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 Satana likuyushchiy perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Pastor Talnox furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

Melodrama centered around a fateful misunderstanding between two lovers.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Pour une nuit d'amour 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 fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Justice d'abord 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

An elderly man works as a waiter at a luxurious restaurant. He's content and full of hope, and treasures his family more than anything. But it's time of the First World War and news from the front change his life.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.