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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...
Directed by Vladimir Gardin; script by Vladimir Gardin and Yevgeny Chervyakov; camera by Naum Aptekman and Svyatoslav Belyaev; movie poster by monogrammist G. R. Described as an “historical novel in ...
Directed by Konstantin Eggert; script by Konstantin Eggert and Georgy Grebner; camera by Louis Forestier; movie poster by monogrammist S. This melodrama by Konstantin Eggert (1883–1955) describes the...
Directed by Lev Kuleshov; script by Anatoly Marienhof and Boris Gusman; camera by Boris Francisson and Pyotr Yermolov; movie poster by monogrammist S. This is an adventure film about an underground B...
Directed by Olga Preobrazhenskaya; script by Olga Preobrazhenskaya and Yury Bolotov; camera by Grigory Giber; movie poster by Lavinsky and Lavinsky. Described as a “cinematic novel,” this film is bas...