Leo Tolstoy

Resurrection (2019)

The film is a rendition of Resurrection, Tolstoy's last novel. It begins with a reading of the beginning of the first part in Naples, in September 2012. It moves on to Berlin, Locarno 2013, Oneglia, Paris, Casalborgone, and it ends in Milan with the beginn ...

Anna Karenina. The Intimate Diary (2019)

The film is about unforgivable happiness, about virtue that inspires hatred, about wrong thoughts and the desire to live. And about "the eternal mistake that people make, imagining happiness as the fulfillment of desire." "Anna Karenina. Intimate Diary "is ...

Dark as the Night. Anna Karenina (2019)

Anna Karenina in modern realities. ...

Anna Karenina. Vronsky's Story (2017)

There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her choice, ...

Winter Thaw (2016)

In late nineteenth-century Russia, Martin Avdeitch is a humble shoemaker whose life has been characterized by grief. Martin must find the courage to look outside himself and trust in the goodness of God. This BYUtv original holiday special is based on Leo ...

The Woman Who Left (2016)

After three decades' wrongful incarceration for murder, a woman discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and subsequent discovery of the man who framed her — her ruling class ex- ...

Anna Karenina (2012)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

Boxing Day (2012)

A struggling, indebted business man leaves his family immediately after Christmas to pursue a lucrative property deal that could solve all of his problems: buying foreclosed properties from banks at a fraction of their value, refitting them for a minimum c ...

2 Jacks (2012)

Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy? ...

Greed Eats the Soul (2009)

Set among the Native American, Greed Eats the Soul is a story based on Leo Tolstoy's 'How Much Land Does a Man Need?', it is a story that tackle the existentialist question of Greed and man's failure to control it. ...

Anna Karenina (2009)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)

A man becomes obsessively jealous of his pianist wife and her violinist companion. ...

A Day in the Country (2008)

After his father's car breaks down, a young girl gets lost in the woods. She encounters a fugitive and a deaf woman. At first, she is suspicious of them and runs away. But as she begins to know them, they set out on a journey together to find her father. ...

Chouga (2007)

Chouga is a beautiful, rich and beloved young woman. She is thirty and lives in Astana, the Kazak new capital. She is married to a famous scientist in his sixties and has a seven-year-old son. Her brother and sister-in-law live in Almaty. The couple is tea ...

Frozen Land (2005)

When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another pers ...

ivans xtc. (2000)

Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought-after talent agent, the darling and crown prince of La La Land, is dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs, murder, or perhaps something altogether more mundane? We begin with an ending and then catapult back a n ...

Anna Karenina (1997)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

Why? (1996)

A film based on a Tolstoy novel about naïveté, idealism and love facing harsh reality. ...

Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)

Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son. ...

Flammen der Liebe (1995)

Anna lives a secluded life with her husband Count Alessio Capilupi, who is almost twice her age, and her son Sergio, whom she adores. Antonio, a young man from one of the wealthiest families in Italy and a successful powerboat racer, falls passionately in ...

Beautiful Stranger (1993)

Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his superiors' attention when he stands up to Rasputin at a nightclub. He's asked to carry important papers from Petersburg to Stockholm by train in the dead of ...

War and Peace (1991)

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army. ...

The Story of a Horse (1989)

Based on Leo Tolstoy's story "Holstomer" staged by the Leningrad State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky. ...

The Light Shines in the Darkness (1988)

A man tries to follow his interpretations and behave accordingly, sacrificing his entire private property and living for the poor. ...

Kreutzer Sonata (1987)

The story of a murder out of jealousy. After his release from prison, the perpetrator tells the story of his marriage and tries to understand the reasons for his actions. ...

Kreutzer Sonata (1987)

A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name. ...

The Old Alphabet (1987)

A rural teacher, whose letters to Leo Tolstoy are read in the movie, sees the meaning of his work not just in teaching children to read and write, but in the education of human personality. ...

Anna Karenina (1985)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

A Simple Death (1985)

When a middle-aged high-court judge in 19th-century Russia starts to experience a sharp pain in his side, he soon finds himself bedridden with an undiagnosed terminal illness. Face-to-face with his own mortality, he becomes increasingly introspective and e ...

Albert (1985)

Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich people. Then Albert meets count Delesov, who tries to change Albert's life. Two different characters, two ways of ...

L'Argent (1983)

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life. ...

Swans (1983)

Based on Leo Tolstoy's stories "Swans", "The Aeronaut's story" and "The Bird". ...

Things Against the Law (1982)

Raouf gets involved with Azhar in their relationship, graduates and appoints a detective, Raouf abandons Azhar, and marries Rashid's daughter Siham. Azhar marries the pimp Zaghlol, and he forces her to work with him. Raouf surprised Azhar is accused in a c ...

The Living Corpse (1981)

Tsarist Russia: Lisa lives apart from her husband Fedya, who drinks too much, wastes his money and hangs around with gypsies. Her mother is pushing for a divorce, especially as her childhood friend Viktor Karenin, a well-to-do and wealthy man, loves her an ...

The Jump (1980)

Based on the story of the same name by L. N. Tolstoy. ...

Father Sergius (1978)

Prince Stepan Kasatsky is an officer, an ardent, proud young man, and a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social l ...

Caucasian Story (1977)

Based on the story "Cossacks" by L. N. Tolstoy. The nobleman Dmitry Olenin, who by the age of twenty-four had squandered half of his fortune, had not completed a course anywhere and had not served anywhere, understands that it is impossible to live like th ...

