Sovkino Movies

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,...

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian...

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

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.

Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the...

Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go to...

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

Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical...

A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.

Siberia. 1919 The retreating intervention detachments and the English expedition leave the mines. A snowstorm begins. English engineer Henry and his...

Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century...

Early documentary about the Moscow metro: the early project, the development and the people working on it.

Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès,...

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...

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

About the fate of a ex-Wrangel's White Army soldier who flees from the Foreign Legion and returns to the USSR.

A little girl denounce her evil step-father who plotted against the communist movement. The film, under the influence of Russian formalism, has some...