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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 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…

1812

41mn - Drama, History

Made in 1912, this film has become known as one of the greatest pieces of pre-Soviet cinema. The silent film tells the story of the Patriotic war of 1812 when Napoleon attempted to invade Russia. This joi…

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 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…

Mazeppa

15mn - Drama, History

Mazepa, the Ukrainian governor is in love with his goddaughter Maria. He quickly wins her heart. But her old father treats the wooer harshly… Maria runs away. The furious father won’t submit. This intrigu…

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 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 Father Sergius

Father Sergius

112mn - History, Drama

The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk.

poster Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible

Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible

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…

Morozko

40mn - Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Based on the Russian fairy tale Father Frost.

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 Demolition of the Russian Monument at St Stephen

The Demolition of the Russian Monument at St Stephen

Filmed by reserve army officer Fuat Uzkinay shortly after the Ottoman empire's entry into the Great War. A General Enver's establishes a film centre and several more scenes are shot during the war.

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 The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom

The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom

115mn - Romance, Comedy

As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in lo…

poster Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat

Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat

1mn - Documentary

The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire at the Bibi-Heybat oil field. The film was shot on 35mm film by the Lumiere brothers in 1898. On August …

poster Silent Witnesses

Silent Witnesses

In order to allow another servant to go home to be with her children, Nastya agrees to serve in her place, as a maid in the household in which Nastya's grandfather is a porter. Soon afterwards, the woman …

Vadim

The landowner Palitsyn (Chardynin) long and successfully sues the neighbor. The lawsuit led to the ruin. He died, leaving orphans children — humpback a young boy Vadim (Speransky) and three-year Olga. In …

poster A Revolutionary

A Revolutionary

In 1907, the Russian authorities learn that a revolutionary known as 'Granddad' is living in hiding with his brother. The revolutionary is soon arrested and sent to Siberia. After ten years of struggling …

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.

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