Movies: Vasili Kovrigin
- 1928
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)
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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 Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution....
- 1953
The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (1953)
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A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades....
- 1929
The General Line (1929)
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Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to industrial culture in an epic ode to farm-collectivization progress....
- 1933
The Great Consoler (1933)
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The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of...
- 1936
Cosmic Journey (1936)
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Soviet cinematographers created a progressively realistic image of a journey to the moon in these early days of special effects. Scientist Pavel Sedikh grows impatient with the restrictions of the conservative Soviet space institute in Moscow. Sedikh...
- 1932
House of the Dead (1932)
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Soviet film based on Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel of his prison experiences in Tsarist days....
- 1947
Admiral Nakhimov (1947)
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A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov....
- 1949
The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)
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A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta....
- 1927
The Fankony Cafe (1927)
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- 1930
And Quiet Flows the Don (1930)
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The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War....
- 1933
Deserter (1933)
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A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own c...
- 1923
A Spectre Haunts Europe (1923)
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Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been banished here due to his confrontational activiti...
- 1929
Tanka the Bar Girl (1929)
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A little girl denounce her evil step-father who plotted against the communist movement. The film, under the influence of Russian formalism, has some interesting experimental compositions....
- 1931
Siberian Patrol (1931)
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The story of a British POW who converts to communism....
- 1930
Tomorrow Night (1930)
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On liberation from prison of a group arrested after the defeat of the 1905 Russian revolution and workers sentenced to death....
- 1932
Men and Jobs (1932)
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An American engineer, consulting on a Soviet construction project, inspires a backward and timid new foreman to learn better about his job, assert himself, solve problems and inspire his own men to bring the job in ahead of schedule....