Dmitri Shostakovich Movies

A young teacher is sent to a remote province, separating her from her lover, and sets about the difficult task of building a school there.

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

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...

A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

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...

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

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 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 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A...

A piano duel between composers, masters and students in a musical performance that, through the active participation of the audience called upon to...

Norwegian conductor Tabita Berglund leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Archora, Wagner's Prelude to Tristan and...

A young officer organizes a dance group in the blockaded Leningrad in 1942.

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

Pyotr, backward lad from poor village, comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory,...

On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature reserve. Things are complicated by the fact that the...

A Soviet documentary chronicling the final assault on Nazi Germany’s capital. More than forty frontline cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and...

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

The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of...

Information about the upcoming coup d'etat falls into the hands of a TV reporter. At his own risk, he begins an investigation...