Ilya Trauberg

Movies

Концерт-вальс
Writer
Концерт-вальс
Director
We Await Your Victorious Return
Director
The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows soldiers leaving their village for the front; in their absence, the desolate but resolute young women of the village assume responsibility for the business of the farm
Son of Mongolia
Director
A strange film as beautifully jumbled as the political environment out of which it sprang, like a handsome weed, "Son of Mongolia" is a travelogue of unique and authentic richness, an amusing Far Eastern horse opera of picaresque character, and a scientifically valuable anthropological document in which the Soviet film industry may well take pride. Objective and modern, yet permeated with a fresh folk quality that goes back to the reckless and lovely Tartary of Genghis Khan, it rises above all its inescapable Soviet-isms into a new frontier region of plains, mountains, tents and herds, a world still appreciably beyond the range of Western cameras.
Blue Express
Writer
Chinese workers start a rebellion, arm themselves and take over the train on which they are travelling and manage to break through the frontier.
Blue Express
Director
Chinese workers start a rebellion, arm themselves and take over the train on which they are travelling and manage to break through the frontier.
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Assistant Director
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.