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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

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

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

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 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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nikolai Batalov

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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Depicts life in the Solovki prison camp as a vacation at a holiday resort, pointing at the authorities’ efforts to humanise the re-education of...

Genre: Documentary

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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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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

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fyodor Brest

A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivan Bykov

A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Veronika Buzhinskaya

When Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he’s called away to fight in World...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Tsesarskaya

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Cast: Leonid Ivanov-Rayev

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

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

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