Maxim Gorky

Kinder der Sonne (2023)

The Lower Depths (2022)

A newcomer to a mental health unit wants to help his fellow patients. But instead of seeking healing through self-recognition, he builds castles in the air and thus becomes a great threat to his fellow sufferers and ultimately to himself. ...

The Cure (2021)

Summertime. While a pandemic spreads overall, Paul, his wife Hélène and his little sister Lisa, isolate themselves in their countryside house. There, they meet old friends : Bruno and his sister Mélanie… Some of them love each other but say it wrongly ...

The Lower Depths (2014)

The action of the famous play about the inhabitants of the flophouse has been transferred to our days. The heroes live in a landfill, look for something to sell in the mountains of garbage, steal and drink. One day, Luka appears at the dump, who tries to c ...

Boles (2013)

A stop-motion animation about an author suffering writer's block. When his neighbour asks him to write a letter for her fiancé, he discovers something unusual. ...

Ilaingan (2011)

Karky works in a shipyard owned by Rajanayagam, a feudalistic industrialist who imprisons his workers in the factory compound and refuses to allow them to have any link with the outside world. How Karky unites the workers and leads them to freedom is what ...

The Philistines (2007)

Production by Kirill Serebrennikov based on the play by Maxim Gorky. ...

Stormy Petrel (2004)

A comedic parody of school themes familiar to all of us with the participation of students, teachers, great classics of native literature, penguins, loons, petrels, etc. ...

Summerfolk (1995)

Representatives of the Russian nobility gathered at the dacha. A young nobleman Vlas, in love with the mistress of the estate, a simpering poetess, a writer who has long stopped writing, a frivolous wife, her lover and a jealous husband. Their lives are me ...

Mother (1990)

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In ...

Eccentrics (1989)

Gorky's play raises themes of the Russian intelligentsia's struggles and search for the meaning of life. The characters argue a lot, quarrel, tease each other, trying to change, if not their lives, then at least their outlook on it. ...

Without Sun (1987)

"Without the Sun" is the first name that Gorky himself gave to his play and which most closely matches its essence. For this work is not about the "day" and its people, but about the indestructible, passionate desire of people from darkness to light, to th ...

Life of Klim Samgin (1986)

Children of the Sun (1985)

A story from the life in the beginning of XX century based on the theater play by Maxim Gorky. ...

Malva (1984)

Based on the story of the same name by Maxim Gorky. ...

Maa (1984)

Pradeep realises that the real reason for his father's violent behavior at home is due to the problems at the tea garden. When he grows up, he decides to resolve these issues by joining a movement. ...

Vassa (1983)

Screen adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky "Vassa Zheleznova". Saga of the death of a merchant family. For many years, Vassa Zheleznova has been leading the family business and, despite the inconspicuous children, her dissolute husband, alcoholic brothe ...

Vassa Železnovová (1980)

Falošný peniaz (1980)

Enemies (1978)

Drama based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky. ...

The Orlovs (1978)

The drunkard and his wife become orderlies in a cholera barracks during the outbreak. ...

Meštiaci (1978)

The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue (1976)

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now pa ...

Summer Guests (1976)

A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky. ...

Enemies (1974)

In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman, the e ...

Matka (1974)

The Last Ones (1973)

A TV drama about the decline and fall of the Russian middle-class family. Based on the work by Maxim Gorky, a four-act drama first published in 1908. ...

Yegor Bulychyov and Others (1973)

In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic discord with himself, with the world that surrounds him, with great social injustice, to which his whole life ...

A Man Before His Time (1973)

Engineer Yakov Bogomolov is a workaholic who is carried away by his work it so much that he does not notice what is happening around him. Young wife Olga is cheating on him, friends betray, companions do not understand and deceive... ...

Uprostřed babího léta ve stepi zahoukal vlak (1972)

The Lower Depths (1972)

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga. ...

The Philistines (1971)

Television performance, tragicomedy based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky by the Leningrad BDT named after M. Gorky (first staged in 1966). ...

Vassa Železnovová (1970)

Jegor Bulyčov (1970)

Bývalí ľudia (1970)

Shake-Up (1970)

About a little boy apprentice of an icon workshop who dreamed of becoming a circus clown. ...

Before the Storm (1969)

The film takes place between two revolutions - 1905 and 1917. There is no agreement in the family of the Kolomiytsev brothers, bankrupt nobles. The elder brother Yakov is mortally ill. The youngest, Ivan, a gendarme colonel, is completely confused and does ...

Forest (1969)

A poetic melodramatic documentary inspired by the death of Jan Palach. The footage from the funeral is accompanied by the words of Maxim Gorky's Old Woman Izergil (On the Flaming Danek's Heart), sung by Kühn's mixed choir, solos by Milada Sýkorová and J ...

