Maxim Gorky Movies

For many years, Vassa Zheleznova has been leading the family business and, despite the inconspicuous children, her dissolute husband, alcoholic...

The play “Zykovs” was written in 1912, during a time of confusion and depression in Russian society, a period of pre-war spiritual and...

Unwilling to dedicate herself to her husband, the restless wife of a provincial village fisherman seeks out love from every man she meets. This...

A small town boy dreams of being a famous fiddler; Meanwhile, two convicts escape from prison and hide in the woods.

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

Biographical documentary about Maxim Gorky.

TV version of the performance by the Maly Theatre. Based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky.

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel,...

An intimate drama set in a remote railway station that grows into a tragedy of the whole generation and epoch, based on a Gorki story.

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

The plot of the play 'The Last Ones' at the Gogol Theatre centers around the Kolomiytsev family. Their home resembles the ruins left after a bombing,...

A paint-on-glass animated film (one of the first of its kind) about a dying falcon and a stupid snake.

My Universities is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and...

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which...

Musical fantasy based on the play by M. Gorky.

In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic...

Representatives of the Russian nobility gathered at the dacha. A young nobleman Vlas, in love with the mistress of the estate, a simpering poetess, a...

A Russian newsreel documenting the fifteenth anniversary of the Bolshevist revolution.