Vasili Vanin Movies

Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail...

Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in Russia.

A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.

The film is based on the biography of Valeri Chkalov (1904 - 1938), a Russian pilot, who set several long distance flight records. Chkalov and his...

A Russian village struggles through the German occupation during World War II in this tense drama from the Soviet Union. As the town doctor finds his...

In the 1930s, during Collectivization, we follow Alexandra Sokolova, who having joined a kolkhoz, is promoted by the Party to the management of the...

The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of...

This story of the Nazi prison camps in the 1930s deals with the attempts of the Nazi guards to break the spirit of the Communists in concentration...

After the liberation of the Kuban by the Soviet Army troops, farmers return home and begin to restore the destroyed economy. Under the leadership of...

The story of a British POW who converts to communism.