Queen of Spades [Pikovaya dama], 1988

Queen of Spades | Pikovaya dama

Year		1988
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksey Burago Petr Fomenko
Screenwriter		Aleksandr Pushkin
Genre		Detective
Premiere date (Russia)		March 8, 1988
Actors		Aleksey Burago
Rating		0.00

Flag stadium [Flag stadiona], 1935

Flag stadium | Flag stadiona

Year		1935
Country		Russia
Actors		Aleksandr Mel'nikov Valerij Solovcov Ol'ga Spirova Vera Korolyova

The miracle maker [Chudotvorec], 1922

The miracle maker | Chudotvorec

Year		1922
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksandr Panteleev
Screenwriter		Andrej Zarin
Operator		Nikolaj Kozlovskij
Genre		Comedy
Premiere date (world)		August 29, 1922
Duration		43 min.
Actors		Petr Kirillov Elena Tumanskaya Vasilij Kozhura Raisa Mamontova
Rating		7.00 / 10 [votes: 4]

Young serf Jeremiah Mizgir for their mischievous antics shall lady soldiers. Mizgir gets to Petersburg Guards. Resourceful, sprightly, cheerful, it is easy to cope with their official duties and, although he often gets leprosy from sergeant, never discouraged. But here came the sad news of the village: the old cow fell, and the bride Jeremiah Dunya haunts clerk.

Felt sad soldier. Standing guard at the rich, cleaned diamond icon of the Kazan Mother of God and thinking about how to help the elderly and the bride Mizgir decided on a desperate step. He breaks the glass icons and picks out of the corolla Dame large stone-gem. When the loss is detected, Mizgir without batting an eye, announces that the stone he gave itself the Mother of God.

Starvation... starvation... starvation [Golod... golod... golod], 1921

Starvation... starvation... starvation | Golod... golod... golod

Year		1921
Country		Russia
Director		Vladimir Gardin Vsevolod Pudovkin
Screenwriter		Vladimir Gardin Vsevolod Pudovkin
Operator		Eduard Tisse
Genre		Documentary
Actors		Aleksandr Gromov N. Vishnyak

Hammer and sickle [Serp i molot], 1921

Hammer and sickle | Serp i molot

Year		1921
Country		Russia
Director		Vladimir Gardin
Screenwriter		Andrej Gorchilin Feofan Shipulinskij
Operator		Eduard Tisse
Duration		55 min.
Actors		Aleksandr Gromov Anatolij Gorchilin N. Zubova Vsevolod Pudovkin Sergej Komarov E. Bedunkevich N. Belyakov A. Chekulaeva A. Golovanov U. Kaverina

Poor peasant Ivan hump with children Agasha and Peter lived in the village of. Zechariah son fist Krivtsova pursues Agash. But like Agash farmhand Andrew, who works at Krivtsova senior. For disobedience Krivtsov banishes Andrew poor man's farm is finally upset. Andrew Agasha and Peter go to work in Moscow. Becoming worker Andrew marries Agash. Ahead of the First World War, which for a long time will separate the characters, revolution, hunger, loss of the youngest child and Agasha return to the village.

Children learn the elderly [Deti uchat starikov], 1920

Children learn the elderly | Deti uchat starikov

Year		1920
Country		Russia
Actors		Nina Shaternikova Eduard Kul'ganek
Rating		7.00 / 10 [votes: 1]

Mother [Mat'], 1920

Mother | Mat'

Year		1920
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksandr Razumnyj
Screenwriter		Maksim Gor'kij
Operator		Aleksandr Levickij Nikolaj Rudakov
Actors		Ivan Bersenev Vladimir Karin L. Sychova
Rating		7.40 / 10 [votes: 5]

Love - hate - death [Lubov' – nenavist' – smert'], 1918

Love - hate - death | Lubov' – nenavist' – smert'

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Ivan Perestiani
Operator		Grigorij Giber
Actors		Richard Boleslavskij Zoya Karabanova Ivan Perestiani
Rating		0.00

Dream and Life [Mechta i zhizn'], 1918

Dream and Life | Mechta i zhizn'

