Fragment of an Empire

Fragment of an Empire

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends...

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Katka's Reinette Apples

Katka's Reinette Apples

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...

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Peasants

Peasants

The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of...

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Mstitel

Mstitel

House in the Snow-Drifts

House in the Snow-Drifts

An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg apartment because he...

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The Parisian Cobbler

The Parisian Cobbler

This little known Russian movie, from the director of the following year's Oblomok imperii/ A Fragment of Empire is both surprising and...

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The Defense of Volotchayevsk

The Defense of Volotchayevsk

Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far...

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Mutiny

Mutiny

Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go...

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The Goalkeeper

The Goalkeeper

The film tells the story of an ordinary guy Anton Kandidov. First he works on agricultural work — transports on boat on Volga watermelons. Noticing...

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Red Partisans

Red Partisans