Movies: Sovkino

  • 1928
    October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

    October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)

    October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

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    Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution....

    October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
  • 1927
    Bed and Sofa

    Bed and Sofa (1927)

    Bed and Sofa

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    Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in....

    Bed and Sofa
  • 1929
    The New Babylon

    The New Babylon (1929)

    The New Babylon

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    In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test....

    The New Babylon
  • 1926
    Kashtanka

    Kashtanka (1926)

    Kashtanka

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    Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyu...

    Kashtanka
  • 1928
    Lace

    Lace (1928)

    Lace

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    Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical of Russian cinema. And Kruzheva is a good example of that as he illustrates the friendly rivalries b...

    Lace
  • 1966
    Katerina Izmailova

    Katerina Izmailova (1966)

    Katerina Izmailova

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    Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She...

    Katerina Izmailova
  • 1932
    Shame

    Shame (1932)

    Shame

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    Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la...

    Shame
  • 1929
    Fragment of an Empire

    Fragment of an Empire (1929)

    Fragment of an Empire

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    Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a decade after the Great War as a shell-shocked amnesiac, until a glimpse of a woman through a train wi...

    Fragment of an Empire
  • 1927
    The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

    The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927)

    The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

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    A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution....

    The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
  • 1930
    Cain and Artem

    Cain and Artem (1930)

    Cain and Artem

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    Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet Filmmaking,” in which he criticized all the achievements of the Soviet avant-garde. In spite of his beliefs ...

    Cain and Artem
  • 1927
    House in the Snow-Drifts

    House in the Snow-Drifts (1927)

    House in the Snow-Drifts

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    An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg apartment because he was not needed in the revolutionary city....

    House in the Snow-Drifts
  • 1930
    The Ghost That Never Returns

    The Ghost That Never Returns (1930)

    The Ghost That Never Returns

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    The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his rebel gang. This existential drama disguised as a saga about the proletarian struggle presents a lonely ...

    The Ghost That Never Returns
  • 1927
    The Poet and the Tsar

    The Poet and the Tsar (1927)

    The Poet and the Tsar

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    Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff. Pushkin hears rumours of D’Anthès’s lo...

    The Poet and the Tsar
  • 1927
    The Club of the Big Deed

    The Club of the Big Deed (1927)

    The Club of the Big Deed

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    The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides that it's time for a game. But on whom to make a bet? He asks the cards. But he's not the only one who makes ...

    The Club of the Big Deed
  • 1928
    My Son

    My Son (1928)

    My Son

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    A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby....

    My Son
  • 1929
    The General Line

    The General Line (1929)

    The General Line

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    Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to industrial culture in an epic ode to farm-collectivization progress....

    The General Line
  • 1929
    Tanka the Bar Girl

    Tanka the Bar Girl (1929)

    Tanka the Bar Girl

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    A little girl denounce her evil step-father who plotted against the communist movement. The film, under the influence of Russian formalism, has some interesting experimental compositions....

    Tanka the Bar Girl
  • 1926
    The Wind

    The Wind (1926)

    The Wind

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    During the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, a Red cavalry officer is warned by a staffer from headquarters about his dangerous attraction to the female leader of a band of Cossacks, a violent woman who is aroused by killing....

    The Wind
  • 1926
    Wings of a Serf

    Wings of a Serf (1926)

    Wings of a Serf

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    This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with historical materialist commentary on the dialectical co...

    Wings of a Serf
  • 1926
    A Sixth Part of the World

    A Sixth Part of the World (1926)

    A Sixth Part of the World

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    Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on cultural and economic diversity, the film is in fact a call for unification in or...

    A Sixth Part of the World