Grigori Merlinskiy

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1968)

The Portrait of Dorian Gray had an amazing property: it took upon itself all the sins of the "original", as well as the passage of time. In real life, Dorian Gray did not change, not a single wrinkle appeared on his face, but the portrait aged for him... ...

Kremlin Courier (1967)

Bolshevik Mravin, under the name of engineer Pyotr Ivanovich Lednev, risking his life, takes V.I. Lenin's "Letter to the American Workers" to America. With the help of John Reed, he publishes it in one of the newspapers. ...

Shares in Murder (1964)

Beth Tyson is murdered in her mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell and Detective Philbert present three different versions of this crime. ...

Hostile Whirlwinds (1956)

Observing the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky from 1918-1925; in July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, German ambassador Mirbach is killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky a ...

Maryte (1947)

The poor Melnik family lives in Zarasai region. Elder Mary parents struggle to send Marry to school but they did this anyway. The horizons of the girl, who until then had learned only from the old grandfather Peter, are spreading there, she, as if seeing h ...

Wedding (1944)

Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov, who has been caring for Dasha all summer, has dined every day with them and has proved himself to be his bridegroom, is not goi ...

Professor Mamlock (1938)

Made in Stalin's Soviet Union, Professor Mamlock was one of the first films worldwide to tackle Nazi anti-Semitism openly. Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappa ...

Deep Raid (1937)

The Paris Commune (1936)

"Paris Commune," 1870-1871. Poor working class in Paris rises up against their oppressors as France is defeated by Germany in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian war. ...

Petersburg Nights (1934)

A loose Communist adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel. The serf Egor Efimov, a talented violinist, dreams of true art. Released by his landlord, he goes to the capital. But cold, bureaucratic St. Petersburg quickly destroys his illusions. ...