Topic: Russian Revolution

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 David Lean

Cast Omar Sharif · Julie Christie · Geraldine Chaplin · Alec Guinness

Plot Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, "Doctor Zhivago" covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri...

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 Josef von Sternberg

Cast Emil Jannings · Evelyn Brent · William Powell · Jack Raymond

Plot A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. An old adversary, now a successful director hires the general to re-enact the revolution which...

Direction Chris Marker

Plot This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film...

Direction Grigori Aronov · Aleksey German

Cast Andrei Popov · Aleksandr Anisimov · Georgiy Shtil · Petr Cernov

Plot The film is set in St. Petersburg, Russia after the Russian revolution of 1917. Maj. General Yevgeni Pavlovich Adamov (Andrei Popov) was a lawyer in the Tzar's Army and a...

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast Vera Baranovskaya · Nikolai Batalov · Aleksandr Chistyakov · Ivan Koval-Samborsky

Plot This is one of the classic Soviet silent films. A young revolutionary dies fighting against the misery and poverty of Tsarist Russia in the pre-war revolution of 1905, and, in...

Direction Sergei Gerasimov

Cast Pyotr Glebov · Elina Bystritskaya · Zinaida Kiriyenko · Daniil Ilchenko

Plot A six-hour long epic (original director's cut) about the life of Don Cossacs in a village in southern Russia between 1912 and 1922. The leading character Grigori Melekhov is a...

Direction Aleksandr Mitta

Cast Oleg Tabakov · Yelena Proklova · Oleg Efremov · Leonid Dyachkov

Direction Andrei Konchalovsky

Cast Vladimir Samoylov · Vitali Solomin · Nikita Mikhalkov · Natalya Andreychenko

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast Vera Baranovskaya · Aleksandr Chistyakov · Ivan Chuvelyov · Sergei Komarov

Plot A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed peasant is...

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.

Direction Grigori Chukhrai

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

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

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast József Madaras · Tibor Molnár · András Kozák · Jácint Juhász

Plot In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other. Captives...

Direction Dziga Vertov

Direction Aleksandr Askoldov

Cast Nonna Mordyukova · Rolan Bykov · Raisa Nedashkovskaya · Lyudmila Volynskaya

Direction Aleksei Balabanov

Cast Leonid Bichevin · Katarina Radivojevic · Ingeborga Dapkunaite · Sergey Garmash

Plot A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.

Direction Warren Beatty

Cast Warren Beatty · Diane Keaton · Jack Nicholson · Edward Herrmann

Plot Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "Reds" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John...

Direction Dziga Vertov

Plot Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.

Direction Nikita Mikhalkov

Cast Yelena Solovey · Rodion Nahapetov · Aleksandr Kalyagin · Oleg Basilashvili

Plot Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks...