Petersburg Slums

Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.

Surrender

Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is overrun with the Imperial troops of the Russian Czar, with Constantine in Imperial command. He is attracted by the beauty of Lea and commands her to come to his quarters. She refuses and he is outraged. He orders the townspeople barred behind their doors and the village burned. Though she loves her honor above everything else, she can not bear to see the villagers suffer, and makes the lonely walk t...

Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy

This 1914 drama set in the WWI-era relates a heroic act carried out by a war nurse for the Red Cross (Dora Tschitorina) who has witnessed the death of her husband (Ivan Mosjoukine).

The Night Before Christmas

Based on Gogol's story. It is Christmas Eve, and the town witches’ son, a blacksmith, seeks an honest marriage to his love who wishes for a pair of shoes fit for the Tsarina. A mischievous devil is trapped into providing service to the smith.

In The Wild Blindness Of Desires

A man in love with a married woman plans to kill her husband. By mistake he kills her brother, and is haunted by the ghost of the murdered brother.

Dance of Death

A conductor is haunted by hallucinations during a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre.

Life in Death

A doctor kills and embalms a woman in order to preserve her beauty.

At Midnight in the Graveyard

A group of young people made a bet, according to the terms of which they had to visit a cemetery at midnight.

Tomboy

The Adjutant of the Czar

Drama of plot and intrigue in Imperial Russia.

Vanyushin's Children

Mysterious Someone

Behind the Screen

Famous Russian screen actors play themselves in this drama about the lives of actors. Thirteen minutes of the film survive.

The Dagger Woman

Ivan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees in her only the perfect model for his picture, "The Dagger Woman." Studying her, and by carefully playing on her emotions he gains her confidence, and afterward she consents to pose for him. The picture completed, she is grieved and then angered to discover that Ivan's interest rests solely in it, and how it will fare at the exhibition. She pleads with him in vain. The picture is pronounced a m...

Wicked Night

A young man discovers the reason his new bride killed herself.

Sin

Les Ombres Qui Passent

Directed by Alexandre Volkoff, 1924

Life is a Moment, Art is Forever

After a man's wife leaves him for a sculptor, his only comfort is a statue of his wife.

Little Ellie

A perverted town mayor who murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on the short story La petite Roque by Guy de Maupassant.

What Is Sex?

A multimedia sex-ed video about life and love in a world where humans have corkscrew penises and corkscrew vaginas.