Top-Tier Alternatives In the Shadow of Golgofa zhenshchiny: Cult Guide

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

An silent comedy about a provincial tailor who won a lottery in the 1925 Soviet Union.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

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

Ivan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees in her only the perfect model for his picture, "The Dagger Woman." Studying her, and by carefully playing on her emotions he gains her confidence, and afterward she consents to pose for him. The picture completed, she is grieved and then angered to discover that Ivan's interest rests solely in it, and how it will fare at the exhibition. She pleads with him in vain. The picture is pronounced a masterpiece, and Ivan is in his triumph as he returns to his studio. Here Olga has secreted herself. Humiliated by the reports circulated regarding herself and the artist, and unable longer to bear his disinterest she plunges a dagger to his heart and kills him.

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 visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Man from the Restaurant 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.

Who is a thief - a street pickpocket, a social lion or a banker? The thief is the one who takes it small, the man with prospects is called a winner.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

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

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

Melodrama centered around a fateful misunderstanding between two lovers.

Dir: Yakov Protazanov

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.