Aleksandr Vertinsky

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg

A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.

Bloody Dawn

1905. The peasant Marko Hrusha returns to his native village and leads a struggle against the landlords for land. He is arrested but later released. After his release, his struggle becomes even stronger...

Calm Me Down

A chronicle of the beginning of the century, images and people, are shown while Boris Grebenshchikov performs Vertinsky's romances.

The Golden Twist

Nevermore

Musical theme by Alexander Vertinsky, piano part by Maksim Kravchenko. A story inspired by the famous romance.

The End of the World

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

Push the One Who's Falling

Secrets of the Orient

A cobbler dreams that he is a prince, in this takeoff on an Arabian Nights style romance.

The Anna Cross

Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.

Conspiracy of the Doomed

In an Eastern European country, a strong political struggle breaks out over the possibility of accepting aid from the Marshall Plan or signing a cooperation treaty with the Soviet Union.