Vasili Sofronov

Dostigayev and Others (1959)

July-December 1917, the country is undergoing a revolution. "The pillars of society" are alarmed by the looming on them menacing events. ...

Foes (1953)

Collapse (1952)

Kronstadt, 1917. Sailors aboard the revolutionary cruiser Zarya prepare for a general armed uprising. Kerensky's government decides to disarm the ships. The ship's crew expels delegates from the Provisional Government, refusing to obey orders. The cruiser' ...

Mussorgsky (1950)

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country wh ...

Ivan Pavlov (1949)

Russia, 1875: In Riazan', Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov's dismay, he orders the destruction of a beautiful apple orchard. 1894: Experimenting on dogs, Pavlov tries to comprehend the ...

Defense of Tsaritsyn (1942)

Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red army during the Russian civil war. ...

Defeat of Yudenich (1941)

About the struggle of the red Army and the revolutionary workers of Petrograd against the white guards in 1919.... ...

July 11 (1938)

Civil war. Polish interventionists approach Berezina. The Red Army temporarily leaves Belarusian lands. Partisan detachments are organized, one of which is led by Bolshevik Stepan. His brother, who is in collusion with Polish spy Kapusta, is also in this d ...

Балтийцы (1938)