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7.4
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69
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3.9
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77
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October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)
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.
74
49
7.2
/1846/
66
/29/
64
/45/
3.8
/2751/
100
/5/
68
/7/

The General Line (1929)
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.
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48
7.3
/1441/
67
/26/
62
/37/
3.6
/2270/
81
/105/

Bed and Sofa (1927)
Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.
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67
36
7.2
/989/
55
/12/
59
/25/
3.7
/1018/
77
/153/

The New Babylon (1929)
In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.
poster
79
31
7.3
/579/
69
/10/
56
/24/
3.8
/814/
100
/5/
100
/1/

Fragment of an Empire (1929)
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a decade after the Great War as a shell-shocked amnesiac, until a glimpse of a woman through a train window sparks the return of his memory. He makes his way back to St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, a man out of time who struggles to make sense of the new society brought about by the revolution.
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69
28
7.1
/656/
64
/14/
66
/27/
3.8
/1249/

A Sixth Part of the World (1926)
Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on cultural and economic diversity, the film is in fact a call for unification in order to build a "complete socialist society".
68
24
7.1
/424/
67
/14/
64
/25/
3.7
/1032/

The Peasant Women of Ryazan (1927)
The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life.
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57
19
6.4
/372/
55
/9/
61
/20/
3.4
/738/
40
/20/

The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927)
A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.
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14
6.7
/335/
56
/8/
56
/18/
3.4
/443/

The Ghost That Never Returns (1930)
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 rebel gang. This existential drama disguised as a saga about the proletarian struggle presents a lonely and insecure individual who is challenged to act more heroically than he is prepared to, but who constantly questions his confidence and loyalties.
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5.8
/8/

Protiv voli ottsov (1927)
Against the will of the fathers (1926) was shot based on the story of Sholom Aleichem "Blood Stream", which talks about the participation of Jews in the 1905 revolution. The first version of the film, entitled "Mabul," was banned by the Soviet government. The 5-part version of the film has survived: a version modified by the will of censorship with other names of the characters, an updated storyline, a more positive attitude and a happy ending. The finale of the final reel shows the mass scenes of the revolutionary struggle in St. Petersburg, the scene of the Jewish pogrom.
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5.9
/9/

The Incident At The Stadium (1928)
The Adventures of Bratishkin at the Moscow Sports Festival.
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5.0
/9/
10
/1/

A Magic Ring, a Fatal Secret (1924)
The series consists of a total of 48 episodes. It is characterized by a blend of genres, with an ironic approach to both western and detective stories, while simultaneously revealing the fervent admiration of previous years for American cinema.
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5.2
/11/

The Rout (1931)
In 1921. With the help of Japanese interventionists, the White Guards defeat a Shaldyba partisan detachment. The remnants of the defeated detachment pour into Levinson's detachment. Partisan intelligence soon finds that the Japanese has surrounded the detachment. To save the main forces from defeat, Levinson decides to break through the chains of enemies.
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10
/1/

Purga (1927)
Siberia. 1919 The retreating intervention detachments and the English expedition leave the mines. A snowstorm begins. English engineer Henry and his fiancee Ollan, the daughter of the company director, are lagging behind. After much wandering, the heroes come across the winter quarters of the Russian partisan Vladimir. While waiting out the bad weather, the heroes will be forced to live together for some time. Ollan will be convinced of the worthlessness of his chosen one and the courageous, energetic Vladimir will become her husband. And ahead is spring and painful thoughts: to stay with your loved one in this country or return to your homeland?
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5.9
/21/

Ill Nerves (1929)
Director of a Soviet-era enterprises, Baturin, spends days and nights in his private office. Inability to arrange work day and overwork caused Buchanan severe form of neurasthenia. Small, endless quibbling, swearing, threats, Buchanan has turned into a nightmare life of his wife and child. The Director suffers from insomnia. Finally he went to the clinic. On the advice of Professor Buchanan, after going into a rest home, began to exercise, running around on skates, went skiing. A month later, wife and child met quite healthy, mature person.
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4.4
/7/
10
/1/

The Girl from Distant River (1928)
N/A
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7.5
/17/

Mutiny (1929)
Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go to the Fergana region to fight the Basmachi. A group of kulaks, with the support of local merchants and beys, incites the unconscious, wavering mass of the Red Army to revolt. The anti-Soviet agitation of counter-revolutionaries, demagogically exploiting the mood of war weariness, provokes an open mutiny in the battalion.
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5.2
/34/
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/1/
50
/2/

The Captain's Daughter (1928)
An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.
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6.5
/99/
20
/1/
44
/9/

Shame (1932)
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
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5.7
/14/
10
/2/

The Great Road (1927)
The Great Road is a 1927 Soviet silent documentary film directed by Esfir Shub. It is the second in Esfir Shub's trilogy of films that began with The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927) and concluded with Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicolai II (1928).
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6.0
/61/
30
/1/
65
/1/

Jews on the Land (1927)
This documentary depicts the creation of collective farms for Jews in Crimea. It shows them building their houses, digging a well, and farming the land.
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6.8
/32/
70
/2/

Cain and Artem (1930)
The 1890s. One of the cities on the Volga River. The young wife of a merchant falls in love with Artem, a “Volga bogatyr,” a man of enormous strength and violent temper. She dreams of leaving with him for the countryside. Her jealous husband bribes hooligans to kill Artem.
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50
/1/

Heart of Asia (Afghanistan) (1929)
This Russian documentary offered tantalizing glimpses of Afghanistan, which in 1929 was still one of the few heavily-populated areas in the world where the residents continued to live as they did in the Middle Ages. A progressive new leader named Amnullah tries to "Westernize" the country, meeting plenty of resistance from native reactionaries.
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100
/1/

