Vasiliy Kovrigin Movies

On liberation from prison of a group arrested after the defeat of the 1905 Russian revolution and workers sentenced to death. Lost movie.

A biographical film about the fate of the great Russian mechanic and creator of aerodynamics Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky.

Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets...

A funny story about a life of a big department store and its employees and customers.

An American engineer, consulting on a Soviet construction project, inspires a backward and timid new foreman to learn better about his job, assert...

A satirical melodrama based on the short story of the same name by Mikhail Zoshchenko, written in 1923. The film was included in the first issue of...

Love and drama in Abkhazia coal mines.

A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.

The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in...

Based on the novel of the same name by Konstantin Fedin. 1910. A small town in the Volga region. Kirill Izvekov, a student of a technical school, is...

Ukrainian Soviet film about the fate of a young Ukrainian peasant who became a participant in the revolutionary struggle.

A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker...

Soviet film based on Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel of his prison experiences in Tsarist days.

The film takes place somewhere abroad. One of the characters in the film, novice Morne, rescues a fisherman girl, Armela, who loses her mind from...

The story of a British POW who converts to communism.