Grigori Kozintsev

Russian adaptation of King Lear

Russian version of Hamlet

This Soviet adaptation brings the classic Spanish novel to life, following an aging, impoverished nobleman who loses his mind reading books of chivalry and decides to become a knight-errant named Don Quixote. Accompanied by his earthy peasant squire, he sets off to defend the meek and fight evil, resulting in a series of highly amusing and often moving misadventures throughout the Spanish countryside.

War-time satire about the inhumanity of the nazis.

Maxim is now a comissar in pre-WWII Russia.

Maxim is now a revolutionary working to bring about the Russian revolution.

First in a trilogy about the Bolshevik revolution. Maxim grows up to find himself siding with the Bolshevik cause.

A young teacher is sent to a remote province, separating her from her lover, and sets about the difficult task of building a school there. With a score by Shostokovich. Filmed as a silent, rereleased with sound.

The New Babylon is a metaphorical clash of glittering surfaces and deep social cynicism that marked the climax of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's experimentations with the conventions of the Soviet silent cinema. Taking their thematic inspiration from the story of the Paris Commune of 1871, the two directors fashioned a highly conceptualized allegory of social strata under pressure that transcends its historical roots to form a sardonic comment on the human condition. (filmreference.com)

The film tells about the Decembrists' revolt in the south of Russia. (imdb)

Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat.... (imdb)

Soviet film based on Nikolai Gogol stories "Nevsky Prospekt" and "The Overcoat".