Ivan Mosjoukine Movies

This 1914 drama set in the WWI-era relates a heroic act carried out by a war nurse for the Red Cross (Dora Tschitorina) who has witnessed the death...

Based on the 1865 play of the same name by Alexander Ostrovsky.

A young man discovers the reason his new bride killed herself.

This film captures a stage production at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, accompanied by the choir of Moscow Synagogue. Brothers Isaak and Borukh are both...

Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.

Talkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventurer Chevalier Giacomo Casanova. Action starts in...

A man in love with a married woman plans to kill her husband. By mistake he kills her brother, and is haunted by the ghost of the murdered brother.

Short film based on a poem by Julius Slovacki.

Lusha is suffering from her drunken husband. One day her father-in-law rapes her. Of course, she doesn’t dare admit it to her husband. So,...

A couple of lovers deal with an evil presence that is threatening them.

A doctor kills and embalms a woman in order to preserve her beauty.

A romance in the upper-classes develops as the Bolshevik revolution is at hand.

Drama of plot and intrigue in Imperial Russia.

Famous Russian screen actors play themselves in this drama about the lives of actors. Thirteen minutes of the film survive.

Two peasants in feudal Russia wish to marry but tragedy strikes. A grim if familiar depiction of the precarious condition of the rural life.

An experiment in editing.

Prosecutor Olsen's lover, the singer-songwriter Betsy, leaves him for a new passion. And he, speaking in court as a prosecutor, remains deaf to the...