Aleksandr Melnikov
1906 - 2004The Republic of ShKID
Gennadi Poloka
Sergei Yursky, Yuliya Burygina
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
The Republic of ShKID
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
Улица полна неожиданностей
Sergei Sidelyov
Leonid Kharitonov, Vsevolod Larionov
Chief accountant Porfiry Petrovich Smirnov-Alyansky, who took a good walk on the anniversary of his colleague cashier Ivan Zakharovich Vodnev, climbs into the traffic controller's booth and disrupts traffic on one of the streets of Leningrad. However, the guard Vasiliy Shaneshkin mistakenly delivers to the police station not an escaped offender, but a quite decent cashier. In addition, Vodnev, offended by the police, turns out to be the father of the bride Shaneshkin — Katya. Vasiliy admits his guilt, but, not daring to explain himself, leaves the angry Ivan Zakharovich with bad thoughts about the Soviet police. Fortunately, the young sergeant will soon have an opportunity to prove to others the responsibility and conscientiousness of the police officers.
Street Is Full of Surprises
На диком бреге
Anatoliy Granik
Vsevolod Safonov, Oleg Borisov
Действие фильма происходит на одной из сибирских строек. В центре сюжета история столкновения двух людей: главного инженера Петина, карьериста, очковтирателя и доносчика, и опытного честного начальника строительства Литвинова, с судьбой и жизнью которого связаны судьбы тысяч людей.
На диком бреге
Депутат Балтики
Aleksandr Zarkhi, Iosif Kheifits
Nikolai Cherkasov, Boris Livanov
A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.
Baltic Deputy
Армия Трясогузки
Aleksandrs Leimanis
Viktor Kholmogorov, Yuri Korzhov
The civil war in Russia, guerrillas fighting with Kolchak formations. As a result of sabotage, accident with white Russian train takes place. In disaster area the flag with the inscription "Wagtail's Army" is found. Kolchak commanders think that they are Bolsheviks, but guerrilla leader does not know anything. It turns out that this is work of three boys.
Wagtail's Army
Музыканты одного полка
Gennadi Kazansky, Pavel Kadochnikov
Igor Gorbachyov, Konstantin Adashevsky
Северный городок молодой республики Советов покидают интервенты. Отважный подпольщик Алексей Илютинский проникает в музыкальную команду, организованную для развлечения командования белой армии и поднятия духа населения. Новый валторнист, начисто лишенный музыкального слуха, передает красным план обороны белых и спасает большевика Макеева, бывшего председателя губисполкома, от расстрела.
Музыканты одного полка
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
Путь корабля
Yuri Tarich
Georgi Kovrov, Nikolai Prozorovsky
The Soviet motor ship "Albanov", running into a submarine rock, crashes in North sea. Passengers and command on boats head for off-shore rocks and find temporal shelter. Getting a signal about the calamity of motor ship, detachment of divers-rescuers at the head with the chief of party - commissar Petrov - begin works on getting up "Albanov".
Way of the Ship
