Cast: Yelena Maksimova

Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Cast Stepan Shkurat · Semyon Svashenko · Yuliya Solntseva · Yelena Maksimova

Plot Dovzhenko's "film poem" style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian proles, examining natural cycles through his epic montage. He explores life, death, violence, sex, and...

Direction Ivan Pravov · Olga Preobrazhenskaya

Cast Kuzma Yastrebitsky · Olga Narbekova · Yelena Maksimova · Georgi Bobynin

Plot "Baby Ryazanskie" ( Women Of Ryazan ) (1927) is a very remarkable and exceptional silent film directed by Dame Olga Preobrazhenskaya, a Russian woman filmmaker with a short but intense...

Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Cast Stepan Shagaida · Sergei Stolyarov · Yevgeniya Melnikova · Stepan Shkurat

Direction Ivan Pyryev

Cast Konstantin Gradopolov · Olga Zhiznyeva · E. Olgina · Georgiy Muzalevskiy

Plot Komsomol member Pavel Kudryashov, after seeing his pregnant wife to the village, sheltered a young woman who had fallen behind the train. In Paul's friendly relations with an outside woman,...

Direction Boris Barnet

Cast Nina Arkhipova · Nikolay Kryuchkov · Viktor Dobrovolsky · Marina Bebutova

Direction Tatyana Lioznova

Cast Irina Nuraveva · Yuriy Yakovlev · Klara Luchko · Alevtina Rumyantseva

Plot A coming-of-age story about a small town girl's struggle to become an actress in Soviet Moscow.

Direction Mikhail Doller · Yakov Protazanov

Cast Mikhail Tarkhanov · Mariya Strelkova · Andrey Petrovsky · N. Shcherbakov

Direction Ivan Pravov · Olga Preobrazhenskaya · Mikhail Provor

Cast Andrei Abrikosov · Nikolay Podgorny · Emma Tsesarskaya · Raisa Puzhnaya

Direction Ivan Pravov · Olga Preobrazhenskaya

Cast Ivan Bykov · Yelena Maksimova · Raisa Puzhnaya · Naum Rogozhin

Plot A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The kommissar hides among the artists.

Direction Mikhail Shvejtser

Cast Viktor Avdyushko · Oleg Tabakov · Nikolai Sergeyev · Ivan Pereverzev

Direction Aleksandr Zarkhi

Cast Nikolai Rybnikov · Inna Makarova · Gennadi Karnovich-Valua · Vasili Makarov

Plot A team of installers under the leadership of brigadier Nikolai Pasechnik are arriving for the construction of the blast furnace. At the construction site, Nikolai meets welder Ekaterina. He tries...

Direction Tatyana Lioznova

Cast Liudmila Jitiyaeva · Nikolai Lebedev · Lyuba Basova · Olga Narovchatova

Plot A workman Evdokim and his wife Evdokia live in a small suburban town. They don't have children but they are raising stepchildren. At first glance their life may seem routine,...

Direction Lev Kulidzhanov

Cast Vera Kuznetsova · Lyudmila Marchenko · Valentin Zubkov · Nikolai Novlyansky

Direction Rolan Bykov

Cast Semyon Morozov · Vladimir Ivashov · Valentin Burov · Tatyana Nadezhdina

Direction Nikolai Ekk

Cast Valentina Ivashova · Nikolai Ekk · Ivan Lavrov · Mikhail Doronin

Direction Pavel Petrov-Bytov

Cast Konstantin Skorobogatov · Kasim Mukhutdinov · Yakov Malyutin · Vladimir Gardin

Plot Emelian Pugachev pretends to be Czar Peter III and leads an uprising against Catherine. His Cossack-Bashkir army has some success, and the people in the territory believe him to be...

Direction Sergei Gerasimov

Cast Tamara Makarova · Grigori Belov · Vsevolod Sanayev · Lev Kapustin

Plot A graduate of the medical institute Tatyana Kazakova arrives in the village of Goryachie Klyuchi and intends to prove her suitability to a small but rather professional staff of the...

Direction Grigori Roshal

Cast Nikolai Plotnikov · Yelena Maksimova · Andrei Abrikosov · Viktor Stanitsyn

Plot "Paris Commune," 1870-1871. Poor working class in Paris rises up against their oppressors as France is defeated by Germany in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian war.