Martin the Cobbler (1977)

A poor cobbler has a dream in which he hears the Lord promise to visit him. Instead poor people in need of food, clothing, warmth, and understanding come to him. In the end he understands that this is how the Lord visits men today. ...

Green, Bygone... (1976)

A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling ...

Anna Karenina (1975)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

Caucasian Prisoner (1975)

Officer Zhilin, a Caucasus officer, receives a letter from his mother and returns home. He and another Russian officer are attacked by mountaineers, and Zhilin is captured without ransom money. ...

Childhood. Boyhood. Youth (1973)

In this three-part series, Nikolai Irteniev reminisces and reflects on his life; he is eager to find answers to the most important questions of life. "How to be? how to do the right thing? What goals to strive for?" Based on Lev Tolstoy's autobiographical ...

St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)

Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell. ...

Family Happiness (1971)

After a young woman marries an older man, their initial happiness curdles through several years of family life. ...

Dalal Al-Masria (1970)

Atiat is an orphan who grows up in a palace under the care of a wealthy woman. When the woman discovers that Atiat lost her virginity, she kicks her out, unaware that her own nephew, Fou'ad, is responsible. ...

The Living Corpse (1969)

According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he does not have the courage to fight it, and he chooses the third way — to stage suicide. ...

Scarabea – How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1969)

A Teutonic lecher on vacation has a wager with some local peasants that he can't make a walking circle from sunrise to sunset to secure some coveted land. The middle-aged businessman embarks on his journey only to be slowed down by the beautiful reporter S ...

War and Peace (1968)

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army. ...

Anna Karenina (1967)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967)

As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are ...

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967)

In 1812, as Napoleon's army invades Russia, Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the armies' impending confrontation. As the Battle of Borodino rages, he volunteers ...

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966)

As 1809 nears its end, Natasha attends her first ball, where Andrei falls in love with her with the intent of marriage. However, as her father demands they wait, the prince travels abroad, leaving Natasha in desperate longing. But she meets Anatol Kuragin ...

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966)

In 1805 St. Petersburg, Pierre Bezukhov, illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition a ...

The Power of Darkness (1965)

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the Leo Tolstoy play. ...

Posle bala (1962)

Ivan Vasilyevich is in love with Varenka and is admired by her father, Colonel. But the transformation of a tender loving father from a good-natured colonel into a cruel and ruthless tormentor shocked Ivan so much that his feelings for Varenka quickly cool ...

Anna Karenina (1961)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

The Cossacks (1961)

Historical drama based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. Junker Olenin, a representative of St.Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St.Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he ...

Resurrection (1960)

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeemin ...

The River of Love (1960)

Nahr el Hub is the Egyptian adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". ...

Also People (1960)

Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace." The war of 1812. The defeated Napoleonic army is retreating. Three Russian soldiers settled in a snowy forest near a fire: a young (Zaletayev), an elderly and a middle-aged one. Zaletayev ...

The White Warrior (1959)

The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar. ...

Polikuschka (1958)

Resurrection (1958)

Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he ha ...

The Three Bears (1958)

Little Varvarushka disobeys her grandmother and gets lost in the woods, then enters a house in which three bears live. Based on Lev Tolstoy's 1875 version of the English folk tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". ...

Forbidden Love (1958)

During a horse race, Ana, a happily married woman with a child, he met Captain Brown. Later, they meet again on a long train journey and inevitably love arises. Both try to forget each one on his own, however, things go more and more complicated, making it ...

War and Peace (1956)

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army. ...

Locura pasional (1956)

Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy. ...

The Kreutzer Sonata (1956)

Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the "Sonata to Kreutzer" appears, the young woman blooms in a new passion. From then on, ...

Anna (1955)

Though her marriage with rich businessman Chan Hak-lit is crumbling, Anna Poon refuses to accept her childhood sweetheart Wong Kei-shu's courtship. Anna's younger sister Mei-na has a crush on Shu and treats Lee Man coldly. When she sees Anna being with Shu ...

Resurrection (1955)

Ah Hing is made pregnant by her master Fan Chun-kit. Fan soon leaves for his studies overseas while Ah Hing suffers gross prosecution and is reduced to becoming a prostitute. In a momentary slip of a struggle, Ah Hing commits manslaughter. Now a qualified ...

Anna Karenina (1953)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

The Living Corpse (1952)

The Russian nobleman Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov cannot put up with the hypocrisy of his environment, but is powerless to fight it. He begins to drink, leaves the house and gradually falls. The behavior of Protasov helps to bring his wife Liza closer to a ...

Anna Karenina (1948)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

Lovers Without Love (1948)

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy. ...

Celos (1946)

Argentinian adaptation of "The Kreutzer Sonata" by Leo Tolstoy. ...

Resurrección (1943)

This is an early film from Director Gilberto Martinez Solares, who would go on to become better-known for his unique perspective on horror films of the 60's and 70's - like "Santanico Pademonium" "Face of the Screaming Wolf" and his own "House of Terror", ...

What Men Live By (1938)

A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God. ...

White Nights in Saint Petersburg (1938)

Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since then, he is haunted by the memory. ...

Anna Karenina (1935)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

We Live Again (1934)

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the pro ...

The Woman of the Port (1934)

Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night... ...

Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna (2007)

An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karenina. ...

Leo Tolstoy - Larger than the others (2003)

German documentary on the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. ...

Cinema in Russia (1979)

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation. ...

Paris 1900 (1948)

Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enric ...