Movies and TvShows featuring "soviet-cinema" theme.

In the midst of the 1905 Russian Revolution, the crew of the battleship Potemkin rebels against their oppressive officers, leading to a series of events that challenge the authority of the Imperial Russian Navy and ignite the social unrest in Odessa.

In Death and the Cherry Tree, a young girl explores the symbolism of life and death as she meets a mysterious boy by a cherry tree. Set in a black and white world, the film delves into the complexities of innocence, love, and mortality.

A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan.

A woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband, a heroic pilot, might return one day.

The two decades following the Russian revolution are marked by a gang of young people who profoundly influenced Russian Cinema. This artistic revolution was led by directors, actors, technicians and poets. They are the characters and voices of our film. The Soviet Actress, Ada Voistik, and its camrades tell us the story of this unique period, through the images of soviet fic-tional works produced between 1917 and 1934. We can thus catch a glimpse of their fight for a new society, where creative freedom was of utmost im-portance. A utopia which will be brought down by an authoritarian power impacting cinema as much as the rest of society.

An excellent 1969 documentary, S. Raitburt’s The Kuleshov Effect, made about a year before Lev Kuleshov died, and interviewing him at length, both about his filmmaking and his far lengthier career as a teacher (including some fascinating remarks about Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo). Also interviewed is the father of Russian Formalism, Viktor Shklovsky, who worked with Kuleshov as a screenwriter on a Jack London adaptation, By the Law, in 1926.