Lidiya Tridenskaya Movies

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of...

A tragic story of a ballerina.

An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.

Based on Gogol's story. It is Christmas Eve, and the town witches’ son, a blacksmith, seeks an honest marriage to his love who wishes for a...

A Jewish parvenu climbs the social ladder by seducing wealthy women.

Seamstress Mary dreams of a better life outside a sweatshop. Her dreams come true when she draws the attention of the bourgeois Victor. She soon...

A man rents out his uncle's room to all kinds of people.

Two peasants in feudal Russia wish to marry but tragedy strikes. A grim if familiar depiction of the precarious condition of the rural life.

A significant part of the 1912 production "A Life for the Tsar" was used in this film.

A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.

A dramatization of a wedding in 16th-century Russia, between members of two prominent boyar families (based on paintings by Konstantin Makovskii):...

Silent film from 1915 which draws on the story of Carmen

Biography of a village boy who got into the city. Having settled down as a sex worker in a tavern, the hero falls in love with a dressmaker - and...