Boris Leonidov

An engineer on a ship belonging to the White forces in the civil war goes over to the Bolsheviks to join his son having watched the execution of a revolutionary leader. (bfi.org.uk)

A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest work in a factory. (imdb)

This little known Russian movie, from the director of the following year's Oblomok imperii/ A Fragment of Empire is both surprising and accomplished. The mute cobbler is interested in the local girl but she is already pregnant by one of the gang of sailor suit toughs. The Soviet Youth League secretary's only assistance to her is a book about sex in Russian literature and things turn nasty. (imdb)

Tragic romance between a female Red Army sharpshooter and a White Army officer. (imdb)

An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin's short story "The Cave," about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg apartment because he was not needed in the revolutionary city.