List of Soviet films of 1929

A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1929 (see 1929 in film).

1929

TitleOriginal titleDirectorCastGenreNotes
1929
ArsenalАрсеналAlexander Dovzhenko[1]Semen Svashenko, Mykola NademskyWar film[2]
The Blue ExpressГолубой экспрессIlya TraubergSergei MininDrama[3]
CometКометаValéry InkijinoffGalina Kravchenko, Pyotr Repnin, N.P. BelyaevDramaLost film
Flag of a NationФлаг нацииVladimir ShmidtgofBoris Azarov, Sergei Minin, Yuri Sergeevich LavrovDrama
Fragment of an EmpireОбломок империиFridrikh ErmlerEmil Gal, Sergey GerasimovDrama[4][5]
The General LineСтарое и новоеSergei EisensteinMarfa LapkinaDrama[6][7][8]
The Happy CanaryВеселая канарейкаLev KuleshovGalina Kravchenko, Andrey Fayt, Ada Vojtsik, Sergey KomarovAdventure[4][9]
An Hour with ChekhovЧины и людиMikhail Doller, Yakov ProtazanovMikhail Tarkhanov, Mariya Strelkova, Andrey Petrovsky, Ivan MoskvinComedy[9][10][11]
The House on the VolcanoДом на вулканеHamo BeknazarianHrachia Nersisyan, T. Ayvazyan, Tatyana MakhmuryanDrama[12][13]
The Lame GentlemanХромой баринKonstantin EggertMikhail KlimovDrama[14]
The Last AttractionПоследний аттракционIvan Pravov, Olga PreobrazhenskayaNaum Rogozhin, Raisa Puzhnaya, Alexander Sashin, Ivan BykovAdventure[15][16][17][18]
The Living CorpseЖивой трупFyodor OtsepVsevolod Pudovkin, Maria Jacobini, Viola GardenDrama[19][20]
Man with a Movie CameraЧеловек с киноаппаратомDziga VertovDocumentary, experimental[21][22][23]
My GrandmotherChemi bebiaKote MikaberidzeAleksandre Takaishvili, Bella ChernovaComedy, experimental
The New BabylonНовый ВавилонGrigori Kozintsev, Leonid TraubergYelena Alexandrovna Kuzmina, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Sergei Gerasimov, Vsevolod PudovkinHistory, drama[24][25]
PostПочтаMikhaïl TsekhanovskiiAnimation, short[26][27]
Road into the WorldДорога в мирBoris ShpisValeriy Solovtsov, Yanina Zhejmo, Alexander ZavyalovHistory
SabaСабаMikheil ChiaureliAleksandre Jaliashvili, Veriko AnjaparidzeDrama[28][29][30]
In SpringВеснойMikhail KaufmanDocumentary[31][32]
Third YouthТретья молодостьVladimir ShmidtgofYuri Sergeevich Lavrov, Nikolay Lebedev, Andrei LavrentievComedyLost film
TurksibТурксибViktor Alexandrovitsh TurinDocumentary[33][34][35]
Two-Buldi-TwoДва-Бульди-дваNina Agadzhanova, Lev KuleshovSergey Komarov, Vladimir Kochetov, Anel SudakevichDrama[36][37][38]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rollberg, Peter (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 62–63. ISBN 978-1442268425.
  2. ↑ "Арсенал (1928)" [Arsenal (1928)]. Kino-theatr.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  3. ↑ Christie, Ian; Taylor, Richard (2012). The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge. p. 427. doi:10.4324/9780203059920. ISBN 9780203059920.
  4. 1 2 Christie, Ian; Taylor, Richard (2012). The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge. p. 429. doi:10.4324/9780203059920. ISBN 9780203059920.
  5. ↑ Pendás, Miguel (2018). "Fragment of an Empire". San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  6. ↑ Vassilieva, Julia (December 2017). "1929: The Old and the New (Sergei Eisenstein)". Senses of Cinema. No. 85. ISSN 1443-4059. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  7. ↑ Leyda, Jay (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 221, 262–266.
  8. ↑ Van Tine, Shalon (15 November 2019). "Revolutionary Reels: Soviet Propaganda Film and the Russian Revolution". Cosmonaut Magazine. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  9. 1 2 Leyda, Jay (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 270.
  10. ↑ Malyukova, Larisa (14 December 2007). "Протазанов: Великий «немой»" [Protazanov: The Great "Mute"]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). Vol. 48, no. 58. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  11. ↑ Ivanova, Asya (3 February 2014). "Мастер экранизаций: 7 знаменитых фильмов Якова Протазанова" [Master of film adaptations: 7 famous films by Yakov Protazanov]. Vechernyaya Moskva (in Russian). Archived from the original on 19 May 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  12. ↑ "54 года назад не стало самого известного «Вагифа» азербайджанской сцены" [54 years ago, the famous "Vagifa" wall of Azerbaijan was destroyed]. Vesti.az (in Azerbaijani). 31 January 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  13. ↑ "Актеры ближнего и дальнего зарубежья, снимавшиеся в азербайджанских фильмах" [Actors from near and far abroad who starred in Azerbaijani films]. Trend News Agency (in Russian). 18 May 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  14. ↑ Christie, Ian; Taylor, Richard (2012). The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge. p. 430. doi:10.4324/9780203059920. ISBN 9780203059920.
