Watch The Seventh Companion (1968) Online

German apparently disavowed this, his first film, because of his co-director Grigori Aranov's more classical approach (and his kowtowing to Soviet authority); too bad, because it's something of a knockout. A brilliant, gripping portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a superlative character study in General Adamov (Andrei Popov), a law professor in the tsarist army, who is incarcerated by the Bolshevik secret police along with many other members of the bourgeoisie. Finally released into the new world of the Soviet Union, the resigned officer finds that he has lost everything from his old life except a mantel clock that he carries through the night from place to place, until he ends up, like Rossellini's inmate seeking readmission to prison in Dovè la liberta?, back where he started. Read More

Watch The Seventh Companion online. Featuring Andrei Popov and Pyotr Chernov, The Seventh Companion is classified as War and Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6.8. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Russia and was released on 1968. The Seventh Companion was directed by Aleksey German. Read Less