Maxim Gorky Movies

Deti solntsa is a version of Children of the Sun by Russian writer Maxim Gorky, written in early 1905 and premiered on October 25 of the same year at...

Based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky, staged by the Central Academic Theater of the Soviet Army.

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.

Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to...

A young girl lives with an elderly couple in a settlement in a distant Siberian village. They liked her. When she dies unexpectedly, they go many...

Only fragments exist of this early version of Mat [Mother] by Aleksandr Razumnyj.

My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth...

Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet...

Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in...

A comedic parody of school themes familiar to all of us with the participation of students, teachers, great classics of native literature, penguins,...

About a little boy apprentice of an icon workshop who dreamed of becoming a circus clown.

A newcomer to a mental health unit wants to help his fellow patients. But instead of seeking healing through self-recognition, he builds castles in...

The childhood of three friends, Ilya, Yacob, and Pavel, was spent in the innkeeper's house. Their three destinies are similarly unhappy. Yakob died...

A stop-motion animation about an author suffering writer's block. When his neighbour asks him to write a letter for her fiancé, he discovers...