Movies: Vsevolod Pudovkin
- 1958
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot3.91958HD
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due...
- 1944
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
Ivan the Terrible, Part I3.91944HD
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of ...
- 1926
Mother (1926)
Mother3.81926HD
A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution....
- 1928
Storm Over Asia (1928)
Storm Over Asia3.51928HD
In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the hills after brawling with the trader who cheated him. In 1920 he beco...
- 1929
The New Babylon (1929)
The New Babylon3.31929HD
In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test....
- 1925
Chess Fever (1925)
Chess Fever3.41925HD
A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess....
- 1953
The Return of Vasili Bortnikov (1953)
The Return of Vasili Bortnikov2.41953HD
A veteran of World War II returns to civil life and the collective farm he once led, only to find his wife has re-married. Based on the novel "The Harvest," by Galina Nikolayeva....
- 1927
The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
The End of St. Petersburg3.61927HD
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work....
- 1930
A Simple Case (1930)
A Simple Case2.91930HD
As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER ASIA (1928), Vsevolod Pudovkin unleashed his flair for experimentation in what was supposed to be the director’s first sound feature. Everything we...
- 1950
Zhukovsky (1950)
Zhukovsky3.81950HD
A biographical film about the fate of the great Russian mechanic and creator of aerodynamics Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky....
- 1924
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks3.21924HD
An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his bodyguard....
- 1926
Mechanics of the Brain (1926)
Mechanics of the Brain2.51926HD
"Though not given a New York showing until 1935, V. I. Pudovkin's Mechanics of the Brain (Mekhanika Golovnovo Mozga) was written and directed by Pudovkin in 1926. A full year in the making, this scientific documentary concentrates on the behavioral s...
- 1933
Deserter (1933)
Deserter2.31933HD
A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own c...
- 1946
Admiral Nakhimov (1946)
Admiral Nakhimov2.21946HD
A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov....
- 1939
Minin and Pozharsky (1939)
Minin and Pozharsky2.71939HD
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- 1929
The Living Corpse (1929)
The Living Corpse2.91929HD
The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never really chosen between him and the more conventional Victor Karenin, a rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve....
- 1925
The Death Ray (1925)
The Death Ray2.71925HD
In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)...
- 1941
General Suvorov (1941)
General Suvorov3.01941HD
Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov br...
- 1942
The Murderers Are Coming (1942)
The Murderers Are Coming1.81942HD
Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, includi...
- 1941
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #6 (1941)
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #60.31941HD
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