Sovkino Movies

Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.

The film director suddenly discovers that a local bell ringer is the perfect type for the shoot. Immediately, the new actor is trained...

As the Russian monarchy crumbles, conflicts at Petrograd intensify, with Soviet hero V.I. Lenin leading the rebellion that overthrows the tsar's...

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...

A comedy starring Nina Shaternikova, The Skotinins is loosely based on the 18th century play The Minor by Denis Fonvizin. In it, the upper class is...

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the...

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his...

The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life.

Directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov.

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...

The dashing mountaineer Zaur kills a Russian "imperialist" thereby becoming an abrek, member of a roving band of outlaws.

In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries,...

100.000.000 peasants – illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live the old life no longer. Using ways...

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

Right before the Decembrist Revolt of 1825, a chevalier of fortune decides that it's time for a game. But on whom make a bet? He asks the cards. But...

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

After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several...

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...

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

A visual composition of the world.