Leonid Trauberg

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)

First in a trilogy about the Bolshevik revolution. Maxim grows up to find himself siding with the Bolshevik cause.

Maxim is now a revolutionary working to bring about the Russian revolution.

Maxim is now a comissar in pre-WWII Russia.

War-time satire about the inhumanity of the nazis.

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)

A young teacher is sent to a remote province, separating her from her lover, and sets about the difficult task of building a school there. With a score by Shostokovich. Filmed as a silent, rereleased with sound.