Pyotr Chardynin Movies

Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Appreciative of her sensitive, artistic nature, and of...

A tragic story of a ballerina.

Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Goncharov. Raisky falls in love with his second cousin Vera, but she coldly rejects his advances. He soon...

A man rents out his uncle's room to all kinds of people.

Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.

Short film based on a poem by Julius Slovacki.

A female doctor is so busy with her work that she has too little time for her fiancé. He falls in love with a waitress and the two have a...

Lusha is suffering from her drunken husband. One day her father-in-law rapes her. Of course, she doesn’t dare admit it to her husband. So,...

This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of Russian cinema.

Based on the 1865 play of the same name by Alexander Ostrovsky.

A detachment of Red Army soldiers gives shelter to a woman with a newborn. After the child is revealed to be a doll, the woman gets shot.

The Kreutzer Sonata is a 1911 Russian silent film directed by Pyotr Chardynin. The film is considered lost.

Two peasants in feudal Russia wish to marry but tragedy strikes. A grim if familiar depiction of the precarious condition of the rural life.