"Narodnaya Volya", by antonivakin

Adaptation of a work by a Russian revolutionary writer, about an opponent of the Czarist regime.

This partly biographical film about the Polish revolutionary depicts his complicated nature and his involvement in the national movement in the Poland of the 1960s and 1970s. The rebel Dabrowski led the 1863 uprising there, ultimately ending tragically on the barricades in Paris.

Sofiya Perovskaya is a revolutionary hero in Russia. Here she is given a full appreciation, acknowledging her aristocratic roots, while admiring her sympathies for the Russian people (narodniki) and the seriousness of her purpose. With her lover and husband, Andrei Zhelyabov, she plots the murder of Czar Alexander II, carrying it to a final, fatal conclusion. [Note that the involvement of Lenin's brother with Perovskaya's revolutionary group, Narodnaya Volya (People's WIll), came at a later date, and had nothing to do with Perovskaya or the plot to kill Alexander II.]

A revolutionary gets a job as a lackey to a certain official Orlov in order to get to Orlov's father, a famous statesman. But life in Orlov's house changes his intentions and attitude towards life.

At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.

Some episodes in the life of Dostoevsky. The cardinal change in Dostoevsky's worldview, his coming from revolutionary ideas to the preaching of humility and mercy are demonstrated.

Dostoevsky seen through the prism of his relationships, and his struggles with poverty, trial, exile and imprisonment in Omsk, Siberia, writings, gambling.

Biopic of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

A historical epic about the tragic and happy love of Emperor Alexander II and the young princess Ekaterina Dolgoruky. Palace intrigues, assassination attempts, conspiracies - inherent in the atmosphere of that era.

Czar Alexander II meets a schoolgirl called Katia. Realizing that he loves her, he attempts to push her away but to no avail. She becomes his mistress. With Katia's help, Alexander is working on a liberal constitution.

Over seventy five years ago Russia's last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin. Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event.

In 1907, the Russian authorities learn that a revolutionary known as 'Granddad' is living in hiding with his brother. The revolutionary is soon arrested and sent to Siberia. After ten years of struggling to survive in harsh conditions, he is finally released when the Tsarist government is overthrown in February 1917. He is welcomed home as a hero, but he soon finds that even his own son has different views than he does about the future of Russia.