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- A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
- A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- Set in Odessa at the end of the Civil War when the town is occupied by the Whites. The night coachman, fifty-year-old Gordi Yaroshchuk, lives with his daughter Kate who gets involved with a Bolshevik and revolutionary.
- An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
- This documentary film is showing the hard labor of countrymen in industrial production to strengthen the U.S.S.R. economy and turning their country into a world power.
- The true murder of the Soviet diplomat Teodor Nette, which narrates the difficulties in returning the diplomatic bag of the murdered agent to Russia, by sea and before it is found by the British secret police.
- The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.
- During the 1917-1921 Civil War in Ukraine, a landlord and his family flee the Bolshevik troops, who are already on the outskirts of the city. The faithful doorman stays behind to guard the family's valuables, buried in the garden. During the chaotic escape to the station the landlord's son gets separated and returns to the estate, where Anton hides him in his tiny room in the attic. In the evening, the mansion is occupied by Bolsheviks led by Anton's son, Andrii. Anton doesn't share his son's political ideas and restrains himself for showing his love for him. Accidentally the young master witnesses Andrii finding the treasures hidden in the garden. When the White Army returns to the city the following day, the landlord's son gives Andrii away to counterintelligence, and Andrii is executed as a Bolshevik agent. In despair, Anton sets fire to the estate, along with the partying White Army generals.
- In Spring is a masterpiece of Ukrainian cinema avant-garde, a non-fiction film made by Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's brother and co-author, along the lines of the avant-gardist theory of «cine-eye». The film shows Kyiv in 1929, almost unknown today. Pictures of wakening city, its resurging life resonate with lyrical views of reviving nature. Kaufman's attentive camera dwells deliberately on smiling faces of children, lyrically depicting a declaration of love to Kyiv. In In Spring, Kaufman used the method of «hidden camera» for the first time.
- Bandits descend on a Jewish village and threaten to destroy it if they're not given five beauties in wedding dresses.
- Vasya has been left to himself since childhood and is used to independence. In one day, Vasya manages to get a man out of the water, ride a strange car, expose a priest and catch the thief.
- The psychological torture of a woman ,whose revolutionary husband has fled the city, and who has been left secret documents to guard, during the advance of the White Army in the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution.
- Children from working class neighborhoods wearing patched-up clothes have fun in Kyiv streets - they slide down showy slopes, walk on the brink of a precipice and even conquer the light ice of the Dnieper river. They can see, how rich people live, only through a gap in the fence. The boy Fedko who is called "a tearaway" because of his naughty and disobedient character comes up with some risky entertainment, and adults often punish him for this while his friends do respect him.
- Exposing the customs of provincial philistinism in the years of NEP. Small town. Mitya, going to the party of his bride Shurochka, finds a dying woman with infants. When he comes to visit the child, everyone decides that he was the father - and kicks him out. Mitya decides to drown himself. Unknown saves him and helps to stage his own funeral. During the mourning ceremony, Mitya rise from the grave, thanks the inhabitants petrified by horror, and leaves the city forever.
- Propaganda Soviet film, which aims to establish the image of Petliura and Ukrainians as anti-Semites and murderers.
- Jean, the hairdresser, is flabbergasted: what is that baby his girlfriend Lisa has put in his arms out of the blue? The fruit of love? Out of the question. From that moment on, the reluctant father has but one thought in his head: he must get rid of the cumbersome 'article'. And, take his word for it, all the ways are good.
- 1919, Ukraine. On one side of the country - hetman detachments, on the other - in impassable thickets, one after another, guerrilla units of the Reds are formed. In the hut, in the center of one of these units, a forester lives with his granddaughter Olya. - Olena is a brave and courageous girl. Armed, she goes to reconnaissance, carries out the tasks of the partisans. Hetman track down the girl, find the forester's house, rob him. Using a blizzard, the commander of the partisan detachment Burmysh takes out a wounded forester and Olena from the forest. On the way they are stopped by a hetman guard squad, Burmysh and Olena are forced to flee. Olya manages to warn the partisans. - Partisans surround the Getman detachment, destroy it, making their way to join the advancing units of the Red Army.
- Jimmy Higgings is an worker at a plant making weapons for Tsarist Russia and the German Empire. During World War I, Jimmy speaks at a spontaneous rally against the war. He is arrested. When released, he becomes unemployed. He is happy to hear the news about the revolution; he volunteers into the American expeditionary force thinking that having the weapons he can fight against Germans - the enemies of the Russian revolution. However, finding himself in Russia, Jimmy soon realise that the expeditionary force of American volunteers fights not against the Germans, but against the young Socialist Russia. Without any hesitation, he takes the path of revolutionary struggle, he spreads propaganda among the American soldiers and distributes Bolshevik leaflets. Captured by the American military police, Jimmy Higgings does not betray his friends. He is sentenced to twenty years in a military prison. Jimmy cannot stand it and loses his mind.
