Nikolai Cherkasov Movies

  • 1943
    Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

    Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

    Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

    6.81943HD

    The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and...

    Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
  • 1944
    Ivan the Terrible, Part I

    Ivan the Terrible, Part I

    Ivan the Terrible, Part I

    7.31944HD

    Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian...

    Ivan the Terrible, Part I
  • 1958
    Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

    Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

    Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

    7.31958HD

    This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the...

    Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
  • 1957
    Don Quixote

    Don Quixote

    Don Quixote

    6.51957HD

    Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his...

    Don Quixote
  • 1938
    Alexander Nevsky

    Alexander Nevsky

    Alexander Nevsky

    7.0561938HD

    When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take...

    Alexander Nevsky
  • 1949
    The Battle of Stalingrad

    The Battle of Stalingrad

    The Battle of Stalingrad

    3.41949HD

    A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.

    The Battle of Stalingrad
  • 1937
    Peter the First, Part I

    Peter the First, Part I

    Peter the First, Part I

    4.71937HD

    This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs....

    Peter the First, Part I
  • 1953
    Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov

    61953HD

    Biographical film about the composer Rimskiy-Korsakov. Belongs to the gallery of costume historical and biographical films of the postwar cinema of...

    Rimsky-Korsakov
  • 1949
    Academician Ivan Pavlov

    Academician Ivan Pavlov

    Academician Ivan Pavlov

    01949HD

    Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov’s ...

    Academician Ivan Pavlov
  • 1936
    Capt. Grant's Family

    Capt. Grant's Family

    Capt. Grant's Family

    6.21936HD

    The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures...

    Capt. Grant's Family
  • 1947
    New Home

    New Home

    New Home

    101947HD

    New Home
  • 1937
    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    5.61937HD

    An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" with drastic changes to the plot. A group of English rebels searches for pirate's...

    Treasure Island
  • 1942
    Defense of Tsaritsyn

    Defense of Tsaritsyn

    Defense of Tsaritsyn

    2.81942HD

    Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red...

    Defense of Tsaritsyn
  • 1938
    Peter the First, Part II

    Peter the First, Part II

    Peter the First, Part II

    3.91938HD

    Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him.

    Peter the First, Part II
  • 1947
    Pirogov

    Pirogov

    Pirogov

    6.81947HD

    A biopic based on the life of Russian scientist and doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881), famous for being the founder of field surgery.

    Pirogov
  • 1935
    Happiness

    Happiness

    Happiness

    5.71935HD

    A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things)...

    Happiness
  • 1937
    Baltic Deputy

    Baltic Deputy

    Baltic Deputy

    4.21937HD

    A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his...

    Baltic Deputy
  • 1946
    In the Name of Life

    In the Name of Life

    In the Name of Life

    61946HD

    Three friends, three young surgeons, returning from war, begin working on a complex medical problem. Their hard work does not yield the desired...

    In the Name of Life
  • 1937
    For the Soviet Motherland

    For the Soviet Motherland

    For the Soviet Motherland

    51937HD

    The film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into Karelia, killed Soviet activists, burned houses ... In...

    For the Soviet Motherland
  • 1936
    The Girlfriends

    The Girlfriends

    The Girlfriends

    6.51936HD

    Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war...

    The Girlfriends