Grigori Aleksandrov Movies

  • 1925
    Battleship Potemkin

    Battleship Potemkin

    Battleship Potemkin

    7.61925HD

    In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin revolt against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's...

    Battleship Potemkin
  • 1925
    Strike

    Strike

    Strike

    7.41925HD

    Just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, factory workers strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a...

    Strike
  • 1936
    Circus

    Circus

    Circus

    6.31936HD

    An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the...

    Circus
  • 1928
    October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

    October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

    October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

    6.91928HD

    As the Russian monarchy crumbles, conflicts at Petrograd intensify, with Soviet hero V.I. Lenin leading the rebellion that overthrows the tsar's...

    October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
  • 1934
    Jolly Fellows

    Jolly Fellows

    Jolly Fellows

    6.41934HD

    Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin is mistaken for an international...

    Jolly Fellows
  • 1985
    Lyubov Orlova

    Lyubov Orlova

    Lyubov Orlova

    91985HD

    A documentary on the life of the famous actress, deceased wife of the director Grigoriy Aleksandrov.

    Lyubov Orlova
  • 1952
    Man of Music

    Man of Music

    Man of Music

    4.71952HD

    The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music,...

    Man of Music
  • 1979
    ¡Qué Viva México!

    ¡Qué Viva México!

    ¡Qué Viva México!

    6.7951979HD

    Having revolutionized film editing through such masterworks of montage as Potemkin and Strike, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein emigrated West in...

    ¡Qué Viva México!
  • 1943
    Seeds of Freedom

    Seeds of Freedom

    Seeds of Freedom

    3.31943HD

    Archive footage from Potemkin (1925), with English dialogue dubbed in by American actors, is combined with new footage to tie together the brave...

    Seeds of Freedom
  • 1974
    Starling and Lyre

    Starling and Lyre

    Starling and Lyre

    61974HD

    Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with...

    Starling and Lyre
  • 1930
    Misery and Fortune of Woman

    Misery and Fortune of Woman

    Misery and Fortune of Woman

    6.51930HD

    This film shows contrasting views of women with problematic pregnancies and the outcomes resulting when they seek out a back-alley abortionist, a...

    Misery and Fortune of Woman
  • 1930
    Sleeping Beauty

    Sleeping Beauty

    Sleeping Beauty

    01930HD

    Story of the conflict between old art forms such as ballet and the revolution and the need for creating new, proletarian forms of art. First feature...

    Sleeping Beauty
  • 1953
    Martyn Borulya

    Martyn Borulya

    Martyn Borulya

    01953HD

    The main film character, an ordinary peasant Martyn Borylya, decided to get a noble order. Having chosen a little and primitive aim, in the chase of...

    Martyn Borulya
  • 1945
    Days and Nights

    Days and Nights

    Days and Nights

    6.21945HD

    This literary adaptation was the first Soviet feature length dramatization, as opposed to documentary film, on the momentous Battle of Stalingrad.

    Days and Nights
  • 1933
    Thunder Over Mexico

    Thunder Over Mexico

    Thunder Over Mexico

    6.71933HD

    As was common in Diaz's Mexico, a young hacienda worker finds his betrothed imprisoned and his life threatened by his master for confronting a...

    Thunder Over Mexico
  • 1947
    Spring

    Spring

    Spring

    6.31947HD

    A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap...

    Spring
  • 1929
    The General Line

    The General Line

    The General Line

    6.41929HD

    100.000.000 peasants – illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live the old life no longer. Using ways...

    The General Line
  • 1967
    Ten Days That Shook the World

    Ten Days That Shook the World

    Ten Days That Shook the World

    6.21967HD

    An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary...

    Ten Days That Shook the World
  • 1944
    Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War

    Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War

    Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War

    4.21944HD

    Designed as a successor to "They Met In Moscow", with the same director, star and composer, "Six P. M." (1946 American release title) has two...

    Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War
  • 1967
    I Don't Want to Be Filmed

    I Don't Want to Be Filmed

    I Don't Want to Be Filmed

    41967HD

    A test film for black-and-white television, made by Mosfilm in 1967. A girl dreaming to be in movies got a call from Mosfilm, asking her to be...

    I Don't Want to Be Filmed