Yevgeni Gabrilovich

A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn between her luck and her love to Arkadi (Kuravlev) who is a married man. (imdb)

Romantic drama. In 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha, falls in love with a telegraph operator called Mashenka. When she discovers he is ill, she watches over him. But at a party, when Alyosha pays too much attention to another girl, Mashenka is forced to realise her love is an illusion.

In the film, the quiet, settled routine of a professor, whose best days are seemingly behind him, is upset when his volatile daughter comes for a visit and leaves her own daughter behind for him to raise. At the same time, one of his students challenges him to take up some scientific work he had abandoned earlier in his career. (allmovie.com)

The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this biopic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. (allmovie.com)

The spiritual and material misery of a group of people inhabiting the hotel of the title during the War. (themoviedb.org)

Drama set to the Russian civil war of 1918 (themoviedb.org)

A talented girl is trying to find happiness amidst the Russian revolution of 1917 and the civil war that split the nation. (imdb)

The Return of Vasili Bortnikov (Russian: ??????????? ??????? ??????????, Vozvrashshyeniye Vasiliya Bortnikova) is a 1953 Soviet drama film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin based on the novel The Harvest by Galina Nikolayeva. (wikipedia)

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well. (imdb)