Piccoli borghesi (1968)

Out of Boredom (1968)

An intimate drama set in a remote railway station that grows into a tragedy of the whole generation and epoch, based on a Gorki story. ...

Across Rus' (1968)

Based on Maxim Gorky's early autobiographical short stories "One Day in Autumn", "Konovalov", "Twenty Six and One", "My Companion", "The Conclusion", "On the Salt", "Woman". ...

Jegor Bulyčov (1968)

Li-ittle! (1968)

A young girl lives with an elderly couple in a settlement in a distant Siberian village. They liked her. When she dies unexpectedly, they go many miles to holy places to pray for the salvation of her soul. ...

Summer Residents (1967)

In the focus of the film is the fate of Varvara Basova, whose painfully soulless, philistine-gray existence, devoid of ideals and moral content. Relevant today, the picture sounds like a verdict to all who are mired in vulgarity, who have exchanged life fo ...

Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla (1967)

Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky's famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen. ...

Song of a Falcon (1967)

A paint-on-glass animated film (one of the first of its kind) about a dying falcon and a stupid snake. ...

The Legend of the Flaming Heart (1967)

A cartoon about the proud Danko who gave his heart to the people. ...

Onde a Terra Começa (1966)

In a fishing village, animosity grows between father and son, when the latter starts to desire his lover. In the midst of the tension, a co-worker dies and another teases about the dilemma. ...

The Philistines (1965)

Based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky. ...

Appassionata (1963)

TV movie based on the essay by M. Gorky "VI Lenin". In the winter evening of 1920 VI Lenin (Boris Smirnov) met at the apartment of E.P.Peshkova with A.M.Gorky. In the "burzhuika" smoking raw wood. It's cold. And the two thinkers have a heartfelt conversati ...

Wassa Schelesnowa (1963)

Wassa Schelesnowa, a manipulative matriarch who will stop at nothing to keep her business afloat and her family together. Infanticide, forgery, murder, blackmail, adultery, exile, and plain old-fashioned greed are the order of the day as Wassa's colorful c ...

Jegor Bulyčov a ti druzí (1962)

Měšťáci (1962)

Foma Gordeyev (1959)

Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of life around him. Foma is seeking solace in a drunken rampage and wild antics. After many years of desolation, ...

Dostigayev and Others (1959)

July-December 1917, the country is undergoing a revolution. "The pillars of society" are alarmed by the looming on them menacing events. ...

Měšťáci (1958)

The Lower Depths (1957)

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger s ...

The Mother (1956)

Based on the novel "Mother" by Maxim Gorky, about the hardships of a peasant laborer. ...

Mother (1956)

Timid old woman Pelageya Nilovna observes the revolutionary activities of her son Pavel Vlasov and gradually comes to realize that his cause is a great and noble one. She involves herself in the movement and finds joy and great courage in her new life as a ...

Malva (1956)

The title character, played by Dzidra Ritenberga, is the restless wife of a provincial village fisherman. Unwilling to dedicate herself to her husband, Malwa seeks out love from every man she meets. This results in a romantic triangle that is at once disar ...

Children of the Sun (1956)

Deti solntsa is a version of Children of the Sun by Russian writer Maxim Gorky, written in early 1905 and premiered on October 25 of the same year at Petersburg's Kommissarshevskaya Theater. ...

La Vida No Vale Nada (1955)

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him. ...

Vassa Zheleznova (1953)

The tragedy of a talented and strong woman who built the well-being of her family on blood and blood. And well-being turned out to be just as false and ghostly. ...

The Barbarians (1953)

The monotonous life of a provincial town Verhopoli violates the arrival of the railway builders - engineers Cherkun and Tsyganov. ...

Foes (1953)

The Lower Depths (1952)

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga. ...

Albergue de mujeres (1946)

Different stories that take place in a women's accommodation. ...

Mother (1941)

June 22, 1941. In a Ukrainian village, a mother sees off her two eldest sons as they head to the front. The front lines are drawing ever closer. Nazi planes appear in the sky, and the first reports of casualties reach the village. The mother sees off her y ...

The Artamonov Case (1941)

Fabrikant, Ilya Artamonov of the former serfs. His desire to strengthen and develop the business knows no obstacles. He is still associated with the peasants and craftsmen, but with his death, this relationship ends. Between Peter Artamonov, his son, who b ...

My Universities (1940)

My Universities is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable ...

My Apprenticeship (1939)

Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in li ...

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)

Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse. ...

Enemies (1938)

The eve of the 1905 Russian revolution was unquiet at the Skrobotova and Bardin factory. In response to the fair demand of the workers to dismiss the cruel and rude master, the masters close the factory and call in the troops. They shoot of one of the work ...

The Lower Depths (1936)

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also bef ...

The Magic Beam (1963)

"The Magic Beam" is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s. ...