Ivan Chuvelyov
1897 - 1942
Золотые огни
Vladimir Korsh, Boris Brodyansky
Oleg Zhakov, Roza Sverdlova
The movie's opening sequence takes place in 1921, towards the end of Russia's civil war, as the Red Army are vanquishing the last Menshevik forces of the White Guard along the western frontier.
The Red Village
Конец Санкт-Петербурга
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya
A peasant in rural Russia comes to St. Petersburg to escape absolute poverty and find work at the outbreak of the First World War. He comes to stay with his friend, a Bolshevik worker who has organized a strike at his factory. The peasant betrays his friend to the factory's greedy management, leading to the arrest of the striker. Feeling remorseful at his actions, the peasant attempts to plead for his friend’s freedom, but the situation escalates and he is imprisoned without trial and sent to fight in the war. After returning from the front, the peasant joins the revolutionary fight along with the Bolshevik worker.
The End of St. Petersburg
В людях
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina
Second entry in Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.
My Apprenticeship
Гроза
Vladimir Petrov
Alla Tarasova, Ivan Chuvelyov
The cinematic adaptation of "The Storm" play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive Katerina marries Tikhon, a violent drunkard, and thus enters the crude milieu of greedy salesmen, the "dark kingdom". Her mother-in-law, Kabanikha, rules the family with an iron fist and endlessly harasses Katerina. One day, when Tikhon is away, she meets Boris, a man who embodies everything Katerina is longing for.
Thunderstorm
Волга-Волга
Grigori Aleksandrov
Lyubov Orlova, Igor Ilyinsky
Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad.
Volga - Volga
Минин и Пожарский
Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Aleksandr Khanov, Boris Livanov
Исторический фильм о вторжении поляков на территорию Руси (1611), создании Мининым и Пожарским народного ополчения. Начало XVII века. Уже шестой год русская земля под игом интервенции. Осенью 1610 года польские паны в обманом захватили Кремль и пытались прорваться на север Руси. Повсюду вспыхивали восстания, но хорошо вооруженные интервенты разбивали разрозненные крестьянские отряды. Освободительное движение возглавили нижегородский купец Кузьма и князь Дмитрий Пожарский.
Minin and Pozharsky
Белый орел
Yakov Protazanov
Anna Sten, Vasiliy Kachalov
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.
The White Eagle
Я люблю
Leonid Lukov
Aleksandr Antonov, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Once a long ago the father of Ostap left a village and came on earnings to Donbas. The lined up a shanty put beginning to miner's settlement of Sobacheevka. Ostap went on the way of father, thirty years of bending a back on the owner of mine. And when a father was driven out from work, Ostap understood that it is senseless to blame in the troubles only master.
I Love
Аэлита
Yakov Protazanov
Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky
A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Aelita: Queen of Mars
Небеса
Yuri Tarich
Anatoly Alekseev, Nikolai Makarenko
Осоавиахимовец Андрон организует в своем колхозе «Волна» авиакружок и задумывает построить парашютную вышку. Летчик Орешкин, влюбленный в Вареньку, дочь председателя колхоза, настроенного категорически против авиации на селе, обещает ребятам в скором времени привезти парашют. И как ни хитрил председатель, молодым людям все-таки удается переубедить его.
Небеса
Զանգեզուր
Amo Bek-Nazaryan
Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan
The film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.
Zangezur
