Vladimir Uralskiy

Battleship Potemkin

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, whi...

The Unforgettable Year 1919

A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army...

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends a...

The Vow

The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.

The District Secretary

A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight wit...

The Young Guard

In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon during the Nazi occ...

Strike

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Native Fields

November 1941. One by one, the men leave, leaving only old men, women and children in the village of Bykovka. I...

Kotovsky

Kotovsky, who went a long revolutionary way and became the recognized military commander of the cavalry troops:...

Lenin in 1918

Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in...

A Great Life

The film tells about the struggle of the Donbas miners in Ukrainian SSR with saboteurs.

Aelita: Queen of Mars

A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with t...

Cossacks of the Kuban

In the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Ga...

Seaman's Daughter

Together with other graduates of the Maritime Institute, Irina Zakharova returns to her native Odessa. At the d...

Front

Directed by Sergey Vasilev and Georgi Vasilyev.

The Battle of Stalingrad

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script wa...

The New Land

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov. About how collectivization was carried out on the Don...

Air Taxi

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.

Actress

Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hosp...

Our Girls

One of the anthology films about Soviet citizens resisting the Nazi invaders during World War II, the feature c...

Private Aleksandr Matrosov

The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, w...

Boy From the Outskirts

In the family of the driver Skvortsov on one of the outskirts of Moscow growing son Andrew, the future designer...

The Living Corpse

The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never real...

Karandash on Ice

Member of the Government

In the 1930s, during Collectivization, we follow Alexandra Sokolova, who having joined a kolkhoz, is promoted b...

Torn Boots

Working with children led Barskaya to create superb direct sound and an inspired style of shooting. Don’t look...

Minin and Pozharsky

Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin and Pozharsk...

Light over Russia

Memories of the old Baltic sailor who participated in a revolution and a few wars...

The Train Goes East

On the evening of May 9, 1945, when Moscow is noisily and cheerfully celebrating the Victory Day, a young girl...

The Anna Cross

Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official t...

Mother

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revo...

Aerograd

A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with...

The Parasite

After a long absence from St. Petersburg, a young landowner Yeletskaya comes to her estate with her husband.

St. Jorgen's Day

The priests, stock market officials, and police conspire to squeeze income out of pilgrims come to see relics o...

Volga - Volga

Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action take...

A Simple Case

As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER ASIA (1928)...