Vladimir Uralskiy

Green Lights (1956)

The Anna Cross (1954)

Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is r ...

The Parasite (1953)

After a long absence from St. Petersburg, a young landowner Yeletskaya comes to her estate with her husband. ...

Steppe Dawns (1953)

A young girl gets a job at the advanced Komsomol field brigade. ...

The Inspector-General (1952)

Khlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. Petersburg. Khlestakov is mistaken for an undercover inspector, and uses th ...

Dream of a Cossack (1951)

Soviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values in Dream of a Cossack (aka Cavalier of the Golden Star). The title character, played by future director Sergei Bondarchuk (and billed for obscure reasons as Se ...

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 Miners of Donetsk (1951)

A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm. ...

Zhukovsky (1950)

A biographical film about the fate of the great Russian mechanic and creator of aerodynamics Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky. ...

Cossacks of the Kuban (1950)

In the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Galina, the energetic chairwoman of one of the two kolkhozes, vies with her male counterpart for the best harvest. At the same time Gordey, her riv ...

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. ...

Glorious Path (1949)

A girl from a small village goes to the big city to realize her dream of driving trains. ...

The Young Guard (1948)

In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon during the Nazi occupation of Russia. The teens manage to outsmart the Nazis in their fight, and their activity lifts the spirits of the surviving citizens. ...

The Train Goes East (1948)

On the evening of May 9, 1945, when Moscow is noisily and cheerfully celebrating the Victory Day, a young girl agronomist Zina Sokolova and a sailor officer Lavrentyev meet in the compartment of the Moscow-Vladivostok train. The sailor takes the lively, di ...

First-Year Student (1948)

Marina Orlova couldn't even imagine how many adventures are expecting to her in a first grade... ...

Karandash on Ice (1948)

Tale of the Siberian Land (1947)

His right hand having been wounded during the war, concert pianist Andrei Balashov is unable to perform his art. As a result, the young man feels so depressed that he considers his life wasted. One day, he decides to leave the capital and flee from the wom ...

Light over Russia (1947)

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

Private Aleksandr Matrosov (1947)

The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy's bunker with his body. ...

Boy From the Outskirts (1947)

In the family of the driver Skvortsov on one of the outskirts of Moscow growing son Andrew, the future designer of high-speed firearms, but for now — inquisitive and hard-working boy, dreaming of studying. ...

Cruiser 'Varyag' (1946)

A story of heroic Russian war cruiser 'Varyag'. ...

Son of the Regiment (1946)

During the war years, russian soldiers pick up an orphaned boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the artillery battery. When the calculation of the battery dies in battle with the German tanks that have broken through ...

A Great Life, Part 2 (1946)

This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War. ...

The Vow (1946)

The story of Stalin and the Soviet people. ...

The Great Glinka (1946)

About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka. ...

A Noisy Household (1946)

A comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII. ...

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 ...

Native Fields (1945)

November 1941. One by one, the men leave, leaving only old men, women and children in the village of Bykovka. Ivan Vybornov, the chairman of the collective farm, is also raring to go to the front, but, obeying party discipline, remains in the village and c ...

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 ...

Jubilee (1944)

The bank is preparing to solemnly celebrate the 15th anniversary of the institution. And at that moment, two events took place that turned everything upside down. ...

Front (1943)

Directed by Sergey Vasilev and Georgi Vasilyev. ...

Air Taxi (1943)

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII. ...

No Greater Love (1943)

The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before her eyes. She and the other villagers leave to go into the woods. Pasha leads the villagers to fight some German troops. Coming out victories, the ...

Actress (1943)

Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded major Peter Nikolayevich Markov. ...

Kotovsky (1943)

Kotovsky, who went a long revolutionary way and became the recognized military commander of the cavalry troops: commander, brigade commander, commander. Six times he escaped from prison, was sentenced to death, and again escaped to become one of the most ...

The District Secretary (1942)

A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII. ...

Our Girls (1942)

One of the anthology films about Soviet citizens resisting the Nazi invaders during World War II, the feature consists of two stories, one about a teenage woman telephone operator who sacrifices herself, the other about a farm girl tending a sick pig who d ...

A Priceless Head (1942)

One of Boris Barnet's contributions to the "films for the armed forces" series, about the suffering of Poles under Nazi occupation. ...

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #6 (1941)

The film collection consists of three novellas: "Women of the Air Fleet", "Hate", "Feast in Zhirmunka". ...

Swineherd and Shepherd (1941)

They met in Moscow - a shy swineherd Glasha and shepherd Musaib. Long and difficult will be their way to love and a new meeting in this classic Soviet musical comedy. ...

Prairie Station (1941)

About the labor exploits of gold miners, the old partisan Fedor Potanin and his son, the leader Stepan. ...

Seaman's Daughter (1941)

Together with other graduates of the Maritime Institute, Irina Zakharova returns to her native Odessa. At the distribution commission, she seeks the appointment of the first assistant to the captain on the infamous Pobeda vessel, with the most loosened cre ...

