Battleship Potemkin
For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece has remained the most influential silent film of all time. Yet each successive generation has seen BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN subjected to censorship and recutting, its unforgettable power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from dubious so…
Beanpole
In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world when a shocking accident brings them closer… and also seals their fates.
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
A boisterous comedy satirizing Soviet life and filmmaking in the 1920s. The greatest work of Zhelyabuzhsky.
Dziga and His Brothers
Using rare archival footage from Russian film archives, Dziga Vertov and brothers' lives are traced from Bialystok to Moscow, Paris, and the Hollywood hills.
Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 10: The End of an Era
Three short films (The Revolutionary, For Luck and Behind the Screen) from the end of Tsarist Russia round out this collection of cinematic history.
Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 3: Starewicz’s Fantasies
Featuring 3 surviving films from director Ladislas Starevich, including The Dragonfly and the Ant (1913), Christmas Eve (1913), and The Lily of Belgium (1915).
Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 4: Provincial Variations
Two films in pristine-as-can-be condition showcase how smaller provincial entrepreneurs broke their way into early Russian cinema.
Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 5: Petr Chardynin & Pushkin
This volume features two brilliant adaptions from the great Alexander Pushkin's work, including The Queen of Spades (1910) and The Little House in Kolomna (1913).
Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 6: Class Distinctions
The Peasants' Lot (1912) and Silent Witnesses (1914) present two different touchstones of early Russian cinema and views at late-Tsarist economic struggles.
Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 7: Evgeni Bauer
These three films by the magnificent and macabre Evgeni Bauer reveal the distinctive eroticism and dark melodrama of early Russian cinema.
Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 8: Iakov Protazanov
Two films from esteemed Russian director Yakov Protazanov come together in this collection of cinematic history.
Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 9: High Society
This volume includes a short comedy (Antosha Ruined by a Corset) a film by director Evgeni Bauer (A Life for a Life) and newsreel footage of an adored Russian star's funeral.
Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 1 and 2: Beginnings/Folklore and Legend
This two-volume set features a half-dozen selection of some of Russia’s earliest cinematic productions.
Early Russian Cinema: A Unique Anthology in 10 Volumes
Banned by the Soviet government and unseen for more than seventy years, these 26 pieces of cinematic history reveal the underappreciated excellence of filmmaking in Czarist Russia.
The Girl With The Hat Box
Moving with the speed and grace of the best of the American silent comedies, Anna Sten is presented as a shop girl who wins the lottery.
Man With A Movie Camera
This dawn-to-dusk view of the Soviet Union offers a montage of urban Russian life, showing the people of the city at work and at play Considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era. USSR. 1929. 68min. B&W.
Poisoned by Polonium
The Litvinenko File exposes the truth behind a crime that shocked the world and provoked a war of words between Russia and England that continues to this day.
Russian Ark
Russian Ark is shot from the point-of-view of an unseen narrator, as he explores the museum and travels through Russian history.
Tesnota (Closeness)
A poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.
Three Songs Of Lenin
With exquisite images and masterful editing, THREE SONGS OF LENIN paints a living portrait of Vladimir Lenin and the great Soviet state he built that surpasses all the dry rhetoric of history books.