Innkeeper
The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.
Isaak Gorizont
A young Lyova travels with the hope of ascent from Czarist Russia to New York. Disappointed, he returns to the young Soviet Union and is glad to have found a simple work.
Early silent film from Uzbekistan: Adolat lives happily with her mother and father, leading a joyous life alongside her best friend, Qumri, who is later married to Umar. But this happiness comes to an end the day she is given in marriage as a second wife to the wealthy merchant Taki Bai, whose first wife Kadhija is infertile.
Director
Early silent film from Uzbekistan: Adolat lives happily with her mother and father, leading a joyous life alongside her best friend, Qumri, who is later married to Umar. But this happiness comes to an end the day she is given in marriage as a second wife to the wealthy merchant Taki Bai, whose first wife Kadhija is infertile.
Director
An early film by Vsevolod Meyerhold
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Director
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Shlomo
Rukhele's parents make her marry rich Matteus, but she loves poor Shlomo. In two years Rukhele has a child but she can't forget Shlomo and so she leaves Matteus to be with her lover.