The New Land (1940)

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov. About how collectivization was carried out on the Don in sharp contradictions, difficult and tense. ...

Member of the Government (1940)

In the 1930s, during Collectivization, we follow Alexandra Sokolova, who having joined a kolkhoz, is promoted by the Party to the management of the farm: she becomes chairman of the kolkhoz, courageously coping with the difficulties of collectivization, th ...

A Great Life (1939)

The film tells about the struggle of the Donbas miners in Ukrainian SSR with saboteurs. ...

Minin and Pozharsky (1939)

Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin and Pozharsky people's militia. The beginning of the XVII century. Already the sixth year the Muscovite land under the yoke of intervention. In the fall of 1 ...

Fighters (1939)

Fighter pilots Sergei and Nikolai test new planes together and try to beat each other in everything. Their rivalry began back in school, when both were passionate about the pretty classmate Varey. A tragic accident led Sergei to complete blindness. Varya, ...

Karmeliuk (1939)

About the struggle of serfs and soldiers of the Right-Bank Ukraine, led by the folk hero Karmelyuk (Ustim Karmalyuk, 1787-1835), against the haidukas of Podillya and the Pan's yoke. ...

Lenin in 1918 (1939)

Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in Russia. ...

Kubans (1939)

From the life of one of the leading Kuban horse breeding collective farms. Veterinarian Mitrich, a disguised enemy who follows all the instructions of yesaul Soroka, sets about the main task - to destroy the entire collective farm herd. But the criminals w ...

Sea Post (1938)

Everyday life of a maritime border guard post in the mid-1930s. On a small Pacific island, a garrison of NKVD border guards is on duty. A small detachment of soldiers bravely defends their homeland from attacks by Japanese saboteurs and drives away uninvit ...

Volga - Volga (1938)

Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad. ...

Балтийцы (1938)

Pugachev (1937)

1773. The film tells the story of one of the most devastating events in the history of the Russian Empire—the Cossack uprising led by Emelyan Pugachev, which escalated into a civil war for the imperial throne, with Pugachev proclaiming himself Peter III. ...

Convicts (1936)

In northward far camp NKVD arrives echelon with the group of prisoners. Among them there are an engineer Sadovskiy and inveterate criminal Kostya, that quickly becomes the ringleader of barrack and forbids to all the appearances at work. The officials of c ...

Der Kampf (1936)

Gobseck (1936)

Early XIX century. Gloomy home lender Gobseck in a suburb of Paris — a silent witness of human tragedy and ruined lives. The power of money equalizes people of different classes and positions, forcing the usurer to ask humbly for a loan. But mountains of ...

Father and Son (1936)

While a factory director is distracted by production problems, his adolescent son suffers from loneliness. His mother is dead, and the father – a kind man and exemplary communist, winner of a Lenin Prize – is unable to find the time to educate his son, ...

Anna (1936)

Yasha, who likes Anna, accomodates siberian Pavel Kuganov, which later becomes a class-conscious worker in a factory. Anna refuses Yasha's offer of marriage and he therefore runs off to Siberia. After Pavel is hailed as a hero because he survives a fire ac ...

Aerograd (1935)

A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government. Work on the new outpost is complicated when tensions develop between worker ...

Shepherd and Czar (1935)

Inspired by communist slogans, a simple shepherd named Ivan takes part in the Russian Civil War and becomes a decorated officer of the Red Army. ...

The Revolt of the Fishermen (1934)

Working fishermen from a small village rise up against the entrepreneurs and the buyers, fighting for higher wages for their hard and difficult work. ...

Spring Days (1934)

Lelya Sergeyeva, a Komsomol girl, comes to Moscow to speed up the production of ball bearings needed by the MTS where she works. The heroine is involved in the social, sports and personal life of the members of the youth brigade and after the fulfillment o ...

Torn Boots (1933)

Working with children led Barskaya to create superb direct sound and an inspired style of shooting. Don't look for conventional cinematic syntax here. The film is chaotic in the way that Soviet films still knew how to be, and Langlois couldn't help but be ...

Deserter (1933)

A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own country ...

Outskirts (1933)

In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism. ...

Two Days (1932)

The Red Army enters the city, while the White Army leaves it. There are only two people in the landlord's estate, an old doorkeeper and a grammar school student, the landlord's son. The house is taken by the Red Army detachment, and the doorkeeper's son An ...

Horizon (1932)

A young Lyova travels with the hope of ascent from Czarist Russia to New York. Disappointed, he returns to the young Soviet Union and is glad to have found a simple work. ...

House of the Dead (1932)

Soviet film based on Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel of his prison experiences in Tsarist days. ...

Road to Life (1931)

The first Russian talking picture which won a prize at the 1st Venice IFF. The action is set in 1923. The USSR is struggling with hunger and economic ruin. It is a story of homeless teenagers for whom a work commune is set up with the idea of uniting and r ...

Siberian Patrol (1931)

The story of a British POW who converts to communism. ...