Sovkino

A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.

Orphan Anna lives with her aunt Aliona in the Russian district of Ryazan. One day, they meet Wassily and his son Ivan. In order to marry off his son, Wassily organizes a meeting with all the town's single frauleins and out destiny...

"The Ghost That Never Returns" is an outstanding Soviet film by Abram Room, the director of Bed and Sofa (1927). Released to little notice in 1930, it joins other very late silents to show the screen still developing high eloquenc...