Screenplay: Grigori Aleksandrov

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Grigori Aleksandrov. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

1927 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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...

7.8

5K votes

7.8

5K votes

Strike

1925 · Movie · 82 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

7.3

578 votes

Ten Days That Shook the World (TV)

1967 · Documentary · 80 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Norman Swallow

Plot This documentary relates on the basis of the John Reed's book, the development of the Russian Revolution of 1917, mixing real archve footage and films by Eisenstein and Pudovkin.

7.2

166 votes

7.2

166 votes

Que viva México!

1932 · Movie · 84 min. · Mexico

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...

7.2

825 votes

7.2

825 votes

Misery and Fortune of Women (S)

1930 · Movie · 21 min. · Switzerland

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...

6.5

107 votes

6.5

107 votes

Sentimental Romance (S)

1930 · Movie · 20 min. · France

6.4

156 votes

6.4

156 votes

El desastre en Oaxaca (La destrucción de Oaxaca) (S)

1931 · Documentary · 11 min. · Mexico

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.

6.3

233 votes

6.3

233 votes

The Circus

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

6.1

24 votes

6.1

24 votes

Jolly Fellows

1934 · Movie · 96 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Leonid Utyosov · Lyubov Orlova · Mariya Strelkova · Yelena Tyapkina

Plot An ambitious but untalented singer Yelena mistakes Kostya, a simple shepherd for a famous jazz band leader. They attend a swank get-together, but instead of a saxophone, he brings his...

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Spring

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Grigori Aleksandrov

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

Plot 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...

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Odna semya

1943 · Movie · 84 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Man of Music

1953 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Russkiy suvenir

1960 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Lyubov Orlova · Andrei Popov · Pavel Kadochnikov · Erast Garin

Plot 58-year-old actress Orlova plays a beauty who makes visitors from the capitalist states change their, western media influenced, opinion of the Soviet Union when their plane makes a stop in...

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Lenin v Shveytsarii

1965 · Movie · 95 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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Lyubov Orlova

1985 · Documentary · 87 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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