Produced by the Soviet Union to justify its 1939-40 Winter War campaign in Finland, this outstanding documentary---more than any other such cinematic record---visually depicts the much vaunted Mannerheim Line in all its actual emplacements, as seen but two weeks after their capture, and as filmed by Red Army combat photographers onsite, directed by Vasili Belayev.
The film tells the story of an ordinary guy Anton Kandidov. First he works on agricultural work — transports on boat on Volga watermelons. Noticing how deftly Anton catches and loads watermelons, he is told that he could become a goalkeeper and play football. And he decides to follow the advice. On the way to the glory of the goalkeeper and waiting for his victory and disappointment.
The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved.
La película trata sobre los cambios enormes que han pasado en la URSS después de la victoria de la Revolución de Octubre. Hacia el fin de la guerra civil, el ex suboficial y caballero de San Jorge Filimonov se encuentra contuso en estado de shock. Pierde por completo la memoria. Desde hace un tiempo, Filimonov ayuda al guardián de la pequeña estación ferroviaria. En una ventanilla del tren que pasa, Filimonov ve a su mujer. Esto le despierta su memoria. Sin embargo, Filimonov se acuerda sólo de lo que ha pasado con él hasta la contusión. Decide ir a Petersburgo para encontrar a su mujer y a su patrón del trabajo. Durante un tiempo, no puede comprender los cambios que han pasado en el país en los últimos años. Los obreros ayudan a Filimonov a entender que ahora, bajo el poder Soviético, él junto con ellos es el amo de la fábrica y de su propia vida.
This little known Russian movie, from the director of the following year's Oblomok imperii/ A Fragment of Empire is both surprising and accomplished. The mute cobbler is interested in the local girl but she is already pregnant by one of the gang of sailor suit toughs. The Soviet Youth League secretary's only assistance to her is a book about sex in Russian literature and things turn nasty.
An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg apartment because he was not needed in the revolutionary city.
A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest work in a factory.
