Lev Nikulin

A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia.

1935. A plan is hatched at a railway depot to sabotage a record-breaking high-speed run that a young locomotive engineer, Mitya Orlov, has volunteered to undertake. The saboteurs attempt to cause a catastrophe by directing the trains of Mitya and his father, Vasily Orlov, toward each other on a collision course.

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.

An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolshevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution.

Biographical documentary about Maxim Gorky.