Most Viewed From Sovkino

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Popov

Director of a Soviet-era enterprises, Baturin, spends days and nights in his private office. Inability to arrange work day and overwork caused...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sergei Minin

Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nikolai Batalov

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yelena Kuzmina

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Boris Ferdinandov

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fyodor Nikitin

A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Alekseyev

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivan Bykov

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marfa Lapkina

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...

Genre: Documentary

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This Russian documentary offered tantalizing glimpses of Afghanistan, which in 1929 was still one of the few heavily-populated areas in the world...

Genre: Documentary

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Depicts life in the Solovki prison camp as a vacation at a holiday resort, pointing at the authorities’ efforts to humanise the re-education of...

Genre: Documentary

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In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the...

Genre: History

Cast: Vasili Yaroslavtsev

An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fyodor Nikitin

Early documentary about the Moscow metro: the early project, the development and the people working on it.

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vladimir Arseniev

Directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov.

Genre: Drama

Cast: A. Yefimov

Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Gardin

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivan Klyukvin

A comedy starring Nina Shaternikova, The Skotinins is loosely based on the 18th century play The Minor by Denis Fonvizin. In it, the upper class is...

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Cast: Nadezhda Borskaya