Mark Donskoy Movies
- 1973
Nadezhda
Nadezhda71973HD
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...
- 1938
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky6.11938HD
Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to...
- 1947
The Village Teacher
The Village Teacher5.4171947HD
A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to...
- 1939
My Apprenticeship
My Apprenticeship5.91939HD
Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in...
- 1940
My Universities
My Universities5.61940HD
My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth...
- 1944
Rainbow
Rainbow4.91944HD
The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of small children, to break the spirit of their Soviet captives. Suffering more than...
- 1942
How the Steel Was Tempered
How the Steel Was Tempered1.81942HD
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...
- 1959
Foma Gordeyev
Foma Gordeyev6.31959HD
Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of...
- 1957
The Horse That Cried
The Horse That Cried41957HD
An adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky, a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist purges but rehabilitated in 1955, that anticipates...
- 1967
Верность матери
Верность матери01967HD
- 1978
The Orlovs
The Orlovs61978HD
The drunkard and his wife become orderlies in a cholera barracks during the outbreak.
- 1962
Hello, Children!
Hello, Children!01962HD
A sad story about a little Japanese girl fighting heavy decease in a Russian summer camp on the Black Sea coast.
- 1950
Alitet Leaves for the Hills
Alitet Leaves for the Hills5.61950HD
Mark Donskoy went to the wilds of Siberia to film this Soviet movie about a community that resists the temptations of a wicked American capitalist...
- 1945
The Taras Family
The Taras Family6.11945HD
Russian filmmaker Mark Donskoi, of "The Gorky Trilogy" fame, was responsible for the postwar Soviet drama The Taras Family (originally Nepokorenniye,...
- 1966
A Mother's Heart
A Mother's Heart61966HD
Family drama centering on the childhood of Vladimir Lenin, then Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, in the city of Simbirsk, and his relationship with his mother.
- 1927
Prostitute
Prostitute4.41927HD
A bold study on the dangers of prostitution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. It's sort of dramatic fiction that tells the story of Lyuba, which...
- 1956
Mother
Mother4.31956HD
Timid old woman Pelageya Nilovna observes the revolutionary activities of her son Pavel Vlasov and gradually comes to realize that his cause is a...
- 1928
His Excellency
His Excellency71928HD
This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund...
- 1934
Song of Happiness
Song of Happiness01934HD
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...
- 1927
In the Big City
In the Big City51927HD
Two country boys move to Moscow. One becomes a construction worker who dreams of being an inventor, the other becomes a decadent poet.