Movies: Nikolai Simonov

People living at a seashore town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature called "the sea devil". Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiander can live u...

An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War....

WWII. The Nazis subject the radio station on Bezymyanny Island to a brutal bombardment and soon land a landing force. The enemy mercilessly destroys all life, but the radio station continues to operate—meteorologist Asya has installed a spare radio o...

Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization “Young Italy”, envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and ...

This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs. Rulers like Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great were widely admired for their dedication to Russia a...

An old fisherman spends his days waiting to hear from his son who left the village long time ago....

Based on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The Russian nobleman Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov cannot put up with the hypocrisy of his environment, but is powerless to fight it. He begins to drink, leaves the house and gradually falls. The beha...

Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet Filmmaking,” in which he criticized all the achievements of the Soviet avant-garde. In spite of his beliefs ...

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta....

A drama about a daily life of a doctors in a military hospital....

Heroes of Shipka was the first solo effort for Soviet director Sergei Vasilyev, who had previously collaborated with his late brother Georgi. As head of the Leningrad Film Studios, Vasilyev was obliged to traffic in propaganda, but he never forgot ho...

The film takes place between two revolutions - 1905 and 1917. There is no agreement in the family of the Kolomiytsev brothers, bankrupt nobles. The elder brother Yakov is mortally ill. The youngest, Ivan, a gendarme colonel, is completely confused an...

Aerograd is a 1935 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Olexander Dovzhenko, Mosfilm-VUFKU coproduction. It is a futuristic adventure story set in the Soviet Far East. Considered one of two sound masterpieces by Dovzhenko, the other being "Ivan"....

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Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him....

Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight, The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri...

About the shooting of a workers' demonstration on January 9, 1905. The film has not been completely preserved....

The last months of Police Commissioner Berlach's life are devoted to tracking down the war criminal, Nazi doctor-examiner Emenberger. Hiding under a false identity, he continues to carry out cruel experiments on human beings even in peaceful days. Th...

Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman....

Tired of watching the total collapse of the army on the fronts of World War I, left without his scattered squad, Lieutenant Reshetov goes to Petrograd to kill the main culprit of the tragedy of Russia Lenin ......