The film uses motifs from V. Mayakovsky's script "Как поживаете?" - about the struggle against philistinism in everyday life.
The film takes place in Ukraine during the Civil War. Apolon Shmyguiev is loyal to all regimes and capable of benefiting from any situation. By chance, the man becomes camel's herder and travels on it over Ukraine.
In the ordinary Ukrainian collective farm comes a new music worker, graduated from the Conservatory energetic young girl. She led the fight with the Chairman of the collective farm and accountant, who believed that Amateur music for farmers — something quite optional…
Plant director Nazarov and engineer Petrov are constantly at odds with each other. Both dream of taking a vacation so they can spend some time apart. As it happens, they end up in the same mountaineering group. Petrov turns out to be the leader. It took the rigors of group life and considerable difficulties for Nazarov to understand how courageous, humane, and wholehearted Petrov is.
Based 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 poor tailor Perchyk who dreams to buy a she-goat lives in a small town. Meanwhile, Perchyk’s daughter Frida falls in love with the unemployed Elia. Perchyk is totally against their marriage, as he cannot buy a she-goat if the son-in-law does not have any money. Finally, Perchyk buys a she-goat from a rich tavern owner but he gives him… a goat. Moreover, a police officer dissatisfied with the tailored uniform forges a document, according to which Perchyk and his whole family are expelled from the town as troublemakers.
The film takes place in Ukraine during the Civil War. Apolon Shmyguiev is loyal to all regimes and capable of benefiting from any situation. By chance, the man becomes camel's herder and travels on it over Ukraine.
Shares a lead actor · Same director
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
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With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.
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A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.
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A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
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A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.
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In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.
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86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
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After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.
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Louis C.K. muses on religion, terrorism, small towns, Florida, disabilities, dogs, Auschwitz, marriage, sex, vegans, and his personal sexual controversy, in a live performance from Washington, D.C.
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Jimmy 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.
Lost movie.
The 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 film is about the industrial relations between the old and young generations of workers. The old master Korzhov hides his professional knowledge from the youth. This provokes criticism from the young worker Pavel. The relationship deteriorates after Korzhov's daughter secretly marries Pavel...
To justify the fantastic adventures of the blacksmith Vakula, the authors of the film “simplify” Gogol’s plot: Vakula, having drunk too much at Patsiuk’s place, falls asleep. And he sees this dream where the devil takes him to the palace of Catherine II in Saint-Petersburg; and there Vakula takes off the little shoes of the Russian empress to give them to his fiancée Oksana. And, really, drunk Vakula takes off the shoes while sleeping… but from Patsiuk. Later, when Vakula unwraps the package with the “royal slippers” in front of Oksana, he finds only Patsiuk’s dirty shoes there.
To pay off their debts, parents sell their daughter Kira to an old coach maker, a wealthy man Stavro, before her birth. When Kira is 13 years old, Stavro takes her to his home as a slave wife.
A 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?
The end of the 1920s. The capitalist world is in crisis. The fascists unleash war against the Soviet Union. The enemy attack interrupts the peaceful labor of Soviet people. Hundreds of production workers join the Red Army. At the front go Red Army units, columns of tanks, units of the people's militia. Enemy airplanes appear over the Soviet city, black bomb bursts are rising. The streets are moving mournful funeral processions of the first victims of the war. At the end of the movie, a worker appears on the screen, appealing to the audience to be ready for the war, which has not yet come, but will come “maybe tomorrow"
Based on the novel of the same name by N.Mizgir about the collapse of a noble family.
Crimea. The middle of the 19th century. A proud and brave jigit Alim Aidamak who cannot put up with the workers’ abuse, works at the leather factory of the greedy Ali-bay. One day he responds in kind. He is fired, but he takes the memories of the beautiful daughter of his ex-master, Sara, with him. Young people went their separate ways. Alim takes the revolutionary path; he and his friends go to the mountains and start an underground struggle. Only his name is enough to terrify landlords, Mirzas and civil servants. Authorities send a Cossack detachment to catch the Crimean Tatar Robin Hood. The adventure film, which reminds an American western, was filmed based on a Crimean Tatar legend, which in 1925 was turned into a play by the repressed Crimean Tatar writer Ipchi Ümer. The shooting of the film under the script of the Ukrainian avant-garde poet Mykola Bazhan began in the autumn of 1925, when the indigenisation policy in the national republics caused demand on the national plots.
Lost movie.
Tram conductor Nadya Savitskaya went to study for tram driver courses. Her boss believes that women are not capable of such work and will only delay traffic. However, on her very first flight, Nadya Savitskaya prevents an accident and saves lives. The film was shot as part of a program to encourage women to study male professions, because in Soviet Union the rights of women and men were equalized: now they could do the same work and receive the same salary for it.
The historical and revolutionary film tells about how during the civil war in Sevastopol the Bolshevik Alekseev and the investigator of the Tsarist Okhrana Yarnovsky met. The plot of the picture is based on the story of their meetings in the past.
A few days from the life of Soviet submariners - during a regular peaceful time...
A story about three young men - three best friends - and their adventures during the first years of Soviet Union.
The seamy Jewish underworld of Odesa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.
Day in and day out, factory worker Wolfer enjoys his luxurious life. But one day he wakes up after another night of drinking and is horrified to learn that the October Revolution has taken place. It took away the manufacturer's luxurious life. Wolfer's mansion, jewelry, and excess clothes were requisitioned. In the end, the manufacturer has to sweep the streets. He flees to Paris, where he finds a job in a circus with great difficulty.
