Pyotr Leontyev

Gang of Batka Knysh

Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang of Batka Knysh to provoke the White Russians before the final blow.

Stepan Razin

Don Cossack Stepan Razin vowed to take revenge on the boyars for his tortured friends. Having led the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of an entire army. Humiliated and insulted people flock to him from all over the Russian land.

Married by Satan

A fortune teller helps a woman gain the affections her beloved, with deathly consequences.

Brigade Commander Ivanov

Story of combrig Ivanov who wished to marry a prayers' daughter.

We Are Not to be Blamed for Their Blood

A Jewish family grapples with issues of identity as local prejudice turns to violence. Adaptation of Yevgeny Chirikov's 1904 play The Jews.

Black Crows

Marionettes

Fearing the Soviet Union, rich businessmen who want more influence in Europe decide to give the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle drunkard.