Movies

Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky’s famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen.

The film takes place between two revolutions - 1905 and 1917. There is no agreement in the family of the Kolomiytsev brothers, bankrupt nobles. The...

A paint-on-glass animated film (one of the first of its kind) about a dying falcon and a stupid snake.

Wassa Schelesnowa, a manipulative matriarch who will stop at nothing to keep her business afloat and her family together. Infanticide, forgery,...

A story from the life in the beginning of XX century based on the theater play by Maxim Gorky.

“Without the Sun” is the first name that Gorky himself gave to his play and which most closely matches its essence. For this work is not...

The devil’s struggle for his love for a human, and a human’s reflection on whether one can remain in love even after death.

“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of...

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.

A television play based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky.

A TV drama about the decline and fall of the Russian middle-class family. Based on the work by Maxim Gorky, a four-act drama first published in 1908.

A symbolist portrait of two gypsies in love, this captivating film finds Dulac deconstructing onscreen gender roles and striving to achieve her idea...

Gorky's play raises themes of the Russian intelligentsia's struggles and search for the meaning of life. The characters argue a lot, quarrel, tease...

A poetic melodramatic documentary inspired by the death of Jan Palach. The footage from the funeral is accompanied by the words of Maxim Gorky's Old...