  15. ↑ Malyukova, Larisa (17 March 2017). "Быть или не быть Ильичу" [To be or not to be Ilyich]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  16. ↑ "На кинофестивале «Окраина» рязанцы смогут прожить историю страны" [At the film festival «Outskirts», Ryazan residents will be able to live the history of the country]. 7info.ru (in Russian). 12 June 2017. Archived from the original on 8 December 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  17. ↑ "Известный киновед Петр Багров откроет сахалинцам неканонические шедевры отечественного кино" [Famous film expert Pyotr Bagrov will reveal non-canonical masterpieces of Russian cinema to Sakhalin residents]. sakhalin.info (in Russian). 14 March 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  18. ↑ "В Рязани открывается XV кинофестиваль «Окраина», программа" [The XV Film Festival «Outskirts», program opens in Ryazan]. Vidsboku Gazette (in Russian). 7 December 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  19. ↑ Leyda, Jay (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 260.
  20. ↑ Taylor, Richard (1998). Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. I.B. Tauris. p. 55. ISBN 978-1860641671.
  21. ↑ Hall, Mordaunt (17 September 1929). "The Screen". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  22. ↑ "Silent film tops documentary poll". BBC News. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  23. ↑ Michelson, Annette, ed. (1995). "Dziga Vertov. On Kino-Pravda. 1924, and The Man with the Movie Camera. 1928". Kino-Eye – The Writings of Dziga Vertov. Translated by O'Brien, Kevin. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520056305.
  24. ↑ Leyda, Jay (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 258–260.
  25. ↑ Ford, Fiona (27 March 2012). The film music of Edmund Meisel (1894–1930) (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Nottingham. p. 183. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  26. ↑ "В галерее «На Шаболовке» пройдет экскурсия с просмотром мультфильмов" [The gallery «On Shabolovka» will host an excursion with watching cartoons]. Gazeta Danilovsky Vestnik (in Russian). 2 January 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  27. ↑ "«Ленфильм» обновил цех постродакшн в пятиэтажном комплексе у Александровского парка" [«Lenfilm» has updated its construction workshop in a five-story complex near Alexander Park]. St. Petersburg (TV channel) (in Russian). 21 May 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  28. ↑ Sadoul, Georges; Morris, Peter (1972). Dictionary of Film Makers. University of California Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0520021518.
  29. ↑ "Saba". Harvard Film Archive. 17 October 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  30. ↑ Гращенкова, Ирина (6 February 2017). Киноантропология XX/20 [Cinema Anthropology XX/20] (in Russian). Человек. ISBN 978-5-04-042611-9. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  31. ↑ Novikova, Assa (11 August 2014). "Без Вертова" [Without Vertov]. Colta.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  32. ↑ Kopalina, G. I. (1994). "Последнее интервью Михаила Кауфмана" [Last interview with Mikhail Kaufman]. Novy Mir (in Russian). No. 1. Archived from the original on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  33. ↑ MacPherson, K., ed. (July 1929). "Turksib". Close Up. Vol. 5, no. 1. Pool Group. pp. 488–489. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
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  35. ↑ Leyda, Jay (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 221, 260–261.
  36. ↑ "Судьба Бабочки" [The fate of the Butterfly]. Moskovskij Komsomolets (in Russian). 5 November 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  37. ↑ "Проект Киноджаз: «Два-Бульди-два» Льва Кулешова" [Project Kinojazz: "Two-Buldi-Two" by Lev Kuleshov]. Business District (in Russian). 14 February 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  38. ↑ "Биография Льва Кулешова" [Biography of Lev Kuleshov]. RIA Novosti (in Russian). 3 January 2020 [13 January 2014]. Retrieved 12 November 2025.