Sergei Gerasimov Movies

A young teacher comes to work in his native village, plans to build a new school. The arrival of the teacher causes confusion in the soul of the...

Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...

A semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov. Includes newsreels from the 1930s, footage from films...

Taken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov's Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another...

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.

In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon during the Nazi occupation of Russia. The teens manage to...

The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides...

Lenochka dreams about cowboys and indians while her brother plays tricks on her while she sleeps. The story of a little schoolgirl who was always...

A film about young architects who are building a new city in Siberia (Norilsk), their anxieties, concerns, and victories. Story of subtle psychology...

The film is a reflection on the responsibility of man to other people, native nature and the world around us, the problem of preserving Lake Baikal,...

March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze...

Short propaganda film released to raise army morale during first months of war. Civil War hero and Red Army commander Vasily Chapayev (killed in 1919...

On the development of virgin lands.

The New China (Russian: Освобождённый...

About the creative path and pedagogical activity of the Soviet film director and actor S.A. Gerasimov.

Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein,...