Sovkino Populær film

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...

Sjanger: 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...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Marfa Lapkina

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...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Boris Ferdinandov

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,...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Yelena Kuzmina

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

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Nikolai Batalov

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Fyodor Nikitin

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Cast: Leonid Ivanov-Rayev

A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Alekseyev

A little girl denounce her evil step-father who plotted against the communist movement. The film, under the influence of Russian formalism, has some...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Tatyana Mukhina

Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Emil Gal

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

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Fyodor Brest

The story of the Udege tribe, lost for centuries and on the verge of extinction, the most dangerous footage of hunting for bears and wild boars, as...

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Vladimir Arseniev

Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Gardin

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Ivan Klyukvin

An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.

Sjanger: War

Cast: I. Arcana

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.

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Kuzma Yastrebetsky

An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Fyodor Nikitin

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...

Sjanger: Documentary

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In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the...

Sjanger: History

Cast: Vasili Yaroslavtsev

Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès,...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Yevgeni Chervyakov