Vladimir Gardin Movies

  • 1924
    Lord of the Black Rocks

    Lord of the Black Rocks

    Lord of the Black Rocks

    01924HD

    The film takes place somewhere abroad. One of the characters in the film, novice Morne, rescues a fisherman girl, Armela, who loses her mind from...

    Lord of the Black Rocks
  • 1941
    Defeat of Yudenich

    Defeat of Yudenich

    Defeat of Yudenich

    6.51941HD

    About the struggle of the red Army and the revolutionary workers of Petrograd against the white guards in 1919....

    Defeat of Yudenich
  • 1934
    Song of Happiness

    Song of Happiness

    Song of Happiness

    71934HD

    A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is...

    Song of Happiness
  • 1924
    Ostap Bandura

    Ostap Bandura

    Ostap Bandura

    91924HD

    Ukrainian Soviet film about the fate of a young Ukrainian peasant who became a participant in the revolutionary struggle.

    Ostap Bandura
  • 1927
    The Poet and the Tsar

    The Poet and the Tsar

    The Poet and the Tsar

    6.41927HD

    Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès,...

    The Poet and the Tsar
  • 1926
    The Career of Spirka Shpandyr

    The Career of Spirka Shpandyr

    The Career of Spirka Shpandyr

    5.51926HD

    Spirka Spandyr, a petty crook and swindler, escapes from the Soviet Union after serving his sentence and soon becomes the pride of the White...

    The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
  • 1932
    Glory of World

    Glory of World

    Glory of World

    01932HD

    About how the antifascists of a Western European country in the 1930s disrupted the loading of weapons intended for the war with the Soviet Union....

    Glory of World
  • 1946
    Naval Battalion

    Naval Battalion

    Naval Battalion

    81946HD

    Soviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.

    Naval Battalion
  • 1939
    Man in a Shell

    Man in a Shell

    Man in a Shell

    4.31939HD

    The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a...

    Man in a Shell
  • 1925
    The Bear's Wedding

    The Bear's Wedding

    The Bear's Wedding

    5.41925HD

    Konstantin Eggert both directed and starred as Count Shemet, cursed by his insane mother’s traumatic experience with a bear to have seizures...

    The Bear's Wedding
  • 1924
    The Landowner

    The Landowner

    The Landowner

    01924HD

    Mid-19th century. An elderly landowner, bored with life, organizes balls, hunts, fistfights, and banquets. Among other things, he offers his serfs...

    The Landowner
  • 1932
    Counterplan

    Counterplan

    Counterplan

    51932HD

    The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by...

    Counterplan
  • 1929
    Song of Spring

    Song of Spring

    Song of Spring

    01929HD

    Based on the novel by Yakub Kolas "In the Vastness of Life". The film is considered lost.

    Song of Spring
  • 1917
    To the People's Power

    To the People's Power

    To the People's Power

    01917HD

    A worker and union leader is falsely accused of theft, by a boss who is lusting after his fiancée

    To the People's Power
  • 1923
    A Spectre Haunts Europe

    A Spectre Haunts Europe

    A Spectre Haunts Europe

    7.31923HD

    Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets...

    A Spectre Haunts Europe
  • 1933
    Анненковщина

    Анненковщина

    Анненковщина

    01933HD

    Mostly lost (only 2 minutes recovered).

    Анненковщина
  • 1919
    Smelchak

    Smelchak

    Smelchak

    81919HD

    Propaganda film directed by Mikhail Narokov and Nikandr Turkin. Partially lost.

    Smelchak
  • 1921
    Sickle and Hammer

    Sickle and Hammer

    Sickle and Hammer

    01921HD

    A down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero. Partially lost.

    Sickle and Hammer
  • 1947
    Russian Ballerina

    Russian Ballerina

    Russian Ballerina

    71947HD

    A graduate of a choreographic school is looking for a new style for her part in the ballet "Sleeping Beauty". Alexei, a conservatory student, falls...

    Russian Ballerina
  • 1913
    The Keys to Happiness

    The Keys to Happiness

    The Keys to Happiness

    01913HD

    Directed by Vladimir Gardin and Yakov Protazanov, this two-part epic was the most expensive Russian film at the time and smashed box office records....

    The Keys to Happiness