6.8
Thunderstorm
IMDb: 6.8 1934 85 min
The cinematic adaptation of “The Storm” play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive ...
7.3
Ranks and People
IMDb: 7.3 1929 65 min
From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian ...
6.6
The Youth of Maxim
IMDb: 6.6 1935 90 min
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it… “an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism ...
7.0
Peter the First, Part I
IMDb: 7.0 1937 145 min
This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early ...
6.8
Peter the First, Part II
IMDb: 6.8 1938 96 min
Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First’s conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey’s plot to overthrow him. Release: Conquest of ...
6.9
Crime and Punishment
IMDb: 6.9 1923 135 min
Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis, that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their ...