TSVETOCHNITSA (FLOWER GIRL)

Educational-training work.

Film mocks the everyday life of “nepmans” (nouveau riches of the 20es).

The film tells about creation of the first Soviet aviation engine.

The film tells about the struggle of bolsheviks against White Army troops in one of towns on the Black Sea coast in the days of the Civil War.

The film tells about the struggle of Leningrad Baltiysky Factory workers with saboteurs.

Eccentric comedy popularizing radio.

The film tells about development of revolutionary tendencies among Russian workers at the beginning of the century, which resulted in the strikes at Obukhovsky and Putilovsky Works in St. Petersburg and the march of workers to the tsar’s palace and shooting down of peaceful demonstration by troops on January 9, 1905.

Loosely based on 16th century Bukhara legend. Dzhemal, daughter of the khan of Khiva, is going from Bukhara to her native Khiva. The caravan is attacked by bandits. The leader of the gang is enchanted by the beauty of Dzhemal, but the prisoner rejects love of the robber.

Soon Dzhemal and her foster sister manage to escape. Wandering in scorching desert girls meet Djigit (skillful horseman) Sadyk.

44 MISHKA ZVONOV (MISHKA ZVONOV)

1925, 54 min., b/w

Adventure

Director: Pyotr Malakhov, screenplay: Sergei Lebedev, Svyatoslav Belyaev, camera: Albert Kyun, production designer: Pavel Mikhelson

Cast: Shura Konstantinov, V.Voyeikov, Elena Tumanskaya, Sergei Glagolin

The film is centered around the adventures of a homeless peasant boy who came to Leningrad.

Made in the genre of eccentric comedy the film tells about amazing adventures of the newspaper boy Mishka who found himself in the headquarters of General Yudenich.

The film tells about help provided by the city Young Communist Leaguers to young villagers in their struggle against kulaks (peasant proprietors).

An old worker recollects how he embarked on the path of the revolutionary activities.

Witty comedy advertising “Neva” — a new brand of cigarettes produced by Lentabaktrest

The film tells about readiness of Soviet people to repel the enemy’s aggression.

The film tells about the activities of criminal investigation department, about its laboratories and the latest achievements of science which help detectives to find criminals. The story is based on the investigation of a murder case.

Heroism and staunchness of revolutionary fighters contrasts with immoral nature of a

degenerating noble family.

52 PETUKHI (ROOSTERS)

1925, 39 min., b/w

Comedy

Director: Pyotr Malakhov, screenplay: Vadim Yunakovsky, camera: Sergei Lebedev, Albert Kyun, production designer: Pavel Mikhelson

Cast: V. Vadimov, Iona Talanov, Shura Konstantinov, Maria Bernatskaya

The first years of the NEP (New Economic Policy). Peasants got sick and tired of endless quarrels between village priest Agafangel and deacon Gormoniy. The peasants decided to move both clergymen out of the village.

The film is made as a visual aid to popularize the purpose of the common labor tax collected from Soviet peasants in the 20es.

The film popularizing radio is centered around adventures of the “nepman” (nouveau rich of the 20es) evading from paying taxes and caught with the help of radio.

The film advertises products of Lentabaktrest.

Film made as advertisement of Lentabaktrest.

The story is based on the biography of carpenter Stepan Khalturin, one of the leaders of the “Northern Union of Russian Workers”, who prepared assassination of the tsar.

Moral staunchness of a revolutionary worker is contrasted with immorality of his son affected by corrupting influence of petty-bourgeois surrounding.

Adventures of two young pioneers who arrived with their dog on a summer vacation at the village and unmasked village moonshiners.

The film tells about a driver who worked for a trust and renovated an old automobile.

The film tells about the struggle of Chuvash people for their rights int the beginning of the century.

The film advertised products of Lentabaktrest and was made as a parody on film advertising.

Love story of Annenkov, a participant of 1825 revolt of nobility, and Paulina Goeble.

The film tells about the participation of young people in the defence of Petrograd from White Army troops commanded by General Yudenich during the Civil War.

Spirka Shpandyr, a petty crook and a swindler after serving a prison term escapes from the Soviet country. Abroad the swindler immediately finds common language with the police and becomes a paid police agent. He provokes all kinds of conflicts between capitalist government officials and Soviet missions. Spirka pretends to be a priest, a worker and, finally, a baron. This is how Spirka Shpandyr, a swindler and provocateur, the pride of Russian White emigration makes his brilliant career abroad.

Based on Nikolai Leskov’s novel “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District”.

Story of a young village girl who came in mid-20es to Leningrad to earn some money “to buy a cow”, found herself among criminals but managed to break with the city underworld and start a new life.

The film tells about the struggle of Laplanders against tyranny of tsarist police and rapacious fir dealers. It also tells about an exiled Russian revolutionary who helped people belonging to this minor nationality.

The film tells about the struggle of mountain tribes of the Caucasus against tsarist troops.

Life of political exiles and Russian gold-diggers in the north of Kamchatka peninsular in 1915 — 1922.

Soviet worker-inventor is struggling with representatives of a foreign company for introduction of a new brake system on transport.

The film tells about tough exploitation of the peoples of the North by the owners of companies.

The film advertised products of Lentabaktrest.

The film tells about the life of a Red Navy man who accidentally became a member of a gang of thieves but managed to revive to honest living.

Based on Valentin Trakhtenberg’s story “Siskin”.

The court is hearing the case of a former Red Army guard who gave himself up to investigating authorities.

78 SHINEL (THE GREATCOAT)

1926, 65 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, screenplay: Adrian Piotrovsky, camera: Andrei Moskvin, Yevgeny Mikhailov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney

Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, A. Yeremeyeva, Sergei Gerasimov, Alexei Kapler, Yanina Zheimo, Emil Gal

Loosely based on Nikolai Gogol’s short stories “The Greatcoat” and “Nevsky Prospekt”.

Dynamo, fly-wheel and gears consider themselves to “heroes” of the production process. Quiet and modest Little Screw also participates in the “big work” but no one takes him seriously. Offended, he leaves the plant. Only then everybody realizes the importance of a screw for the operation of the plant. Little Screw accepts apologies and returns to the plant.