Yevgeni Samojlov

Nikolai Shchors was one of the few indisputable Bolshevik icons of Ukrainian origin; Dovzhenko's film on him began as a specific personal commission from Stalin. (Filmlinc)

A Russian soldier, during the war and retreat, relives the beauty of the Ukraine of his youth, which also had its sorrows, and finds strength in his memories. (bfi.org.uk)

A light-hearted satire of manners and morals telling the story of two sisters that fall in love with the other's boyfriend. Complications arise. Valentina Serova is a prim professor who sets out to teach army lieutenant Eugene Samoilov/Yvengeni Samojlov some lessons in math but winds up learning lessons in love from him.

In May 1919, the city of Petrograd, the Bolsheviks' stronghold in Russia, is attacked by the counter-revolutionary White Army of General Nikolai Yudenich, who is supported by the imperialist British, and especially by the warmongering Winston Churchill. The city's High Soviet is demoralized and about to order an evacuation, while the White fifth column inside it plots an insurrection... (GusF)

Admiral Pavel Nakhimov, one of the most acclaimed admirals in Russian history, fights the Turkish fleet during the Crimean War of 1853.

Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.