Sovkino Movie Trailers
Most Popular Sovkino Trailers
Total trailers found: 58
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty Trailer (1927)
11 March 1927
A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.
Ill Nerves Trailer (1929)
08 November 1929
Director of a Soviet-era enterprises, Baturin, spends days and nights in his private office. Inability to arrange work day and overwork caused Buchanan severe form of neurasthenia.
The General Line Trailer (1929)
25 September 1929
Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to industrial culture in an epic ode to farm-collectivization progress.
Reis mistera Lloyda Trailer (1927)
13 September 1927
About the fate of a ex-Wrangel's White Army soldier who flees from the Foreign Legion and returns to the USSR.
Lace Trailer (1928)
01 June 1928
Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical of Russian cinema.
The Captain's Daughter Trailer (1928)
08 October 1928
An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) Trailer (1928)
11 May 1928
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
House in the Snow-Drifts Trailer (1927)
01 April 1927
An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg apartment because he was not needed in the revolutionary city.
Katerina Izmailova Trailer (1926)
01 January 1926
Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman.
Your Friend Trailer (1927)
24 October 1927
Khokhlova, a girl-reporter on a Moscow newpaper, falls in love with factory manager Petrovsky. To her he's the epitome of manliness--virile, decisive, strong-minded.
Wings of a Serf Trailer (1926)
16 November 1926
This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with historical materialist commentary on the dialectical collision of scientific progress and patriarchal religious tyranny under Tsar Ivan the Terrible.
The Shanghai Document Trailer (1928)
01 May 1928
The film portrays Shanghai, China in the early 1920s. It shows the contrasts between the world of Western expatriates (including Britons, Americans, New Zealanders, Australians, and Danes) who live in the luxurious Shanghai International Settlement, and that of the Shanghainese inhabitants, who spend their days laboring.
Chyornyy parus Trailer (1929)
01 July 1929
The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.
The New Babylon Trailer (1929)
01 January 1929
In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman.
Heart of Asia (Afghanistan) Trailer (1929)
26 February 1929
This Russian documentary offered tantalizing glimpses of Afghanistan, which in 1929 was still one of the few heavily-populated areas in the world where the residents continued to live as they did in the Middle Ages.
Katka's Reinette Apples Trailer (1926)
24 December 1926
A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest work in a factory.
Her Way Trailer (1929)
05 March 1929
When Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he’s called away to fight in World War I not long after, she tends to their farm on her own, determined to make the best of a bad situation.
The Poet and the Tsar Trailer (1927)
20 September 1927
Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff.
The Last Attraction Trailer (1929)
08 September 1929
A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van.
The Ghost That Never Returns Trailer (1930)
15 March 1930
The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his rebel gang.
The Great Road Trailer (1927)
06 November 1927
The Great Road is a 1927 Soviet silent documentary film directed by Esfir Shub. It is the second in Esfir Shub's trilogy of films that began with The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927) and concluded with Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicolai II (1928).
Solovki Trailer (1929)
16 May 1929
Depicts life in the Solovki prison camp as a vacation at a holiday resort, pointing at the authorities’ efforts to humanise the re-education of criminals via an aesthetics of normalcy.
Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicolai II Trailer (1928)
02 January 1928
Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicolai II is a 1928 Soviet silent documentary film directed by Esfir Shub.
Protiv voli ottsov Trailer (1927)
11 April 1927
Against the will of the fathers (1926) was shot based on the story of Sholom Aleichem "Blood Stream", which talks about the participation of Jews in the 1905 revolution.
Samoyed Boy Trailer (1928)
01 January 1928
Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.
Tanka the Bar Girl Trailer (1929)
15 January 1929
A little girl denounce her evil step-father who plotted against the communist movement. The film, under the influence of Russian formalism, has some interesting experimental compositions.
The Wind Trailer (1926)
26 October 1926
During the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, a Red cavalry officer is warned by a staffer from headquarters about his dangerous attraction to the female leader of a band of Cossacks, a violent woman who is aroused by killing.
Bed and Sofa Trailer (1927)
15 March 1927
Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.
Fragment of an Empire Trailer (1929)
28 October 1929
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin.
Cain and Artem Trailer (1930)
06 June 1930
Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet Filmmaking,” in which he criticized all the achievements of the Soviet avant-garde.
Brother Trailer (1929)
01 January 1929
The chairman of the factory committee of one of the Leningrad factories, Fyodor Gorbachev, a weak-willed man who was unable to completely overcome his petty-proprietor psychology, is visited from the village by his brother Sergei, a former kulak and trader.
The Peasant Women of Ryazan Trailer (1927)
13 December 1927
The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life.
Shame Trailer (1932)
07 November 1932
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 the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s.
Blue Express Trailer (1929)
05 December 1929
Chinese workers start a rebellion, arm themselves and take over the train on which they are travelling and manage to break through the frontier.
A Sixth Part of the World Trailer (1926)
31 December 1926
Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land.
Katerina Izmailova Trailer (1966)
19 November 1966
Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife.
The Parisian Cobbler Trailer (1927)
28 April 1927
This little known Russian movie, from the director of the following year's Oblomok imperii/ A Fragment of Empire is both surprising and accomplished.
Forest People Trailer (1929)
22 February 1929
The story of the Udege tribe, lost for centuries and on the verge of extinction, the most dangerous footage of hunting for bears and wild boars, as well as local rituals.
The Post Trailer (1929)
25 November 1929
A boy is sitting at a table, writing a letter for Boris Prutkov. The cartoon follows the journey of this letter from Rostov to Leningrad, where its addressee Prutkov has just left for Berlin; when the letter arrives in Berlin, Prutkov has just departed for London; as the letter arrives in London, Prutkov is already on a steamboat to Brazil, and once the letters is delivered by postman Don Basilio, Prutkov is already on his way back to Leningrad– where the letter, having followed Prutkov around the world, finally reaches him.
Two mothers Trailer (1931)
16 September 1931
The tragic story of a young woman named Yulia, who fell in love with a married man and lost her only child.
Kashtanka Trailer (1926)
01 January 1926
Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child.
Mutiny Trailer (1929)
14 February 1929
Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go to the Fergana region to fight the Basmachi.
Jews on the Land Trailer (1927)
01 January 1927
This documentary depicts the creation of collective farms for Jews in Crimea. It shows them building their houses, digging a well, and farming the land.
The Rout Trailer (1931)
10 September 1931
In 1921. With the help of Japanese interventionists, the White Guards defeat a Shaldyba partisan detachment.
Bulat-Batyr Trailer (1928)
10 April 1928
In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers.
Purga Trailer (1927)
11 October 1927
Siberia. 1919 The retreating intervention detachments and the English expedition leave the mines. A snowstorm begins.
A Magic Ring, a Fatal Secret Trailer (1924)
01 January 1924
The series consists of a total of 48 episodes. It is characterized by a blend of genres, with an ironic approach to both western and detective stories, while simultaneously revealing the fervent admiration of previous years for American cinema.
Three Friends and an Invention Trailer (1928)
20 January 1928
Two inventors head to propose a machine for easy soap packaging while evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine and gaslighting friends.
There is the Metro! Trailer (1935)
17 May 1935
Early documentary about the Moscow metro: the early project, the development and the people working on it.
The Gentlefolks of Skotinin Trailer (1927)
10 January 1927
A comedy starring Nina Shaternikova, The Skotinins is loosely based on the 18th century play The Minor by Denis Fonvizin.
