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The movie tells about the life of Soviet scientists. Professor Dobrotvorsky, together with his colleague Losev, is on his way to completing a scientific work of great importance in medicine. Professor Dobrotvorsky's friend Academician Vereisky learns from a foreign journal that important data about this work has fallen into the hands of American businessmen.
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Right before the Decembrist Revolt of 1825, a chevalier of fortune decides that it's time for a game. But on whom make a bet? He asks the cards. But he's not the only one who makes the choice.
The film depicts the life of Stepan Khalturin, a 19th-century Russian worker and revolutionary terrorist belonging to the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) organization.
Paula is a circus performer married to the alcoholic clown-acrobat Lorio. Lorio's heavy drinking leads to him being severely injured during a performance. This forces Paula and the now-crippled Lorio to become street musicians. This film formerly ran to 81 minutes – regrettably, the second half is considered lost.
A fortune teller helps a woman gain the affections her beloved, with deathly consequences.
The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.
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.
An early film by Vsevolod Meyerhold.
The adventurous love story of Turgenev's illegitimate daughter Asya, who ran away from the estate to St. Petersburg with her lover, is intertwined with actual facts from the writer's life. The film has nothing to do with the novel of the same name.
1829. Tired of being secretly watched by the chief of police Benckendorff, Pushkin leaves imperial St. Petersburg and heads to the Caucasus to join the army. He stops in Tiflis, waiting for permission to enter the war zone. Pushkin gets invited to the house of one of the Georgian princes. The poet is surrounded by honor and attention. Here Pushkin becomes acquainted with the wonderful Georgian songs and poems of Shota Rustaveli.
