Daniil Sagal Movies

A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to...

A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.

Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to...

A young boy is trying to find his family and fights enemies of the state.

My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth...

Based on the short story by Jack London. 1910 year. Mexican patriots are preparing an uprising against the dictatorship of Diaz. Young Felipe Rivera...

Russian filmmaker Mark Donskoi, of "The Gorky Trilogy" fame, was responsible for the postwar Soviet drama The Taras Family (originally Nepokorenniye,...

In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga...

The film tells about the childhood and youth of the wife, friend and military ally of the founder of the country of the Soviets Nadezhda...

Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic

Two six-graders are trying to find the Stalin's pipe and return it to the owner.

Set in the high North, this tale of a Russian teacher who begins to educate the children of the Chukchi tribe reinforces the director's firm belief...

This literary adaptation was the first Soviet feature length dramatization, as opposed to documentary film, on the momentous Battle of Stalingrad.

Family drama centering on the childhood of Vladimir Lenin, then Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, in the city of Simbirsk, and his relationship with his mother.

Petya meets his father from a partisan detachment in the Odessa Catacombs.

An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.

This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as...

"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of Leningrad. In January 1943, the blockade of...

Autumn 1941. German tank troops are making another attempt to break through to the Uritsk and Pulkovo Heights. During heavy fighting, Soviet troops...