Esfir Shub Movies

A comedy starring Nina Shaternikova, The Skotinins is loosely based on the 18th century play The Minor by Denis Fonvizin. In it, the upper class is shown as both depraved and stupid, engaging a variety of absurd, over-the-top follies.

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...

A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.

The dashing mountaineer Zaur (B. Bestaev) kills a Russian "imperialist" thereby becoming an abrek, member of a roving band of outlaws.

A bold study on the dangers of prostitution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. It's sort of dramatic fiction that tells the story of Lyuba, which after irremediable events, loses his honor, being obliged to exercise the oldest profession in the world to survive. She hopes for better days and a new...

In the early years of cinema, editors were usually women. This short documentary looks at how they wielded power, and how their work was made invisible.

А Soviet documentary film about Turkey.

A feature-length documentary based on film reports from the Spanish civil war.

The film tells about the life and work of the outstanding figure of Russian cinema Esfir Ilyinichna Shub.

In this pioneering documentary, one of the earliest Soviet sound films, Shub shot a contemporary chronicle of the progress of establishing electricity across the Soviet nation, a struggle spearheaded by the Komsomol.

A commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the October Revolution, Native Land praises the early years of the Soviet Union.

Propaganda film presenting the Soviet side of the Iran crisis of 1946 and the short-lived Azerbaijan People's Government.

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).

A visual composition of the world.

Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicolai II is a 1928 Soviet silent documentary film directed by Esfir Shub. The film is considered lost. Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicolai II is the final film in Esfir Shub's trilogy of films that began with The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927) and continued...