Esfir Shub Movies

A bold study on the dangers of prostitution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. It's sort of dramatic fiction that tells the story of Lyuba, which...

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the...

The dashing mountaineer Zaur kills a Russian "imperialist" thereby becoming an abrek, member of a roving band of outlaws.

A visual composition of the world.

A comedy starring Nina Shaternikova, The Skotinins is loosely based on the 18th century play The Minor by Denis Fonvizin. In it, the upper class is...

Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicolai II is a 1928 Soviet silent documentary film directed by Esfir Shub. The film is considered lost. Lev Tolstoy...

On the development of domestic cinema during the first two decades of Soviet rule.

A film record of the gifts and gift-givers to comrade Stalin on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1948. The majority of the action takes place in...

The Great Road (1927) is a Soviet silent documentary directed by Esfir Shub. Serving as the second part of her trilogy on Russian...

In this pioneering documentary, one of the earliest Soviet sound films, Shub shot a contemporary chronicle of the progress of establishing...

In the early years of cinema, editors were usually women. This short documentary looks at how they wielded power, and how their work was made...

A commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the October Revolution, Native Land praises the early years of the Soviet Union.

A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.

Propaganda film presenting the Soviet side of the Iran crisis of 1946 and the short-lived Azerbaijan People's Government.

A feature-length documentary based on film reports from the Spanish civil war.

А Soviet documentary film about Turkey.

The film tells about the life and work of the outstanding figure of Russian cinema Esfir Ilyinichna Shub.