Aleksandr Zhukov
Quiet Flows the Don
as Miron Grigoryevich KorshunovBased on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the...
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as collective farmerTwo men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm,...
Movie pageThe Childhood of Maxim Gorky
as Mikhail Kashirin, an uncleYoung Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually...
Movie pageFoma Gordeyev
as ZobovFoma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work....
Movie pageMay Night, or the Drowned Maiden
as KarpoThe son of an obstinate mayor cannot get his father's consent to wed the beautiful Hanna. He...
Movie pageWish upon a Pike
as HeraldAdapted from four different Russian folk-tales, this early Soviet fantasy film tells the story...
Movie pageBulat-Batyr
as TimurIn a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks...
Movie pageHer Way
as Theodore PowskyWhen Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and...
Movie pageThe Thaw
as SkulovA story about capitalistic corruption in a small village and the personal struggles of Anka...
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