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksandr Ural'skij
Operator		Boris Medzionis
Artist		Cezar' Lakka
Premiere date (Russia)		April 16, 1918
Actors		K. Antonovskaya Arsenij Bibikov Elena Uzhnaya Vera Karalli Aleksandr Heruvimov Eduard Kulganek Praskov'ya Maksimova Aleksej Popov Nikolaj Radin Vera Solov'eva
Rating		10.00 / 10 [votes: 1]

Pater Sergius [Otec Sergij], 1918

Pater Sergius | Otec Sergij

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Yakov Protazanov
Screenwriter		Aleksandr Volkov Lev Tolstoj
Producer		Dzhozef N. Ermol'eff
Operator		Fedot Burgasov Nikolaj Rudakov
Composer		Evgenij Bukke
Artist		Vladimir Balluzek Alexandre Lochakoff V. Vorob'ev
Genre		Drama [play] Biography History
Premiere date (world)		October 18, 1920
Duration		70 min. / 01:10
Actors		Ivan Mozzhuhin Ol'ga Kondorova V. Dzheneeva Vladimir Gajdarov Nikolaj Panov Natal'ya Lisenko Iona Talanov Vera Orlova Petr Baksheev Polikarp Pavlov
Rating		7.95 / 10 [votes: 246]
IMDB Rating		6.90 / 10 [votes: 163]

Prince Kasatsky was rich and ambitious. He dreamed of a military career and the love of beautiful women. Fate smiled at him. But the day before the wedding, he learned that his bride - the mistress of the Emperor. In desperation, the prince renounced the world and retired to a monastery ...

Did you know that ...

» For the first time its intention to film the story of Tolstoy Protazanov said while working on the production of "Queen of Spades", and in 1916, "Father Sergius" was even announced in the advertising company J. Yermolyeva. But at the time production of "Father Sergius" would be at least difficult, since acted censored image in the feature films of the royal family and members of the clergy.
» The film was shot in late 1917 - early 1918.
» During the filming of James Protazanov ill for some time and it is replaced with the set written by Alexander Volkov.
» Composer Eugene Bukke was written original music, which was accompanied by a demonstration of the movie.
» The surviving version of the film has a duration of 79 minutes.
» On the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy in 1978 was made a new film adaptation - the movie "Father Sergius" put director Igor Talankin, and starred Sergei Bondarchuk.

Review

This Russian film is in many ways unique. He was removed after the revolution, in the private cinema partnership Joseph Yermolyeva but widely demonstrated in the Soviet box office, and in 1928, the centenary of Leo Tolstoy, reissued and not much later taken out of the cinematic treatment, even then was shown on television. At the same time was taken out in 1920 by Yakov Protazanov abroad and members of his crew, went to France, became known and well received in Europe.

Being a creative result of all of the pre-revolutionary Russian cinema, this tape can undoubtedly be included in the context of world cinema as a rare example of an early breakthrough to the depth of understanding of human psychology on the screen. If we evaluate the product Protazanov (which, of course, would not take place without accurate and surprisingly stingy foreign manner of playing Ivan Mozzhukhina) from the point of view of anticipation in film aesthetics, "interior monologue" and the attempt to transfer the on-screen line of thought and experiences of the hero, the closest analogues would appear, movies Scandinavian School (Victor Sjöström, Maurice Stiller) and a number of German films (such as "The Last Man" Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau).

High artistic value "Father Sergius" is further enhanced when compared with the previous Russian cinema experience and the subsequent phase of the Soviet cinema 20s, when even recognized masterpieces undoubtedly inferior film Yakov Protazanov just in the complexity and volume of the hero, a realistic completeness and credibility of his behavior on the screen. Perhaps only some of the bands of the decade, has emerged at the turn of the New Economic Policy (such as: "A man from the restaurant" and the "White Eagle" of the same Protazanov "The Living Corpse" by Fyodor cordoned off again on Tolstoy), can be compared with "Pater Sergius"on the ambiguity of human images and psychological nuances of behavior.

