Revolutions of 1917 and Civil War in Russia
The February and the Great October Revolutions in Russia. Civil War 1918-22. War in Poland. Aftermath and diplomacy.
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- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovSergei EisensteinStarsBoris LivanovNikolay PopovVasili NikandrovA large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsMarlene DietrichRobert DonatIrene VanbrughAfter two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.
- StarsKeira KnightleySam NeillHans MathesonDoctor Zhivago falls for Lara despite being engaged. Their forbidden love blossoms amidst the upheaval of the Russian Revolution, impacting his career and family.
- StarsJon HammDaniel RadcliffeRosie CavalieroIn the early 20th century, a young doctor arrives in a small Russian village around the time of the Russian Revolution to work in the local hospital.
- DirectorJacob TierneyStarsLiane BalabanJay BaruchelTaylor BaruchelA Montreal high school student who believes he is the reincarnation of Lev Trotskiy starts a revolution against apathy among his fellow students.
- DirectorAleksandr GordonStarsRegimantas AdomaitisG. ArtyomenkoYuriy DubrovinA historical drama about the Communist leader Sergey Lazo.
- StarsSergey RomanovichAndrey Da!Stuart D. LathamMishka Yaponchik is not an ordinary raider with Odessa flavor. Only an extraordinary person could become the king of thieves, keep the whole city in fear and at the same time be the people's favorite.
- DirectorGrigori NikulinStarsYuriy DemichNikolay VolkovSvetlana OrlovaAbout life in the Russian city of Saratov in 1919 during the Russian Civil War.
- StarsKivanç TatlitugFarah Zeynep AbdullahDemet ÖzdemirThe love story of Kurt Seyit, a Crimean Tatar army major, and Sura, a rich Russian woman during the Russian Revolution and in the last days of the Ottoman Empire.
- DirectorYuriy VasilevStarsAleksandr AdabashyanAleksandr BaluevMarat BasharovAndrey goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, who had been an officer in the White Army. On the headstone of the next grave, he notices the face of a young woman. He will see this face again.
- DirectorYusup RazykovStarsBahodir OdilovLola EltoevaIskander, a gentle Uzbek man, is convinced by a Russian friend to give an impromptu speech praising the Communist Revolution. Impressed by his eloquence, the Soviets make Iskander a spokesman - a precarious position in a turbulent time.
- DirectorViktor ZhivolubStarsBorislav BrondukovYana DrouzEvgeniy PapernyyIt became the custom that Cossacks lives in Russia turn to be dramatic and unpredictable, Be it Don Cossacks, Amur or others. The same is about Amur Cossack Aleksey Butov (B.Brondukov). He leaves for the battle-front during the World War I, and everything gets under way: in 1915 he gets injured and is taken prisoner, then escapes, participates in a revolution, fights during the Civil War on the side of the Red Army. And now, in 1923, he finally comes back home, to Amur. But everyone considers him to be deceased. His wife couldnt wait and married his best friend, they got a daughter, and his native son doesnt recognize him. All that is insufferable for him, but he needs to keep on living, and also defend the borders from the Chinese and White Guardians gang, raging around. And Aleksey starts handling all that.
- StarsAndrey SamininDmitriy Paleev-BarmanskiyBiography of a young Bolshevik fighter, participating the Russia's civil war and Soviet political struggle of the 20s.
- DirectorEddy van HamersveldStarsRoberta MussatoEddy van HamersveldRebecca ParisiSet during the Russian civil wars in 1905 and 1922, a mother undergoes the psychological impact of war losing herself in trauma, patriotism and protest.
- StarsYulia SnigirAnya ChipovskayaLeonid BichevinSwept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.
- DirectorNikolai RozantsevStarsUldis DumpisVadim MedvedevIgor KlassPropaganda film about "Ambassadors Treason" against the Soviet communist government in 1918.
- StarsSam NeillMichael BryantNorman RodwayA dramatization of the missions and adventures of the greatest spy in British history.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsHelge NissenHalvard HoffJacob TexiereIn 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.
- DirectorNikoloz KhomasuridzeStarsRezo ChkhikvishviliAna TsereteliGogi TurkiashviliMan who was a Guardian of The National Treasure of his homeland Sakartvelo (Georgia) in France placed in 39 big boxes, did not lose any item and brought it back in 1945 after 24 years of struggle and became a national hero.
