A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged...

A Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for university and takes pity on him.

A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.

An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over...

Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but...

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him,...

Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and...

The engineer Karl Hartmann invents a new, gigantic brown coal excavator. He discovers that there are large deposits below his home country and...

After release from jail Andrey tries to start a new honest life but not everything is going as planned.

In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological...

A group of children are spending the summer in the forest in the middle Russia.

The film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the 1930s. The cast of characters is extremely unlikely in...

The daredevil pilot Sergei Belyaev takes a risk flying a plane which is not properly maintained and crashes dangerously, landing in hospital, his...

Set among the traveling circus community. Artists of many talents and origins. A showman causes an accident in which his wife is killed. He accuses...

The end of the XIX century. Petya, an eight-year orphan who has been cast in training German acrobat Karl Becker, who curses and beatings would...

The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the...

A successful prostitute is generous to a poor old friend. He becomes jealous, follow her and kills her, hide the body and fake his own suicide.

On the detention of fascist saboteurs and border violators by the collective farmers of Soviet Byelorussia. The main heroine, the actual "daughter of...

A young ordinary communist, Vasiliy Gubanov, was among many who took part in the construction of the most important facility for the young republic,...

The main character, Anna Denisova, is a simple Russian woman, on whose shoulders all the hardships of wartime fell. Like all her compatriots,...

Riccardo and his troupe travel around the world performing musical and dance numbers in vaudevillian and circus theaters. Dancer Kitty is so...

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

The film is about the dramatic events of the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution. Based on the play of the same name by Vladimir...

This story of the Nazi prison camps in the 1930s deals with the attempts of the Nazi guards to break the spirit of the Communists in concentration...

An impoverished nobleman would rather chase after the local milkmaid than seek a wealthy match, to the chagrin of his family.

German film

German crime film