Sovkino Populær film

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Popov

Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Marfa Lapkina

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Fyodor Nikitin

Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.

Sjanger: Comedy

Cast: Nikolai Batalov

In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries,...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Yelena Kuzmina

Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the...

Sjanger: Documentary

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A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.

Sjanger: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Alekseyev

A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Veronika Buzhinskaya

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Boris Ferdinandov

The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life.

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Kuzma Yastrebetsky

An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.

Sjanger: War

Cast: I. Arcana

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Cast: Leonid Ivanov-Rayev

Chinese workers start a rebellion, arm themselves and take over the train on which they are travelling and manage to break through the frontier.

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Yakov Gudkin

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Ivan Klyukvin

Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Galina Vishnevskaya

Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Nina Shaternikova

Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.

Sjanger: Animation

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Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Gardin

Director of a Soviet-era enterprises, Baturin, spends days and nights in his private office. Inability to arrange work day and overwork caused...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Sergei Minin

Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet...

Sjanger: Drama

Cast: Emil Gal