- The bourgeois wedding of Dekabryukhova is interrupted by the machine-gun fire of revolution. He flees abroad, leaving his wife. Oktyabryukhov stays and adapts to the new life. At the end of the picture there is an attempt at universal reconciliation and the poet's tormenting theme "three-way love". Dekabryuhov returns to his homeland. His wife is already married to Oktyabryukhov. Having learned about it, Dekabryukhov tries to leave, but the newlyweds force him to stay. The film was shot by director O. Iskander, but the main creator, of course, was Mayakovsky.
- The story of the voluptuous gentleman and the hard life of his serfs.
- To pay off debts, Kira at 13 is sold by her parents to the old and rich Stavro. Constantly humiliated and beaten she gives birth to Dragomir and Kiralina. The trader Nazid kills Stavro to be able to sell Kiralina to a brothel.
- Mothl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender each time its new owner stops at the inn between Kozodoyevka, where he purchased the creature, and Zlodyevke, where he lives.
- The Government of the fictional country Norland has unleashed a war with the neighboring Galikania and is suffering one defeat after another.
- The serf Ostap Mandryka, who caused arrogant anger with his behavior, flees from inevitable reprisal in Bulgaria, where he is injured when crossing the border. Together with other fugitives, he wanders around a foreign land and eventually returns to Russia.
- Gleb Chumalov, a former factory worker, returns to a cement plant destroyed during the Civil War. The party entrusted him with a great job - to become the head of reconstruction work. Chumalov has to deal with the inertness of some demoralized unemployed, deserted workers, the bureaucracy of old and new officials of the Soviet apparatus, interruptions in obtaining the necessary money and materials for construction, and the vicious machinations of disguised enemies from among technical specialists. Gleb Chumalov, who gathers together a friendly team of party members and enthusiastic workers, manages to overcome all the obstacles - the cement plant become one of the operating enterprises of the young Soviet republic.
- After eating too much, the glutton-millionaire realizes that he has ruined his stomach. The hired scientist, Professor Fuchs, proposes a new surgical treatment that would separate the processes of satiety and digestion. To do this, you need to find a healthy person who agreed to provide the stomach. He is found, and soon the millionaire showed fantastic food absorption abilities. The painful sensations of an overloaded stomach were experienced not by the glutton, but by the unemployed driver, Emil.
- A Soviet comedy based on a story by O. Henry adapted for film by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Three boys: an exemplary young communist, a son of capitalist, and a homeless street thug, swap their dresses and change their behavior.
- Once, during the years of the First World War, Ensign Shakhov in prison involuntarily betrayed the revolutionary Rayevsky. After the October Revolution, this is revealed. Shakhov is threatened with execution.
- Kulaks kill local reporter in revenge for a revealing article.
- Germany, 1923. Economic ruin, hunger and strikes. Workers called to fight by the communist Nils Unger seize an arsenal of weapons and turn each building into a fortress. The Social Democrat Busch does not fulfill Unger's order to blow up the bridge across the Elbe, and the Reichswehr troops enter the city. The massacre begins. Nils Unger is arrested. Busch, tied to the enemy's helper Dr. Mays, betrays the rebels under interrogation. The rebels face the trial. To avoid political publicity during the trial, Nils Unger is declared insane, but he manages to escape. And again one can hear his call "Keep the rifles!" on the streets of Hamburg.
- The neighbors, wanting to vacate the room she lives in, are trying to slander Vera, who dearly loves Alexei. He believes their gossip. Hooligan Sashka wounds the girl. Alexey realizes that he is wrong.
- A demobilized Red Army soldier returns to his village. Inspired by the spirit of collectivism, he plows a field so that the kulak's portion now belongs to the community, and sows it with grain confiscated from the 'philistines'. His father, a man of traditional world outlook, lives in a pantheistic world of the Ukrainian ethos, where sin has a physical dimension. He does not believe that the stolen grain will sprout on the stolen land. When the grain finally sprouts, the old man admits that his son was right; for the sake of building a new world, the old laws of the universe should be broken.
- Comic misunderstandings related to the suspicion of the American authorities. The baggage of a Soviet engineer on a business trip to the USA says "Khimugol" (the name of the trust where he serves). There are oranges in the box, and the authorities decides that there is a new explosive. In parallel, the theme of the engineer's hobby is developing not just as an American, but as a movie star.
- On the fight against kulaks in the village.