Katerina Izmailova (1926)
Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman.
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5.8
/21/
30
/2/

The Palace and the Fortress (1924)
An adaptation of Olga Frosh's novel about the life of Mihail Beideman.
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6.7
/43/
58
/4/

The Poet and the Tsar (1927)
Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff. Pushkin hears rumours of D’Anthès’s love for his wife and challenges him to a duel. The officer attempts to save his life by marrying Natalia’s sister Ekaterina. Returning from his country estate, Pushkin receives anonymous letters and insists on a duel with D’Anthès.
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7.5
/88/
50
/4/
37
/6/

Katerina Izmailova (1966)
Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994. Dmitri Shostakovich also wrote the screenplay for the screen version of Katerina Izmailova.
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6.5
/45/
58
/4/

The Shanghai Document (1928)
The film portrays Shanghai, China in the early 1920s. It shows the contrasts between the world of Western expatriates (including Britons, Americans, New Zealanders, Australians, and Danes) who live in the luxurious Shanghai International Settlement, and that of the Shanghainese inhabitants, who spend their days laboring.
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6.3
/68/
30
/1/
56
/4/

The Parisian Cobbler (1927)
This little known Russian movie, from the director of the following year's Oblomok imperii/ A Fragment of Empire is both surprising and accomplished. The mute cobbler is interested in the local girl but she is already pregnant by one of the gang of sailor suit toughs. The Soviet Youth League secretary's only assistance to her is a book about sex in Russian literature and things turn nasty.
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6.8
/71/
76
/3/
55
/8/

Lace (1928)
Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical of Russian cinema. And Kruzheva is a good example of that as he illustrates the friendly rivalries between the youths on village in both a very rough and clowning way.
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59
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7.4
/36/
46
/12/

Wings of a Serf (1926)
This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with historical materialist commentary on the dialectical collision of scientific progress and patriarchal religious tyranny under Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It follows a self-taught inventor from the serf class Nikishka, whose efforts to build a flying machine incite accusations of witchcraft. Nikishka and his beloved Fima are persecuted by the feudal lord Kurlyatev, who took their village in a petty land squabble. They’re rescued when Kurlyatev’s lands are taken by the Tsar in his autocratic campaign against the feudal system. Ivan puts Nikishka to work in his linen mill, where the young serf is coveted by Tsarina Maria Temryukovna, who the Tsar’s been ignoring in favor of his cupbearer Feodor. A series of harrowing intrigues wind a bloody dance through bedchamber, feast hall, cathedral and dungeon.
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5.3
/98/
60
/4/
45
/8/

Samoyed Boy (1928)
Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.
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6.5
/53/
20
/1/
50
/2/

House in the Snow-Drifts (1927)
An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg apartment because he was not needed in the revolutionary city.
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58
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7.2
/143/
55
/2/
53
/9/

Katka's Reinette Apples (1926)
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 work in a factory.
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6.9
/96/
60
/2/
49
/7/

The Post (1929)
A boy is sitting at a table, writing a letter for Boris Prutkov. The cartoon follows the journey of this letter from Rostov to Leningrad, where its addressee Prutkov has just left for Berlin; when the letter arrives in Berlin, Prutkov has just departed for London; as the letter arrives in London, Prutkov is already on a steamboat to Brazil, and once the letters is delivered by postman Don Basilio, Prutkov is already on his way back to Leningrad– where the letter, having followed Prutkov around the world, finally reaches him. The film sings a song of praise to the global postal services and to the reliability of the postmen, but it also tells the story of a journey around the world, returning once more to the new Soviet capital: Leningrad.
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6.4
/19/
60
/1/
45
/2/

Kashtanka (1926)
Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child.
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5.6
/13/

Tanka the Bar Girl (1929)
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.
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62
/6/

But Why Is That? (1929)
N/A
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54
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6.6
/148/
45
/4/
52
/10/

The Club of the Big Deed (1927)
The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides that it's time for a game. But on whom to make a bet? He asks the cards. But he's not the only one who makes the choice.
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6.9
/54/
65
/2/

The Last Attraction (1929)
A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The kommissar hides among the artists.
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6.7
/60/
10
/1/
70
/1/

My Son (1928)
A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.
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6.6
/36/
64
/4/

Today (1929)
A visual composition of the world.
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4.8
/11/
40
/1/
70
/1/

The Black Sail (1929)
The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.
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4.3
/8/
62
/5/

Reis mistera Lloyda (1927)
About the fate of a ex-Wrangel's White Army soldier who flees from the Foreign Legion and returns to the USSR.
poster
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5.0
/19/
35
/3/

Bulat-Batyr (1928)
In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the local population to Orthodoxy by force, the monks and soldiers meet a tough rebuff from the locals. The wife of the peasant Bulat dies, and his son Asfan is taken away in an unknown direction.
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6.3
/16/

Her Way (1929)
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 War I not long after, she tends to their farm on her own, determined to make the best of a bad situation.
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6.8
/73/
100
/1/
57
/5/

Your Friend (1927)
Khokhlova, a girl-reporter on a Moscow newpaper, falls in love with factory manager Petrovsky. To her he's the epitome of manliness--virile, decisive, strong-minded. Conversely, she rejects the sensitive, diffident editor Vasilchikov, who's in love with her, as unmanly. Her infatuation affects her work, and she is fired.
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7.0
/31/
40
/1/
90
/1/

Three Friends and an Invention (1928)
Two inventors head to propose a machine for easy soap packaging while evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine and gaslighting friends.


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