Dmitri Shostakovich Movies

The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.

The Indomitable Bow is a unique portrait of Mstislav Rostropovich, a formidable personality as well as a complex, deeply political musician...

Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years...

A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the...

Leningrad State Drama Theater television staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight, The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri

The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov.

A biopic, looking at one of the major leaders of the assassination of Czar Alexander II.

In the 1950s, a communist country. The film follows a retired detective who investigates two enigmatic murders. Both murders are connected to a...

Lida Baburova, a tour guide of an architectural museum, unexpectedly receives a warrant for a two-room apartment in the new district of Zarechye,...

1997 documentary film about Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It focuses on the period between 1936 and 1945, during which Shostakovich composed...

During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her...

Documentary on the fall of the nazi Germany's capital, Berlin, edited and directed by the soviet filmmaker Yelizaveta Svilova

A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.

A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and...

In the 1920’s, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita. He follows her to the...

The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many...

About the forestry scientist Ivan Vikhrov, who devoted his life to the forest and the fight against the fact that “forestry is turning into...

A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life...

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...