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Mother (1926)

Pelageya Vlasova (Vera Baranovskaya) was anguished to see her husband and son take opposite sides during the Revolution of 1905. However, after the conflict leaves her spouse dead and her child railroaded into a labor camp, she joins the revolutionaries on a fateful attempt to storm the prison and take on the army of the czar. Vsevolod Pudovkin's stirring adaptation of the Maxim Gorky novel also stars Nikolai Batolov, Aleksandr Chistyakov. 87 min. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg: NR

The End Of St. Petersburg (1927)

The state of Russia before and during the 1917 Revolution is shown through the eyes of a peasant who comes to the city of St. Petersburg in search of work but winds up in the army and, later, joins in the overthrow of the czar. Ivan Chuvelyov, Vera Baranovskaya, and Aleksandr Chistyakov star in Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller’s silent agitprop saga. 73 min. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg: NR

Storm Over Asia (1928)

Director Vsevolod Pudovkin’s epic is set on the Soviet Asian frontier and tells of a rebellious young Mongol trapper who is set up as a "puppet leader" of his people by occupying Western forces when it’s discovered he is a descendant of the legendary Genghis Khan. The third installment in Pudovkin’s "Revolutionary Trilogy," after "Mother" and "The End of St. Petersburg," stars Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov. 131 min. Silent with music score. BW/Rtg: NR