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Oktyabr

Oktyabr

Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein 1928 1h 55m 7.1

Okjabre was supposed to create a film about the tenth anniversary of the Russian October Revolution yet he created a lot more than just that; through historical montages Director Eisenstein created a part documentary part intellectual film.

Novyy Vavilon

Novyy Vavilon

Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg 1929 1h 32m 8.5

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.

Staroye i novoye

Staroye i novoye

Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein 1929 2h 5m 8.0

A celebration of the collectivization of agriculture, as championed by old-line Bolshevik Leon Trotsky.

Po zakonu

Po zakonu

Lev Kuleshov 1926 1h 20m 8.5

After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several months until they can turn him over to the law.

Prividenie, kotoroe ne vozvrashchaetsya

Prividenie, kotoroe ne vozvrashchaetsya

Abram Room 1929 1h 34m

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.

Shestaya chast mira

Shestaya chast mira

Dziga Vertov 1926 1h 15m

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 order to build a "complete socialist society".

Baby ryazanskie

Baby ryazanskie

Olga Preobrazhenskaya 1927 1h 28m

The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life.

Evreyskoe schaste

Evreyskoe schaste

Alexis Granowsky 1925 1h 40m

The story of a Jewish entrepreneur ins Tsarist Russia always look for a get rich quick scheme.

Tretya meshchanskaya

Tretya meshchanskaya

Abram Room 1927 1h 27m 7.0

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

Katka-bumazhnyy ranet

Katka-bumazhnyy ranet

Fridrikh Ermler, Eduard Ioganson 1926 1h 49m

A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest work in a factory.

Oblomok imperii

Oblomok imperii

Fridrikh Ermler 1929 1h 50m

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 window sparks the return of his memory.

Padenie dinastii Romanovykh

Padenie dinastii Romanovykh

Esfir Shub 1927 1h 27m

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

S.V.D. - Soyuz velikogo dela

S.V.D. - Soyuz velikogo dela

Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg 1927 1h 36m

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 choice.