Sovkino Movies
- 1929
The General Line
The General Line6.51929HD
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...
- 1928
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)6.8691928HD
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 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,...
- 1930
The Ghost That Never Returns
The Ghost That Never Returns5.71930HD
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
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.
- 1929
Fragment of an Empire
Fragment of an Empire5.6751929HD
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...
- 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...
- 1927
The Peasant Women of Ryazan
The Peasant Women of Ryazan6.41927HD
The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life.
- 1926
A Sixth Part of the World
A Sixth Part of the World6.9571926HD
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...
- 1928
My Son
My Son01928HD
A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.
- 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
House in the Snow-Drifts
House in the Snow-Drifts61927HD
An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg...
- 1928
Lace
Lace61928HD
Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical...
- 1929
Blue Express
Blue Express3.41929HD
Chinese workers start a rebellion, arm themselves and take over the train on which they are travelling and manage to break through the frontier.
- 1928
The Captain's Daughter
The Captain's Daughter51928HD
An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.
- 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
А почему так?
А почему так?6.21929HD
- 1932
Shame
Shame4.41932HD
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...
- 1926
Kashtanka
Kashtanka01926HD
Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a...
- 1929
Ill Nerves
Ill Nerves01929HD
Director of a Soviet-era enterprises, Baturin, spends days and nights in his private office. Inability to arrange work day and overwork caused...