Maxim Gorky Movies

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

A small town boy dreams of being a famous fiddler; Meanwhile, two convicts escape from prison and hide in the woods.

Based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky, staged by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR.

An intimate drama set in a remote railway station that grows into a tragedy of the whole generation and epoch, based on a Gorki story.

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel,...

The plot of the play 'The Last Ones' at the Gogol Theatre centers around the Kolomiytsev family. Their home resembles the ruins left after a bombing,...

TV version of the performance by the Maly Theatre. Based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky.

For many years, Vassa Zheleznova has been leading the family business and, despite the inconspicuous children, her dissolute husband, alcoholic...

Karky works in a shipyard owned by Rajanayagam, a feudalistic industrialist who imprisons his workers in the factory compound and refuses to allow...

A Russian newsreel documenting the fifteenth anniversary of the Bolshevist revolution.

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

The childhood of three friends, Ilya, Yacob, and Pavel, was spent in the innkeeper's house. Their three destinies are similarly unhappy. Yakob died...

Musical fantasy based on the play by M. Gorky.

Based on Maxim Gorky's play of the same name, staged by the Kuibyshev Academic Drama Theatre named after Maxim Gorky.

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

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which...

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

Biographical documentary about Maxim Gorky.

In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic...