Mikhail Yanshin Movies

Soviet propaganda film in two episodes about Stalin's strong and cruel suppression of the 1919 anti-communist uprising in St. Petersburg, Russia....

A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the...

An overview of the 75-year history of the Moscow Art Theatre containing unique historical footage, including rare excerpts from various stage...

Based on the fairy tale by L. Ashkenazi about little mischief makers who caught a moon in a pond and hid it in a cave.

Soviet animation film based on the Russian folk tale " Daughter and stepmother".

A boy is by an accident a member of a crew that is going to travel to the moon.

A Soviet agent tries to win over a band of gypsies to a happy life on a farm co-op.

College assessor Miguev, returning home, finds a foundling at the porch. Having mistaken him for his son from the former maid Agnia, the frightened...

A boy goes through time, helped by a wise clock, and learns to appreciate human ingenuity.

This remarkable film is based on P. Bazhov’s fairy tale “The Malachite Box”. Little Danila was the most inquisitive apprentice of...

Tired of boring life frog decides to travel by hitchhiking.

Maximov and his wife Larisa Levkoyeva going to vacation, but in last minutes Levkoyeva were called back to theater. And Maximov goes all alone to the...

According to the eponymous vaudeville by A.P. Chekhov. Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their...

The tale follows the romance between a china shepherdess and a china chimney sweep who are threatened by a carved mahogany satyr who wants the...