Sovkino Movies

In the United States, oil magnate Johnston backs Roberts, a ruthless political candidate who has his main rival murdered and rises to the...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

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

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

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...

A visual composition of the world.

Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.

Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical...

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his...

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...

The dashing mountaineer Zaur kills a Russian "imperialist" thereby becoming an abrek, member of a roving band of outlaws.

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

Two inventors, Akhov and Makhov, head to the district propose a machine for easy soap packaging while an evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine...

A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.

Chinese workers start a rebellion, arm themselves and take over the train on which they are travelling and manage to break through the frontier.

Lost movie.

A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest...

The Great Road (1927) is a Soviet silent documentary directed by Esfir Shub. Serving as the second part of her trilogy on Russian...