Andrei Gorchilin

Особняк Голубиных

Vladimir Gardin

Georgy Bobynin, Andrey Fayt

Prostoy sluchay

Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin

Aleksandr Baturin, Yevgeniya Rogulina

As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER ASIA (1928), Vsevolod Pudovkin unleashed his flair for experimentation in what was supposed to be the director’s first sound feature. Everything went wrong: technical problems forced him to complete the film as a silent; viewers were baffled by the lack of a recognizable plot; then, the ideological climate of the Soviet Union changed. He was now being blamed for catering to bourgeois taste! Time has come to set the record straight. Here’s lyrical cinema at its best, deliberately operatic and yet intimate as it matches the characters’ inner life with the solemn rhythms of nature, and depicted through breathtaking black-and-white photography. A sensation at last year’s Pordenone fest, Pudovkin’s long-forgotten swan song to the art of montage is resurrected by Gabriel Thibaudeau’s emotionally charged live music performance. –PCU (USSR, 1930, 75m)

Великий утешитель

Lev Kuleshov

Konstantin Khokhlov, Ivan Novoseltsev

The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.

Сибиряки

Lev Kuleshov

Mikhail Gelovani, Andrey Fayt

Two six-graders are trying to find the Stalin's pipe and return it to the owner.

Необычайные приключения мистера Веста в стране большевиков

Lev Kuleshov

Porfiri Podobed, Boris Barnet

Mr. West and his faithful bodyguard Jeddie visit the land of the 'evil' Bolsheviks. Through various mishaps, Mr. West discovers that the Soviets are actually quite remarkable people.

Луч смерти

Lev Kuleshov

Porfiri Podobed, Vsevolod Pudovkin

In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)

Банда батьки Кныша

Aleksandr Razumnyj

Pyotr Leontyev, Aleksandr Khachaturyants

Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang of Batka Knysh to provoke the White Russians before the final blow.