Sovkino Movies

This documentary offered tantalizing glimpses of Afghanistan, which in 1929 was still one of the few heavily-populated areas in the world where the...

In the United States, oil magnate Johnston backs Roberts, a ruthless political candidate who has his main rival murdered and rises to the...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the...

Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his...

The dashing mountaineer Zaur kills a Russian "imperialist" thereby becoming an abrek, member of a roving band of outlaws.

An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.

A visual composition of the world.

When Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he’s called away to fight in World...

Lost movie.

A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The...

A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.

After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several...

Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical...

Two inventors, Akhov and Makhov, head to the district propose a machine for easy soap packaging while an evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine...

The adventurous love story of Turgenev's illegitimate daughter Asya, who ran away from the estate to St. Petersburg with her lover, is intertwined...

A comedy starring Nina Shaternikova, The Skotinins is loosely based on the 18th century play The Minor by Denis Fonvizin. In it, the upper class is...