Seamstress Mary dreams of a better life outside a sweatshop. Her dreams come true when she draws the attention of the bourgeois Victor. She soon...
The picture tells the story of Maria, a devoted wife of a bank employee. The couple has a cozy life; they have a baby but he is cared for by their...
Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Appreciative of her sensitive, artistic nature, and of...
A romance in the upper-classes develops as the Bolshevik revolution is at hand.
Two peasants in feudal Russia wish to marry but tragedy strikes. A grim if familiar depiction of the precarious condition of the rural life.
Based on Alexander Ostrovsky's "The Snow Maiden"
The last of Starewicz's surviving Russian shorts
Lusha is suffering from her drunken husband. One day her father-in-law rapes her. Of course, she doesn’t dare admit it to her husband. So, unable...
Short film based on a poem by Julius Slovacki.
First film ever that was shot by two cameras. Set in 1854-1855, in Sevastopol and Yalta during the Crimean War. Admirals Kornilov (Mozzhukhin) and...
A historic milestone in Russian cinema, recognized as the very first film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous 1869 novel.
Based on the 1865 play of the same name by Alexander Ostrovsky.
A tragic miniature. Pavel Yartsev, aided by a footman, robs his mistress Ellen Belogorskaya. But the pearls in the stolen necklace turn out to be...
A Jewish parvenu climbs the social ladder by seducing wealthy women.
The last surviving fiction film from Wladyslaw Starewicz's wartime associtation with the Skobelev Committee
Based on the poem by Pushkin. A thief and his gang are at their camp next to the Volga River. He tells them of how his father died in a river, and...
"The Living Corpse" - Fedor Protasov is tormented by the thought that his wife Liza never really made a clear choice between him and Victor Karenin,...
About a miners' strike in pre-revolution Russia after a cave-in and the death of their comrade. Partially lost.
Lost movie.
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