The Recommended Vault Deeply Connected to Anfisa: Cult Guide

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

Engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Queen of Spades perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

A romance in the upper-classes develops as the Bolshevik revolution is at hand.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Bogatyr dukha perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

Prince Kasatsky is a just and proud youth, shock and disappointment with the world bring him to church, he becomes father Sergius. It is a story of his piety and temptation.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Panna Meri perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

After the death of Count Chambery his wife and daughter were left without means of subsistence. Seeing no other way out, a young woman settles maid in the house of Baroness Angers.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

Tragic romance between a female Red Army sharpshooter and a White Army officer.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Otets Sergiy perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

Adaptation of Thurston's Irish novel, "Masquerader". Tells the sinister story of a distinguished British gentleman (Mosjoukine), who, while serving as a member of the House of Commons, also becomes a morphine addict and is tormented by a double of himself.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.