- DirectorMark HammondStarsDarya AstafievaGregory HladyTimofey Tribuntsev1971. Odessa Film Studio, USSR. To conform to Communists Party revisionist propaganda, the KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of a recently completed film, directed by the studio's iconoclastic star director, depicting the events of Ukraine 1920s 'civil war'. The re-editing work is entrusted to a young female editor, a recent graduate of the Moscow Film Institute. However, as her work progress, she comes to understand that despite the risks she must betray the Party to protect the director's vision, and safe-guard the truth about her country under Soviet Occupation.
- DirectorVladimir FetinStarsLyudmila ChursinaVasiliy LanovoyRufina NifontovaThis film is set in the time of the Russian Civil War, after the October revolution of 1917. The communist forces are losing a battle over town. They must blow up the strategic bridge, but the explosion is prevented by one anticommunist man, who is posing as a communist commissar. His wife, Lyubov Yarovaya, discovers him. He is asking for her forgiveness, but she is uncompromising and ruthless.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsAnatoli UstyzhaninovFranco NeroSydne RomeThe last of a two-part film centered on the life and career of John Reed, the revolutionary communist journalist.
- StarsRupert EverettDelphine ForestF. Murray AbrahamWith World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.
- DirectorHardi VolmerStarsÜllar SaaremäeViktor SukhorukovAndrus VaarikKeskküla organizes the so called school of Lenins where the training of Lenin's doubles begins.
- DirectorGrigoriy AronovAleksey GermanStarsAndrei PopovAleksandr AnisimovGeorgiy ShtilThe film is set in St. Petersburg, Russia after the Russian revolution of 1917. Based on the eponymous book by Boris Lavrenev. Maj. General Yevgeni Pavlovich Adamov (Popov) was a lawyer in the Tzar's Army and a professor of law at the Military Academy before the Russian Revolution. In the fall of 1918 he was arrested on false accusations and suffered the loss of all his property and honors. During the turbulent times of Revolution he managed to use all his experience and professionalism to prove his innocence. He was released from prison and all charges against him were dropped. He became a free man, but the reality is changed, and his adaptation to the post-revolutionary life was not easy.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsIzolda IzvitskayaOleg StrizhenovNikolay KryuchkovAn unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsAda VoytsikIvan Koval-SamborskyIvan ShtraukhTragic romance between a female Red Army sharpshooter and a White Army officer.
- DirectorCheslav SabinskyLev ShefferStarsNikolai SaltykovOksana PodlesnayaNatasha SokolovaDuring the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, a Red cavalry officer is warned by a staffer from headquarters about his dangerous attraction to the female leader of a band of Cossacks, a violent woman who is aroused by killing.
- StarsI. GodlevskiyViktor MikhailovPyotr VelyaminovSoviet epic television series based on the novel by Anatoly Ivanov, who starred on "Mosfilm" from 1973 to 1983. On materials of events half a century (from 1906 to 1960) traced the history of the film Siberian Savelevyh family. Villagers pass through three wars, revolution, the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet government approval.
- StarsValeri PoroshinRim AyupovIgor KvashaHistory of the Russian revolution through the eyes of Gorky, the writer and the man. He initially was sympathetic with some of Lenin's promises, but later became shocked with Lenin's bloody methods. Gorky emigrated to Western Europe. Crafty Stalin manipulated Gorky back into entrapment in Communist Russia. His quick death in 1936 is still a mystery. Documentary footage of Gorky from Russian and German film archives, helps the story.
- StarsKonstantin KhabenskiyMikhail PorechenkovMaksim MatveevA flashback to earlier episodes in the life of Leon Trotsky, the Marxist revolutionary, framed by events during his asylum in Mexico City 1939-1940
- StarsUlmas AlikhodzhayevClara JalilovaBakhtiyar KasymovThe depiction of the life of Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi (1889 - 1929), an Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, and political activist. Niyazi is considered to be the father of the socialist realism genre in Uzbek literature.
- StarsChulpan KhamatovaMariya MironovaAleksandr BaluevThe Fall of the Great Russian Empire is the main storyline of this 10 episode mini series, however, every episode has a separate detective story of its own.
