The Portrait 1915
A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived.
Skobelev Committee
The Lily of Belgium 1915
When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. The lily stands in splendour beside a stream, admired by the creatures of the woods. But an army of beetles, bent on conquering new territories, wants to cross the stream - and the lily is blocking their way. An unashamed allegory of the German rape of Belgium.
One-Eyed Likho 1916
The plot is the embodiment of everyday belief about the impact of a certain evil force on a person. The action develops in a peasant environment.
To the People's Power 1917
A worker and union leader is falsely accused of theft, by a boss who is lusting after his fiancée
Sashka the Rider 1917
The last surviving fiction film from Wladyslaw Starewicz's wartime associtation with the Skobelev Committee
