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- A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
- 100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.
- Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte.
- In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the love story between a young sales girl and a soldier unable to decide if he was pro or against the radical fashion? Two short months were needed for the answer to be found - in blood and tears, and under rain that washes all past memories. Any day, a New Babylon shop will open with frilly things for the bourgeois girls. The washerwomen will be there to wash them.
- A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.
- In May 1913 the Romanov Dynasty celebrates its 300th anniversary at the Russian throne. The last emperor in the long line is Tsar Nicholas II. He rules over a country with huge social and economic differences. Russia is for the most part still an agrarian society, but capitalism and its industries are growing. In 1914 Russia gets involved in the First World War. Tsar Nicholas II declares a general mobilization. A vast number of peasants and workers have to go to the front as soldiers. After three years the country is ruined by the war, and there is a shortage of provisions. In February 1917 workers begin striking in the capital, Petrograd. Their protests are soon joined by soldiers. A complete anarchy is threatening the country, when the parliament, called the duma, reorganizes the power structure by forming a new Provisional Government. At the same time the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies forms another ruling body at the City Hall of Petrograd. In this situation Tsar Nicholas II sees no other possibility than to resign from his government. On the 4th of March 1917 he declares his abdication from the throne. The new Provisional Government and its war minister Kerensky continue the war. This presents an opportunity for the Bolsheviks to organize demonstrations and to persuade the workers and soldiers to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power themselves.
- In a train where social classes are strictly separated (wealthy in the front, poor in the back), a revolt erupts.
- "The Ghost That Never Returns" is an outstanding Soviet film by Abram Room, the director of Bed and Sofa (1927). Released to little notice in 1930, it joins other very late silents to show the screen still developing high eloquence after the first talkies stopped silent cinema dead in its tracks. This is the original silent version with new English titles and a new musical setting by Rodney Sauer.
- Orphan Anna lives with her aunt Aliona in the Russian district of Ryazan. One day, they meet Wassily and his son Ivan. In order to marry off his son, Wassily organizes a meeting with all the town's single frauleins and out destiny will reunite Anna and Ivan again.
- "Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.
- A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.
- 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.
- In 19th century, the Russian government tries to resettle a Chechen village to Turkey, but the villagers are not keen on being evicted from their homeland.
- Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman.
- Young workers of a lace factory are divided by a conflict - activists against hooligans.
- Segodnya weaponises images and intertitles to demonstrate the superiority of communism over capitalism.
- On the eve of her divorce, a mother enlists her sister's aid in smuggling her young son out of the house, fearing that she will lose custody of him and hides out in the apartment of her husband's bachelor lawyer, who has just left town for a month. Complications arise when the lawyer's parents unexpectedly pay him a visit, and the woman is forced to pose as his new wife in order to be able to stay hidden out in the apartment.
- The drunken denizens of a Russian village dislike a Jewish shoemaker, who bonds for protection with a burly boatman.
- The NEP years. Glazkov, assistant director of a textile factory, a loudmouth and lover of rallies to emancipate Soviet women, meets pop dancer Tamara Bakhmetyeva. An ordinary acquaintance turns into a whirlwind romance. Meanwhile, the jealous wife decides to take revenge on her husband and begins to show attention to her husband's friend, the chairman of the factory committee, Anton. Convinced of the baseness of both men, Varvara, along with her children, leaves her husband and goes to work at a textile factory.
- This documentary depicts the creation of collective farms for Jews in Crimea. It shows them building their houses, digging a well, and farming the land.
- Documentary about Russian classic author Leo Tolstoy assembled from archive newsreel footage by Esfir Shub.
- A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The kommissar hides among the artists.
- During the first Five Year Plan in the USSR, an elderly worker in a Leningrad turbine factory comes under the influence of a saboteur planning to wreck production goals
- Two inventors head to propose a machine for easy soap packaging while evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine and gaslighting friends.
- The civil war has paralyzed the lives of many common people in Saint-Petersburg. Living in the same house, different families cope with the situation very differently.
- The unhappy fate of a serf who devises a flying apparatus, against the background of Czar Ivan IV in Russia's 16th century.
- "Heroic Deed Among the Ice" ("Podvig vo I'dah" in Russian) is a 1928 Soviet silent documentary film. It is also known as "Exploit on the Ice" and "Ice-Breaker Kras(s)in". This film is the first collaboration between Georgi Vasilyev and Sergei Vasilyev. It details the mission of the ice-breaker Krasin to rescue the crashed crew of Umberto Nobile's arctic airship Italia. The raw material shot without any plan by cameramen who accompanied Krasin was used by Georgi and Sergei Vasilyev to create a coherent and powerful narrative in the tradition of Soviet montage school. Heroic Deed was released in October 1928 and its success helped Georgi and Sergei Vasilyev to realize their ambition to direct. All the editing notes by Vasilyev survive and have been published, but the film itself is partially lost. The actual ice-breaker Krasin survived and is now a (still fully operational) museum ship St Petersburg.
- Film about the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and his relationship to his tsar, Nikolai I.
- Life of village potters and building of a pottery factory.
- Revolutionary newsreel from 1917 to 1924.
- A satirical comedy about kulaks resisting the introduction of new technology, in this case a binder, in a Soviet village agricultural cartel. The place and time of action is the Soviet village of the 1920s.
- This film depicts the participation of Jews in the 1905 Revolution, centred around the girl Esfir Kaufman who, in spite of her father's wish for her to marry, joins the revolutionary party.
- Adapted from the novel of Russian literature, focused on the military life of a young rebel and his youthful passion in Tsarist Russia.
- A little dog is taken in by a clown. Meanwhile the boy who owns the dog searches the city for it.
- Fitter Pet'ka has fallen in love with Lyudmilochka - daughter of booth's owner in fun fair. He does his best to compete with more "suitable match" - photographer.
- On the struggle of the Donbas miners to eliminate the liquidation in the coal industry.
- The philistine Stepochkin, under the influence of rumors of an impending war, is intensely purchasing food.