Dmitri Shostakovich Movies

Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far Eastern...

Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.

During the brutal siege of Leningrad in the Second World War, musicians are able to stage a public performance of the Seventh Symphony by Dmitry...

Leningrad State Drama Theater television staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight, The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri

A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Colombia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an...

A mostly lost Soviet Union stop-motion version of this classic fairytale. The only surviving scene is called "Market".

A biopic, looking at one of the major leaders of the assassination of Czar Alexander II.

Shostakovich’s satirical opera adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Eduard Akimov leads the cast as Kovalyov, the...

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

A staged concert featuring the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, with Roberto Prosseda at the piano. Seven male performers share a space and a moment in...

Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century...

The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov.

Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history.

About the forestry scientist Ivan Vikhrov, who devoted his life to the forest and the fight against the fact that “forestry is turning into...

Soviet and American soldiers are meeting on the shores of the Elbe river in Germany in 1945.

Follows the builders of the first five-year plan. The hero of the film is the director of construction of the tractor plant Grigory Guy, a man of...

A young burglar gets more that he bargained for when a robs a house...

The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by...

In the 1950s, a communist country. The film follows a retired detective who investigates two enigmatic murders. Both murders are connected to a...