Semen Svashenko

Parte 1 do mega filme soviético Guerra e Paz (1966), uma adaptação em 4 partes do romance de Leon Tolstoi de 1869. Em São Petersburgo de 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, filho ilegítimo de um nobre rico, é apresentado à alta sociedade. Seu amigo, o príncipe Andrei Bolkonsky, junta-se ao exército imperial russo como ajudante de campo do general Mikhail Kutuzov na Guerra da Terceira Coalizão contra Napoleão.

Adaptação épica do clássico homônimo da literatura mundial, de autoria de Leon Tolstói. O início do século dezenove é tomado por grandes acontecimentos. Cada vez mais próximas da fronteira russa, as tropas de Napoleão Bonaparte prometem fazer valer os intentos expansionistas de seu líder, trazendo guerra para o solo russo. Enquanto isso, uma complexa história de amor se desenvolve entre a Condessa Natasha Rostova e o Conde Pierre Bezukhov, casado com outra mulher. O filme também foi dividido em 4 episódios.

1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o soldado de 19 anos Alyosha é condecorado por destruir dois tanques mas troca o prêmio por uma semana de licença para visitar sua mãe e consertar o telhado de sua casa. O caminho é longo e ele vai de trem em trem, vendo diversas facetas da sociedade e as mazelas da guerra. No trem conhece Shura e viajando juntos, se apaixonam.

The third film in the trilogy ("The Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", "The Gloomy Morning") based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy "The Road to Calvary". About the fate of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the collapse of the Russian Empire and the civil war, which turned the lives of all the heroes of the film narration. Defending Tsaritsyn, the red commander Telegin was seriously wounded. At the hospital, he meets Dasha. After his recovery, the young spouses go together to the Red Army.

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

Um barco naufraga no Mar Cáspio perto do Azerbaijão. Os dois marinheiros são salvos e levados para uma ilha. Lá, ambos se apaixonam pela mesma garota. A disputa pelo mesmo amor será uma grande prova de amizade e camaradagem.

The screen adaptation of the novel by Tadjik writer Sadriddine Aini, telling the story of a tramp who falls in love with a rich girl, was supposed to become the first full-length feature film in Central Asian film history. But the unfinished Dokhunda was banned by the Soviet authorities when film production was already in full swing. No footage survived. This is why Izvolov had to rely on Lev Kuleshov’s draft to study and appreciate the maestro’s vision and the unique aesthetic concept, which was never to be realised during Kuleshov’s lifetime.

A peasant visits the DneproGES construction.

This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.

Satirical film about Ukranian collectivization.

Terra é uma história que envolve várias gerações. Ela começa com morte de um avô, o que dificulta a vida do filho Opanas e do neto Vasily. Quando latifundiários ricos se apropriam de suas terras, Vasily lidera um movimento juvenil comunista e forma uma agricultura coletivizada na Ucrânia.

Imagens mostram a devastação que a Primeira Guerra Mundial causou aos ucranianos.

The momentous film stars Mykola Nademskyi as the grandfather of Tymish (Semen Svashenko), whom he alerts to secret treasure buried in the mountains of Zvenygora – Treasure that rightfully belongs to his homeland. The film wonderfully blends both lyricism and politics and uses its central construct to build a montage praising Ukrainian industrialization, attacking the bourgeoisie, celebrating the beauty of the Ukrainian steppe and retelling ancient folklore. Said Sergei Eisenstein of the film, "As the lights went on, we felt that we had just witnessed a memorable event in the development of the cinema".

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.