Sovkino Movies

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

Depicts life in the Solovki prison camp as a vacation at a holiday resort, pointing at the authorities’ efforts to humanise the re-education of crimin...

Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicolai II is a 1928 Soviet silent documentary film directed by Esfir Shub. The film is considered lost. Lev Tolstoy an...

When Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he’s called away to fight in World War I not long...

The Great Road is a 1927 Soviet silent documentary film directed by Esfir Shub. It is the second in Esfir Shub's trilogy of films that began with The...

The tragic story of a young woman named Yulia, who fell in love with a married man and lost her only child.

In 1921. With the help of Japanese interventionists, the White Guards defeat a Shaldyba partisan detachment. The remnants of the defeated detachment p...

This Russian documentary offered tantalizing glimpses of Afghanistan, which in 1929 was still one of the few heavily-populated areas in the world wher...

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

Directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov.

Siberia. 1919 The retreating intervention detachments and the English expedition leave the mines. A snowstorm begins. English engineer Henry and his f...

Soviet silent film in which a fireman is approaching paternity, only for his wife to tell him that the baby isn't his.

Against the will of the fathers (1926) was shot based on the story of Sholom Aleichem "Blood Stream", which talks about the participation of Jews in t...

Manifesto is the first independent work of the classic Soviet documentarian Lidia Stepanova. The documentary was compiled from newsreel material shot...

Two inventors head to propose a machine for easy soap packaging while evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine and gaslighting friends.

Early documentary about the Moscow metro: the early project, the development and the people working on it.