
Mikhail Gelovani
1893 - 1956WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Dušan Makavejev
Milena Dravić, Ivica Vidović
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Валерий Чкалов
Mikhail Kalatozov
Vladimir Belokurov, Mikhail Gelovani
The film is based on the biography of Valeri Chkalov (1904 - 1938), a Russian pilot, who set several long distance flight records. Chkalov and his co-pilots Baidukov and Belyakov together had accomplished several non-stop long-distance flights. In June of 1937 Chkalov set the world record, covering 12000 kilometers in 63 hours of non-stop flight from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, flying over the North Pole.
Wings of Victory
ქართულად
Ivane Perestiani
Nato Vachnadze, Mikhail Gelovani
Bakhva Pulava, a merchant from Poti fells in love with a poor tailor woman named Esma and marries her. At the same time, enchanted by her beauty, another man named Jeremiah Tsarba decides to kidnap her. When Esma refuses to share bed with him Jeremiah mercilessly kills her and when faced by accusations avoids punishment with the help of Valida, an influential nobleman’s daughter. Bakhva Pulava makes a decision to take justice into to his hands.
Three Lives
Выборгская сторона
Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina
The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins to fight off sabotaging underlings. Dymba, now a violent enemy of the Republic, tries to rob a wine store but is arrested with Maksim's help. Maksim also exposes a conspiracy of a group of tsarist officers who prepare an attempt against Lenin. He then joins the Red Army in its fight against the German occupation.
The Vyborg Side
Незабываемый 1919 год
Mikheil Chiaureli
Pavel Molchanov, Mikhail Gelovani
Soviet propaganda film in two episodes about Stalin's strong and cruel suppression of the 1919 anti-communist uprising in St. Petersburg, Russia. Stalin and Lenin are shown as heroes who destroyed the efforts of anti-communists led by White Russians with support from "bad" British capitalists headed by Sir Winston Churchill and Lloyd George.
The Unforgettable Year 1919
Оборона Царицына
Sergey Vasilev, Georgi Vasilyev
Mikhail Gelovani, Nikolai Bogolyubov
Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red army during the Russian civil war.
Defense of Tsaritsyn
დიადი განთიადი
Mikheil Chiaureli
Spartak Bagashvili, Tamara Makarova
In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.
The Great Dawn
Падение Берлина
Mikheil Chiaureli
Mikhail Gelovani, Aleksei Gribov
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
The Fall of Berlin
Ukanaskneli maskaradi
Mikheil Chiaureli
Aleksandre Jaliashvili, Dudukhana Tserodze
О революционной борьбе пролетариата Грузии. В центре повествования - жизнь и судьба молодого революционера Мито. После срыва меньшевиками железнодорожной забастовки парня сажают на три года в тюрьму, а отца казнят. Годы тюрьмы, проведённые Мито в одной камере со старым большевиком, превращают горячего, неуравновешенного юношу в сознательного большевика. Вскоре начинается Первая мировая война и Мито, только что вышедшего из тюрьмы, отправляют на войну...
The Last Masquerade