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Tag Archives: Soviet Union
The Village Teacher / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 (1969) Beg inokhodtsa
Based on Chingiz Aitmatov’s novel “Farewell, Gyulsary!” The story of Tanabai the blacksmith Read More »
Mother / 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 / 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 »