressive and technically outstanding Read More »
My Universities AKA Moi universitety (1940) Mark Donskoy, Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin
The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy’s Maxim Gorky trilogy. Read More »
The Duel AKA Plokhoy khoroshiy chelovek (1973) Iosif Kheifits, Oleg Dal, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Lyudmila Maksakova
Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. Read More »
Battleship Potemkin AKA Bronenosets Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein, Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. Read More »
Air crew AKA Ekipazh (1979) Aleksandr Mitta, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov
This movie is about a crew of a passenger plane and consists of two parts. Read More »
Run Of A Pacer AKA Beg inokhodtsa (1969) Sergey Urusevskiy, Nurmukhan Zhanturin, Baken Kydykeyeva, Farida Sharipova
Based on Chingiz Aitmatov’s novel “Farewell, Gyulsary!” The story of Tanabai the blacksmith Read More »
Mother AKA Mat (1990) Gleb Panfilov, Inna Churikova, Viktor Rakov, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Based on Maxim Gorky’s novel about a woman torn between her loyalties to husband and son in the years of the Revolution. Read More »
Prostitute AKA Prostitutka (1927) Oleg Frelikh, Olga Bonus, Mark Donskoy, L. Krasina
“Prostitutka” (1927) is a Bolshevist silent rarity, unusual because of its subject matter Read More »
The White Caravan AKA Tetri karavani (1964) Tamaz Meliava, Eldar Shengelaia, Spartak Bagashvili, Ariadna Shengelaia, Imedo Kakhiani
Against a rugged landscape and the forces of nature, a group of shepherds, led by the experienced Martia Read More »
Robinsonada or My English Grandfather aka Robinzoniada, anu chemi ingliseli Papa (1987) Nana Dzhordzhadze, Janri Lolashvili, Nineli Chankvetadze, Guram Pirtskhalava
The story, in flashback, of the death of a British Telegraph engineer in Georgia, USSR in 1920. Read More »
Aelita (1924) Yakov Protazanov, Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli
A mysterious radio message is beamed around the world, and among the engineers Read More »
A Night in September AKA Noch v sentyabre (1939) Boris Barnet, Emanuel Apkhaidze, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Daniil Sagal
The enemies are again trying to prevent the Stakhanovists from working in a new way. Read More »