Topic: Russian Revolution

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 David Lean

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

Synopsis 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 Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Vassilli Nikandrov · Boris Livanov · Eduard Tissé · Nikolai Podvoisky

Synopsis October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927) is a silent historical drama directed by Sergei Eisenstein, chronicling the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. The film vividly portrays the upheaval in Petrograd, from the overthrow of the Provisional Government to...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

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

Synopsis 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 deposed him.

Direction Chris Marker

Synopsis 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 students express their excitement at seeing his film HAPPINESS for...

Direction Grigori Aronov · Aleksey German

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

Synopsis 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 professor of law at the Military Academy before the Russian...

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin

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

Synopsis 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 doing so, brings about the political awareness of his mother.

Direction Sergei Gerasimov

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

Synopsis 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 rugged Cossac, who is torn between his first and true...

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

Synopsis 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 also arrested and sent to fight in World War I....

Direction Norman Swallow

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 are executed or sent running naked into the woods. Neither...

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of...

Direction Dziga Vertov

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every...