Vera Baranovskaya

The End of St. Petersburg

Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.

Such Is Life

A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.

Potholes

Lost movie.

Valse éternelle

Die Siebzehnjährigen

A teenager finds his father is interested in the same girl he is.

A Proletarian's Way

Martha, a peasant woman expecting a child, experiences the fears typical of a woman in her condition. Encouraged by a neighbor, she decides to venture out into the world and join the working class fighting for a better future.

Mother

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

Flight Into Darkness

During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel), an aviator friend.

The Merry Monarch

Good King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year, but one protests when he spends her day searching for young Princess Aline who has eloped with Giglio, a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom. Giglio comes from a modern and different world and this gives Queen for a Day some ideas about how to make her title a lasting one.

The Night at the Hotel

In a palace on the Côte d'Azur, a whole fauna evolves: a colonel who cheats on his wife, the colonel's daughter who flirts with Fred, Fred's friend, Emmanuel, who is in love with Marion, and Marion who kills himself. believing that Emmanuel does not forgive him for having, out of idleness, yielded to Fred one day.

At the End of the World

Tonka of the Gallows

Melodramatic story of an innocent country girl (Ita Rina) who struggles to make a living in the city as a prostitute. As she provides last service to a murderer sentenced to death (Josef Rovenský), society condemns her and leads her to despair. This groundbreaking film directed by Karel Anton was made in 1930 as the first Czech feature movie with post-synchronised soundtrack, recorded in France. International star cast, sensitive adaptation of Egon Erwin Kisch’s short story and innovative combination of silent and sound film features make this movie an artwork of European significance.

Thief