THE OVERCOAT (1926):

Arriving in St. Petersburg, landowner Ptitsin tries to achieve --- with the help of bribes --- a favorable decision of his litigation concerning a neighbor. Wthe the help of a swindler and blackmail, he finds a functionary who is willing to help for money.

DVD-r has Russian intertitles with switchable English  and Spanish subtitles. Approx. 66 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality!

ADVENTURES OF HALF A RUBLE (1929):

A small flock of kids in ragged patched-up clothes are sitting on a fence, watching the gentry and the bourgeoisie enjoy the skating rink on a sunny day. This opening scene, idyllic in spite of the obvious presence of social inequality and injustice, ends predictably and dramatically, as Fedko, the leader of the children’s gang and the principal character of the film, takes a beating for daring to laugh at a clumsy ‘gentleman’. Set in imperial Russia and made in Soviet Ukraine, it is, in essence, a film intended to educate children about class struggle, and an account of the violence of the rich through the eyes of a child.

DVD-r has Russian intertitles with hard-encoded English and switchable Spanish subtitles. Approx. 68 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality!