Maxim Gorky Movies

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

Based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky.

A small town boy dreams of being a famous fiddler; Meanwhile, two convicts escape from prison and hide in the woods.

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which...

In a fishing village, animosity grows between father and son, when the latter starts to desire his lover. In the midst of the tension, a co-worker...

Based on the play of the same name by M. Gorky, staged by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR.

“Without the Sun” is the first name that Gorky himself gave to his play and which most closely matches its essence. For this work is not...

Karky works in a shipyard owned by Rajanayagam, a feudalistic industrialist who imprisons his workers in the factory compound and refuses to allow...

Wassa Schelesnowa, a manipulative matriarch who will stop at nothing to keep her business afloat and her family together. Infanticide, forgery,...

A Russian newsreel documenting the fifteenth anniversary of the Bolshevist revolution.

Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of...

TV version of the performance by the Maly Theatre. Based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky.

Timid old woman Pelageya Nilovna observes the revolutionary activities of her son Pavel Vlasov and gradually comes to realize that his cause is a...

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

In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic...

In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to...

Based on Maxim Gorky's play of the same name, staged by the Kuibyshev Academic Drama Theatre named after Maxim Gorky.

A television play based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky.

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