Pavel Massalsky

Chekhov's Pages (1977)

Screen adaptation of the two-part play "Chekhov's Pages" staged by the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky based on one-act plays and stories by A.P. Chekhov: "Gimp", "Lecture on the dangers of tobacco", "Anniversary", "Pecheneg", "The Story of Mrs. N.N.", "Swan ...

Elder Sister (1967)

A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career. ...

Woodprint (1966)

The former artist, and now the director of the Glass-Porcelain trust, Fyodor Kudrin, saw an amazing engraving at the exhibition. The meeting with its creator turned Fedor's life upside down. ...

How Do I Call You Now?.. (1965)

A story about a brave Soviet spy working behind the enemy lines during WWII. ...

Now Let Him Go (1963)

England. The old and sick artist Symonds Kendle, fleeing from the insistent claims of his children to his remaining paintings and drawings, goes with his granddaughter Felicity to another city to a friend. But on the way the artist falls ill and ends up in ...

The Academician From Askania (1962)

The twenties. Hungry and impoverished country. Lenin signs a decree on the protection of breeding livestock. Nevertheless, Ivanov's experiments become known not only to the country of the Soviets, but also to enemies working for American farmers. The Cheki ...

Scarlet Sails (1961)

A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where you will be love ...

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 ...

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to pr ...

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 Lower Depths (1952)

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

The School of Scandal (1952)

Nowhere have they so deftly slandered and arranged intrigues, as in the salon of Lady Sniruel. Young lady Tizl quickly enters the taste of high life, taking the gentleman's wooing. She does not suspect that a serious test awaits her. ...

The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1951)

A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army forces during the Russian Civil War. ...

The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta. ...

Guilty Without Guilt (1945)

A story based on a classic play by Alexander Ostrovsky. The famous actress Kruchinina graciously agrees to tour in a town with which she has heavy memories, and finds there a son, left by her due to circumstances many years ago. He has become embittered fr ...

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia ...

Lermontov (1943)

Chronicle of the life of Russian poet Michail Lermontov, from the final days of Alexandr Pushkin to the fatal destiny of the poet himself. ...

High Award (1939)

A Border on Lock (1937)

A border guards are hunting a spy infiltrated to the USSR. ...

Gavroche (1937)

Gavroche learns that his father, who was exiled to hard labor, dies. Hatred of the tyrant-king leads the boy to the barricades of Montmartre. ...

Circus (1936)

An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR. ...