After the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Russia • Language: None, Russian
Director
Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Writer
Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Cast
David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin
Plot
In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Russia • Language: None, Russian
Director
Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Writer
Nikolay Gogol, Yuri Tynyanov
Cast
Andrei Kostrichkin, Antonina Eremeeva, Andrei Kapler
Plot
One of the most acknowledged film interpretations of classic short story "The Overcoat" (1842) by Nikolai Gogol, describing a fate of a "small person".
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Russia • Language: Russian
Director
Grigoriy Kozintsev
Writer
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, Evgeniy Shvarts
Cast
Nikolay Cherkasov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Serafima Birman
Plot
Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. Th...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Russia • Language: Russian
Director
Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Writer
Leonid Trauberg, Grigoriy Kozintsev
Cast
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Plot
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and ...
The story of a newly graduated Leningrad teacher, Yelena Kuzmina. She goes furniture shopping with her fiance, Petya, and in a fantasy sequence she imagines teaching a class of neat, obedient city schoolchildren. Instead, she is a...
