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The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
Movie + 1 extra
Directed by Lev Kuleshov • 1924 • USSR/Russia
John West, a YMCA president from Ohio, goes to Russia on official business, accompanied by his cowboy bodyguard, Jeddie. Nothing goes right from the start: Mr West’s suitcase goes missing, he and Jeddie get separated, and the hapless protagonist is k...
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Earth
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko • 1930 • USSR/Ukraine
Widely regarded as Dovzhenko’s masterpiece and one of the finest silent films ever made, Earth is fiercely poetic and politically radical. Narrating the collectivisation of agriculture in the Ukrainian countryside, Dovzhenko employs avant-gar...
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Battleship Potemkin
Movie + 2 extras
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein • 1926 • USSR/Russia
A founding masterpiece of silent cinema, studied the world over for its radical montage techniques and still shocking today, Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin was originally conceived as part of a cycle of films commemorating the revolutio...
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My Grandmother
Movie + 1 extra
Directed by Kote Mikaberidze • 1929 • USSR/Georgia
This explosive, wildly inventive, and criminally under-seen gem from Kote Mikaberidze burst out of Georgia in 1929. An absurdist satire of bureaucracy, the film follows the hapless Georgiy and his struggle to overcome a cruel administrative syst...
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Salt for Svanetia
Movie + 1 extra
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov • 1930 • USSR/Georgia
The directorial debut of Mikhail Kalatozov – who would go on to electrify Soviet cinema with his Palme d’Or-winning The Cranes are Flying – Salt for Svanetia is a groundbreaking work of radical ethnographic documentary. Capturing the lives of t...