Acting
The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red tape.
Young boy dreams of himself as a version of Gulliver who has landed in Lilliput suffering under capitalist inequality and exploitation.
Collective farmers of the Volga region decide to create the first female fishing team. Her hardworking and neat Varvara Kladova, a quiet and gentle woman suffering from adultery with Stepan's husband, becomes her head. Having overcome the first difficulties, women are ahead of the brigade of men. And this makes Stepan look at his wife with different eyes.
In an unnamed English-speaking capitalist land, a young engineer invents inexhaustible giant robots to replace the fragile human workers on high-volume assembly-lines, and soon finds his invention co-opted by the military-industrial complex.
In 1921. With the help of Japanese interventionists, the White Guards defeat a Shaldyba partisan detachment. The remnants of the defeated detachment pour into Levinson's detachment. Partisan intelligence soon finds that the Japanese has surrounded the detachment. To save the main forces from defeat, Levinson decides to break through the chains of enemies.
How a sailor on leave participated in the struggle of the village poor against the kulaks. Lost movie.
After graduating from college, Natasha returns to Kamchatka, where she spent her childhood and youth. The girl arrives at the geological group of engineer Rozhnov and here she meets her childhood friend Kirik, the expedition guide. A small group of geologists will have to move to the south of Kamchatka, where there should be oil. On the way, the expedition ends up in the area of the active Klyuchevsky volcano, as a result of which the horses scatter and all the group’s property is destroyed. The group's already unenviable position is aggravated by heavy snowfall. Natasha makes an independent decision - and goes for help to the nearest collective farm, which is located two hundred kilometers from the group...
A little girl denounce her evil step-father who plotted against the communist movement. The film, under the influence of Russian formalism, has some interesting experimental compositions.
Also known as The Old and the New, The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to industrial culture in an epic ode to farm-collectivization progress.
The action takes place in February 1937 in Turkmenistan near the Soviet–Afghan border. A detachment of Basmachi fighters must cover a saboteur’s crossing into Soviet territory…
While a factory director is distracted by production problems, his adolescent son suffers from loneliness. His mother is dead, and the father – a kind man and exemplary communist, winner of a Lenin Prize – is unable to find the time to educate his son, or a way to express his feelings. After an argument, the young boy runs away and, at his own risk, joins a band of criminals.
In the late 1920s Jewish girl Dora falls in love with a young Russian Komsomol member. His parents,who are captive to religious superstitions, don't like Dora. She still goes to live with him and will find herself facing those superstitions in her husband home too.
Mostly lost (only 2 minutes recovered).
Everyday life of a maritime border guard post in the mid-1930s. On a small Pacific island, a garrison of NKVD border guards is on duty. A small detachment of soldiers bravely defends their homeland from attacks by Japanese saboteurs and drives away uninvited guests. One day, a Japanese destroyer lands troops on one of the Soviet islands. The invaders are aided by traitors they have recruited. But the border guards give the aggressors a worthy rebuff.
