Fridrikh Ermler Movies

Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of...

The film tells the story of those who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, which became a turning point in the Great Patriotic War. For...

A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...

The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before her eyes. She and the other villagers...

The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She is lonely, although she is cared for by a...

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.

“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of...

Anton Ivanovich Voronov is a highly respected professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, who places the music of Bach above everything else and regards...

In the summer of 1932, Sergei Lukonin, a young man from Saratov, leaves his hometown for the distant city of Omsk to attend tank school. His...

A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.

Komsomol girl Katya Karnakova (Veronica Buzhinskaya), a darling of the small provincial town Old Lopsha, is seriously smitten with a fellow Komsomol...

A docudrama presenting the events which explain how and why Charles Spencer Chaplin made alterations to his original ending of the famous movie...

An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg...

The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of...

A story of true love set during the WWII.

The teenager Misha Polyakov, being with his mother in a Ukrainian village on vacation with his grandmother and about to return home to Petrograd,...

Professor Lavrov, a student and follower of Michurin, is trying to refute the discoveries of the theory of heredity and is successfully working on...

A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest...