Vladimir Popov
1889 - 1968October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein
Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Чины и люди
Yakov Protazanov, Mikhail Doller
Mikhail Tarkhanov, Mariya Strelkova
From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as is the case with "Chiny I Lyudi" ( Ranks And People ) (1929) in which three short stories by Chekhov, "Anna On The Neck", "Death Of A Petty Official" and "Chameleon" were assembled for the silent screen.
Ranks and People
Дон Диего и Пелагея
Yakov Protazanov
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina, Anatoliy Bykov
The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red tape.
Don Diego and Pelagia
Tryokhsotletie tsarstvovaniya doma Romanovykh
Aleksandr Uralsky, Nikolai Larin
Vladimir Popov, S. Tarasov
This large historical production was staged simultaneously with A. Khanzhonkov's painting "The Accession of the House of Romanov", but it was carried out on a larger scale; It ends with documentary footage of the coronation of Nicholas II.
Tercentenary of the Romanov Dynasty's Accession
