Battleship Potemkin

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.

Strike

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

A Night in September

Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.

The Fankony Cafe

Turner Alekseev

Seeds of Freedom

Archive footage from Potemkin (1925), with English dialogue dubbed in by American actors, is combined with new footage to tie together the brave stand of Odessa Russian guerrilla bands of the 1940's against German forces with the similar situation of 1905 when Odessa citizens aided in the revolt against the Czar as depicted in Eisenstein's classic Potemkin (1925).

Tanka the Bar Girl

A little girl denounce her evil step-father who plotted against the communist movement. The film, under the influence of Russian formalism, has some interesting experimental compositions.

The White Poodle

A story about three circus actors and their adventures. Based on classic novel by Aleksandr Kuprin.

Rich Bride

A comedy about the happy life of Ukrainian collective farmers. Harvesting in one of the Ukrainian collective farms. The tractor driver Pavlo and the best collective farmer Marinka work perfectly. They love each other. I like not only Paul. The official and adventurer Kovynko has long been yearning for the Marinka and building all sorts of intrigues to the Komsomol members.