- StarsOleg MenshikovChulpan KhamatovaVarvara AndreevaIn Doctor Zhivago, the life of a young doctor is intertwined with the fate of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. Yuri Zhivago is orphaned at a young age, and his uncle brings him to Moscow, where he studies medicine while living with his uncle's family. At a New Year's ball, he witnesses an assassination attempt on a high society lawyer named Komarovksy. What shocks Yuri is the identity of the shooter: Lara Gishar. By coincidence, he had been present earlier when Lara and Komarovsky first met at the Montenegro hotel. At the time, their magnetism and their unusual relationship, both extremely open and particularly secretive, revealed to the young doctor a world of emotions he had yet to experience. Yuri is told that Komarovsky played a role in his father's suicide, but this news has less effect on him than the chance meeting with Lara. At the beginning of WWI, Doctor Zhivago goes to the front, leaving his wife and children in Moscow. He is unaware that many years later Lara will touch his life again, changing it for ever; Yuri Zhivago's personal drama plays out against a backdrop of social and historical upheaval, with his generation's hopes and desires wiped out by war and revolution. Yuri's work and family suffer from his sense of having lost his bearings. Hoping to get back on his feet, he makes the fateful decision to leave Moscow and return to his family's house beyond the Urals. Yuri observes from the window of his train as a new Russia is born, and unexpected encounters during his travels come to symbolize for him the spirit of a new era. The people he meets in the train have been forged in this new world, and Yuri desperately tries to find his place among them, learning to live in the provinces and forgetting the dreams of his youth. As he lies on his bunk in the train, Yuri has no idea that Lara has also left Moscow, taking up residence not far from his family home.
- DirectorAleksandr MuratovStarsOleg MenshikovVladimir GostyukhinLyudmila NilskayaCaptain Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady-spy Klara.
- DirectorEfim DziganStarsVasiliy ZaychikovGeorgi BushuyevNikolay IvakinIn 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces. Director Yefim Dzigan had himself fought for the Bolsheviks in the fleet, so the Red sailors are the heroes of the film. The young Soviet State was besieged by enemies on all sides, and the Revolution was fighting for its life. While clearly propagandistic, the film is often quite poetic visually, not naturalistic as was prescribed by authorities at the time. The film was honored at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. The video version is in Russian with English subtitles.
- DirectorEfim DziganStarsNikolay BogolyubovSemyon GoldshtabAleksey GribovThe film tells about some events of the 1920 Polish-Soviet War as is accepted in Soviet history.
- StarsAndrey RudenskiyLeonid GorelikElena Solovey40 years of the turbulent life of the Russian intellectual Klim Samgin, from the 1881 association of Alexander II to the 1917 February Revolution.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsElena SoloveyRodion NakhapetovAleksandr KalyaginA fate of popular film actress during the turbulent years of the Russian Civil War.
- DirectorTheodor LutsStarsArnold VainoJuhan NõmmikRuut TarmoThe film depicts the adventures of three students who enlist in the war when their small country is invaded by the Russian Bolshevists during the Estonian war of independence (1918-1920).
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsSemyon SvashenkoGeorgi KhorkovAmvrosi BuchmaA soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsEvelyn BrentWilliam PowellA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsJadwiga SmosarskaAnna BelinaWladyslaw GrabowskiQuiet and monotonous life in the countryside is abruptly interrupted by the moving front of the Polish-Russian war.
- DirectorJohn GoldschmidtStarsIrina BrookCary ElwesSunnyi MellesA story about true love, set in the Berlin of the 1920s. In a shabby lodging-house inhabited by a number of faintly ludicrous characters, the young Russian exile Ganin is unexpectedly confronted with his past.
- DirectorBohdan PorebaStarsKrzysztof ChamiecEdmund FettingJózef FryzlewiczA historical reconstruction of dramatic events leading to creation of Polish state. Covers the First World War and the postwar period up to the Treaty of Versailles.
- DirectorBud Fisher
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsMelissa GilbertBruce BoxleitnerDenise AlexanderA young Russian Countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
- DirectorSvyatoslav FedorivNazariy ShpilchakStarsTetyana KasprukOleksandr MishchukMykhaylo PonzelDespite of his young age, the protagonist has to make a tough choice: which side of barricades to take.
- DirectorAzhdar IbragimovStarsYevgeniy AgurovAkhmed AkhmedovMammad AliliThe film consists of several short stories reproducing the brightest pages of the biography of the first Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Azerbaijan, Nariman Narimanov.
- DirectorErazm KaramyanStepan KevorkovStarsGurgen TonuntsBoris ChirkovElza LezhdeyThe second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.
- DirectorStepan KevorkovGrigori Melik-AvakyanStarsGurgen TonuntsAnatoliy FalkovichIya SavvinaThe third movie of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Kamo. He is sent abroad to his last assignment.
- DirectorMoisei LevinStarsYeleubai UmurzakovShara ZhiyenkulovaSerke KozhamkulovIn 1916, a new Russian governor arrives in the Kazakhstan steppes. A Kazakh kero, Amangeldi Imanov, leads the people to revolt against the invader, and allies with the Bolsheviks against some kazakh clans subdued to the tsar.
