Boris Leonidov
Writing
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A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him, by boat, into captivity across the Aral Sea. A storm strands the two on an island.
The Forty-First
A machinist on a Navy ship has two sons, both bolcheviks. When the revolution comes the Tsarist police captures the machinist to put pressure on his sons.
The Bay of Death
1918 year. One of the southern cities is captured by the Whites. An underground Bolshevik committee is preparing an armed uprising in the city.
At the Last Hour
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Red Partisans
Komsomol girl Katya Karnakova, a darling of the small provincial town Old Lopsha, is seriously smitten with a fellow Komsomol and does not even try to hide this from others. After some time as a result of their affair, she becomes pregnant.
The Parisian Cobbler
The story of a Jewish entrepreneur ins Tsarist Russia always look for a get rich quick scheme.
Jewish Luck
An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg apartment because he was not needed in the revolutionary city.
House in the Snow-Drifts
A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest work in a factory.
Katka's Reinette Apples
Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman.
Katerina Izmailova
About the growth of social consciousness of an Uzbek woman.
Her Right
Adaptation of book by Boris Lavrenyov about the work of the underground fighters in a Ukrainian town occupied by the White army in 1919. Lost.