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- A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
- 100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.
- "The Ghost That Never Returns" is an outstanding Soviet film by Abram Room, the director of Bed and Sofa (1927). Released to little notice in 1930, it joins other very late silents to show the screen still developing high eloquence after the first talkies stopped silent cinema dead in its tracks. This is the original silent version with new English titles and a new musical setting by Rodney Sauer.
- Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte.
- A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.
- In a train where social classes are strictly separated (wealthy in the front, poor in the back), a revolt erupts.
- In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the love story between a young sales girl and a soldier unable to decide if he was pro or against the radical fashion? Two short months were needed for the answer to be found - in blood and tears, and under rain that washes all past memories. Any day, a New Babylon shop will open with frilly things for the bourgeois girls. The washerwomen will be there to wash them.
- "Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.
- A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.
- In May 1913 the Romanov Dynasty celebrates its 300th anniversary at the Russian throne. The last emperor in the long line is Tsar Nicholas II. He rules over a country with huge social and economic differences. Russia is for the most part still an agrarian society, but capitalism and its industries are growing. In 1914 Russia gets involved in the First World War. Tsar Nicholas II declares a general mobilization. A vast number of peasants and workers have to go to the front as soldiers. After three years the country is ruined by the war, and there is a shortage of provisions. In February 1917 workers begin striking in the capital, Petrograd. Their protests are soon joined by soldiers. A complete anarchy is threatening the country, when the parliament, called the duma, reorganizes the power structure by forming a new Provisional Government. At the same time the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies forms another ruling body at the City Hall of Petrograd. In this situation Tsar Nicholas II sees no other possibility than to resign from his government. On the 4th of March 1917 he declares his abdication from the throne. The new Provisional Government and its war minister Kerensky continue the war. This presents an opportunity for the Bolsheviks to organize demonstrations and to persuade the workers and soldiers to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power themselves.
- Orphan Anna lives with her aunt Aliona in the Russian district of Ryazan. One day, they meet Wassily and his son Ivan. In order to marry off his son, Wassily organizes a meeting with all the town's single frauleins and out destiny will reunite Anna and Ivan again.
- 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.
- The unhappy fate of a serf who devises a flying apparatus, against the background of Czar Ivan IV in Russia's 16th century.
- Film about the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and his relationship to his tsar, Nikolai I.
- On the eve of her divorce, a mother enlists her sister's aid in smuggling her young son out of the house, fearing that she will lose custody of him and hides out in the apartment of her husband's bachelor lawyer, who has just left town for a month. Complications arise when the lawyer's parents unexpectedly pay him a visit, and the woman is forced to pose as his new wife in order to be able to stay hidden out in the apartment.
- Paper rennet is a sort of apples a pregnant girl sells illegally to make her living in the city. There is a story of two people saving each to overcome all obstacles and there are another two people ending their story in a crime.
- In 19th century, the Russian government tries to resettle a Chechen village to Turkey, but the villagers are not keen on being evicted from their homeland.
- Segodnya weaponises images and intertitles to demonstrate the superiority of communism over capitalism.
- The village youth organize a collective farm in the place of the monastery garden.
- A little dog is taken in by a clown. Meanwhile the boy who owns the dog searches the city for it.
- About the struggle of children from the Moscow courtyard and their parents for the creation of a children's club.
- This film depicts the participation of Jews in the 1905 Revolution, centred around the girl Esfir Kaufman who, in spite of her father's wish for her to marry, joins the revolutionary party.
- Against the will of the fathers (1926) was shot based on the story of Sholom Aleichem "Blood Stream", which talks about the participation of Jews in the 1905 revolution. The first version of the film, entitled "Mabul," was banned by the Soviet government. The 5-part version of the film has survived: a version modified by the will of censorship with other names of the characters, an updated storyline, a more positive attitude and a happy ending. The finale of the final reel shows the mass scenes of the revolutionary struggle in St. Petersburg, the scene of the Jewish pogrom.
- In a small town all the young people are living the best time of their lives all happy and gay. ...but among all that, a girl tells a boy that she's expecting a baby.
- Documentary about Russian classic author Leo Tolstoy assembled from archive newsreel footage by Esfir Shub.
- Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides that it's time for a game. But on whom make a bet? He asks the cards. But he's not the only one who makes the choice.
- Two inventors head to propose a machine for easy soap packaging while evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine and gaslighting friends.
- Adapted from the novel of Russian literature, focused on the military life of a young rebel and his youthful passion in Tsarist Russia.
- Based on fairy tale of Chuikovsky.
- About the struggle of the working peasantry during the years of the organization of the first collective farms to expose the false cartels and the creation of a labor livestock economy.
- 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 kommissar hides among the artists.
- The civil war has paralyzed the lives of many common people in Saint-Petersburg. Living in the same house, different families cope with the situation very differently.
- During the first Five Year Plan in the USSR, an elderly worker in a Leningrad turbine factory comes under the influence of a saboteur planning to wreck production goals
- Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.
- In 1921. With the help of Japanese interventionists, the White Guards defeat a Shaldyba partisan detachment. The remnants of the defeated detachment pour into Levinson's detachment. Partisan intelligence soon finds that the Japanese has surrounded the detachment. To save the main forces from defeat, Levinson decides to break through the chains of enemies.
- The NEP years. Glazkov, assistant director of a textile factory, a loudmouth and lover of rallies to emancipate Soviet women, meets pop dancer Tamara Bakhmetyeva. An ordinary acquaintance turns into a whirlwind romance. Meanwhile, the jealous wife decides to take revenge on her husband and begins to show attention to her husband's friend, the chairman of the factory committee, Anton. Convinced of the baseness of both men, Varvara, along with her children, leaves her husband and goes to work at a textile factory.
- About struggle of pioneers against children homelessness in time of New Economic Policy.
- The owner of the Odessa zucchini "Cafe Fanconi" - Korova - he is also a contractor of the cooperative for cleaning steam boilers. Often he used port street children, who could crawl into narrow steamboat pipes. Often they lost consciousness in the pipes and died.