Dmitri Shostakovich Movies

A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and...

Five Days, Five Nights (Fünf Tage, Fünf Nächte) takes place in Dresden in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. While...

Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far Eastern...

A mostly lost Soviet Union stop-motion version of this classic fairytale. The only surviving scene is called Bazaar.

From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers who put British ballet on the world stage,...

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio...

A biopic, looking at one of the major leaders of the assassination of Czar Alexander II.

A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.

A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production of the film was completed in 1951, but it...

Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.

A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby, but he falls asleep, so she ask for help to her neighbors.

A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A...

A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and...

An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.

Information about the upcoming coup d'etat falls into the hands of a TV reporter. At his own risk, he begins an investigation...

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war...

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...