Preface to the catalogue

36 TSVETOCHNITSA (FLOWER GIRL)

1924, 18 min., b/w

Educational-training film

Written and directed by: Pyotr Malakhov, camera: Viktor Vishnevsky

Cast: P. Shidlovsky, O. Glukhova, Vladimir Yerofeyev, Anatoly Vladimirov

Educational-training work.

37 CHAI (TEA)

1924, 7 min., b/w

Satire

Written and directed by: Vyacheslav Viskovsky, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky

Cast: Nikolai Shmidthof, Maria Dobrova, Yekaterina Podolskaya, Friedrich Ermler

Film mocks the everyday life of “nepmans” (nouveau riches of the 20es).

38 AERO EN TE – PYATDESYAT CHETYRE (AERO NT — 54)

1925, 61 min., b/w

Adventure

Director: Nikolai Petrov, screenplay: N. Surovtsev, camera: Albert Kyun, production designer: Alexei Utkin

Cast: Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya, Vladimir Voronov, Alexander Orlov

The film tells about creation of the first Soviet aviation engine.

39 V TYLU U BYELYKH (AT THE WHITE ARMY’S REAR)

1925, 80 min., b/w

Adventure

Director: Boris Chaikovsky, Olga Rakhmanova, screenplay: Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, Grigory Giber, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney

Cast: Nikolai Kutuzov, M. Brusak, Sergei Minin, N. Savskaya, Ivan Khudoleyev, Olga Rakhmanova

The film tells about the struggle of bolsheviks against White Army troops in one of towns on the Black Sea coast in the days of the Civil War.

40 VZDUVAITE GORNY (ADD HEAT TO FURNACES)

1925, 61 min., b/w

Adventure

Director: Vladimir Kasyanov, screenplay: Sergei Garin, camera: Alexander Ryllo, Alexander Sigayev, production designer: A. Goncharsky

Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Pyotr Kuznetsov, Natalya Razumova, Sergei Troitsky

The film tells about the struggle of Leningrad Baltiysky Factory workers with saboteurs.

41 DAYOSH RADIO! (LET THERE BE RADIO!)

1925, 21 min., b/w

Propaganda film

Written and directed by: S. Grunberg, Sergei Yutkevich, camera: Albert Kyun, production designer: Sergei Yutkevich

Cast: Boris Poslavsky, Pyotr Repnin

Eccentric comedy popularizing radio.

42 DEVYATOYE YANVARYA (THE NINTH OF JANUARY)

1925, 98 min., b/w

Historical-Revolutionary

Director: Vyacheslav Viskovsky, screenplay: Pavel Shchegolev, camera: Andrei Moskvin. A. Dalmatov, production designer: Alexei Utkin

Cast: Yevgeny Boronikhin, Alexei Bogdanovsky, Nikolay Simonov, V. Borozdin, A. Yevdakov, Tamara Glebova

The film tells about development of revolutionary tendencies among Russian workers at the beginning of the century, which resulted in the strikes at Obukhovsky and Putilovsky Works in St. Petersburg and the march of workers to the tsar’s palace and shooting down of peaceful demonstration by troops on January 9, 1905.

43 MINARET SMERTI (MINARET OF DEATH)

1925, 61 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Vyacheslav Viskovsky, screenplay: Alexander Balagin, Vyachslav Viskovsky, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, Svyatoslav Belayev, production designer: Alexei Utkin

Cast: N. Vendelin, V. Baranova, Oleg Frelikh, N. Dzhalilov, Olga Spirova, Iona Talanov

Loosely based on 16th century Bukhara legend. Dzhemal, daughter of the khan of Khiva, is going from Bukhara to her native Khiva. The caravan is attacked by bandits. The leader of the gang is enchanted by the beauty of Dzhemal, but the prisoner rejects love of the robber.

Soon Dzhemal and her foster sister manage to escape. Wandering in scorching desert girls meet Djigit (skillful horseman) Sadyk.

44 MISHKA ZVONOV (MISHKA ZVONOV)

1925, 54 min., b/w

Adventure

Director: Pyotr Malakhov, screenplay: Sergei Lebedev, Svyatoslav Belyaev, camera: Albert Kyun, production designer: Pavel Mikhelson

Cast: Shura Konstantinov, V.Voyeikov, Elena Tumanskaya, Sergei Glagolin

The film is centered around the adventures of a homeless peasant boy who came to Leningrad.

45 MISHKI PROTIV YUDENICHA (MISHKI AGAINST YUDENICH)

1925, 25 min., b/w

Comedy

Directors: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, screenplay: Irina Kunina, Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney

Cast: Shura Zavyalov, Polina Pona, Sergei Gerasimov, Andrei Kostrichkin, Yevgeny Kumeiko, Yanina Zheimo

Made in the genre of eccentric comedy the film tells about amazing adventures of the newspaper boy Mishka who found himself in the headquarters of General Yudenich.

46 NA VERNOM SLEDU (ON THE RIGHT TRACK)

1925, 61 min., b/w

Propaganda film

Director: Alexei Dmitriyev, screenplay: Mikhail Boitler, camera: Grigory Giber

Cast: Pyotr Repnin, Boris Barnet, K. Koreneva, Lev Sverdlin

The film tells about help provided by the city Young Communist Leaguers to young villagers in their struggle against kulaks (peasant proprietors).

47 NA ZHIZN I NA SMERT (FOR LIFE AND FOR DEATH)

1925, 90 min., b/w

Drama

Written and directed by: Boris Chaikovsky, Pavel Petrov-Bytov, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, production designers: I. Brif, Alexei Utkin

Cast: Eduard Ioganson, Yevgeny Boronikhin, Yelena Chaika, Iona Talanov

An old worker recollects how he embarked on the path of the revolutionary activities.

48 NAVODNENIYE (THE FLOOD)

1925, 8 min., b/w

Comedy

Written and directed by: Boris Svetlov, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Pavel Betaki

Cast: Ya. Auer, Vera Streshneva, Alexandra Chizhevskaya

Witty comedy advertising “Neva” — a new brand of cigarettes produced by Lentabaktrest

49 NAPOLEON-GAZ (NAPOLEON-GAS)

1925, 93, b/w

Propaganda film

Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Svyatoslav Belyaev, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney

Cast: Yevgeny Boronikhin, Iona Talanov, Olga Spirova, Yelena Chaika

The film tells about readiness of Soviet people to repel the enemy’s aggression.

50 NEMIYE SVIDETELI (SILENT WITNESSES).

1925, 32 min., b/w

Educational film

Director: Vitaly Dobrovolsky-Fedorovich, screenplay: V. Sanchov, Vitaly Dobrovolsky-Fedorovich, camera: Grigory Giber

Cast: M. Kotelnikov, P. Meshcherin, M. Wolf

The film tells about the activities of criminal investigation department, about its laboratories and the latest achievements of science which help detectives to find criminals. The story is based on the investigation of a murder case.

51 PALACHI (EXECUTIONERS)

1925, 90 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Alexander Panteleyev, screenplay: Mikhail Rakitin, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky, Albert Kyun, production designers: Alexei Utkin, Vladimir Yegorov, I. Brif

Cast: Pyotr Kuznetsov, Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, Sergei Shishko, Yevgeny Studentsov

Heroism and staunchness of revolutionary fighters contrasts with immoral nature of a

degenerating noble family.

52 PETUKHI (ROOSTERS)

1925, 39 min., b/w

Comedy

Director: Pyotr Malakhov, screenplay: Vadim Yunakovsky, camera: Sergei Lebedev, Albert Kyun, production designer: Pavel Mikhelson

Cast: V. Vadimov, Iona Talanov, Shura Konstantinov, Maria Bernatskaya

The first years of the NEP (New Economic Policy). Peasants got sick and tired of endless quarrels between village priest Agafangel and deacon Gormoniy. The peasants decided to move both clergymen out of the village.

53 PUTESHESTVIYE TRUDOVYKH KOPEYEK (TRIP OF HARD-EARNED MONEY)

1925, 59 min., b/w

Propaganda film

Director: Boris Svetlov, screenplay: B. Ivanov, M. Gagarsky, Vladimir Yakovlev, camera: Alexander Ryllo, Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky

The film is made as a visual aid to popularize the purpose of the common labor tax collected from Soviet peasants in the 20es.

54 RADIODETEKTIV (RADIO-DETECTIVE)

1925, 22 min., b/w

Propaganda film

Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Viktor Glass, production designer: Nikolai Akimov

Cast: A. Matov, Roman Rubinstein

The film popularizing radio is centered around adventures of the “nepman” (nouveau rich of the 20es) evading from paying taxes and caught with the help of radio.

55 RASSEYANNIY KOMMIVOYAZHER (ABSENT-MINDED SALESMAN)

1925, 10 min., b/w

Comedy

Director: Boris Svetlov, screenplay: Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: A. Goncharsky

Cast: Nikolai Petrov, Irina Kunina, A. Nilin

The film advertises products of Lentabaktrest.

56 SON STOROZHA (WATCHMAN’S DREAM)

1925, 7 min., b/w

Comedy

Written and directed by: Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky

Film made as advertisement of Lentabaktrest.

57 SORVALOS (FAILURE)

1925, b/w

Written and directed by: Boris Svetlov, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: A. Goncharsky

58 STEPAN KHALTURIN (STEPAN KHALTURIN)

1925, 70 min., b/w

Historical-Revolutionary

Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Pavel Shchegolev, camera: Ivan Frolov, Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, production designers: Alexei Utkin, Vladimir Yegorov

Cast: Alexender Morozov, A. Raupenas, Nikolai Shmidthof, Vera Kuindzhi, Yevgeny Boronikhin, Konstantin Khokhlov, Kondrat Yakovlev, Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Yakov Malyutin, Sergei Shishko, Gennady Michurin

The story is based on the biography of carpenter Stepan Khalturin, one of the leaders of the “Northern Union of Russian Workers”, who prepared assassination of the tsar.

59 TYAZHELIYE GODY (HARD YEARS)

1925, 81 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Aleksander Razumny, screenplay: Alexander Rasumny, P. Misheyev, camera: Alexander Razumny, production designer: Alexander Razumny

Cast: Fyodor Bogdanov, O. Lebedeva, Ye. Zhbankov, Vera Vladimirova, Mark Dobrynin, Anatoly Nelidov, Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Ivan Lersky

Moral staunchness of a revolutionary worker is contrasted with immorality of his son affected by corrupting influence of petty-bourgeois surrounding.

60 CHTO, GDE ON KUPIL? (WHAT DID HE BUY AND WHERE?)

1925, b/w

Written and directed by: Nikolai Foregger, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky

61 CHUDO S SAMOGONOM (MIRACLE WITH HOME-BREW)

1925, 14 min., b/w

Adventure

Director: Vladimir Feinberg, screenplay: S. Kaluzhsky, Vldimir Feinberg, camera: Albert Kyun, production designer: I. Brif

Cast: I. Moskalev, Vera Streshneva, V. Dobuzhinsky, A. Makashev, Shura Konstantinov, Tolya Andreyev

Adventures of two young pioneers who arrived with their dog on a summer vacation at the village and unmasked village moonshiners.

62 BRATISHKA (BROTHER)

1926, 57 min., b/w

Comedy

Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney

Cast: Pyotr Sobolevsky, Yanina Zheimo, Sergei Martinson, Sergei Gerasimov

The film tells about a driver who worked for a trust and renovated an old automobile.

63 VOLZHSKIYE BUNTARI (VOLGA REBELS)

1926, 78, b/w

Drama

Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, screenplay: Ioakim Maksimov-Koshkinsky, Pavel Petrov-Bytov, camera: Sergei Lebedev, production designer: I. Brif

Cast: S. Galich, Pyotr Kirillov, Maria Dobrova, Iona Talanov, Shura Zavyalov

The film tells about the struggle of Chuvash people for their rights int the beginning of the century.

64 VOR, NO NE BAGDADSKY (THE THIEF, BUT NOT FROM BAGDAD)

1926, 9 min., b/w

Comedy

Director: Vladimir Feinberg, screenplay: Alexander Rodchenko, camera: Alexander Ryllo, production designer: Alexander Rodchenko

Cast: S. Galich

The film advertised products of Lentabaktrest and was made as a parody on film advertising.

65 DEKABRISTY (THE DECEMBRISTS)

1926, 99 min., b/w

Historical drama

Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Pavel Shchegolev, Alexander Ivanovsky, camera: Ivan Frolov, production designer: Anatoly Arapov

Cast: Vladimir Maksimov, Yevgeny Boronikhin, Boris Tamarin, Gennady Michurin, Sergei Shishko, Nikolai Lebedev, Varvara Annenkova

Love story of Annenkov, a participant of 1825 revolt of nobility, and Paulina Goeble.

66 DETI BURI (CHILDREN OF THUNDERSTORM)

1926, 72 min., b/w

Adventure

Director: Friedrich Ermler, Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Nikolai Molodtsov, V. Mankovsky, Vladimir Yakovlev, camera: Naum Aptekman, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney

Cast: Sergei Glagolin, Maria Taut-Korso, Valery Solovtsov, Yakov Gudkin, Zinovy Drapkin, Veronika Buzhinskaya

The film tells about the participation of young people in the defence of Petrograd from White Army troops commanded by General Yudenich during the Civil War.

67 KARYERA SPIRKI SHPANDYRYA (CAREER OF SPIRKA SHPANDYR)

1926, 60 min., b/w

Comedy

Director: Boris Svetlov, screenplay: G. Batargin, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: A. Goncharsky

Cast: Leonid Utesov, Nina Zheleznova, Anatoly Nelidov, Yekaterina Podolskaya, Nikolai Shmidthof

Spirka Shpandyr, a petty crook and a swindler after serving a prison term escapes from the Soviet country. Abroad the swindler immediately finds common language with the police and becomes a paid police agent. He provokes all kinds of conflicts between capitalist government officials and Soviet missions. Spirka pretends to be a priest, a worker and, finally, a baron. This is how Spirka Shpandyr, a swindler and provocateur, the pride of Russian White emigration makes his brilliant career abroad.

68 KATERINA IZMNAILOVA (CATHERINA IZMAILOVA)

1926, 86 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Cheslav Sabinsky, screenplay: Boris Leonidov, camera: Naum Aptekman, production designer: Pavel Betaki

Cast: Yelena Yegorova, Nikolai Simonov, Anatoly Nelidov, V. Nikulin, Fyodor Bogdanov, Zoya Valevskaya

Based on Nikolai Leskov’s novel “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District”.

69 KATKA – “BUMAZHNYI RANET” (KATKA – “THE PAPER RENNET”)

1926, 73 min., b/w

Drama

The film was dubbed at “Lenfilm” in 1973, b/w, 74 min. Director of dubbing: Fyodor Nikitin, sound: Grigory Elbert

Director: Eduard Ioganson, Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Mikhail Borisoglebsky, Boris Leonidov, camera: Yevgeny Mikhailov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney

Cast: Veronika Buzhinskaya, Bella Chernova, Valery Solovtsov, Yakov Gudkin, Fyodor Nikitin

Story of a young village girl who came in mid-20es to Leningrad to earn some money “to buy a cow”, found herself among criminals but managed to break with the city underworld and start a new life.

70 PESN TUNDRY (SONG OF TUNDRA)

1926, 74 min., b/w

Adventure

Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: Alexander Ryllo, production designer: Pavel Betaki

Cast: Alexander Shabelsky, Pavel Kurzner, N. Sharap, T. Ott, V. Plotnikov

The film tells about the struggle of Laplanders against tyranny of tsarist police and rapacious fir dealers. It also tells about an exiled Russian revolutionary who helped people belonging to this minor nationality.

