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Browse 10 movies from Vostokkino
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness.
Mar 1935
Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.
Oct 1929
Based on Nikolai Lovtsov's story "The Contraband Trust". About events in the village of gold hunters in the Far East. The action takes place in 1923.
Oct 1930
The stationmaster of a railway station situated in the steppes of Kazakhstan discovers a rubber-bearing plant. Soon, an expeditionary team arrives, led by Professor Shakhron, who will persistently argue—by hook or by crook—that there are no rubber-bearing plants in these steppes, all the while plotting a trip abroad. In ultimately exposing the professor, the team forces him to admit to concealing the results of their work.
Jul 1933
On the struggle of the Caucasian mountaineers against the tsarist autocracy.
Aug 1929
The 41-minute documentary directed by Vladimir Yerofeyev, is a 1928 Russian production. 'The Land of the Lion and Sun' has recorded different moments of Iranian people’s social life, the country’s general ambience, women’s clothing in the year 1921.
Jan 1928
This film about agricultural advances in the USSR was meant to serve as a teaching aid. Featuring documentary footage and animation.
Dec 1930
Documentary movie about the ancient Solor (or Salyr) carpet making tribe in Turkmenistan. Presumably lost.
Jan 1930
The struggle between the collective farmers and the kulaks and sectarianists.
May 1932
Short documentary about the Georgian Military Road. Captures Ingush and Ossetian settlements of the early 20th century
Jan 1929