Boris Volchek

The Commander of the Lucky 'Pike' (1973)

1942, Polar region. The Germans are preparing to capture Murmansk. The submarine Sch-721 is considered lucky, and its captain Aleksei Strogov has the ability to extricate himself from the most difficult situations. He also develops tactics for a periscope- ...

Accused of Murder (1969)

A group of drunken young people severely beat the couple in love. Subsequently, Aleksandr Shchetinin died in the hospital after receiving injuries from beatings. The court, chaired by Judge Khromova, is to pronounce the death sentence on one of the four pa ...

In the Enemy's Den (1964)

Russia, 1919. A young soldier of the First Cavalry Army, Aleksei Mikhalyov, is sent to work in the provincial Cheka. Here in the south of the country there is a large White Guard underground led by the elusive Markov. Aleksei gets into the gang, where he i ...

Murder on Dante Street (1956)

A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII. ...

Dangerous Trails (1955)

For the third year, the expedition has been searching for the causative agent of an infectious disease rampant in the Ussuri taiga, where a major construction project is about to begin. Meanwhile, the enemy seeks to destroy the fruits of years of labor of ...

Secret Mission (1950)

The Soviet intelligence officer Martha Shirke honorably fulfills the command mission, but the Nazis expose her. ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1949)

The Russian Question (1948)

The film is based on the play by K. Simonov. It is the story of an American journalist who spends time in Russia and sees socialism in action. Upon his return to the U.S., a prestigious editor asks him to write a book about his experience. He receives a ha ...

The White Fang (1946)

According to the story by Jack London. The history of the wild wolf, who picked up the boy and raised an Indian. After falling to the evil man - the owner of the bar, White Fang turned into a ferocious evil beast, coming out victorious from all the dog fig ...

Girl No. 217 (1945)

A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946. ...

Dream (1943)

In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people. ...

In the Name of the Motherland (1943)

The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War. ...

The Murderers Are Coming (1942)

Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, including "th ...

Lenin in 1918 (1939)

Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in Russia. ...

Lenin in October (1937)

Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917. ...

The Thirteen (1937)

The film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Middle Asian desert. They are forced to do battle with superior forces of Basmachi rebels for the dry draw-well. ...

Boule de Suif (1934)

A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them ...

Seek and You Will Find (1970)

Pavel Tarlov acts as a reviewer for his friend, who is going to defend his dissertation. Having delved into the work, he discovers in it a number of beautiful assumptions that are not confirmed by practice, and refuses to evaluate. Vadim reproaches Pavel f ...