Raisa Yesipova

In 1905 Germany, Evgeny Narezhny, a talented bridge engineer and son of a Russian émigré, rejects lucrative offers to serve Russia. Arriving in St. Petersburg during the 1905 revolution, he focuses on science, believing it can solve global issues, unlike his Bolshevik wife, Elena Chernova. As a renowned scientist, Narezhny is repulsed by capitalism and is forced to reconsider his views on the revolutionaries’ struggle.

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Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries.

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The film tells the of certain events of the Polish-Soviet War as is accepted in Soviet history.

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Based on Lyon Feuchtwanger's novel about the tragedy of society, through a look at the tragedy of one single family.

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In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment made up of communist Reds defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces

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A story about Bolsheviks underground in occupied Belorussia during 1918.

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The director of the state farm Giant falls in love with a journalist. The heroine’s friend opposes the romance. The journalist demands a lot of attention in the relationship, while the director is too busy with work. The film was completed only in a rough cut but was banned and destroyed. It is now lost. The director was arrested and subsequently spent nearly twenty years in labor camps.

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A young peasant woman decides to become a tractor driver.

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Soviet courtroom drama directed by Efim Dzigan.

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Seeing how the priests convince men to "defend the Motherland" by joining the battlefront slaughter of WWI, a young man and his wife reject religion.

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The film takes place during the pre-revolutionary years and the initial period of the Soviet regime. At a monastery shelter in one of Russia's western towns, orphan Yulka gives birth to a son from the shepherd Jerome. Matron of the shelter Pavlikha as directed by the father kills the newborn baby and disposes of the corpse in the Jewish Quarter. The Black Hundreds are spreading the rumor that the murder was committed by the Jews for ritual purposes. Mayhem arises which is supported by the authorities of the city. The church refuses to shelter Jews fleeing from the violent thugs.

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Lost movie.

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