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Directed by Nikoloz Shengelaya; script by Sergei Tretyakov and Nikoloz Shengelaya; camera by Vladimer Kereselidze; movie poster by Nikolai Prusakov. The film is based on a popular Georgian tale writt...
Directed by Ivan Pyriev; script by Nikolai Erdman and Anatoly Marienhof; camera by Vladimir Solodovnikov; movie poster by Nikolai Prusakov. The heroine misses a train and is forced to spend the night...
Directed by Lily Brik and Vitaly Zhemchuzhny; script by Lily Brik and Vitaly Zhemchuzhny; camera by Konstantin Vents (Eisler); movie poster by Nikolai Prusakov. The alternative title of this survivin...
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov and Nutsa Gogoberidze; movie poster by Nikolai Prusakov. The young Georgian directors originally entitled this now lost documentary 18–28 to symbolise the contrast betwe...
Directed by Abram Room; script by Victor Shklovsky; camera by Dmitry Feldman and Boris Epstein. This now lost work was one of the first firms directed by Abram Room (1897–1973) and is based on a shor...
Directed by Boris Barnet; script by Oleg Leonidov; production design by Alexander Rodchenko. This film by Boris Barnet (1902–1965) commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution and f...
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...