Movies: Sergei Ponachevny

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 rep...

After news of the future birth of a child, Sergei split from his wife, Natasha, and settled in the company of young architects, who occupied a room in a big house. As a result of a chain of unforeseen events, brought by one of the tenants found a chi...

The love story of Fedor, the village chauffeur and Mari, a local school teacher....

A Russian woman tells the tragic story of her life....

A young teacher is sent to a remote province, separating her from her lover, and sets about the difficult task of building a school there....

The last and only surviving silent film by director and actor Yevgeny Chervyakov. The film adaptation is distinguished by the accuracy of the psychological characteristics of the numerous characters (Chervyakov himself played the episodic role of an ...

Famous polar explorer Ivan Lebedev arrives at a southern health resort. There he meets his friend, renowned pilot Mikhail Lavrov. To avoid unwanted attention, the two decide to conceal their professions. However, their strange behavior arouses suspic...

A teleplay about the life and work of the first chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov....

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A televised play based on the work of Bertolt Brecht....

A children's film about the participation of workers' children in the revolutionary struggle at the beginning of the century....

About the last year of Leo Tolstoy's life, disagreements in the family, conflicts with his children and wife, about his leaving home....