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Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko; script by Moisei Zats and Boris Sharansky; camera by Nikolai Kozlovsky. Inspired by the death of Soviet diplomatic courier Theodor Nette, this was one of the first fi...
Directed by Grigory Roshal; script by Grigory Roshal and Vera Stroyeva; camera by Nikolai Kozlovsky; starring Leonid Leonidov. The film was shot by Grigory Roshal (1898–1983) and is based on a true s...
Directed by Grigory Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg; script by Adrian Piotrovsky; camera by Andrei Moskvin. The film was shot by Grigory Kozintsev (1905–1973) and Leonid Trauberg (1902–1990) and had th...
Directed and edited by Esfir Shub, this is one of the most acute political documentaries of the late 1920s. It is composed of two parts – Night and Day in the Clutches of American “Freedom” and Night...
Directed by Vsyevolod Pudovkin; script by Osip Brik; camera by Anatoly Golovnya. Originally titled Descendant of Genghis Khan, this film is based on the novel of the same name by the Siberian writer ...
Directed by Mikhail Verner; script by Lev Nikulin; camera by Victor Engels. This film is a satirical comedy. NEP entrepreneur Samosadkin takes his wife to the cinema and falls sleep. He dreams that h...
Directed by Alexander Ivanovsky; script by Pavel Schyogolev; camera by Ivan Frolov. This “historical drama in seven parts” describes the Decembrist Revolt of 1825, when a group of revolutionary offic...
Directed by Alexander Ivanovsky; script by Alexander Ivanovsky; camera by Nikolai Kozlovsky. Described as a “cinematic drama from the life of serf actors,” this was one of the first Soviet films shot...
Directed by Yakov Protazanov; script by Boris Lavrenyov; camera by Pyotr Yermolov. The film is based on Boris Lavrenyov’s short story The Forty-First and is set in the Civil War. A group of Bolshevik...
Saide, Daughter of the Crimea was shot at the film studios of Alexander Khanzhonkov. There is no surviving information on the film or its contents. All that remains is the movie bill, which is simila...