Arseniy Bibikov Movies

A historic milestone in Russian cinema, recognized as the very first film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous 1869 novel.

About a miners' strike in pre-revolution Russia after a cave-in and the death of their comrade. Partially lost.

Lost movie.

The last surviving fiction film from Wladyslaw Starewicz's wartime associtation with the Skobelev Committee

The picture tells the story of Maria, a devoted wife of a bank employee. The couple has a cozy life; they have a baby but he is cared for by their...

First film ever that was shot by two cameras. Set in 1854-1855, in Sevastopol and Yalta during the Crimean War. Admirals Kornilov (Mozzhukhin) and...

"The Living Corpse" - Fedor Protasov is tormented by the thought that his wife Liza never really made a clear choice between him and Victor Karenin,...

Two peasants in feudal Russia wish to marry but tragedy strikes. A grim if familiar depiction of the precarious condition of the rural life.

The last of Starewicz's surviving Russian shorts

Based on Alexander Ostrovsky's "The Snow Maiden"

A romance in the upper-classes develops as the Bolshevik revolution is at hand.

Based on the 1865 play of the same name by Alexander Ostrovsky.

Seamstress Mary dreams of a better life outside a sweatshop. Her dreams come true when she draws the attention of the bourgeois Victor. She soon...

Lusha is suffering from her drunken husband. One day her father-in-law rapes her. Of course, she doesn’t dare admit it to her husband. So,...