Russian Movies
Russian and Soviet cinema rewrote the language of the screen. In the 1920s directors like Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov invented montage as a weapon of thought, made of clashes between images, rhythm and collective gaze, and they influenced all the cinema that came after.
Here you will find a selection of Russian movies to stream: from the revolutionary montage of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov to science fiction and the bold voices of recent decades. There are revolution and propaganda, reportage and utopia, history and experimentation, all filtered through a gaze that wanted to change the world and the way of seeing it.
It is a cinema to know in order to understand how modern cinema was born: radical, formal, passionate. A selection for those who want to go back to the origins of film language.
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MovieGlumov's Diary
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Short film, comedy, by Sergei Eisenstein, 1923, Soviet Union.
The film consists of 3 parts. The opening scene begins with a shot of Eisenstein taking off his cap and bowing in front of the poster revealing the stage play, followed by a shot of Grigori Aleksandrov as Glumov, in front of the same p... -
MovieMan with a Movie Camera
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Documentary, by Dziga Vertov, Russia, 1929.
After a few years spent making propaganda documentaries, Dziga Vertov realizes his masterpiece, inspired by the theories on reality cinema and Kinoglaz. An experimental visual symphony with futurist roots. An ordinary day of a cinematographer wandering ... -
MovieBattleship Potemkin
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Drama, war, by Sergej Eisenstein, Russia, 1925.
The revolt of the sailors of the battleship Potemkin and the citizens of Odessa against the ruthless police of the tsar, who reacts with reprisals and carries out a massacre. Sergej Eisenstein makes a film commissioned by Goskino, the office for cin... -
MovieThree Songs about Lenin
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Documentary, by Dziga Vertov, Russia, 1934.
The most famous film while the director Dziga Vertov was alive, a great success of socialist documentary cinema. An experimental documentary celebrating Lenin with the use of sound and folk songs. The liberation of Muslim women in Uzbekistan, footage of... -
MovieAelita
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Science fiction, by Yakov Protazanov, Soviet Union, 1924.
The film follows the story of Los, an engineer who dreams of traveling through space. One day, during an experiment, he receives a transmission from Mars, which seems to come from Queen Aelita. Los builds a spaceship and departs for Mars, ...