Soundtrack: Nikolai Kryukov

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

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

Synopsis Battleship Potemkin (1925) is a silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, depicting the 1905 mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin. The story begins with sailors protesting against harsh conditions and rotten food, leading to a rebellion against their oppressive officers....

Direction Mikhail Kalatozov

Cast Tatyana Samojlova · Innokenti Smoktunovsky · Galina Kozhakina · Vasili Livanov

Synopsis Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.

Direction Grigori Chukhrai

Cast Izolda Izvitskaya · Oleg Strizhenov · Nikolay Kryuchkov · Nikolai Dupak

Synopsis An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer. 1957: Cannes Film Festival: Special Award

Direction Ivan Pyryev

Cast Yuriy Yakovlev · Yuliya Borisova · Nikita Podgornyj · Vera Pashennaya

Direction Grigori Roshal

Cast Vladimir Balashov · Gari Minovitskaya · Iosif Tolchanov · Ada Vojtsik

Synopsis First published in 1934 but fully imagining the future of Germany over the ensuing years, The Oppermanns tells the compelling story of a remarkable German Jewish family confronted by Hitler's rise to power. Compared to works by Voltaire and Zola...

Direction Ivan Pyryev

Cast Ada Vojtsik · Veronika Polonskaya · Tamara Makarova · Vladimir Shakhovskoy

Synopsis Invented capitalist country. Beginning of 1930th. An economic crisis throws out on the street of three friends - young workwomen. Their dreams collapse about safe life, and each begins the difficult way in its own way.

Direction Esfir Shub

Direction Mikhail Romm · E. Aron · Isidor Simkov

Cast Boris Shchukin · Nikolai Okhlopkov · Aleksandr Shatov · V. Markov

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin · Yuri Tarich

Cast Mikhail Astangov · Boris Blinov · Sofiya Magarill · Ada Vojtsik

Direction Ivan Pyryev

Cast Vladimir Druzhnikov · Marina Ladynina · Boris Andreyev · Vera Vasilyeva

Synopsis His right hand having been wounded during the war, concert pianist Andrei Balashov is unable to perform his art. As a result, the young man feels so depressed that he considers his life wasted. One day, he decides to leave...

Direction E. Aron · Boris Barnet

Cast Mikhail Astangov · Nikolai P. Cherkasov · Moisei Goldblat · Mikhail Kuznetsov

Direction Tatyana Lukashevich

Cast Veronika Lebedeva · Faina Ranevskaya · Pyotr Repnin · Rostislav Plyatt

Synopsis A little girl is lost in Moscow and hits the road making fun (not intentionally) of everybody she meets. She’ll be back home soon but she will change the life of at least one man forever…

Direction Boris Barnet

Cast Evgeniy Grigorev · Ekaterina Sipavina · Viktor Dobrovolsky · Olga Yakunina

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast Aleksei Dikij · Yevgeni Samojlov · Vladimir Vladislavskiy · Vsevolod Pudovkin

Direction Samson Samsonov

Cast Ludmila Tselikovskaya · Sergei Bondarchuk · Vladimir Druzhnikov · Yevgeni Teterin

Direction Samson Samsonov

Cast Igor Savkin · Margarita Volodina · Vladimir Kenigson · Mikhail Troyanovsky

Synopsis A group of train passengers are thrown together. an actor A doctor young women and a Bolshivic commander trying to Get to the city. They have to run the gauntlet of the White Russians who have cut off most of...

Direction Vera Stroyeva

Cast Boris Shchukin · Nikolai Khmelyov · Vera Maretskaya · Kseniya Tarasova

Synopsis The film starts in 1896, with students who heckle their professor at the St. Petersburg University, and ends with the 1905 revolution. It’s a story of a generation, from the first underground meetings to the armed uprising of Moscow’s working...

Direction Aleksandr Stolper

Cast Vladimir Solovyov · Daniil Sagal · Yuri Lyubimov · Anastasiya Lissianskaya

Direction Aleksandr Ptushko · Vsevolod Pudovkin · Sergei Yutkevich

Cast Tamara Makarova · Boris Chirkov · Nikolay Kryuchkov · Yuliya Borisova

Direction Efim Dzigan

Cast Vasili Zajchikov · Georgi Bushuyev · Nikolay Ivakin · Oleg Zhakov

Synopsis In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces. Director Yefim Dzigan had himself fought for the Bolsheviks in the fleet,...