Thunderstorm
Mar. 25, 1934Thunderstorm
The cinematic adaptation of “The Storm” play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive ...
Tag Archives: 1930s
By the Bluest of Seas
Apr. 01, 1936
The Youth of Maxim
Jan. 28, 1935
Three Songs About Lenin
Nov. 06, 1934Three Songs About Lenin
This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Happiness
Mar. 15, 1935Happiness
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other ...
Road to Life
Mar. 12, 1931Road to Life
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards, and it works well. But crooks kill one ...
My Apprenticeship
Sep. 12, 1939My Apprenticeship
My Apprenticeship (V lyudyakh) was the second entry in Russian director Mark Donskoy’s “Maxim Gorki” trilogy. Picking up where ...
The Golden Key
Dec. 20, 1939
Outskirts
Mar. 24, 1933
Minin and Pozharsky
Nov. 03, 1939
St. Jorgen’s Day
Aug. 25, 1930St. Jorgen’s Day
The priests, stock market officials, and police conspire to squeeze income out of pilgrims come to see relics of a Christ like figure. A pair of ...
Earth
Apr. 08, 1930Earth
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
Volga-Volga
Apr. 24, 1938
Chapaev
Nov. 07, 1934
The Children of Captain Grant
Jun. 06, 1936The Children of Captain Grant
The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter ...
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Sep. 27, 1938The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Detstvo Gorkovo) was the first of Russian director Mark Donski’s trilogy based upon Gorky’s memoirs. ...
Cosmic Journey
Jan. 21, 1936Cosmic Journey
Soviet cinematographers created a progressively realistic image of a journey to the moon in these early days of special effects. Scientist Pavel ...
Tractor Drivers
Jul. 03, 1939
Prometheus
Jan. 01, 1936Prometheus
A film based on works and biography of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko (1814 – 1861).
A Severe Young Man
Dec. 04, 1934A Severe Young Man
The film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the 1930s. The cast of characters is extremely unlikely ...
Circus
May. 25, 1936
¡Que Viva Mexico!
Oct. 01, 1931¡Que Viva Mexico!
¡Qué viva México! was a film project undertaken in 1931-32 by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein for American socialist author Upton Sinclair ...
Alexander Nevsky
Nov. 24, 1938
Salt for Svanetia
May. 24, 1930Salt for Svanetia
An ethnographic treasure that documents with visual bravado the harsh conditions of life in the isolated mountain village of Ushkul.
