Far in the Mountains

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Josef von Sternberg

Cast

Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. The story of the suppression of the Bolshevik uprising at the Arsenal factory in Kyiv by the Central Council troops.

Runtime

1h 23m

Director

Alexander Dovzhenko

Cast

Semyon Svashenko, Mykola Nademskyi, Amvrosii Buchma

In the last days of Czarist Russia, Russian-speaking Briton A.J. Fothergill is enlisted by his government to go undercover as Bolshevik radical Peter Ouranoff in an attempt to gain access to the revolutionaries' inner circle. Tasked with accompanying lovely aristocrat Alexandra Vladinoff from Moscow to Petrograd to be tried for crimes ...

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Jacques Feyder

Cast

Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the pr...

Runtime

5h 40m

Director

Sergei Gerasimov

Cast

Danylo Ilchenko, Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya

Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to rem...

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Cast

Igor Sergeev, Aleksey Poluyan, Mikhail Vasserbaum