Grigori Aleksandrov Movies

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

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin is mistaken for an international...

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...

This film shows contrasting views of women with problematic pregnancies and the outcomes resulting when they seek out a back-alley abortionist, a...

Archive footage from Potemkin (1925), with English dialogue dubbed in by American actors, is combined with new footage to tie together the brave...

The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music,...

A documentary on the life of the famous actress, deceased wife of the director Grigoriy Aleksandrov.

An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the...

A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap...

A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946.

The story takes place in Summer 1942, when a small force of Black Sea Fleet sailors was surrounded by German troops but broke out the encirclement.

Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with...

Having revolutionized film editing through such masterworks of montage as Potemkin and Strike, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein emigrated West in...

Eisenstein shot 50 hours of footage on location in Mexico in 1931 and 32 for what would have become ¡Que viva México!, but was not able...

An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary...

This literary adaptation was the first Soviet feature length dramatization, as opposed to documentary film, on the momentous Battle of Stalingrad.

The film is about the Soviet People's patriotism and friendship.

Also known as The Old and the New, The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to industrial...