A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...
1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...
On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport wit...
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian ...
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life t...
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient f...
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, ...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent n...
“Nobody Leaves Alive” by André Ristum is shot in beautiful but also distancing black and white. Look...
June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
Fresh out of a psychiatric hospital, Pia moves back in with her parents to get her life together. To...
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overt...