Cinematography: Eduard Tissé

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Nikolai Cherkasov · Serafima Birman · Ludmila Tselikovskaya · Mikhail Nazvanov

Plot Ivan returns to Moscow to discover that there are still conspiracies against him, even the Tsar's aunt wants to get rid of him. However, Ivan manages to foresee his enemies'...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Aleksandr Antonov · Vladimir Barsky · Grigori Aleksandrov · Mikhail Gomorov

Plot The Battleship Potemkin has just returned from the war with Japan, its crew near mutiny because of brutal treatment and bad rations. When they're served maggot-infested meat one morning, the...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Nikolai Cherkasov · Serafima Birman · Ludmila Tselikovskaya · Mikhail Nazvanov

Plot In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. In scenes of his coronation, his wedding to Anastasia, his...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Vassilli Nikandrov · Boris Livanov · Eduard Tissé · Nikolai Podvoisky

Plot In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Maksim Shtraukh · Grigori Aleksandrov · Mikhail Gomorov · Ivan Klyukvin

Plot In Russia's factory region during Czarist rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents. When a worker hangs himself after being falsely accused...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Nikolai Cherkasov · Nikolai Okhlopkov · Andrei Abrikosov · Dmitri Orlov

Plot Nikolai Cherkassov stars as the legenday Alexander Nevsky in Sergei Eisensteins masterpiece of propaganda, made with the assistance of Stalin, to stir up Soviet audiences in anticipation of a Nazi...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Marfa Lapkina · Konstantin Vasilyev · Vasili Buzenkov · M. Ivanin

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Félix Balderas · Martín Hernández · David Liceága · Julio Saldívar

Plot A legendary production plagued by problems almost from the outset, the making of QUE VIVA MEXICO cured Sergei Eisenstein of the desire ever to work in North America again. On...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Viktor Kartashov · Nikolai Khmelyov · Pyotr Arzhanov · Yekaterina Teleshova

Plot Eisenstein worked on Bezhin Meadow from 1935 to 1937. Based on a Turgenev story, the scenario for Bezhin Meadow was written by Isaac Babel. It's a tale that dramatizes the...

Direction Eduard Tissé · Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Johannes Steiner

Plot This short film shows the contrast between the good conditions in which a rich woman makes a abortion and the miserable and dangerous condition in which a poor woman has...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Mara Griy

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Félix Balderas · Martín Hernández · David Liceága · Julio Saldívar

Plot Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 Earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko

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

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast William Royle · Ponce Espino · Charles Frederick Lindsley

Plot For the most part, this film by Sergei M. Eisenstein, is a series of scenes , depicting Mexican natives in picturesque rituals, ceremonies and rites. It was edited from 110,000...

Direction Vladimir Gardin · Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast Aleksandr Gromov · Nikolay Vishnyak

Direction Alexis Granowsky

Cast Solomon Mikhoels · Moisei Goldblat · Tamara Adelgeym · S. Epstein

Plot Jewish Luck revolves around Menakhem Mendl (one of Sholem Aleichem's characters), a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression in Tsarist Russia, Mendl continues to pursue...

Direction Vladimir Gardin

Cast P. Meshcherin · Guzenko · Aleksandra Kartseva · Leonid Yurenyov

Plot About the struggle of the Bolshevik underground and red partisans in the rear of the Kolchak troops, which culminated in an attack on the enemy train, the capture of Kolchak...

Direction Vladimir Gardin

Cast Aleksandr Gromov · Anatoli Gorchilin · Nadezda Zubova · Vsevolod Pudovkin

Direction Zakhar Agranenko · Eduard Tissé

Cast Vasili Makarov · Vladimir Yemelyanov · Nikolay Kryuchkov · Anatoli Chemodurov

Direction Abram Room

Cast Ivan Bersenev · Nikolai Mordvinov · Olga Zhiznyeva · Vsevolod Sanayev

Plot About the fight of Yugoslav partisans against fascist invaders during World War II. A Bosnian countryman Slavko Babich had no thought of fighting. But fascists got to his home and...