Ossip Runitsch

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.

Viktor, the son of Prince Gagarin, becomes engaged to the young Natasha, which Governor Malyutov, whose ward he is, does not like at all. So he does everything in his power to separate the two.

The son of a Countess runs away to join the circus and becomes a great trapeze artist. He returns years later and falls in love with a young woman.

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Bulba's younger son Andry has fallen in love with Panochka since meeting her at the seminary in Kyiv. She is the daughter of the Polish provincial governor. Andry dreams of her and flees from school through a window to his beloved, climbs up a tree in front of her house and slips down the chimney into the house.

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a silent movie by Robert Wiene

No plot available for this movie.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.