Lydia Sycheva

Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.

Rukhele's parents make her marry rich Matteus, but she loves poor Shlomo. In two years Rukhele has a child but she can't forget Shlomo and so she leaves Matteus to be with her lover.

An adaptation of the fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin.

Only fragments exist of this early version of Mat [Mother] by Aleksandr Razumnyj.

The first Soviet anti-religious film.

The Kreutzer Sonata is based on a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife.