Maxim Gorky Movies

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

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.

About a little boy apprentice of an icon workshop who dreamed of becoming a circus clown.

Based on the story of the same name by Maxim Gorky.

The film takes place between two revolutions - 1905 and 1917. There is no agreement in the family of the Kolomiytsev brothers, bankrupt nobles. The...

Only fragments exist of this early version of Mat [Mother] by Aleksandr Razumnyj.

June 22, 1941. In a Ukrainian village, a mother sees off her two eldest sons as they head to the front. The front lines are drawing ever closer. Nazi...

Based on the novel "Mother" by Maxim Gorky, about the hardships of a peasant laborer.

A stop-motion animation about an author suffering writer's block. When his neighbour asks him to write a letter for her fiancé, he discovers...

Gorky's play raises themes of the Russian intelligentsia's struggles and search for the meaning of life. The characters argue a lot, quarrel, tease...

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.

Based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky.

Wassa Schelesnowa, a manipulative matriarch who will stop at nothing to keep her business afloat and her family together. Infanticide, forgery,...

A comedic parody of school themes familiar to all of us with the participation of students, teachers, great classics of native literature, penguins,...

Different stories that take place in a women's accommodation.