Movies: Lyudmila Semyonova

Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller...

The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides that it's time for a game. But on whom to make a bet? He asks the cards. But he's not the only one who makes ...

Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in....

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 ...

In 1929, the Chinese are preparing an attack on the CER, recruiting soldiers to their gang. Among them there is a resident of a lodging house Van. Having recovered after a sudden attack on a Soviet border village, the Red Army squad goes on the offen...

In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test....

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a decade after the Great War as a shell-shocked amnesiac, until a glimpse of a woman through a train wi...

Ivan Vasilyevich is in love with Varenka and is admired by her father, Colonel. But the transformation of a tender loving father from a good-natured colonel into a cruel and ruthless tormentor shocked Ivan so much that his feelings for Varenka quickl...

A Russian woman tells the tragic story of her life....

The manager of the Belarusian collective farm Naideika Krasovich, inspired by the award at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition for the high flax harvest, gives her word to double the harvest. Many fellow villagers doubt her success, and only Grigor...

A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby....

In 1921. With the help of Japanese interventionists, the White Guards defeat a Shaldyba partisan detachment. The remnants of the defeated detachment pour into Levinson's detachment. Partisan intelligence soon finds that the Japanese has surrounded th...

Directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov....

The bank is preparing to solemnly celebrate the 15th anniversary of the institution. And at that moment, two events took place that turned everything upside down....