Arseniy Bibikov Movies

A Jewish parvenu climbs the social ladder by seducing wealthy women.

Seamstress Mary dreams of a better life outside a sweatshop. Her dreams come true when she draws the attention of the bourgeois Victor. She soon...

The picture tells the story of Maria, a devoted wife of a bank employee. The couple has a cozy life; they have a baby but he is cared for by their...

First film ever that was shot by two cameras. Set in 1854-1855, in Sevastopol and Yalta during the Crimean War. Admirals Kornilov (Mozzhukhin) and...

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

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,...

An adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novel.

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

Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Appreciative of her sensitive, artistic nature, and of...

Based on the poem by Pushkin. A thief and his gang are at their camp next to the Volga River. He tells them of how his father died in a river, and...

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

The last of Starewicz's surviving Russian shorts