Mikhail Tarkhanov Movies

Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him.

This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs. Ru...

From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as...

The cinematic adaptation of "The Storm" play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive Katerina marrie...

The secret police agent finds that factory director wife is counterrevolutionary but dies from the heart attack. The director reads the diary of an ag...

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions...

A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolution...

While a factory director is distracted by production problems, his adolescent son suffers from loneliness. His mother is dead, and the father – a kind...

Peasant rebelling, pictures of folk anger - here accent that had to put Ivanovo in a new film. The manuscript of novel was found post mortem Pushkin i...

Film adaptation of The Golovlyov Family ("Господа Головлёвы),a classic novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. In the mid-19th century old-fashioned e...