Direction: Mark Donskoy

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Mark Donskoy. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Horse That Cried

1957 · Movie · 98 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

7.7

30 votes

7.7

30 votes

My Apprenticeship

1939 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mark Donskoy

Cast Aleksei Lyarsky · Irina Zarubina · Varvara Massalitinova · Mikhail Troyanovsky

Plot My Apprenticeship (V lyudyakh) was the second entry in Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in...

7.6

69 votes

7.6

69 votes

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky

1938 · Movie · 98 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mark Donskoy

Cast Aleksei Lyarsky · Varvara Massalitinova · Mikhail Troyanovsky · Elizaveta Alekseeva

Plot The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Detstvo Gorkovo) was the first of Russian director Mark Donski's trilogy based upon Gorky's memoirs. Alexei Lyarsky plays the young Maxim, who grows up under...

7.4

170 votes

7.4

170 votes

My Universities

1940 · Movie · 120 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mark Donskoy

Cast Nikolai Valbert · Stepan Kayukov · Nikolai Dorokhin · Nikolai Plotnikov

Plot My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood (1938) and a torturous sojourn as...

7.4

55 votes

7.4

55 votes

The Village Teacher

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

7.0

86 votes

7.0

86 votes

The Rainbow

1944 · Movie · 93 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

6.6

39 votes

6.6

39 votes

The Orlovs

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Gordeyev Family

1959 · Movie · 94 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mark Donskoy

Cast Sergei Lukyanov · Georgi Yepifantsev · Pavel Tarasov · Alla Labetskaya

Plot Gordeev Thomas is the son of a wealthy bourgeois tsarist. He enjoys all the privileges of his condition but can not bear the sight of social misery. He falls in...

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Kak zakalyalas stal

1942 · Movie · 90 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mark Donskoy

Cast Daniil Sagal · Irina Fedotova · Nikolai Bubnov · Boris Runge

Plot The story is a fictionalized autobiography. In real life, Ostrovsky's father died, and his mother worked as a kitchen chef. As he joined the war with the Red Army, he...

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The Romantics

1941 · Movie · 65 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mark Donskoy

Cast Daniil Sagal · Irina Fedotova · Vladimir Vladislavskiy · Lev Sverdlin

Plot Set in the high North, this tale of a Russian teacher who begins to educate the children of the Chukchi tribe reinforces the director’s firm belief in the power of...

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Hope

1974 · Movie · min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Mother

1956 · Movie · 104 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mark Donskoy

Cast Vera Maretskaya · Aleksey Batalov · Tatyana Piletskaya · Andrei Petrov

Plot Timid old woman Pelageya Nilovna observes the revolutionary activities of her son Pavel Vlasov and gradually comes to realize that his cause is a great and noble one. She involves...

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In the Big City

1927 · Movie · 73 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mikhail Averbakh · Mark Donskoy

Cast Sofya Yakovleva · Galina Malinovskaya · Georgi Bobynin · Aleksandr Timontayev

Plot The story of a peasant poet.

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The Taras Family

1945 · Movie · 94 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Hello, Children

1962 · Movie · 88 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Alitet Leaves for the Hills

1949 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mark Donskoy

Cast Andrei Abrikosov · Lev Sverdlin · Boris Tenin · Yuri Leonidov

Plot Mark Donskoy went to the wilds of Siberia to film this Soviet movie about a community that resists the temptations of a wicked American capitalist who wants to exploit their...

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A Mother's Heart (Heart of a Mother) (Sons and Mothers)

1965 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mark Donskoy

Cast Yelena Fadeyeva · Daniil Sagal · Nina Menshikova · Gennadi Chertov

Plot The formative years of Bolshevist leader Vladimir Ulyanov (aka Lenin) provides the basis of this Russian biopic that begins the a provincial town of Simbirsk in the late 19th-century (1884-1890)...

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Song of Happiness

1934 · Movie · 85 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mark Donskoy · Vladimir Legoshin

Cast Mikhail Viktorov · Vladimir Gardin

Plot A young flautist who lives in the forest crosses paths with a petty crook who wonders why he lives there. In flashback, we learn that the flautist worked for a...

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