Cinematography: Aleksandr Levitsky

Direction Lev Kuleshov

Cast Porfiri Podobed · Boris Barnet · Aleksandra Khokhlova · Vsevolod Pudovkin

Plot An example of ironic Soviet propagandistic film from the silent era, this film chronicles the adventures of an American, "Mr. West," and his faithful bodyguard and servant Jeddie, as they...

Direction Lev Kuleshov

Cast Vladimir Fogel · Vsevolod Pudovkin · Aleksandra Khokhlova · Pyotr Galadzhev

Direction Vladimir Gardin

Cast Aleksandra Khokhlova · Leonid Leonidov · Nina Shaternikova · Olga Preobrazhenskaya

Direction Vladimir Gardin

Cast Pyotr Savin · Nikolai Kutuzov · Yevgeni Chervyakov · Vladimir Kriger

Plot The film takes place during the pre-revolutionary years and the initial period of the Soviet regime. At a monastery shelter in one of Russia's western towns, orphan Yulka gives birth...

Direction Vladimir Gardin

Cast Olga Preobrazhenskaya · Ludmila Sychova · Mikhail Tamarov · Yelizaveta Uvarova

Direction Vladimir Gardin

Cast Boris Orsky · Yelizaveta Uvarova · Lidiya Sychyova · Mikhail Tamarov

Plot During a train ride, Pozdnyshev overhears a conversation concerning marriage, divorce and love. When a woman argues that marriage should not be arranged but based on true love, he asks...

Direction Vladimir Gardin · Yakov Protazanov

Cast Vladimir Gardin · Vera Karalli · Olga Preobrazhenskaya · Ossip Runitsch

Plot Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.

Direction Vasili Goncharov · Kai Hansen · Aleksandr Uralsky

Cast Pavel Knorr · Vasili Goncharov · Aleksandra Goncharova · Andrej Gromov

Plot The silent film tells the story of the Patriotic war of 1812 when Napoleon attempted to invade Russia. This joint French and Russian film sparked major excitement in Moscow at...

Direction Vladimir Gardin

Cast Ludmila Sychova · Mikhail Tamarov · Boris Orlitsky

Direction Pyotr Chardynin · Vladimir Gardin · Yakov Protazanov

Cast Vladimir Maksimov · Ivan Mozzhukhin · Olga Preobrazhenskaya · Lidiya F. Ryndina

Direction Vladimir Gardin · Yakov Protazanov

Cast Vladimir Gardin · Vladimir Shaternikov · Olga Preobrazhenskaya · Alexandre Volkoff

Direction Mikhail Romm · Maria Slavinskaya

Direction Vladimir Gardin

Cast Mariya Germanova · Vladimir Shaternikov · Mikhail Tamarov · Zoya Barantsevich

Plot This is a Russian silent film based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She is having an affair with...

Direction Yakov Protazanov · Elizaveta Thiman

Cast Olga Petrova · Vladimir Shaternikov · Mikhail Tamarov · Elizaveta Thiman

Plot A group of peasants comes to see Leo Tolstoy and his wife, the Countess, to request some land. Tolstoy must explain to them that it is his wife who has...

Direction Vladimir Gardin

Cast Pavel Orlenev