Cast: Mikhail Sidorkin

Direction Aleksandr Macheret

Cast Oleg Zhakov · Semyon Mezhinsky · S. Shirokova · Ivan Kudryavtsev

Synopsis This story of the Nazi prison camps in the 1930s deals with the attempts of the Nazi guards to break the spirit of the Communists in concentration camps. The film ends with a large worker's strike looming that makes the...

Direction Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Lyubov Orlova · Nikolai Cherkasov · Nikolai Konovalov · Faina Ranevskaya

Synopsis A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.

Direction Ivan Pyryev

Cast Vladimir Druzhnikov · Marina Ladynina · Boris Andreyev · Vera Vasilyeva

Synopsis His right hand having been wounded during the war, concert pianist Andrei Balashov is unable to perform his art. As a result, the young man feels so depressed that he considers his life wasted. One day, he decides to leave...

Direction Mikheil Chiaureli

Cast Mikheil Gelovani · A. Mansvetov · Aleksei Gribov · Nikolai Ryzhov

Synopsis In 1924, veteran Bolshevik Petrov, a resident of Tsaritsyn, carries a letter to Vladimir Lenin, to inform him of the Kulak brigands that roam the land, spreading death and misery. The Kulaks murder him. His widow, Varvara, continues his quest,...