Fridrikh Ermler

The civil war has paralyzed the lives of many common people in Saint-Petersburg. Living in the same house, different families cope with the ...

The struggle of farmers against the “kulaks” on collective farms. The ruthlessness of capitalism is central, in a world where cruelty ...

In the guise of a character named Chakov, Ermler reconstructs in his epic the achievement of popular Leningrad leader Kirov, who was killed in ...

As the Nazi forces advance on Moscow, village woman, after witnessing her husband killed in combat, her toddler run over by a German tank, and ...

Described by historian Paul Rotha as “the epitome of the Soviet propaganda film, realized with extraordinary skill of technical ...

This little known Russian movie, from the director of the following year’s Oblomok imperii/ A Fragment of Empire is both surprising and ...

A Soviet 1945 film directed by Fridrikh Ermler based on a screenplay by Boris Chirskov. The film was one of the Cannes top prize winners of 1946. ...