Yanina Zhejmo

A take on the Cinderella's story, based on the play by Yevgeni Shvarts.

Animated adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's story.

Lenochka dreams about cowboys and indians while her brother plays tricks on her while she sleeps. (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)

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)

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.

Tank units of the Red Army arrive at a small, provincial town for tactical training. One of the commanders rents a room from a local agricultural student and romance blossoms between the two.