Maksim Shtraukh Movies

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The...

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet...

Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa...

Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian...

In an Eastern European country, a strong political struggle breaks out over the possibility of accepting aid from the Marshall Plan or signing a...

A story about the friendship between two young men, two soldiers - Arkady from Odessa and Sasha from Ural.

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this...

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his...

The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.

A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII.

After the victory on Napoleon a hussar returns to Moscow. He is met by a desperate man who offers him a deal: marry his daughter before she turns 18...

While investigating a regular traffic accidents detectives find evidence of foreign intelligence involvement.

A humble and honest cashier is robbed while carrying a large sum of money and the bag ends up in the basement of a building. When he later discovers...

A few stories about Vladimir Lenin.

The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland...

The film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the 1930s. The cast of characters is extremely...