Lidiya Tridenskaya

Such Is Life

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

Chrysanthemums

A tragic story of a ballerina.

Courtesan and Fisherman

The movie didn't survive.

The Fastidious Bride

About a young pretty bride, who cannot choose between all the grooms that circles around her...

Burnt Wings

Lost movie.

Love of a State Councillor

Silent film from 1915 which draws on the story of Carmen

Dornenweg einer Fürstin

A young engineer falls in love with the Russian countess Tatiana. Their relationship describes the turbulent times of Russia, when it entered the war and later the Revolution. In addition, the monk Rasputin has an important place in the story.

The Nurse

The Intimidated Bourgeois

A satire on the ways of the aristocracy. After the revolution, the bourgeois Nedopluev loses his appetite and sleep. Neither medicine nor the regimens prescribed by the doctor help him. He is drafted to the labor front. Donning on a robe over a house robe, he goes to work. Together with other bourgeois, he has to haul manure and load stones. The next time, Nedoplyuev puts on a workman’s overalls. Very soon he is cured of his ailment, becomes healthy and energetic, eats enough for three and smokes only makhorka. Seeing that his wife has lost her appetite, Nedoplyuev makes her chop wood. The film ends with the slogan: "The ills of the bourgeoisie will vanish with Soviet medicine". An incomplete version of the film is housed in the Russian State Film Archive.

In The Whirlpool Of Moscow

Biography of a village boy who got into the city. Having settled down as a sex worker in a tavern, the hero falls in love with a dressmaker - and leaves her as soon as she becomes a mother. Then he meets with the owner of the tavern, robs her and after a series of revels goes to prison. Meanwhile, a woman abandoned by him decides to commit suicide. She is saved from death by a switchman, who soon marries her. Here, after a few years, the hero who returned from hard labor ends up and, for the sake of the happiness of his own daughter, decides to leave the owners of this quiet monastery alone.

Her Heroic Feat

Uncle's Apartment

A man rents out his uncle's room to all kinds of people.

Daughters of Eve

An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.

The Night Before Christmas

It is Christmas Eve, and the town witches’ son, a blacksmith, seeks an honest marriage to his love who wishes for a pair of shoes fit for the Tsarina. A mischievous devil is trapped into providing service to the smith.

Hammered Head

Cinema in Russia

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.

Leon Drey

A Jewish parvenu climbs the social ladder by seducing wealthy women.

The Peasants' Lot

Two peasants in feudal Russia wish to marry but tragedy strikes. A grim if familiar depiction of the precarious condition of the rural life.

The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights

Child of the Big City

Seamstress Mary dreams of a better life outside a sweatshop. Her dreams come true when she draws the attention of the bourgeois Victor. She soon tires of him, and thanks to her, his money is almost gone. When he suggests settling down outside the big city, where his money could be enough for a modest living, she leaves him and picks up a new lover. A year later, he is living in a shabby, cold hovel, still pining away for her.

Behind The Doors Of The Salon

One Hundred Thousand

Accession of the Romanov Dynasty

A significant part of the 1912 production "A Life for the Tsar" was used in this film.