Sovkino Movies

Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet Filmmaki...

The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.

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 War I not long...

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 wo...

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 pri...

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

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

A visual composition of the world.

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

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

Directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov.

Siberia. 1919 The retreating intervention detachments and the English expedition leave the mines. A snowstorm begins. English engineer Henry and his f...

Directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov.

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

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 kommi...

Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.

In 1921. With the help of Japanese interventionists, the White Guards defeat a Shaldyba partisan detachment. The remnants of the defeated detachment p...

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 crimin...

The tragic story of a young woman named Yulia, who fell in love with a married man and lost her only child.