Sovkino Movies

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...

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

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

In the United States, oil magnate Johnston backs Roberts, a ruthless political candidate who has his main rival murdered and rises to the...

When Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he’s called away to fight in World...

Chinese workers start a rebellion, arm themselves and take over the train on which they are travelling and manage to break through the frontier.

Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical...

An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.

A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.

Lost movie.

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...

Directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov.

The dashing mountaineer Zaur kills a Russian "imperialist" thereby becoming an abrek, member of a roving band of outlaws.

A visual composition of the world.

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

Lost movie.

After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several...

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...

This documentary depicts the creation of collective farms for Jews in Crimea. It shows them building their houses, digging a well, and farming the...