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- DirectorSergey VasilevGeorgi VasilyevStarsBoris BabochkinBoris BlinovVarvara MyasnikovaThis film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a decorated hero in the World War I and later in the Russian Civil War, that followed the Russian revolution. This man of action is fighting on the side of the poor people. His troops consist of peasants, just like him. Unable to write, he can brilliantly demonstrate various battle tactics by moving potatoes on the table. He is street smart. He never lost a battle against the experienced Generals of the Tzar's Army.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevLeonid TraubergStarsBoris ChirkovValentina KibardinaMikhail ZharovIn the culmination of the Maxim trilogy, the worker hero becomes a political commissar after October 1917 and with some embarrassment is appointed to nationalize a bank ,he has discussions with both Lenin and Stalin.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevLeonid TraubergStarsBoris ChirkovValentina KibardinaMikhail TarkhanovA 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in realistic performance, photography and movement, plus some musical touches in way of folk songs."
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevLeonid TraubergStarsBoris ChirkovValentina KibardinaAnatoliy KuznetsovMaxim, now a Marxist agitator going by the name of Fyodor, organizes strikes against the production of military equipment, culminating in open revolt against the Czarist forces.
- DirectorEfim DziganStarsVasiliy ZaychikovGeorgi BushuyevNikolay IvakinIn 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. Director Yefim Dzigan had himself fought for the Bolsheviks in the fleet, so the Red sailors are the heroes of the film. The young Soviet State was besieged by enemies on all sides, and the Revolution was fighting for its life. While clearly propagandistic, the film is often quite poetic visually, not naturalistic as was prescribed by authorities at the time. The film was honored at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. The video version is in Russian with English subtitles.
- DirectorBoris BarnetSamad MardanovStarsYelena KuzminaLev SverdlinNikolay KryuchkovTwo best friends shipwreck on an island in the Caspian Sea and fall in love with the same woman while helping the villagers of their new home.
- DirectorVladimir LegoshinStarsIgor ButBoris RungeAleksandr MelnikovTwo young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsAleksei LyarskyVarvara MassalitinovaMikhail TroyanovskiyA drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.
- DirectorMikhail RommDmitriy VasilevStarsBoris ShchukinNikolai OkhlopkovVasili VaninThe movie about events of October revolution of 1917 and Lenin's role in the organization of revolt of Bolsheviks.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsViktor Perest-PetrenkoDaniil SagalIrina FedotovaThis literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsAleksandr ZarkhiStarsVera MaretskayaVasili VaninNikolay KryuchkovIn an example of Socialist Realism a lady collective farm worker rallies laggard comrades after her husband deserts .She rejects other men,and is sent as a delegate of the people to Moscow, where she eulogizes Stalin.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsBoris ChirkovTamara MakarovaLyudmila ShabalinaA young teacher comes to work in his native village, plans to build a new school. The arrival of the teacher causes confusion in the soul of the young neighbor Agrafena Shumilina.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoYuliya SolntsevaStarsEvgeniy SamoylovIvan SkuratovLuka LyashenkoBiography of Ukrainian revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors. Shchors leads the peasants and workers to advance on Kyiv.
- DirectorSergei YutkevichStarsMaksim ShtraukhMikheil GelovaniBoris TeninA propaganda comedy that tells the story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of an ignorant and easy-going peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings. He does manage to make the Stalin and Lenin characters look like just a pair of good old boys when they laugh as he tells them he allowed a White general to escape because he was awed by the uniform.
- DirectorAdolf MinkinGerbert RappaportStarsSemyon MezhinskyE. NikitinaOleg ZhakovA Jewish surgeon - a war veteran, brilliant scientist and respected citizen - becomes a victim of the mad anti-Semitic purge and stripped of all his possessions and discarded by the hospital. He is pressed back into service to perform an operation on a Nazi leader, and then machine-gunned as a reward.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsTamara MakarovaIvan NovoseltsevPavel VolkovIn 1932, thousands of Komsomol members went to the Far East to build the "city of youth" - Komsomolsk-on-Amur. There is a saboteur among the builders. Soon, fuel depots explode at the new factories of Komsomolsk.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsAleksandr ZarkhiStarsNikolay CherkasovMariya DomashyovaBoris LivanovA film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.
- DirectorYuli RaizmanStarsIvan PelttserMariya YarotskayaNikolai DorokhinThe fate of a small group of individuals on the culminating night of the October Revolution in Moscow, when Reds capture the Kremlin from the Whites.
- DirectorFridrikh ErmlerStarsPyotr AleynikovMariya Blyumental-TamarinaNikolay BogolyubovThe struggle of farmers against the "kulaks" on collective farms. The ruthlessness of capitalism is central, in a world where cruelty wins over solidarity. Communitarianism might be the answer to all these abuses.
- DirectorFridrikh ErmlerStarsVera MaretskayaNikolay BogolyubovLidiya SmirnovaAs Nazi forces advance on Moscow, a village woman - after witnessing her husband killed in combat, her toddler run over by a German tank, and her village commandeered by the Nazis - organizes the surviving locals into a guerrilla band bent on revenge.
- DirectorLev ArnshtamStarsGalina VodyanitskayaYekaterina SkvortsovaKseniya TarasovaA popular, inspirational biography of a World War II Soviet heroine, showing her life in flashback as she is captured and tortured fighting the German invaders.
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsAleksei DikijEvgeniy SamoylovVladimir VladislavskiyAdmiral Pavel Nakhimov, one of the most acclaimed admirals in Russian history, fights the Turkish fleet during the Crimean War of 1853.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsVera MaretskayaDaniil SagalPavel OlenevA young lady goes to Siberia to teach. People there gape at her desktop globe. The Soviet revolution happens. Her husband is Lenin's compatriot. In her lifelong teaching, her students become professor, school teacher and awarded military.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsVladimir IvanovInna MakarovaNonna MordyukovaThe film is set in the city of Krasnodon (Sorokyne) in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Ukrainian SSR (now Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine). Local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance. The teens manage to outsmart the Nazis in their fight. They blow up the Nazi recruitment offices. Their activity lifts the spirits of the surviving citizens. They organize other school-friends in the groups of five to help the citizens in their struggle for survival. Their courage helps many others to survive.
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsSergei LukyanovNatalya MedvedevaNikolai TimofeyevA man comes home from World War II and tries to readjust to civil life.
- DirectorMikheil ChiaureliStarsMikheil GelovaniBoris AndreyevVladimir SavelevA years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsVladimir SolovyovGrigori BelovAleksandra VasilyevaThe heroic life of a Ukrainian agronomist who becomes world famous and who the Bolshevik Revolution allows to cultivate new species of fruit trees as part of a project to transform nature.