The Scarlet Empress (1934) tells the story of Catherine the Great, a woman who dresses as a man in order to join the army and rise to power. She faces manipulation, politics, and intrigue as she navigates the Russian court and eventually becomes Empress. The film explores her tumultuous relationship with her domineering mother, her mental illness, and her struggles to maintain her power in a decadent and oppressive society.
Roberta is a movie set in 1930s Paris, where a dressmaker pretends to be a Russian countess to impress a potential suitor. However, complications arise when her true identity is revealed, leading to a series of comedic events and romantic entanglements.
The Battle of Austerlitz is a historical drama film that depicts one of Napoleon's greatest victories in 1805 against the combined forces of Austria and Russia.
A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
Timur, the son of a criminal authority named Sperm Whale hiding in an offshore zone, comes to Russia for summer holidays after several years of studying in England. Now he has his father's huge cottage, a personal cook and a squad of heavily armed guards at his disposal.
In the year 1937, a nightclub owner named Yuri is in desperate need of money. He comes up with a plan to pretend to be a Russian prince and woo a wealthy American heiress named Diana. Along the way, he gets caught up in a series of comedic situations involving a fake accent, false identities, and a web of lies. Will Yuri be able to maintain his charade and win Diana's heart?
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he resumes his life of debauchery while World War I ravages the fields of Europe… (Partially lost film; reels 3 and 9 of a total of 11 are missing.)
"Moon Melody" is an animated short film about a boy suffering from culture shock, struggling to find comfort in an unfamiliar setting. The film is set to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The story of the Kalendar Prince.
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