The World and the Flesh

Apr 22, 1932

1h 14m

★ 6.5

Overview

During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

The World and the Flesh Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Kylenko

George Bancroft

Maria Yaskaya

Miriam Hopkins

Dimitri

Alan Mowbray

Rutchkin

George E. Stone

Sukhanov

Mitchell Lewis

Vorobiov

Max Wagner

Ivanovitch

Harry Cording

Gen. Spiro

Emmett Corrigan

Banker

Oscar Apfel

Markov

Reginald Barlow

Sasha

Ferike Boros

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....

7.6

Battleship Potemkin

Dec 24, 1925

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.

9.0

We the Living, Part Two

Sep 15, 1942

After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira.

6.9

Reds

Dec 25, 1981

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.

5.7

Animal Farm

Oct 3, 1999

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

7.9

Heart of a Dog

Nov 11, 1988

"Heart of a Dog" is a Soviet film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novella. Set in 1920s Moscow, it tells the satirical and darkly humorous story of a stray dog named Sharik, who is transformed into a human by Professor Preobrazhensky through a daring medical experiment. The resulting man, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, embodies the social and ideological tensions of early Soviet society. With its sharp critique of class struggle, human nature, and the perils of radical change, the film is celebrated for its faithful adaptation, brilliant performances, and rich allegorical depth.

6.9

Nicholas and Alexandra

Nov 29, 1971

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

6.6

Captain Conan

Oct 16, 1996

The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.

10.0

Dreams of the Past

Oct 1, 2022

No overview available.

7.3

The Last Command

Jan 21, 1928

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

7.5

Baltic Glory

Feb 22, 1958

No overview available.

6.6

The Soul Keeper

Jan 17, 2003

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

0.0

Amangeldy

Jan 24, 1938

In 1916, a new Russian governor is sent to the Kazakhstan steppes by the Tsar and tries to impose mandatory military service upon the native Kazakhs. A popular uprising begins against the Tsarist empire. A Kazakh hero, Amangeldy Imanov, leads the revolt and allies with the Bolsheviks against the Kazakh clans loyal to the Tsar.

6.7

Arsenal

Feb 25, 1929

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

4.2

My Seven Sons

Sep 7, 1970

This film was based on Samad Vurgun's "Komsomol poem". Seven sons, like seven samurai become the seven komsomols (communist leaders) who were sent to a village to establish Soviet power. Seven sons become the romanticized images of people's heroes ready to take revenge.

0.0

Fair Wind

Jul 4, 1973

No overview available.

5.7

Assassin of the Tsar

Oct 2, 1991

A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...

10.0

In the Fire

Dec 1, 1978

Historical film about the dramatic event in the southern regions of Azerbaijan during the 1917 Soviet Revolution.