Soundtrack: Dmitri Shostakovich

Direction Grigori Kozintsev

Cast Innokenti Smoktunovsky · Mikhail Nazvanov · Elza Radzina · Yuri Tolubeyev

Plot The surface of ceremonies and rituals celebrating the coronation of King Claudius and his marriage to Hamlet's mother leaves the young prince indifferent. Hamlet's melancholic nature finds no relief from...

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 Grigori Kozintsev · Iosif Shapiro

Cast Regimantas Adomaitis · Donatas Banionis · Juozas Budraitis · Oleg Dal

Plot This is a Russian, black-and-white production of the great Shakespearean classic, starring Juri Jarvet. Long-considered one of the greatest and most wrenching tragedies in world literature, King Lear shows that...

Direction Anne-Marie Miéville

Cast Claude Perron · Anne-Marie Miéville · Jacques Spiesser · Jean-Luc Godard

Plot A middle-aged woman (Mieville) and her younger, attractive friend Cathos (Claude Perron) return home from an evening out with elderly Robert (Jean-Luc Godard). After Cathos makes a vain attempt to...

Direction Dziga Vertov

Plot An examination into Soviet miners. Enthusiasm has been called a 'sound film', with sound recorded on location, and these mechanical sounds woven together, producing a symphony-like effect.

Direction Larry Weinstein

Cast Dmitri Shostakovich

Plot Documentary on how composer Dmitri Shostakovich used his Fourth to Ninth Symphony as a silent protest against the crimes of Stalin.

Direction Grigori Kozintsev · Leonid Trauberg

Cast David Gutman · Yelena Kuzmina · Andrei Kostrichkin · Sofiya Magarill

Direction Eric Goldberg · James Algar · Gaëtan Brizzi · Paul Brizzi

Plot It presents new interpretations of great works of music. It begins with an abstract battle of light and darkness set to the music of Beethoveen's Fifth Symphony. Then we see...

Direction Liv Ullmann

Cast Max von Sydow · Pernilla August · Samuel Froler · Anita Björk

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov · Semyon Aranovich

Cast Tamara Alyoshina · Sergei Prokofiev · Dmitri Shostakovich · Joseph Stalin

Plot Co-directed by Aleksandr Sokurov and Semen Aranovich, Dmitri Shostakovich: Viola Sonata is an emotionally lucid, understated, textural, and reverent biography of the highly influential, Soviet-era composer and pianist, Dmitri Dmitrievich...

Direction Yuli Raizman · Yelizaveta Svilova

Direction Tania Rakhmanova

Cast Vladimir Putin

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Pirkka-Pekka Petelius · Esko Salminen · Kati Outinen · Elina Salo

Plot A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle...

Direction James Toback

Cast Alec Baldwin · James Toback · Martin Scorsese · Roman Polanski

Plot "Seduced and Abandoned" is a cinematic exploration guided by Alec Baldwin and James Toback of several interconnected subjects: The Cannes Film Festival and cinema art, money, glamour and death. Photographed...

Direction Michel Franco

Cast Naian González Norvind · Diego Boneta · Mónica del Carmen · Darío Yazbek Bernal

Plot In this riveting, suspenseful dystopian drama, a lavish upper-class wedding goes awry in an unexpected uprising of class warfare that gives way to a violent coup d’etat. As seen through...

Direction Mikhail Kalatozov

Cast Vsevolod Sanayev · Sergei Romodanov · Oleg Efremov · Tatyana Doronina

Direction Grigori Kozintsev · Leonid Trauberg

Cast Yelena Kuzmina · Pyotr Sobolevsky · Sergei Gerasimov · Mariya Babanova

Plot Damen Kuzmina is a girl from the U.S.S.R. who recently has graduated to become a school teacher. She lives in a big city and she is a modern girl. She...

Direction Mikheil Chiaureli

Cast Mikheil Gelovani · Boris Andreyev · Marina Kovalyova · Aleksei Gribov

Direction Mikheil Chiaureli

Cast Mikheil Gelovani · Boris Andreyev · Marina Kovalyova · Aleksei Gribov

Direction Yuriy Norshteyn · Arkadiy Tyurin