Movies: Grigori Aleksandrov

  • 1925
    Battleship Potemkin

    Battleship Potemkin (1925)

    Battleship Potemkin

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    A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editi...

    Battleship Potemkin
  • 1934
    Jolly Fellows

    Jolly Fellows (1934)

    Jolly Fellows

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    Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a casca...

    Jolly Fellows
  • 1925
    Strike

    Strike (1925)

    Strike

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    Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression....

    Strike
  • 1979
    ¡Qué Viva México!

    ¡Qué Viva México! (1979)

    ¡Qué Viva México!

    6.81979HD

    Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state....

    ¡Qué Viva México!
  • 1928
    October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

    October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)

    October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

    6.91928HD

    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....

    October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
  • 1938
    Volga - Volga

    Volga - Volga (1938)

    Volga - Volga

    6.71938HD

    Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad....

    Volga - Volga
  • 1930
    Misery and Fortune of Woman

    Misery and Fortune of Woman (1930)

    Misery and Fortune of Woman

    6.51930HD

    This film shows contrasting views of women with problematic pregnancies and the outcomes resulting when they seek out a back-alley abortionist, a trained and licensed abortion provider in a clinic, or an obstetrician capable of performing a Caesarian...

    Misery and Fortune of Woman
  • 1929
    The General Line

    The General Line (1929)

    The General Line

    6.51929HD

    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....

    The General Line
  • 1934
    Death Day

    Death Day (1934)

    Death Day

    5.91934HD

    During his adventure in Mexico, Sergei Eisenstein made footage of a Mexican "Death Day" celebration for inclusion in his "Que Viva Mexico!" film project. When the 200,000-plus feet of film he eventually exposed in Mexico was first attempted to be ma...

    Death Day
  • 1933
    Thunder Over Mexico

    Thunder Over Mexico (1933)

    Thunder Over Mexico

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    As was common in Diaz's Mexico, a young hacienda worker finds his betrothed imprisoned and his life threatened by his master for confronting a hacienda guest for raping the girl. This film is the first of several attempts to make a feature-length mo...

    Thunder Over Mexico
  • 1936
    Circus

    Circus (1936)

    Circus

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    An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR....

    Circus
  • 1974
    Starling and Lyre

    Starling and Lyre (1974)

    Starling and Lyre

    5.51974HD

    Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into Germ...

    Starling and Lyre
  • 1967
    Ten Days That Shook the World

    Ten Days That Shook the World (1967)

    Ten Days That Shook the World

    6.21967HD

    An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary makes use of rare footage and little-known information, stirringly narrated by Orson Welles....

    Ten Days That Shook the World
  • 1960
    Russkiy Suvenir

    Russkiy Suvenir (1960)

    Russkiy Suvenir

    3.21960HD

    The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thunderstorm and makes an emergency landing in the Baikal region. In addition to the Soviet citizen Varvara Komarova, all other passengers are foreigners...

    Russkiy Suvenir
  • 1949
    Meeting on the Elbe

    Meeting on the Elbe (1949)

    Meeting on the Elbe

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    Soviet and American soldiers are meeting on the shores of the Elbe river in Germany in 1945....

    Meeting on the Elbe
  • 1931
    Sentimental Romance

    Sentimental Romance (1931)

    Sentimental Romance

    6.81931HD

    Romance sentimentale is a 1930 French film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein. A short, experimental, slightly poetic montage of city and abstract images....

    Sentimental Romance
  • 2010
    Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930

    Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930 (2010)

    Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930

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    Thematic anthology of : Le retour a la Maison (1923) by Man Ray; Emak-Bakia (1926) by Man Ray; L'Etoile de Mer (1928) by Man Ray; Les Mysteres Du Chateau de Dé (1929) by Man Ray; Rhythmus 21 (1921) by Hans Richter; Vormittagsspuk (1928) by Hans...

    Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930
  • 1940
    The Shining Path

    The Shining Path (1940)

    The Shining Path

    4.31940HD

    Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the S...

    The Shining Path
  • 1932
    Hurray Mexico!

    Hurray Mexico! (1932)

    Hurray Mexico!

    6.81932HD

    Unedited film that Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Eduard Tisse shot in Mexico 1931-32. This record only represents the 200,000-plus feet of unedited film that Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Eduard Tisse shot in Mexico 1931/3...

    Hurray Mexico!
  • 1923
    Glumov's Diary

    Glumov's Diary (1923)

    Glumov's Diary

    51923HD

    Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do,...

    Glumov's Diary