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During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917.
A circus performance with the participation of the best young masters of the Soviet circus.
Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in Russia.
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
In the distant city of Blagoveshchensk, a father and his two sons, Rodka and Kostya, live together. After graduating from college, Kostya works as a surgeon and suffocates from the "greyness" of others, and 15-year-old Rodka suffers from the inability to help people. One day, a young woman appears in their house, whom Kostya brings.
In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people.
Bitsko, a modest and overly compassionate postman, spends every day tending to his fellow villagers, sharing their joys and sorrows.
A story about young years of Vladimir Lenin.
The life of little Andryusha is changing: since his father has a new wife, he will have to get used to a new mother figure after losing his mother at an early age.
A young man discovers that his father behaved dishonourably during wartime.
A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life.
Yasha Toporkov is in love with a cheerful girl Marishka. He is young, happy and satisfied with life — Marishka recently became his fiancee. Yasha is also happy with his work. Everyone knows Toporkov at the construction site: his team came out on top. And Yasha had long forgotten about the "left outfit" for which the foreman had given him extra money. Nevertheless, it is precisely because of this that an accident occurs at the construction site, a welder is killed, and the site foreman Mirzoyan is removed from leadership.
Based on Maxim Gorky's early autobiographical short stories "One Day in Autumn", "Konovalov", "Twenty Six and One", "My Companion", "The Conclusion", "On the Salt", "Woman".
The meeting between the chief physician of the sanatorium Rodion Nikolayevich and the patient Lydia Vasilievna begins with a conflict: the woman managed to break the sanatorium regime in the very first days of her stay. However, soon the acquaintance of two middle-aged people turns into friendship, and then into mutual sympathy.
A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946.
On the beginning of revolutionary activity of F. E. Dzerzhinsky.
This is a fun musical film about the circus and a talented girl who dreams of becoming an artist. And although her path will be a lot of obstacles and funny misunderstandings, cheerful heroine still make your fantastic number — "Flight to the stars".
Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, including "the Physicist", "Judicial Process", and "the Jewish Wife".
The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
