Lyudmila Semyonova
1899 - 1990The Steamroller and the Violin
Andrei Tarkovsky
Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.
The Steamroller and the Violin
Обломок империи
Fridrikh Ermler
Fyodor Nikitin, Lyudmila Semyonova
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a decade after the Great War as a shell-shocked amnesiac, until a glimpse of a woman through a train window sparks the return of his memory. He makes his way back to St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, a man out of time who struggles to make sense of the new society brought about by the revolution.
Fragment of an Empire
Новый Вавилон
Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev
Yelena Kuzmina, David Gutman
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, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.
The New Babylon
Чёртово колесо
Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev
Lyudmila Semyonova, Pyotr Sobolevsky
Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.
The Devil's Wheel
СВД - Союз великого дела
Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev
Sergei Gerasimov, Andrei Kostrichkin
The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides that it's time for a game. But on whom to make a bet? He asks the cards. But he's not the only one who makes the choice.
The Club of the Big Deed
Посеяли девушки лен
Vladimir Korsh
Zoya Stepanova, Yelena Tyapkina
Молодой звеньевой Надейке за высокий урожай льна на Всесоюзной сельскохозяйственной выставке вручили медаль. В ответ на награду она даёт слово вдвое увеличить урожай. Однако многие члены её звена считают, что на их землях столько льна не соберёшь. Увеличение же посевной площади невозможно — поля засорены валунами. Уже давно за Надейкой ухаживает лесник Янка. Но напрасно считает он её своей невестой. Девушка не собирается выходить за него замуж. Желая досадить Надейке, Янка решает уехать на целину...
Посеяли девушки лен
Moya Rodina
Aleksandr Zarkhi, Iosif Kheifits
Bari Haydarov, Gennadi Michurin
1929 год. Китайцы готовят нападение на КВЖД, вербуют солдат в свою банду. Среди них оказывается обитатель ночлежки Ван. Оправившись после внезапного нападения на советское пограничное селение, красноармейский отряд переходит в наступление. Среди пленных оказывается и Ван. Ван и еще один пленный пускаются в бега. Но в дороге между беглецами происходит конфликт и молодой китаец Ван начинает понимать, кто его подлинный враг...
My Motherland
