Mikhail Tarkhanov

Peter the First, Part II

Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overth…

Peter the First, Part I

This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Re…

Dubrovskiy

Peasant rebelling, pictures of folk anger - here accent that had to put Ivanovo in a new film. The m…

The Youth of Maxim

A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical d…

Thunderstorm

The cinematic adaptation of "The Storm" play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Vo…

Diary of a Revolutionist

The secret police agent finds that factory director wife is counterrevolutionary but dies from the h…

Ranks and People

From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary a…

Psicha, die Tänzerin Katherina

Raskolnikow

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-o…