Mikhail Romm

And Still I Believe (1974)

Originally called World '68, later retitled The World of Today Romm's film was conceived as an impassioned, large-scale essay on the origins of the 20th century and the subsequent reality the disappointed director felt slipping away from him. The film itse ...

Journey (1966)

A movie almanac based on the stories of Vasily Aksenov: "Dad, fold it!", "Breakfasts of the forty-third year", "Halfway to the Moon". ...

Triumph Over Violence (1965)

Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firm conviction that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen ...

Tram to Other Cities (1962)

Two preschoolers decided that at night the streetcars go somewhere to rest and if you get on a streetcar late at night, you can go to another city. ...

Nine Days of One Year (1962)

Set in the Soviet scientific community, Nine Days of One Year follows two dedicated physicists whose close friendship unfolds amid dangerous nuclear research, shaped by their shared affection for a strong-willed woman. As radiation exposure, scientific amb ...

Northern Story (1960)

Shortly before the December uprising of 1825, officer Pavel Bestuzhev was exiled to a distant northern garrison for insolence. Soon, he gets a chance to help a wounded Decembrist who intends to cross the border. ...

Reports from Lebyazhye (1960)

Ivan Baikalov, the secretary of the District Committee, is the first person to come to him with any question: grain harvesting machines, alimony, crankshafts... - the party leader of the Altai village should know and be able to do everything. The wife of a ...

A Groom from the Right Society (1958)

Semyon Danilovich Petukhov was very surprised to found upon returning from vacation that he was declared dead and... buried. ...

Four (1958)

An endemic fever arose in the large Siberian construction area. Four scientists involved in the development of a vaccine against this disease, and whose laboratory was threatened with closure, are sent to the center of the outbreak. They manage to find the ...

Lenin Is Alive (1958)

The unique film footage collected in this film has preserved some of the moments of Vladimir Lenin's life. ...

Three Came Out of the Woods (1958)

After the partisans Julia, Pavel and Sergei went out on a combat mission, the detachment was surrounded and destroyed by punishers. Years later, a document was discovered stating that one of the three was a traitor. ...

An Ordinary Man (1957)

Based on the play of the same name by Leonid Leonov. The famous singer Ladygin, who has won success and fame, lives in a spacious apartment furnished with paintings and luxury goods. Suddenly, an old front-line friend, a prominent scientist Svekolkin, come ...

A Weary Road (1956)

The station keeper Kruglikov was exiled to a remote Siberian village many years ago for shooting his superior, a general, who demanded that he go with him as a matchmaker to Kruglikov's favorite girl, Raya. A political exile is brought to the station. She ...

Murder on Dante Street (1956)

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

Behind Show Windows (1956)

A funny story about a life of a big department store and its employees and customers. ...

The Crash of the Emirate (1955)

1920. Western countries are trying to use the Bukhara khanate — a former protectorate of tsarist Russia — to fight the Soviet regime. Arrived in Tashkent by M. V. Frunze and V. V. Kuibyshev to organize the masses to fight counter-revolutionaries and ag ...

The Grasshopper (1955)

Osip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock in the morning and in the forenoon accepts patients, then goes to open corpses. But its income is hardly ...

Attack from the Sea (1953)

The historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France begins aggressive wars. The Russian and allied troops freeing Italy are headed by A. V. Suvorov. The victory in the fortress of Corfu is ensured by operation of ...

Admiral Ushakov (1953)

Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Aleksandr Parkhomenko (1942)

About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Parkhomenko. In 1918, capturing Ukraine, the German occupiers sought to use the Haidamaks, the White Guards and the Greens in their ...

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 ...

Conveyor of Death (1933)

The movie is set in the early 30s in a fictional capitalist country. The economic crisis throws three friends - young female workers - out on the street. Their dreams of a prosperous life are shattered, and each begins her own difficult journey. ...

Men and Jobs (1932)

An American engineer, consulting on a Soviet construction project, inspires a backward and timid new foreman to learn better about his job, assert himself, solve problems and inspire his own men to bring the job in ahead of schedule. ...

ВГИК100. Признание в любви (2019)

Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director (1985)

A film about the life and work of the famous film director Mikhail Romm. ...

And Still I Believe (1974)

Originally called World '68, later retitled The World of Today Romm's film was conceived as an impassioned, large-scale essay on the origins of the 20th century and the subsequent reality the disappointed director felt slipping away from him. The film itse ...

World Without a Game (1966)

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema. ...

Triumph Over Violence (1965)

Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firm conviction that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen ...

Sergei Eisenstein (1958)

Documentary made for the 60th anniversary of Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein. ...