Fyodor Nikitin

Mukhtar is a police dog, who solves crimes and apprehends criminals together with his handler Glazytchev (Nikulin).

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)

Described by historian Paul Rotha as "the epitome of the Soviet propaganda film, realized with extraordinary skill of technical achievement", Fragment of an Empire was the first important film effort by director Frederick Ermler. Combining documentary techniques with straight dramatic narrative, the film focuses on a sergeant in the army of the Czar who loses track of his lovely wife. By the time he's discovered that his bride has re-married to an aristocrat... (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.

A wife admits to her husband that the child to whom she gave birth is not from him. After this the life of the protagonist changes dramatically.

A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his loneliness.

Anna grows up in the village and begins working at a confectionery factory. Men like her and she uses it to make her way in life. Behind the appearance of a "sweet" woman lies an unkind, soulless, selfish person. (imdb)

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. (Guy Bellinger)

Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic.

At the “Pupky” station, an opportunity occurs: two illegal passengers - guinea pigs - have to be disembarked from one of the trains, since animals cannot be transported in a general carriage. The head of the station Pryvychkin tries to help the animals, but the situation is beyond his control. The audit committee sets out to investigate the unpleasant incident… This witty satirical comedy, in which bureaucracy, bourgeoisie and provincialism are mocked.