Vsevolod Pudovkin Movies

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...

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...

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,...

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...

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.

A biographical film about the fate of the great Russian mechanic and creator of aerodynamics Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky.

A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.

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...

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...

As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER ASIA (1928), Vsevolod Pudovkin...

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...

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.)

Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the...

A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.

The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.

"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...

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...

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...