By the Law
By the Law
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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...
Viktor Shklovskiy
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Bed and Sofa
Bed and Sofa6.5/101927HDLife changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.
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The House on Trubnaya
The House on Trubnaya6.5/101928HDLife is short and full of oppression, but that doesn't mean Parasha can't find love and laughter when she leaves her country home to take a job as a...
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The Steel Road
The Steel Road6.1/101929HDBold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over...
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The Gadfly
The Gadfly5.1/101955HDItaly, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in...
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The Tale of the Golden Rooster
The Tale of the Golden Rooster6.8/101967HDA satirical fairy tale about an old tsar Dadon and a golden cockerel who guarded the borders of his kingdom.
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Wings of a Serf
Wings of a Serf4.6/101926HDThis SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the...
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The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends5.2/101970HDThe story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering.
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Minin and Pozharsky
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Prostitute
Prostitute4.4/101927HDA bold study on the dangers of prostitution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. It's sort of dramatic fiction that tells the story of Lyuba, which...
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The Cossacks
The Cossacks4.7/101961HDHistorical drama based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. Junker Olenin, a representative of St.Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from...
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Chuk and Gek
Chuk and Gek6/101953HDFollowed by his two sons, Chuk and Gek, an engineer-explorer heads for a geologists'camp lost in the Ural white wilderness. He plans to spend New...
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Three Fat Men
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The Traitor
The Traitor4.9/101926HDAn agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolchevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution.
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House of the Dead
House of the Dead4/101932HDSoviet film based on Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel of his prison experiences in Tsarist days.
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The Captain's Daughter
The Captain's Daughter5/101928HDAn adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.
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Youth Wins
Youth Wins0/101928HDA dead hen becomes a problem between two neighbor families in Ajara (west Georgia). That leads to drama; a young guy is killed in the next quarrel.
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The Kuleshov Effect
The Kuleshov Effect6/101969HDAn excellent 1969 documentary, S. Raitburt’s The Kuleshov Effect, made about a year before Lev Kuleshov died, and interviewing him at length,...
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The Last Attraction
The Last Attraction6.5/101929HDA travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The...
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Kazakebi
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The Gadfly
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Jews on the Land
Jews on the Land6.5/101927HDThis documentary depicts the creation of collective farms for Jews in Crimea. It shows them building their houses, digging a well, and farming the...
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Alisher Navoiy
Alisher Navoiy0/101948HDBiographical drama about one of the most famous Uzbek poets of the 15th century, Alisher Navoiy.
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Horizon
Horizon0/101932HDA young Lyova travels with the hope of ascent from Czarist Russia to New York. Disappointed, he returns to the young Soviet Union and is glad to have...
