Vladimir Sladkopevtsev

Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red army during the Russian civil war.

The film takes us back to the summer of 1918 and tells the story of how Voroshilov, under the noses of a 300,000-strong German corps, pulled 80 trains loaded with valuable cargo, materials, ammunition, and equipment out of Donbass. With a 15,000-strong army and 50,000 refugees from Ukraine, occupied by Germany, in Tsaritsyn. It was an unprecedented campaign, unparalleled in world military history, because it involved marching 500 km through territory occupied by the White Cossacks, under the command of some of the most capable tsarist cavalry generals, Mamontov and Fitzhelaurov.

1829. Tired of being secretly watched by the chief of police Benckendorff, Pushkin leaves imperial St. Petersburg and heads to the Caucasus to join the army. He stops in Tiflis, waiting for permission to enter the war zone. Pushkin gets invited to the house of one of the Georgian princes. The poet is surrounded by honor and attention. Here Pushkin becomes acquainted with the wonderful Georgian songs and poems of Shota Rustaveli.

Famous polar explorer Ivan Lebedev arrives at a southern health resort. There he meets his friend, renowned pilot Mikhail Lavrov. To avoid unwanted attention, the two decide to conceal their professions. However, their strange behavior arouses suspicion among those around them...

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.

A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in realistic performance, photography and movement, plus some musical touches in way of folk songs." Written by Les Adams

The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved.

Social drama about the class struggle in the Belarusian village in Polesie. The first major work in the movie VV. Merkuryev (Stas). The director of the movie was repressed in 1937. The movie has not survived.

Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s. This film could be considered as a Stalin propaganda film. The plot involves an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A young teacher is sent to a remote province, separating her from her lover, and sets about the difficult task of building a school there.