Cast: Alexei Dolinin

Direction Boris Barnet · S. Mardanin

Cast Nikolay Kryuchkov · Lev Sverdlin · Yelena Kuzmina · Sergei Komarov

Synopsis Yussuf and Aliosha are two shipwrecked sailor on an island in the Caspian Sea. They start working as sailor and mechanic for the fishboats of the "Lights of the Communism" kolkhoz. Here the two friends will fall in love for...

Direction Mikhail Romm

Cast Ivan Kuznetsov · Alexei Dolinin · Ivan Novoseltsev · Yelena Kuzmina

Synopsis A band of soldiers, escorting some civilians across an Asian wasteland , are set upon and surrounded at a waterhole by a notorious horde of bandits . The soldiers determine to hold off the bandits until hoped-for reinforcements arrive.

Direction Konstantin Yudin

Cast Valentina Serova · Yevgeni Samojlov · Ludmila Tselikovskaya · Pavel Shpringfeld

Synopsis The plot is built around two charming sisters — a strict, wayward Galina, an assistant professor of mathematics, and a windy, frivolous student Shurochka. Despite the fact that the girls are so different, they are looking, of course, for one...

Direction Ivan Pyryev

Cast Marina Ladynina · Nikolay Kryuchkov · Boris Andreyev · Stepan Kayukov

Direction Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Igor Ilyinsky · Vladimir Volodin · Pavel Olenev · Sergei Antimonov

Synopsis "Volga-Volga", directed by Alexandrov (Eisenstein's cameraman in "Ten Days" and other Soviet classics), is perhaps the best of a series by him that provides a Russian echo of Busby Berkeley's work in the US. Like Berkeley, Alexandrov has been attacked...