Sergei Yutkevich

Lenin in Paris (1981)

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the poli ...

Mayakovsky Laughs (1976)

This little-seen and little-discussed film combines animation with self-reflexive, live action segments to embody the anarchic, satiric spirit of the poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930). The film also showcases Sergei Yuktevich's fondness f ...

Subject for a Short Story (1969)

The film tells about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. October 17, 1896. On the facade of the Alexandrinsky Theater — a poster about the premiere of "The Seagull". A few hours are left before the performance. Chekhov and his sister Masha are expecting Lika Mizino ...

Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film (1968)

Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culmi ...

Lenin in Poland (1966)

The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. ...

The Bath House (1962)

Inventor Chudakov builds a time machine. All that remains is to interest the technical innovation officials and receive authorization to continue the experiment. And it turns out that's the hardest part! The end point in this inventor's struggle will only ...

A Snow Fairy Tale (1960)

New Year's Eve. The boy Mitya, who loves to fantasize, jokingly tells his comrades at school that his children's toy watch with painted hands is magical and can stop all the clocks in the world, stop time, or even revive a snowman. ...

Revenge (1960)

Lev Savvitch Turmanov accidentally heard how his young colleague spoke disparagingly of him, and ignited a thirst for revenge. ...

Sombrero (1959)

Shura Tychinking decides to wear sombrero and make everybody to believe he's a different person just arrived from Latin America. ...

On My Green Land... (1958)

Kirilyuk, the director of the timber processing plant, decides to cut down Oleniy Top, a large forest on the steep slope below which the village is located. Cutting down the massif will enable Kirilyuk to easily fulfill the timber farm's plan and help him ...

The Youth of Our Parents (1958)

A partisan detachment led by Levinson, including Morozka, Pavel Mechik, Metelitsa, and nurse Varya, is united in their goal to defeat the White Cossacks. Despite their shared mission, each carries personal pain and hopes for happiness. ...

In a Quiet Marina (1958)

Two old friends remain socially active even after their retirement... ...

Stories About Lenin (1957)

Two stories ("The feat of the soldier Mukhin", "The Last Autumn"). The events of one concern 1917, when Lenin had to hide in Finland, the second takes place in 1923-1924 during the last months of his life in Gorki. ...

Yves Montand is Singing (1957)

The tour of the French singer Yves Montand and actress Simone Signoret to the USSR in 1956. ...

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. ...

Othello (1955)

Othello, a celebrated Moorish general, secretly marries Desdemona, angering her noble father and inciting the envious Iago's hatred. Sent to Cyprus, Othello's victories are overshadowed by Iago's manipulations: he frames Desdemona as unfaithful with Othell ...

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 ...

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (1953)

A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades. ...

Przhevalsky (1951)

A Russian scientist spends a year documenting the natural world in Central Asia. ...

Three Encounters (1950)

The film consists of short stories about participants of the Great Patriotic War, who returned from the front and entered a peaceful life. The heroes of the tape are fellow soldiers: Major Kornev, formerly a domain engineer; petty officer Samoseev, in the ...

Light over Russia (1947)

Memories of the old Baltic sailor who participated in a revolution and a few wars... ...

Hello, Moscow! (1945)

At the amateur talent show the boy, accompanying himself on the accordion, sings a song about Moscow... The plot of the movie is based on the story of the director of the school about how this accordion, once belonging to a cadre worker who died during a d ...

March-April (1944)

We from the Urals (1943)

A story about two teenagers and their life during WWII in Urals district of Russia. ...

The New Adventures of Schweik (1943)

The New Adventures of Schweik adopted to the WWII reality. ...

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. ...

Schweik is Preparing For Battle (1942)

The Humpbacked Horse (1941)

Surreal Soviet fantasy movie about a man whose love is kidnapped by the Tsar and he must save her with the help of a humpbacked horse. ...

In the Rear of the Enemy (1941)

During the Winter War three Soviet soldiers perform a risky recon mission. ...

Yakov Sverdlov (1940)

Story on the life and work of the first chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov. ...

The Man with the Gun (1938)

The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin. ...

The Miners (1937)

Semyon Primak, in the direction of the regional committee, arrives in one of the small towns of Donbas and immediately enters into battle with the chief of the mine, Chub, who, in a situation of continuous assault, plays into the hands of the Trotskyites a ...

The Girlfriends (1936)

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from ...

Ankara - Heart of Turkey (1934)

A Soviet documentary made for the 10th anniversary of the new Turkish Republic in the year 1934. ...

Counterplan (1932)

The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. The film's title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the Frenc ...

Golden Mountains (1931)

Pyotr, backward lad from poor village, comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory, which is in the throes of a strike organized by the Bolsheviks (communists). Deceitful industrialist's son invo ...

One Hour With Kozintsev (1970)

Stars Meet in Moscow (1959)

Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum. ...