The works of tolstoy 1928

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows the works of tolstoy 1928

poster The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata
(2.9/5)
42mn - Drama
The Kreutzer Sonata is based on a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of je…
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 Hearts in Exile
Hearts in Exile
(2.8/5)
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 Kino Eye
Kino Eye
(3.5/5)
78mn - Documentary
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand …
poster A Revolutionary
A Revolutionary
(3/5)
36mn - Drama
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 The Miracle at the Vistula
The Miracle at the Vistula
(2.6/5)
51mn - Drama, Romance, War
Eastern Borderlands, 1919. The Bolsheviks, taking part in the Polish-Russian war, appear at the Granowski manor house. It's a story based on the war of 1920, which ended with the Battle of Warsaw going do…
poster Anniversary of the Revolution
Anniversary of the Revolution
(2.7/5)
122mn - Documentary, History
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.
poster Children of the Age
Children of the Age
62mn - Drama, Romance
The picture tells the story of Maria, a devoted wife of a bank employee. The couple has a cozy life; they have a baby but he is cared for by their maid so Maria can spend her time doing terrific things li…
poster Glumov's Diary
Glumov's Diary
(2.8/5)
5mn - Fantasy, Comedy
Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape ex…
poster The Little House in Kolomna
The Little House in Kolomna
(3.1/5)
31mn - Comedy
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
(3.3/5)
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 1812
1812
(2.8/5)
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 Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
(3.3/5)
74mn - Drama
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thi…
poster Love One Another
Love One Another
(3.3/5)
95mn - Drama
Based on the novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne-Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, le…
poster The Oubliette
The Oubliette
29mn - Drama, History
Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly …
poster A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
30mn - Drama, History
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
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 Ludzie bez jutra
Ludzie bez jutra
(3.3/5)
84mn - Drama, Romance
A bleak tale of an affair between an actress and a Russian officer, based on the real story of the affair between Maria Wisnowska and Aleksandr Barteniew.
poster The Life of the Jews of Palestine
The Life of the Jews of Palestine
(3.1/5)
78mn - Documentary
The Life of the Jews in Palestine is a silent documentary film depicting Jews and Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine.
poster Resurrection
Resurrection
15mn - Drama
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…
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