Iona Talanov

Satan Triumphant

Pastor Talnoх furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In...

A Spectre Haunts Europe

Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most dist...

The Bartered Soul

Millionaire Gornostayev and ballet dancer in Ilona are always arguing about what is more important - youth and...

Father Sergius

The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a...

The Landowner

Mid-19th century. An elderly landowner, bored with life, organizes balls, hunts, fistfights, and banquets. Amon...

Little Ellie

A perverted town mayor murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on the short story L...

Jenny the Maid

After the death of Count Chambery his wife and daughter were left without means of subsistence. Seeing no other...

The Minaret of Death

Based on an old Bukharan mythical tale from the 16th century. Dzhemal, daughter of the Khiva khan, and her milk...

Petersburg Slums

Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.

Lord of the Black Rocks

The film takes place somewhere abroad. One of the characters in the film, novice Morne, rescues a fisherman gir...

Ataman Khmil'

Revolutionary melodrama based on Lev Nikulin's story "Хміль". 1917. The main character of the film - a "bourgeo...

Napoleon Gas

A squadron of American warplanes, armed with gas developed by Corsican chemist Gannimer (dubbed "Napoleon Gas")...

Nikolay Stavrogin

Locksmith and Chancellor

The Government of the fictional country Norland has unleashed a war with the neighboring Galikania and is suffe...

The Queen's Secret

The Child of Another

The Decembrists

The film recreates episodes from the December Uprising of 1825. Against the backdrop of the uprising, a love st...

Behind the Screen

Famous Russian screen actors play themselves in this drama about the lives of actors. Thirteen minutes of the f...

Stepan Khalturin

A Fist in the Side

Ivan Lopatin, a Red Army soldier who has arrived in the village, convinces the peasants of the need to insure t...

Sin and Redemption

Volga Rebels

The film shows the struggle of the Chuvash people for their rights at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Blood East