Nikolai Michurin

Au début du XXe siècle, dans une Italie fantaisiste, Papa Carlo, un brave homme vivant chichement des maigres revenus procurés par son orgue de barbarie voit ses ressources réduites à néant lorsque son instrument de musique se brise. Pour se débarrasser d'une bûche qui parle, un voisin apeuré en fait don au pauvre musicien, lui conseillant de tailler un pantin dedans. Lorsque Papa Carlo sculpte le morceau de bois pour en faire une marionnette, celle-ci prend vie...

An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" with drastic changes to the plot. A group of English rebels searches for pirate's treasures to buy weapons for the civil war.

Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) from poor village comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory, which is in the throes of a strike organized by the Bolsheviks (communists). The Bolshevik strikers are led by Ivan Shtraukh (brother of the more famous Russian actor Maxim Shtraukh). At first, the deceitful industrialist's son (Fedosev) involves the naive Poslavsky in an attempt to murder Shtraukh, but the attempt only wounds the heroic organizer. Will Poslavsky follow through with the planned killing, or will he redeem himself by going over to the side of the strikers?

L'histoire du passage à l'âge adulte d'un garçon jouant de la flûte, issu du peuple Mari, une minorité nationale qui vivait près de la Volga, et de son éducation par l'État soviétique.

Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s. This film could be considered as a Stalin propaganda film. The plot involves an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia