Synopsis
Gordeev Thomas is the son of a wealthy bourgeois tsarist. He enjoys all the privileges of his condition but can not bear the sight of social misery. He falls in love with a married woman, broke with her when he discovers his frivolity and indulges in debauchery. On the death of his father, he became head of a major grain trading. But it does not handle his affairs. He is only interested in human relations. His background, which scorns the Mavericks, rejects. He chose to break with his peers to live with the poor.

Awards :
Award for best director at the Locarno Festival, 1960

1.37GB | 1:33:50 | 704×528 | avi

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Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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Also known as At Great Cost, this adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky—a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist purges but rehabilitated in 1955—anticipates the wave of Sixties poetic cinema in its focus on star-crossed lovers and its celebration of nature. Set in the 1930s, the film begins as Solomia is forced into an arranged marriage. She escapes with her lover, Ostep, and for a while it looks as if the fugitives will make a clean getaway. Yet eventually they come to the attention of the police, who mistake them for being part of a gang of thieves. One of the major figures of the earlier current of socialist realism, Donskoy, in one of his first post-Stalin era productions, here loosens his style to reveal a delicate romanticism rarely felt in his earlier films.

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Language:Russian
Subtitles:English

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allmovie.com (slightly corrected): The formative years of Bolshevist leader Vladimir Ulyanov (aka Lenin) provides the basis of this Russian biopic that begins the a provincial town of Simbirsk in the late 19th-century (1884-1890) where a widow contends with her six socially-conscious and politically active children. Her husband had also been a staunch supporter of peasant rights. Her eldest daughter and son are studying in the university and trouble ensues when they are arrested for conspiring to murder the czar. Because the son refuses to deny his desire to kill the czar, he is executed. The daughter is then exiled and the widow moves her family to remain close to her. The youngest boy, Vladimir, was terribly impressed by his older brother’s heroism and vows to follow his footsteps. He becomes a lawyer and sets up a practice near his mother, but in his heart, Vladimir wants to be in the thick of things in Moscow. The mother gives in and sends the rest of the children to the great city. She and Lenin then take off on a crusade across the entire country.

The film was followed by the sequel, Верность матери/Vernost Materi/A Mother’s Devotion in 1967. Elena Fadeyeva plays the beloved mother of Lenin (Rodion Nakhapetov). She raises six children after the death of her husband, sacrificing her own needs for those of her offspring. The story takes place between 1900 and 1917, stopping just before the October revolution led by the heroic Lenin, and is one of literally hundreds of Soviet films about Lenin — with an emphasis on the devotion of his sainted mother being the main theme.

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Language:Russian
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Mark Donskoy, the Russian filmmaker whose fame rests upon his brilliant “Gorky Trilogy” of the late 1930s, came up with another artistic triumph in 1944’s Rainbow (originally Raduga). With understandable creative rage, Donskoy depicts life in a Nazi-occupied village at the beginning of World War 2. The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of small children, to break the spirit of their Soviet captives. Suffering more than most is Olga (Nataliya Uzhviy), a Russian partisan who returns to the village to bear her child, only to endure the cruellest of arbitrary tortures at the hands of the Nazis. Eventually, the villagers rise up against their oppressors-but unexpectedly do not wipe them out, electing instead to force the surviving Nazis to stand trial for their atrocities in a post-war “people’s court.” (It is also implied that those who collaborated with the Germans will be dealt with in the same even-handed fashion). Brilliantly acted by virtually everyone in the cast, Rainbow is a remarkable achievement, one that deserves to be better known outside of Russia.

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Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English

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Quote:
My Apprenticeship (V lyudyakh) was the second entry in Russian director Mark Donskoy’s “Maxim Gorky” trilogy. Picking up where 1938’s My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorky’s life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life. Before he can make up his own mind, Gorky is trapped into serfdom by a wealthy family. As he grows from his teen years to full manhood, Gorky fights his way towards freedom of thought and body. Based on Gorky’s autobiography, the film was followed in 1940 by My Universities. My Apprenticeship has also been released as On His Own and Among People. (Hollywood.com)

We thought the Russians had dealt amply with his boyhood in “Childhood of Maxim Gorky” last September, but apparently they felt they had only scratched the surface of his life in old Nizhni Novgorod. In “On His Own,” offered at the Cameo yesterday, young Maxim still is being kicked and cuffed by his elders, is looking wide-eyed at the world’s misery and seeking stubbornly for some clue to the meaning and dignity of life. (…) Director Mark Donskoy again has conjured up so vivid a picture of Russia in the last century and has presented it so naturally that one has no thought of studio or actors, but accepts it as the work of some marvelous time and space machine. (…) (New York Times, 11.13.1939)

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Subtitles:English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian (vobsub)

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Quote:
My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy’s “Maxim Gorky” trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship (1939), future writer Gorky (Alexei Lyarsky) reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. The “university” of the title is actual the school of Hard Knocks, as Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers. Donskoy’s depiction of street life under the Czarist regime of the late 19th century as unrelentingly depressing, filled with disenfranchised derelicts. This, of course, was meant to be a contrast to the “perfection” of the Stalin years. We can forgive this propagandizing in the light of Donskoy’s indisputable cinematic brilliance. In 1941, a considerably edited version of My Universities was released in the US as University of Life. (Hal Erickson, Rovi)

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Subtitles:English

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From Imdb:
Prostitution, Statistics And Harangues, 13 November 2009
5/10
Author: FerdinandVonGalitzien
“Prostitutka” (1927) is a Bolshevist silent rarity, unusual because of its subject matter, that being prostitution in the U.S.S.R. The world’s oldest profession requires a treatment both delicate and balanced, not an easy topic for a first time director like Herr Oleg Frelikh. Actually, this little known work was Frelikh’s only film as a director (prior to this, he had been an actor) and it’s a flawed but interesting effort.

The film was the first production of the national studio “Byelgoskino” one of the newest studios of that time in the U.S.S.R.; indeed it was a company every bit as green as Herr Frelikh and this shows in the fragmented, sometimes chaotic film composition which lacks narrative cohesion. In spite of these problems, the first part of the film is most interesting, depicting the social conditions and the causes that lead our heroine, Liuka ( Frau Olga Bonus ) to sell her body. The social conditions she endures and the characters she encounters are credible. There is poverty and misery but also redemption. It seems that the consequences and causes of prostitution in the U.S.R.R. are very similar in their origins to the rest of the world, although there is additional suffering for the Russian prostitutes because of the cold and snowy streets; a hard place to offer oneself in the open air..

But the film also includes those techniques that the old U.S.S.R. silent films liked so much: statistics and harangues. So this means that, in the middle of the film while our heroine is trying to start a new life as a seamstress, she gets the chance to hear a lecture about prostitution, complete with graphs, numbers and percentages. These are intertwined with a long-winded speech about the social conditions that cause prostitution and the remedies to avoid such problems; thus the film turns into a kind of bulletin from the U.S.S.R.’s Ministry of Health And Family Welfare. That all may be very interesting in terms of historical and social content but it does not belong in a fictional movie.

“Prostitutka” is a Russian oddity that deserves some attention for its open treatment of the prostitution problem but Herr Frelikh’s erratic direction does not live up to the good intentions of the film which in the end is an uneasy mixture of drama and indoctrination.

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Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:Russian, English & Chinese intertitles

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