Vladimir Gardin Movies

  • 1919
    The Iron Heel

    The Iron Heel

    The Iron Heel

    101919HD

    A screen adaptation of excerpts from Jack London's dystopian novel of the same name describing the rise of the Oligarchy (the "Iron Heel") in the...

    The Iron Heel
  • 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
  • 1925
    The Bear's Wedding

    The Bear's Wedding

    The Bear's Wedding

    5.4291925HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1925
    The House of the Golubins

    The House of the Golubins

    The House of the Golubins

    01925HD

    The House of the Golubins
  • 1938
    Year Nineteen

    Year Nineteen

    Year Nineteen

    01938HD

    At the beginning of 1919, a serious threat loomed over Astrakhan: British aviation was striking from the air, an interventionist fleet was...

    Year Nineteen
  • 1928
    Kastus Kalinovskiy

    Kastus Kalinovskiy

    Kastus Kalinovskiy

    6.21928HD

    The film shows one of the heroes of the uprising of the Belarusian, Lithuanian and Polish people against forced Russification and the restoration of...

    Kastus Kalinovskiy
  • 1937
    Nightingale

    Nightingale

    Nightingale

    91937HD

    The struggle of Belarusian peasants against the oppression of Polish lords during the reign of Paul I.

    Nightingale
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1917
    Miss Peasant

    Miss Peasant

    Miss Peasant

    01917HD

    Silent feature film by Olga Preobrazhenskaya and Vladimir Gardin based on Pushkin’s story of the same name. Considered lost. Directorial debut...

    Miss Peasant
  • 1937
    Pugachev

    Pugachev

    Pugachev

    6.41937HD

    1773. The film tells the story of one of the most devastating events in the history of the Russian Empire—the Cossack uprising led by Emelyan...

    Pugachev
  • 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
  • 1935
    Peasants

    Peasants

    Peasants

    6.41935HD

    The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of...

    Peasants
  • 1946
    Naval Battalion

    Naval Battalion

    Naval Battalion

    81946HD

    Soviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.

    Naval Battalion
  • 1937
    Youth of the Poet

    Youth of the Poet

    Youth of the Poet

    71937HD

    Biographical film "Youth of the poet", dedicated to Pushkin-Lyceum student. At the 1937 world exhibition in Paris, the film was awarded a gold medal....

    Youth of the Poet