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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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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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 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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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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A story based on a classic play by Alexander Ostrovsky,
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A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.
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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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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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Performance of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater based on the play by N. Pogodin.
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