Sovkino Movies
- 1928
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)6.8281928HD
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...
- 1929
The General Line
The General Line6.4511929HD
Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian...
- 1929
The New Babylon
The New Babylon61929HD
In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries,...
- 1929
Forest People
Forest People01929HD
The story of the Udege tribe, lost for centuries and on the verge of extinction, the most dangerous footage of hunting for bears and wild boars, as...
- 1929
Fragment of an Empire
Fragment of an Empire5.71929HD
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...
- 1927
Bed and Sofa
Bed and Sofa6.5451927HD
Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.
- 1930
The Ghost That Never Returns
The Ghost That Never Returns5.81930HD
The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his...
- 1927
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty6.11927HD
A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.
- 1927
The Poet and the Tsar
The Poet and the Tsar5.81927HD
Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès,...
- 1929
The Last Attraction
The Last Attraction6.51929HD
A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The...
- 1926
Wings of a Serf
Wings of a Serf4.61926HD
This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the...
- 1926
A Sixth Part of the World
A Sixth Part of the World6.8331926HD
Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the...
- 1926
Katka's Reinette Apples
Katka's Reinette Apples5.11926HD
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...
- 1966
Katerina Izmailova
Katerina Izmailova3.71966HD
Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century...
- 1930
Cain and Artem
Cain and Artem71930HD
Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet...
- 1929
Chyornyy parus
Chyornyy parus01929HD
The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.
- 1928
The Captain's Daughter
The Captain's Daughter51928HD
An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.
- 1929
Golden Beak
Golden Beak01929HD
Directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov.
- 1929
Brother
Brother01929HD
The chairman of the factory committee of one of the Leningrad factories, Fyodor Gorbachev, a weak-willed man who was unable to completely overcome...
- 1929
А почему так?
А почему так?6.21929HD