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NRThe film is set in one of the regions of Western Ukraine in the 1920s. A poor peasant, Vasyl, openly opposes the arbitrariness of the lord's authorities. While hunting in the lord's forest, he is captured by soldiers and imprisoned in a dungeon. His beloved girl Lesia, with the help of the villagers, opens the dam, and water begins to flood the manor. Amid the commotion, Vasyl escapes from his captivity.
The Dam Is Broken
1928
8.0Adaptation of Ibsen's "A Doll's House."
Her Sacrifice
1917
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Drama on the Hunt
1918
No synopsis available yet.
Blood Need Not Be Spilled
1917
10.0Jimmy Higgings is a worker of the plant making weapons for the Tsarist Russia and the German Empire. During World War I, Jimmy speaks at a spontaneous rally against the war. He is arrested. When released, he becomes unemployed. He is happy to hear the news about the revolution; he volunteers into the American expeditionary force thinking that having the weapons he can fight against Germans – the enemies of the Russian revolution. However, finding himself in Russia, Jimmy soon realises that the expeditionary force of American volunteers fights not against the Germans, but against the young Socialist Russia. Without any hesitations, he takes the path of revolutionary struggle, he spreads propaganda among the American soldiers and distributes Bolshevik leaflets. Captured by the American military police, Jimmy Higgings does not betray his friends. He is sentenced to twenty years in a military prison. Jimmy cannot stand it and loses his mind. Lost movie.
Jimmy Higgings
1928
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden
1916
Film credits
1920s · 17 titles
NRThe film is set in one of the regions of Western Ukraine in the 1920s. A poor peasant, Vasyl, openly opposes the arbitrariness of the lord's authorities. While hunting in the lord's forest, he is captured by soldiers and imprisoned in a dungeon. His beloved girl Lesia, with the help of the villagers, opens the dam, and water begins to flood the manor. Amid the commotion, Vasyl escapes from his captivity.
The Dam Is Broken
1928
10.0Jimmy Higgings is a worker of the plant making weapons for the Tsarist Russia and the German Empire. During World War I, Jimmy speaks at a spontaneous rally against the war. He is arrested. When released, he becomes unemployed. He is happy to hear the news about the revolution; he volunteers into the American expeditionary force thinking that having the weapons he can fight against Germans – the enemies of the Russian revolution. However, finding himself in Russia, Jimmy soon realises that the expeditionary force of American volunteers fights not against the Germans, but against the young Socialist Russia. Without any hesitations, he takes the path of revolutionary struggle, he spreads propaganda among the American soldiers and distributes Bolshevik leaflets. Captured by the American military police, Jimmy Higgings does not betray his friends. He is sentenced to twenty years in a military prison. Jimmy cannot stand it and loses his mind. Lost movie.
Jimmy Higgings
1928
NRBased on the novel "Three Thieves" by Italian writer Umberto Notari. The banker's wife Ornano gives the key to her house to her lover Count Guido. The swindler Cascariglia uses this situation in his own way - he steals three million in money and his wife from the banker. In order to recover at least part of the stolen money (perhaps only the first part), the banker helps the adventurer get elected to parliament.
You're not a Thief Until You're Caught
1924
4.5Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child.
Kashtanka
1926
5.2An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolshevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution.
The Traitor
1926
NRBased on a short story by O. Henry "The Ransom of the Red Chief". Three boys meet by chance. Myshko, a pioneer, is walking down the street in the ranks of a pioneer unit, while the homeless Semen is standing behind the unit, and Mr. Zhorzhyk is looking out of the window. The second time the boys meet is in the Crimea, where Myshko travels with the pioneers, the panych in a soft carriage with a bonnet, and Semen between the cars. Semen is kidnapped by bandits who mistake him for Zhorzhyk. Meanwhile, Zhorzhyk escapes from his bondage to a pioneer detachment. Soon, Semyon ends up there as well.
The Three
1928
NRThe film takes place somewhere abroad. One of the characters in the film, novice Morne, rescues a fisherman girl, Armela, who loses her mind from terror and seriously begins to believe that she is the "goddess of the winds". The monks of the monastery use this not without benefit. Armela's father finds his daughter and takes her home. Morne, in love with the girl, leaves the monastery and returns to his former profession of an artist. Soon Armela recovers and marries Morne.
Lord of the Black Rocks
1924
NRThe first Ukrainian adventure detective story. The action takes place in Odesa in 1920, occupied by Denikin's troops. The White Guard counterintelligence conducts a fruitless search for the Bolshevik agent "7+2". The search is led by officer Enger. Dizzying races, disasters, and murders further confuse the agent's trail. It is only with the arrival of the Bolsheviks that the case is solved. Incompletely preserved
Ukrasia
1925
NRA love story between a Polish military officer Zvolinskiy and a poor Jewish girl Liya. Both are falsely accused of treason and sentenced to death. Polish president changes the sentence to exile, but will they survive the tragic ordeal?
