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poster The Dying Swan

The Dying Swan

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 Daydreams

Daydreams

Sergei’s beloved wife Yelena has passed away, and the bereaved husband is inconsolable. He remains obsessed with pictures of Yelena and with a braid of her hair that he has saved. One day, while walking i…

poster Princess Tarakanova

Princess Tarakanova

19mn - Drama, History

Russia, 1775. Count Orlov writes a letter to Empress Catherine II the Great in which he denounces Princess Tarakanova as a traitor and pretender to the throne.

poster Kamarinskaja

Kamarinskaja

1mn - Documentary

Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.

poster The World and Its Woman

The World and Its Woman

A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to cross the icy steppes and…

poster Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums

A tragic story of a ballerina.

poster The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades

15mn - Horror, Drama

Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying …

Mermaid

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 Life for a Life

A Life for a Life

Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal.

poster Hearts in Exile

Hearts in Exile

59mn - Drama, History, Romance

In Czarist Russia, attractive Anna Ivanovna has consecrated her life to work among Russia's persecuted poor. She dispenses food, medicine, and funds to the needy, from a busy charity headquarters. Two men…

poster The Last Tango

The Last Tango

10mn - Drama, Romance

The film is based on the words of a song performed by Iza Kremer in Odessa.

poster Polikushka

Polikushka

"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 A Nymph of the Waves

A Nymph of the Waves

1mn - Documentary

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with roiling waves behind her. She holds the edges of the ski…

poster The Ballet Master's Dream

The Ballet Master's Dream

2mn - Comedy, Fantasy

It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to sleep he paces the floor and tries out dance steps. Fi…

poster After Death

After Death

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 Boyar Orsha

Boyar Orsha

9mn - History, Drama

Based on Lermontov's poem of the same name, Boyar Orsha (Peter Chardynin) leaves the service of Ivan the Terrible.

poster The Little House in Kolomna

The Little House in Kolomna

Based on the story by Pushkin. Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she also enjoys flirting with the guards's officers who pa…

poster Forbidden Paradise

Forbidden Paradise

76mn - Comedy, Romance

Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirators and is rewarded with her love. Infatuated, he deserts his sweetheart, Anna, the Czarina's lady-in-wai…

poster Resurrection

Resurrection

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to cri…

poster Antosha, Ruined by a Corset!

Antosha, Ruined by a Corset!

Taking advantage of his wife's temporary leave, Anton and his female friends are having fun. In the midst of all the revelry, he receives a telegram that she is to return this morning. General turmoil ens…

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