Moreover, in contrast to the next, to some extent, in the wake of his "Polikushka" (again adaptation of the novel "Father Leo", was filmed in 1919, but released on the Soviet screen only in 1922), the work of James Protazanov not stay in one only play a leading performer. And Ivan Mozzhukhin as an experienced actor, will still be stronger than his debut on screen in the role Polikushka outstanding theatrical master Ivan Moskvin. "Pater Sergius" is a solid, verified in style, memorable cinematic works in which talent Mozzhukhina - as one of the polished faces of this "true film diamonds".

Parasites of life [Parazity zhizni], 1918

Parasites of life | Parazity zhizni

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Yakov Protazanov
Actors
Rating		7.50 / 10 [votes: 2]

The unfinished love song [Pesn' lubvi nedopetaya], 1918

The unfinished love song | Pesn' lubvi nedopetaya

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Vitol'd Polonskij Lev Kuleshov
Genre		Melodramas [romance, love story]
Actors		Taisiya Borman A. Chernova Nikolaj Gorich Lev Kuleshov Vitol'd Polonskij
Rating		0.00

Last Tango [Poslednee tango], 1918

Last Tango | Poslednee tango

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Vyacheslav Viskovskij
Screenwriter		Ajza Kremer
Operator		Vladimir Siversen
Artist		Aleksej Utkin
Genre		Drama [play]
Premiere date (Russia)		May 31, 1918
Duration		10 min.
Actors		A. Aleksandrov Vera Holodnaya Ivan Hudoleev Osip Runich
Rating		7.43 / 10 [votes: 28]
IMDB Rating		2.80 / 10 [votes: 5]

The film "Last Tango" is based on the words of the song which sung singer Iza Kremer, speaking at that time in Odessa.

The Signal [Signal], 1918

The Signal | Signal

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksandr Arkatov
Screenwriter		Vsevolod Garshin
Operator		Eduard Tisse
Actors
Rating		8.00 / 10 [votes: 1]

Tale of the Priest Pankratov [Skazka o pope Pankrate], 1918

Tale of the Priest Pankratov | Skazka o pope Pankrate

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksandr Arkatov Nikolaj Prebrazhenskij
Screenwriter		Aleksandr Arkatov Nikolaj Prebrazhenskij
Operator		Aleksandr Levickij
Premiere date (Russia)		November 7, 1918
Actors		Nikolaj Prebrazhenskij L. Sychova
Rating		8.50 / 10 [votes: 2]

Boorish [Hamka], 1918

Boorish | Hamka

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksandr Ivanovskij
Genre		Drama [play]
Premiere date (Russia)		January 1, 1918
Actors		I. Arkanov Dmitrij Buhoveckij Larissa Gatova Mariya Kuznecova-Benua Nikolaj Panov Elizaveta Pofir'eva Nikolaj Rimskij
Rating		9.00 / 10 [votes: 3]

Upon my word [Chestnoe slovo], 1918

Upon my word | Chestnoe slovo

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Ivan Perestiani
Screenwriter		Ivan Perestiani
Producer		Aleksandr Hanzhonkov
Operator		Aleksandr Ryllo
Artist		O. Amosova
Genre		Drama [play]
Duration		50 min.
Actors		Aleksandr Ashanin Irina Shalyapina Lidiya Shalyapina Ivan Perestiani
Rating		9.33 / 10 [votes: 3]

The tragic story of a man in a fit of generosity, and because of his youth vowed to keep silent about the vile act of a comrade.

In the land of love [V strane lubvi], 1917

In the land of love | V strane lubvi

Year		1917
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksandr Ural'skij
Screenwriter		Aleksandr Amfiteatrov
Operator		Boris Zavelev
Artist		Cezar' Lakka
Premiere date (Russia)		January 1, 1917
Actors		Ernesto Vagram Dzh. Serova Vojceh Brydzinskij Eduard Kulganek I. Stolyarov N. Brydzinskaya V. Shpor Eduard Kul'ganek
Rating		9.00 / 10 [votes: 2]

Power first [Vlast' pervogo], 1917

Power first | Vlast' pervogo

Year		1917
Country		Russia
Actors		Vera Baranovskaya
Rating		7.00 / 10 [votes: 1]