Nikolai Simonov

Our Cinema

Patriot

A story about the adventures of young boy Kolya Novikov who runs from his home in order to get to th…

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…

Hectic Days

A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.…

Chapayev

An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in th…

Povorot

Cain and Artem

Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was not…

Brother

The chairman of the factory committee of one of the Leningrad factories, Fyodor Gorbachev, a weak-wi…