Shadows of Belvedere
1927
NRThe film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. At that time, it was one of the most expensive films, as for the first time experts in history, ethnography, and literary studies were involved in pre-production. Consisting of numerous short stories, the film that shows the life of Shevchenko as an adolescent, a soldier, a poet, was successfully demonstrated in Ukraine and abroad and became the most acknowledged cinema project of 1926.
Taras Shevchenko
1926
NRBased on the novel of the same name by N.Mizgir about the collapse of a noble family.
Mud
1927
NRThe Whites enter the city, and they come over to Nadiia for search and seizure. They do not find the package, but they arrest Nadiia. A White counterintelligence officer interrogates her at the house-headquarters for a long time. However, Nadiia is silent and keeps the location of the package in secret, even though they blackmail her and threat her son, her husband and even her common sense.
Arrest Warrant
1927
7.0The Government of the fictional country Norland has unleashed a war with the neighboring Galikania and is suffering one defeat after another. A group of conspirators who were dissatisfied with this state of affairs, led by the Social Democrat Frank Frey arrange a coup to overthrew the emperor of Norland. But the working class does not like the new order either. Workers expose Frank Frey's policy of continuing the war and a revolution breaks out in the country. The leader of the socialist revolution becomes a mechanic of the name Franz Stark.
Locksmith and Chancellor
1924
NRMid-19th century. An elderly landowner, bored with life, organizes balls, hunts, fistfights, and banquets. Among other things, he offers his serfs and serf women to his guests for sale or entertainment. One of them, Vanka Krasnov, dreams of marrying the noblewoman Aksyusha. To do so, he must defeat the village strongman Mitka in a fistfight. But even after a fair victory, the landowner himself tries to take possession of Aksyusha. Vanka must challenge the master himself. Considered lost.
The Landowner
1924
NRRevolutionary melodrama based on Lev Nikulin's story "Хміль". 1917. The main character of the film - a "bourgeois intellectual" - does not sympathize with any side and avoids revolutionary events. However, as a result of a series of adventurous adventures, love intrigues and communication with the people, he goes over to the side of the proletariat.
Ataman Khmil'
1924
9.0Ukrainian Soviet film about the fate of a young Ukrainian peasant who became a participant in the revolutionary struggle.
Ostap Bandura
1924
NRBased on the novel “The Three of Us“ by Oles Dovitnyi. Student Viktor Borovskyi becomes a member of an illegal student revolutionary organization, which soon becomes of interest to the police. Once in jail, Viktor cannot stand the interrogations, gives out the addresses of the organization's members and becomes an informant. He informs the police about the upcoming assassination of one of the tsarist generals. During the assassination attempt, the police arrest a girl terrorist, but the general is killed by the bullet of another revolutionary.
His Career
1928
1910s · 26 titles
8.0Adaptation of Ibsen's "A Doll's House."
Her Sacrifice
1917
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Drama on the Hunt
1918
No synopsis available yet.
Blood Need Not Be Spilled
1917
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden
1916
NRBased on the first half of Ivan Turgenev's novel.
Punin and Baburin
1919
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Here Comes The Postal Troyka...
1915
NRAfter a man's wife leaves him for a sculptor, his only comfort is a statue of his wife.
Life is a Moment, Art is Forever
1916
NRNo synopsis available yet.
I'm Gonna Hitch Three Fast Dark Brown Horses
1916
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sashka The Seminarian
1915
NRNo synopsis available yet.
She Seeked Happiness So Madly, So Passionately
1916
No synopsis available yet.
And the Waves Swallowed the Secret...
1917
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Hawk's Nest
1916
NRNo synopsis available yet.
In a Lively Place
1916
NRNo synopsis available yet.
А счастье было так возможно
1916
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rude Girl
1918
5.4While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, Hermann, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
The Queen of Spades
1916
5.3The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk.
Father Sergius
1918
Based on the story of the same name by I. S. Turgenev. The movie has not survived.
Three Portraits
1919
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Nikolay Stavrogin
1915
NRIvan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees in her only the perfect model for his picture, "The Dagger Woman." Studying her, and by carefully playing on her emotions he gains her confidence, and afterward she consents to pose for him. The picture completed, she is grieved and then angered to discover that Ivan's interest rests solely in it, and how it will fare at the exhibition. She pleads with him in vain. The picture is pronounced a masterpiece, and Ivan is in his triumph as he returns to his studio. Here Olga has secreted herself. Humiliated by the reports circulated regarding herself and the artist, and unable longer to bear his disinterest she plunges a dagger to his heart and kills him.
The Dagger Woman
1916
NRBased on the story by I.S.Turgenev. The movie has not been preserved in full, without notes.
The Inn
1918
NRA perverted town mayor murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on the short story La petite Roque by Guy de Maupassant.
Little Ellie
1918
10.0Famous Russian screen actors play themselves in this drama about the lives of actors. Thirteen minutes of the film survive.
Behind the Screen
1917
NRNo synopsis available yet.
And The Song Remained Unfinished
1916
NRA man in love with a married woman plans to kill her husband. By mistake he kills her brother, and is haunted by the ghost of the murdered brother.
In The Wild Blindness Of Desires
1916
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Me And My Conscience
1915
