Yakov Gudkin

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)

Directed by Ilya Trauberg, and written by Leonid Iyerikhonov, Ilya Trauberg, and Sergei Tretyakov, «Goluboy ekspress» is a Drama film, released in the USA on March 08 of 1930 . Sergei Minin and Igor Chernyak are starring, alongside I. Arbenin, Yakov Gudkin, I. Savelyev and San Bo Yan. (imdb)

The career of Spirka Shpandyr, a master pickpocket!

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.