Ivan Klyukvin

Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint.

The village youth organize a collective farm in the place of the monastery garden.

An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.

A young Belarussian man joins Soviet partisans in order to fight Polish occupational forces in Belarus.

Originally titled Wings of a Serf in the USSR, this Russian historical pageant (original title: Krylya Kholopa) manages to pack a lot of detail -- and a great deal of nonsense -- into its scant 60 minutes. Throwing accuracy to the four winds, the screenplay deals with a fabricated romantic triangle involving 16th-century Czar Ivan (Leonid Leonidov), his wife the Czarina (Sofya Askarova) and his wife's paramour Nikita (Ivan Klyukvin). The celebrated brutality of Ivan is crystallized in a single moment wherein the czar throws a bowl of scalding soup into the face of his court jester. American critics who'd grown weary of the praise lavished on such Soviet classics as Potemkin seemed to delight in pointing out the deficiencies of Czar Ivan, the Terrible, as if to say "See? They aren't all classics!" Nonetheless, the film did record business when it opened at New York's Cameo Theater in March of 1928, two years after its original release. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rusia zarista. Los obreros de una importante empresa están descontentos y, después de una reunión, deciden ir a la huelga. El director de la empresa informa de la situación a los responsables políticos y éstos envían a la policía para abortar la huelga. La tensión se dispara cuando un obrero se suicida al ser acusado injustamente de un robo.