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poster The Night Before Christmas
The Night Before Christmas
(3.1/5)
41mn - Comedy, Fantasy
It is Christmas Eve, and the town witches’ son, a blacksmith, seeks an honest marriage to his love who wishes for a pair of shoes fit for the Tsarina. A mischievous devil is trapped into providing service…
poster Drama at the Bottom of the Sea
Drama at the Bottom of the Sea
(2.8/5)
1mn - Adventure, Fantasy
Using a blue tint to set the scene under the sea, this is a short, surprisingly violent film where two divers fight to the death with axes over some treasure beneath the waves.
poster Polikushka
Polikushka
(3.5/5)
50mn - Drama
"Polikushka" was the only film directed by Aleksandr Sanin, one of Moscow Art Academic Theatre's founders, and is based on Lev Tolstoy's homonym short story. In spite the many differences between the lite…
poster The Portrait
The Portrait
(3.4/5)
45mn - Horror, Thriller
A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived.
poster After Death
After Death
(3.4/5)
46mn - Drama
Young scholar Andrei, fascinated by haunting actress Zoia Kadmina, is surprised when she sends him a note. The two have a brief scheduled meeting, then three months later Andrei is shocked to learn she ha…
poster A Spectre Haunts Europe
A Spectre Haunts Europe
70mn - Drama
Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been ban…
poster The Beilis Case
The Beilis Case
(2.9/5)
0mn - Drama, Crime
Ukrainian silent courtroom drama about the trial on charges of Menachem Mendel Beilis in the ritual murder of 12-year-old Andrey Yushchinsky. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Ukrainian Jew accused of ritual mu…
poster Romance with a Double Bass
Romance with a Double Bass
(2.7/5)
7mn - Comedy
Princess Bibulova decides to go fishing along the river, while not far away, a musician leaves his two companions to go for a swim. Soon afterwards, the princess also goes swimming. While neither swimmer …
poster Mermaid
Mermaid
(2.6/5)
9mn - Fantasy, Drama
"Rusalka" or "Mermaid" based on Pushkin, an opera by Dargomizhsky, and other sources: A prince and a miller's daughter have been involved in a romance together, but now the prince tells her that he must b…
poster A Sixteenth Century Russian Wedding
A Sixteenth Century Russian Wedding
13mn - Drama, History
A dramatization of a wedding in 16th-century Russia, between members of two prominent boyar families (based on paintings by Konstantin Makovskii): Three matchmakers first visit the family of the prospecti…
poster Krechinsky's Wedding
Krechinsky's Wedding
(2.7/5)
0mn - Comedy
Based on the play by A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin.
poster The Dying Swan
The Dying Swan
(3.6/5)
49mn - Drama
After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinel…
poster Chrysanthemums
Chrysanthemums
(3.7/5)
30mn - Drama
A tragic story of a ballerina.
poster Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible
Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible
(3.5/5)
42mn - Drama, History
This film was a true peculiarity, a filmed version of the great Feodor Chaliapin in one of his most famous roles; the fact that it was a silent film, with title cards, meant that audiences could only appr…
poster Miniature Theatre
Miniature Theatre
(2.9/5)
5mn - Comedy, Animation
Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and be…
poster Winning a Continent
Winning a Continent
(3.5/5)
54mn - Drama, History
This epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Bat…
poster Carmen of the North
Carmen of the North
(3.4/5)
60mn - Drama
On the verge of getting married to Marijke, young and insecure detective Jozef is assigned the case of a murdered factory girl. His relationship is threatened when he becomes madly infatuated with Carmen,…
poster A Dangerous Woman
A Dangerous Woman
(2.7/5)
80mn - Drama, Crime
The commissioner of an African outpost lives with a woman who drives the white men to their deaths with her seductive ways. The commissioner learns that his brother will be his next assistant, and the wom…
poster The Flower in Hell
The Flower in Hell
(3.2/5)
87mn - Crime, Drama
In post-Korean War Seoul, a young man from the countryside discovers that his older brother has become romantically involved in a prostitute and has no intentions of returning home.
poster A Girl's Folly
A Girl's Folly
(3.1/5)
65mn - Comedy
A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading ma…
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