Peter the First, Part I

Peter the First, Part I

This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs....

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Концерт-вальс

Концерт-вальс

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their...

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Peter the First, Part II

Peter the First, Part II

Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him.

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A Long Happy Life

A Long Happy Life

A young man and woman meet by chance and experience a night and a morning together. One of the truest and realistic depiction of Russian romance...

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Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

The performance of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky based on the novel of the same name by L. N. Tolstoy, staged for the stage by one of the founders...

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Guilty Without Guilt

Guilty Without Guilt

A story based on a classic play by Alexander Ostrovsky,

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The Lower Depths

The Lower Depths

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.

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Thunderstorm

Thunderstorm

The cinematic adaptation of "The Storm" play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive Katerina...

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Peasant woman

Peasant woman

Collective farmers of the Volga region decide to create the first female fishing team. Her hardworking and neat Varvara Kladova, a quiet and gentle...

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The Kremlin Chimes

The Kremlin Chimes

Performance of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater based on the play by N. Pogodin.

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