- DirectorPascal MorelliStarsRichard BerryPatrick BouchiteyBarbara SchulzIn 1918, civil wars are tearing Russia and China apart. Laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is hired by a Chinese secret society to capture a train that's taking Tzar's gold abroad. His friend Rasputin joins him, but only hell awaits them.
- StarsKonstantin KhabenskiyMikhail PorechenkovEvgeniy DyatlovThe protagonist, Alex Turbin - military medic, who had seen and lived through a lot in three years of World War I. He is one of the thousands of officers who, after the revolution faced a difficult choice.
- DirectorAleksey MuradovStarsMikael AmirkhanovDmitriy ArbeninAlina BabakThe story of a Russian family living and dying through four wars: the Russian Civil War in 1920, the Great Patriotic War in 1942, the First Chechen War in 1996, and the Russian military intervention in Ukraine in 2017.
- StarsElizaveta ArzamasovaSergey GromovFelix SchulthessAlexander Parvus is a Russian exile who fled to Germany during World War One. He finances and stimulates protest actions in St Petersburg, leading to the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II.
- StarsIchirô NagaiKeiko YokozawaKazuko SugiyamaSet in the 1920s, Haikara-san ga Tooru is the story of the high-spirited tomboy Benio and her relationship with a handsome half-German soldier named Shinobu.
- DirectorFyodor PetrukhinStarsYanina LisovskayaTatyana SkorokhodovaAristarkh LivanovDina's father, a district doctor, mysteriously disappears. After this event, Dinu is visited at night by a ghost predicting misfortune for his fellow villagers. Dina tries to warn trouble, but they do not believe her.
- DirectorAloizs BrencsStarsEduards PavulsLilita OzolinaJuris ZagarsLike many families Zitars family choose to leave by a foreign power occupied Latvia. The tragic fate destroys the family both physically and morally.
- DirectorKatrin RotheStarsInka FriedrichMaximilian BrauerHanns ZischlerThe Russian revolutionary year narrated from the point of view of the involved artists.
- CreatorIgor KopylovStarsMilos BikovicKseniya LukyanchikovaGrigori NekrasovThe action covers the period from 1913 to 1921, reflecting the dramatic events of Russian history, which swept through the destinies of people and countries like a hurricane, leaving behind for some ruins of the past, for others - the foundation for a new life.
- StarsSergey StrelnikovViktor KostitsinBorislav BorisenkoThis is the very first feature to have ever told a story of the Russian revolutionary, Chapaev, in such a gripping and heart-stirring manner. The series takes us through thorny days of the national hero as the numerous layers of love and hate, pride and shame, great victory and inconsolable loss unfold. The abundance of action and raw emotion enlighten the viewer to the innumerable twists and turns on the path to the final victory of the Red Army and Chapaev's agonizing solitude. War shatters the existence of the main character when it claims the life of his beloved wife. Desperate and inconsolable, Chapaev remarries just to find what betrayal and disappointment taste like. Having lost his wife to another man, he joins the Red Army to ease the pain of abandonment. Now the future hero must adhere to the cause of the disenfranchised people, like himself, in a fight for a better future. Through epic battles, bloodbaths and selfless heroism, Chapaev will blaze through the pages of history books right to the glorious victory. But no recognition and fame can fill the hole in his heart, aching for the person long lost, leaving the hero forever alone on his pedestal. This is a story of harsh times, atrocious violence, lost chances and rooky mistakes. The plot masterly incorporates the great tragedy of the Russian people and the heartbreaking love story into one breathtaking series.
- StarsKirill LavrovMikhail KozakovAndrey TolubeevIn 1917 Lenin and the communists founded the Soviet secret service - Cheka, the predecessor of the KGB.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsMartins KalitaViktoriya SolovyovaAnastasiya ImamovaOfficers of the White Army, holding as POWs in a Red Army's camp, try to understand why they lose Civil War and lost the Russian Empire at all.
- StarsVitaliya KornienkoPolina PushkarukAnastasiya BegunovaThis complicated drama/war epic follows the life of Kozaks, special cavalry troops of Russian monarchy from the end of 19th century, through the 1918 Revolution and civil war that followed.
- DirectorViktor TikhomirovStarsAleksandr BashirovTaras BibichNatalya IokhvidovaThe events in the film take place in parallel - these are the twenties and sixties of the last century.