Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The...

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October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

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Que Viva Mexico!

Que Viva Mexico!

Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.

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Strike

Strike

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

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The General Line

The General Line

Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to...

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Jolly Fellows

Jolly Fellows

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an...

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Circus

Circus

An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of...

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Starling and Lyre

Starling and Lyre

Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling...

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Volga - Volga

Volga - Volga

Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic...

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Spring

Spring

A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap...

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Russkiy Suvenir

Russkiy Suvenir

The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thunderstorm and makes an emergency landing in the...

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Velikoye proshchaniye

Velikoye proshchaniye

March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow...

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Man of Music

Man of Music

The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music,...

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Ten Days That Shook the World

Ten Days That Shook the World

An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary...

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Sentimental Romance

Sentimental Romance

Romance sentimentale is a 1930 French film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein. A short, experimental, slightly poetic montage...

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Meeting on the Elbe

Meeting on the Elbe

Soviet and American soldiers are meeting on the shores of the Elbe river in Germany in 1945.

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Hurray Mexico!

Hurray Mexico!

Unedited film that Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Eduard Tisse shot in Mexico 1931-32. This record only represents the 200,000-plus...

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Time in the Sun

Time in the Sun

Second attempt to create a feature film out of the 200,000-plus feet of film which Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein shot during 1931-32 in...

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The Shining Path

The Shining Path

Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She...

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Misery and Fortune of Woman

Misery and Fortune of Woman

This film shows contrasting views of women with problematic pregnancies and the outcomes resulting when they seek out a back-alley abortionist, a...

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