Sovkino Movies

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...

Directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov.

Directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov.

A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The kommi...

Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a...

The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.

A boy is sitting at a table, writing a letter for Boris Prutkov. The cartoon follows the journey of this letter from Rostov to Leningrad, where its ad...

In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the local...

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

Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet Filmmaki...

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

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 pri...

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

Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.

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, a Frenc...

Khokhlova, a girl-reporter on a Moscow newpaper, falls in love with factory manager Petrovsky. To her he's the epitome of manliness--virile, decisive,...

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

The film portrays Shanghai, China in the early 1920s. It shows the contrasts between the world of Western expatriates (including Britons, Americans, N...

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

A visual composition of the world.