Movies: Leonid Kmit

Ilf and Petrov's only work in cinema is a comedy about the adventures of two passionate car enthusiasts during a road trip. On their way to Moscow in a car assembled from scrap materials, they meet a charlatan—a "professor" with a pretty niece. Convi...

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A bricklayer of Jewish ancestry leaves capitalist America during the Depression for the promise of Soviet Russia....

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A love story of two townspeople: a girl, who is a subway controller, and a student of an art school....

A film about the struggle of Baltic Fleet sailors for revolutionary Petrograd in the autumn of 1917. The film focuses on the fates of a sailor and a naval officer who join the ranks of those fighting for the revolution....

Friends and family are trying to bring together newlyweds who separated immediately after the wedding....

The major oil pipeline construction is going on under heavy bombings by the Nazi Air-Force. The construction workers must work under dangerous conditions around-the-clock in order to deliver oil to the Armies on the front-line. The construction manag...

A few days from the life of Soviet submariners - during a regular peaceful time......

A story of a crime which was committed and solved during one night only....

A story of two boys who obstinately, in spite of everything and everyone run to the front when the war was almost over....

A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state....

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Arriving on a resort muscovites - circus artist Gurov and professor Fedorov are forget the houses of passport. Girl-dispatch on mail, hurrying on an appointment, mixes up envelopes, that entails the row of the comic misunderstanding....

Directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov....

One day the gamekeeper Peter Dyakonov found himself in the forest near the place where a moose was killed by a high-ranking official and could not pass by, despite the strong pressure on him. After his dismissal, the hero returns to his father's hous...

Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) from poor village comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as rep...

An ordinary trip suddenly becomes dangerous for two previously conflicted drivers....

On the beginning of revolutionary activity of F. E. Dzerzhinsky....

A Russian woman tells the tragic story of her life....