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An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Story of the conflict between old art forms such as ballet and the revolution and the need for creating new, proletarian forms of art. First feature by Sergey and Georgiy Vasiliyev, partially lost.
A documentary on the life and works of Sergei Vasilyev and Georgi Vasilyev, two Soviet filmmakers commonly known as the Vasilyev brothers.
No description available.
Screen adaptation of Tchaikovsky's opera based on the Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name.
Propaganda film enhancing the role of Joseph Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red army during the Russian civil war.
The film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into Karelia, killed Soviet activists, burned houses ... In the rear of the enemy with a special task - to destroy the headquarters of the White Finns on the Kimas Lake - a detachment of Soviet cadets under the command of Toivo Antikainen (Oleg Zhakov) was sent.
Documentary film details the mission of the ice-breaker Krasin to rescue the crashed crew of Umberto Nobile's arctic airship Italia.
Animated rabbit gives a performance lecture about the advantages of rabbit breeding.
“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s.
Directed by Sergey Vasilev and Georgi Vasilyev.
Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far Eastern Republic and partisans in the struggle against the intervention and White army.
The best bell-ringer of the church Fedor Kuzmich Shtukov becomes the foreman of production at the shipyard. Communists and Komsomol members are trying to persuade Fedor to forget about the church, but in vain. Daughter Anna laughs in the face of her father - and in vain too. But when the plant desperately needed a scarce metal, Shtukov, painfully thinking about his native plant, supported the proposal of one of the workers to cast the billet from the church bell, and the vessel was ready for launch on time.
