Viktor Shklovskiy Movies

Soviet film based on Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel of his prison experiences in Tsarist days.

Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin and Pozharsky people's militia. The beginning of...

A young Lyova travels with the hope of ascent from Czarist Russia to New York. Disappointed, he returns to the young Soviet Union and is glad to have...

An excellent 1969 documentary, S. Raitburt’s The Kuleshov Effect, made about a year before Lev Kuleshov died, and interviewing him at length,...

The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering.

A machinist on a Navy ship has two sons, both bolcheviks. When the revolution comes the Tsarist police captures the machinist to put pressure on his...

Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in...

Historical drama based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. Junker Olenin, a representative of St.Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from...

Yunker Olenin, a representative of St. Petersburg's "golden youth," travels to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in a...

After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several...

Life is short and full of oppression, but that doesn't mean Parasha can't find love and laughter when she leaves her country home to take a job as a...

A satirical fairy tale about an old tsar Dadon and a golden cockerel who guarded the borders of his kingdom.

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...

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

Sergo and his wife Maro do not spare their care for Alyosha, who was taken out of an orphanage. The family's peace is disturbed by the arrival of an...

An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolchevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution. Partially lost.

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

A dead hen becomes a problem between two neighbor families in Ajara (west Georgia). That leads to drama; a young guy is killed in the next quarrel.

Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over...