71 POD VLASTYU ADATA (UNDER THE RULE OF ADAT)

1926, 74 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Vladimir Kasyanov, screenplay: Izmail Abai, camera: Nikolai Kozlovsky, production designer: Pavel Betaki

Cast: A. Gamkrelidze, S. Palavandishvili, B. Svani, AS. Kalantadze

The film tells about the struggle of mountain tribes of the Caucasus against tsarist troops.

72 SEVERNOYE SIYANIYE (AURORA BOREALIS)

1926, 72 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Nikolai Foregger, screenplay: Boris Chaikovsky, Grigory Gricher-Cherikover, camera: Albert Kyun, Leonid Drankov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney

Cast: Yevgeny Boronikhin, K. Zolotarev, Olga Spirova, I. Pyarn, V. Makarov

Life of political exiles and Russian gold-diggers in the north of Kamchatka peninsular in 1915 — 1922.

73 SOPERNIKI (RIVALS)

1926, 62 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Sergei Shishko, screenplay: Ivan Leonov, camera: Ivan Frolov, production designer: Boris Almendingen

Cast: Nikolai Lebedev, V. Baranova, Alexandra Chizhevskaya, Ivan Khudoleyev, Konstantin Khokhlov

Soviet worker-inventor is struggling with representatives of a foreign company for introduction of a new brake system on transport.

74 TARKO (TARKO)

1926, 67 min., b/w

Drama

Written and directed by: Vladimir Feinberg, camera: V. Vorotilov, Nikolai Kozlovsky, production designer: A. Goncharovsky

Cast: Sergei Langovoy, Ursula Krug, N. Gnedich, Fyodor Slavsky, Irina Kunina

The film tells about tough exploitation of the peoples of the North by the owners of companies.

75 TRISTA TRIDTSAT TRI NESCHASTYA (THREE HUNDRED THIRTY- THREE MISFORTUNES)

1926, 12 min., b/w

Comedy

Director: Vladimir Feinberg, screenplay: Irina Kunina, camera: Alexander Ryllo

Cast: Alexander Aleksandrov-Serzh

The film advertised products of Lentabaktrest.

76 CHYORTOVO KOLESO (DEVIL’S WHEEL)

1926, 76 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, screenplay: Adrian Piotrovsky, camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney

Cast: Pyotr Sobolevsky, Lyudmila Semyonova, Sergei Gerasimov, Emil Gal, Antonio Tserep, Sergei Martinson, Yanina Zheimo, Andrei Kostrichkin

The film tells about the life of a Red Navy man who accidentally became a member of a gang of thieves but managed to revive to honest living.

77 CHUZHIYE (ALIENS)

1926, 68 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Boris Svetlov, screenplay: Valentin Trakhtenberg, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Pavel Betaki

Cast: Leonid Utesov, Nina Zheleznova, Mikhail Rostovtsev, O. Arakcheyevskaya, D. Cherkasov, A. Ivanova

Based on Valentin Trakhtenberg’s story “Siskin”.

The court is hearing the case of a former Red Army guard who gave himself up to investigating authorities.

78 SHINEL (THE GREATCOAT)

1926, 65 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, screenplay: Adrian Piotrovsky, camera: Andrei Moskvin, Yevgeny Mikhailov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney

Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, A. Yeremeyeva, Sergei Gerasimov, Alexei Kapler, Yanina Zheimo, Emil Gal

Loosely based on Nikolai Gogol’s short stories “The Greatcoat” and “Nevsky Prospekt”.

79 VINTIK-SHPINTIK (LITTLE SCREW)

1927, 12 min., b/w

Cartoon

The film was dudbbed in Germany in 1931 (music: E. Meisel)

Director: Vladislav Tvardovsky, screenplay: Nikolai Agnivtsev, camera: Yevgeny Bogorov, cartoons: V. Kuklin, S. Zhukov, Igor Sorokhtin, Alexander Presnyakov

Dynamo, fly-wheel and gears consider themselves to “heroes” of the production process. Quiet and modest Little Screw also participates in the “big work” but no one takes him seriously. Offended, he leaves the plant. Only then everybody realizes the importance of a screw for the operation of the plant. Little Screw accepts apologies and returns to the plant.