Anna Sten Movies

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolshevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution.

Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but...

An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.

Lost film.

A Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for university and takes pity on him.

The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the...