Dmitri Shostakovich Movies

A mostly lost Soviet Union stop-motion version of this classic fairytale. The only surviving scene is called Bazaar.

A biopic, looking at one of the major leaders of the assassination of Czar Alexander II.

The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.

A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.

A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years...

The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in...

An unfinished film by Aleksandr Dovzhenko, the film is a political lampoon based on the book entitled The Truth about US Diplomats, written in 1949...

Information about the upcoming coup d'etat falls into the hands of a TV reporter. At his own risk, he begins an investigation...

A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and...

Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history.

Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of...

A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby, but he falls asleep, so she ask for help to her neighbors.

A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A...

Shostakovich’s satirical opera adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Eduard Akimov leads the cast as Kovalyov, the...