Movies: Ivan Shtraukh

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...

The secret police agent finds that factory director wife is counterrevolutionary but dies from the heart attack. The director reads the diary of an agent and turns his wife to police....

The life was cruel with Ivas. The landlord sent him at war, and his girlfriend – in the house of ill fame. In the troops an ordinary peasant gets acquainted with an ideological revolutionary and becomes inspired with the feeling of inequity to the ex...

A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him, by boat, into captivity across the Aral Sea. A storm strands the two on an island....

Life in a Russian village at harvest time as idealized peasant pastoral, concentrating on the landscapes and folk songs of the region....

The love story of Tevlet, a revolutionary who escaped from prison, with Urkka, the daughter of a rich peasant in the Chuvash village where he settled....

The struggle between the collective farmers and the kulaks and sectarianists....

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