Daniil Sagal Movies

Family drama centering on the childhood of Vladimir Lenin, then Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, in the city of Simbirsk, and his relationship with his mother.

A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.

Set in the high North, this tale of a Russian teacher who begins to educate the children of the Chukchi tribe reinforces the director's firm belief...

This literary adaptation was the first Soviet feature length dramatization, as opposed to documentary film, on the momentous Battle of Stalingrad.

The drunkard and his wife become orderlies in a cholera barracks during the outbreak.

A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to...

Two inseparable friends, Vitya Maleev and Kostya Shishkin, cause a lot of grief for the pioneer group: their diaries are constantly filled with...

Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis.

The young boxer Kirill Kochevanov in the training battle of the qualifying rounds with the champion Peter Dorokhov loses the decisive meeting and, it...

A Mongolian expedition led by Professor Jambon and a group of Soviet explorers travel through the desert to the Alamas Mountains, where large oil...

The movie tells about the first years of Nazism. In the center of the plot is a German student graduating from an institute and receiving a diploma...

"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of Leningrad. In January 1943, the blockade of...

My Universities is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and...

This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as...

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

The film tells about the childhood and youth of the wife, friend and military ally of the founder of the country of the Soviets Nadezhda...

A story about the tragic events in the life of besieged Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1943.

An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.

Autumn 1941. German tank troops are making another attempt to break through to the Uritsk and Pulkovo Heights. During heavy fighting, Soviet troops...

A semi-sequel to Donskoi's Raduga (1944), the story is set in Nazi-occupied Kyiv. The drama focusses on the travails of a typical Soviet family and...