Raisa Yesipova

The Oppenheim Family

Based on Lyon Feuchtwanger's novel about the tragedy of society, through a look at the tragedy of one single family.

The Trial Should Continue

Soviet courtroom drama directed by Efim Dzigan.

Flames on the Volga

Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries.

The First Cavalry

The film tells the of certain events of the Polish-Soviet War as is accepted in Soviet history.

We Are from Kronstadt

In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces

Woman's World

A young peasant woman decides to become a tractor driver.

Cross and Mauser

The film takes place during the pre-revolutionary years and the initial period of the Soviet regime. At a monastery shelter in one of Russia's western towns, orphan Yulka gives birth to a son from the shepherd Jerome. Matron of the shelter Pavlikha as directed by the father kills the newborn baby and disposes of the corpse in the Jewish Quarter. The Black Hundreds are spreading the rumor that the murder was committed by the Jews for ritual purposes. Mayhem arises which is supported by the authorities of the city. The church refuses to shelter Jews fleeing from the violent thugs.

The White Horseman

Seeing how the priests convince men to "defend the Motherland" by joining the battlefront slaughter of WWI, a young man and his wife reject religion.

Behind White Lines

Lost movie.

Coming of Age