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Соль (1925)
Character: Kolokolkin
A detachment of Red Army soldiers gives shelter to a woman with a newborn. After the child is revealed to be a doll, the woman gets shot.
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Бухта смерти (1926)
Character: Masloboev, the spy
A machinist on a Navy ship has two sons, both bolcheviks. When the revolution comes the Tsarist police captures the machinist to put pressure on his sons.
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Предатель (1926)
Character: Captain
An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolchevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution. Partially lost.
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Петербургская ночь (1934)
Character: His Excellency
A loose Communist adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel. The serf Egor Efimov, a talented violinist, dreams of true art. Released by his landlord, he goes to the capital. But cold, bureaucratic St. Petersburg quickly destroys his illusions.
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Каштанка (1926)
Character: Gvozd, vagabond
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.
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Две матери (1931)
Character: Father
The tragic story of a young woman named Yulia, who fell in love with a married man and lost her only child.
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Государственный чиновник (1931)
Character: N/A
A humble and honest cashier is robbed while carrying a large sum of money and the bag ends up in the basement of a building. When he later discovers that the robber has not taken it with him, he decides to keep the money making everyone believe that the thief has the bag.
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Макдональд (1925)
Character: Lloyd George
A political satire on one of the enemies of the Soviet regime, the leader of the English Labour Party, James Ramsay Macdonald. The plot unfolds at a fast pace, using grotesque satirical techniques to prove that the royal power in England is a fiction.
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Аня (1927)
Character: Parmen Ivanovich
Partially lost adventure film for children based on popular short stories by Sergey Grigoryev.
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Тихий Дон (1931)
Character: Gendarm
The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War.
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Леон Кутюрье (1927)
Character: Counterintelligence director
Adaptation of book by Boris Lavrenyov about the work of the underground fighters in a Ukrainian town occupied by the White army in 1919. Lost.
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Томми (1931)
Character: Colonel (uncredited)
The story of a British POW who converts to communism.
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Третья Мещанская (1927)
Character: Street sweeper
Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.
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Привидение, которое не возвращается (1930)
Character: Senior warden
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. This existential drama disguised as a saga about the proletarian struggle presents a lonely and insecure individual who is challenged to act more heroically than he is prepared to, but who constantly questions his confidence and loyalties.
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Последний аттракцион (1929)
Character: Vanichka
A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The kommissar hides among the artists.
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