Valeri Solovtsov

The Defense of Volotchayevsk (1938)

Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far Eastern Republic and partisans in the struggle against the intervention and White army. ...

The Goalkeeper (1936)

The film tells the story of an ordinary guy Anton Kandidov. First he works on agricultural work — transports on boat on Volga watermelons. Noticing how deftly Anton catches and loads watermelons, he is told that he could become a goalkeeper and play foot ...

Peasants (1935)

The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved. ...

The Avenger (1931)

An old Tungus clan is committed to the laws of clan vengeance. Years before the October Revolution, the elder of the clan is captured and thrown into prison on false charges. After getting discharged from prison, he prepares a boy, the youngest in his clan ...

Великая победа под Ленинградом (1945)

Leningrad in Struggle (1943)

Frustration of the German attempt to capture Leningrad, 1941, the besieging of the city. ...

The Mannerheim Line (1940)

Produced by the Soviet Union to justify its 1939-40 Winter War campaign in Finland, this outstanding documentary---more than any other such cinematic record---visually depicts the much vaunted Mannerheim Line in all its actual emplacements, as seen but two ...