Movies: Afanasiy Byelov

  • 1926
    Love's Berries

    Love's Berries (1926)

    Love's Berries

    4.91926HD

    Jean, the hairdresser, is flabbergasted: what is that baby his girlfriend Lisa has put in his arms out of the blue? The fruit of love? Out of the question. From that moment on, the reluctant father has but one thought in his head: he must get rid of ...

    Love's Berries
  • 1930
    A Simple Case

    A Simple Case (1930)

    A Simple Case

    5.21930HD

    As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER ASIA (1928), Vsevolod Pudovkin unleashed his flair for experimentation in what was supposed to be the director’s first sound feature. Everything we...

    A Simple Case
  • 1927
    Taras Tryasylo

    Taras Tryasylo (1927)

    Taras Tryasylo

    01927HD

    The film is set in the 17th century, when social antagonism is at its peak. The poverty of peasants and poor Cossacks is opposed to the lavish lifestyle of the Ukrainian and Polish noblemen, priests, and Cossack officers. Cossacks fight off Tatars’ a...

    Taras Tryasylo