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The film depicts the life of Stepan Khalturin, a 19th-century Russian worker and revolutionary terrorist belonging to the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) organization.
A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.
Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.
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Siberia. 1919 The retreating intervention detachments and the English expedition leave the mines. A snowstorm begins. English engineer Henry and his fiancee Ollan, the daughter of the company director, are lagging behind. After much wandering, the heroes come across the winter quarters of the Russian partisan Vladimir. While waiting out the bad weather, the heroes will be forced to live together for some time. Ollan will be convinced of the worthlessness of his chosen one and the courageous, energetic Vladimir will become her husband. And ahead is spring and painful thoughts: to stay with your loved one in this country or return to your homeland?
The film shows the struggle of the Chuvash people for their rights at the beginning of the 20th century.
A squadron of American warplanes, armed with gas developed by Corsican chemist Gannimer (dubbed "Napoleon Gas") flies to Leningrad. American workers inform soviet comrades about the impending catastrophe. But the air attack on the city has already begun, and the assault troops of the enemy capture one suburb of the city after the other. The Red Army is organizing the defense and reflects the attack of the enemy with gas-armed drones
Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go to the Fergana region to fight the Basmachi. A group of kulaks, with the support of local merchants and beys, incites the unconscious, wavering mass of the Red Army to revolt. The anti-Soviet agitation of counter-revolutionaries, demagogically exploiting the mood of war weariness, provokes an open mutiny in the battalion.
The struggle of the Chuvash peasants against the large landowners for the implementation of the Land Law. Partially lost.
Film-opera based on Tschaikovsky's adaptation of Gogol's story, 'Noch' pyered Rozhdestvom.'
About a brigade of young female turners who win the respect of the factory team by their labor.
In 1916, a new Russian governor is sent to the Kazakhstan steppes by the Tsar and tries to impose mandatory military service upon the native Kazakhs. A popular uprising begins against the Tsarist empire. A Kazakh hero, Amangeldy Imanov, leads the revolt and allies with the Bolsheviks against the Kazakh clans loyal to the Tsar.
Spirka Spandyr, a petty crook and swindler, escapes from the Soviet Union after serving his sentence and soon becomes the pride of the White émigré community in Amsterdam — Baron Spirka von Spandyr.
Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab dispatcher.
About the shooting of a workers' demonstration on January 9, 1905. The film has not been completely preserved.
Arinka, a young girl who lives near the railroad, discovers a ring of spies who are preparing the terror act.
Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff. Pushkin hears rumours of D’Anthès’s love for his wife and challenges him to a duel.
The film recreates episodes from the December Uprising of 1825. Against the backdrop of the uprising, a love story unfolds between the Decembrist Annenkov and Polina Gebl.
