Aleksandr Chistyakov

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from ...

The End of St. Petersburg (Russian: Конец Санкт-Петербурга, translit. Konets Sankt-Peterburga) is a 1927 silent film directed by Vsevolod ...

A story about a family torn apart by a worker’s strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but ...

In the culmination of the Maxim trilogy, the worker hero becomes a political commissar after October 1917 and with some embarrassment is ...

A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat ...

Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced ...

A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the ...

The film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the 1930s. The cast of characters is extremely ...

Naturally, the circus milieu of 2 Buldy 2 (1929) encourages stunts. A father and son, both clowns, are to perform together for the first time, ...