Andrei Kostrichkin

The New Babylon is a metaphorical clash of glittering surfaces and deep social cynicism that marked the climax of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's experimentations with the conventions of the Soviet silent cinema. Taking their thematic inspiration from the story of the Paris Commune of 1871, the two directors fashioned a highly conceptualized allegory of social strata under pressure that transcends its historical roots to form a sardonic comment on the human condition. (filmreference.com)

«Goroda i gody» is a Drama film directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov, and written by Yevgeni Chervyakov, Konstantin Fedin, Dmitri Tolmachyov and Nathan Zarkhi, released in the USA on April 03 of 1931. (imdb)

Soviet film based on Nikolai Gogol stories "Nevsky Prospekt" and "The Overcoat".

Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat.... (imdb)

The film tells about the Decembrists' revolt in the south of Russia. (imdb)