Aleksandr Chistyakov
Biography: Aleksandr Chistyakov was born in 1880, he never graduated from high school, he worked as an accountant. From 1921 he studied at the First State Film School (Leo Kuleshov's workshop). Since 1925, he actively acted in films. The first role - a worker in the film "Arsenals" became a characteristic role for the subsequent work of the actor. He also was the champion of the Russian Empire in hammer throwing. Self-taught, he began to master hammer throwing at the end of the 19th century and in 1912 became the first record holder in Russia. He was a very good cyclist and an able wrestler too.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1880
Deathday: December 31, 1942
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Beautiful Garden
1935-10-07
Beautiful Garden
Overview: To help out his friend Lenya, Yura steals a Stradivarius violin belonging to the professor from his grandfather, a violin maker. Having learned about everything, the professor begins to study with the talented Lenya. Circus performers persuade Lenya to give up the violin and perform in the circus...
Genres: Family
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1935-10-07
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Возвращение
1940-11-29
Возвращение
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Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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A Personal Affair
1932-04-24
A Personal Affair
Overview: The best bell-ringer of the church Fedor Kuzmich Shtukov becomes the foreman of production at the shipyard. Communists and Komsomol members are trying to persuade Fedor to forget about the church, but in vain. Daughter Anna laughs in the face of her father - and in vain too. But when the plant desperately needed a scarce metal, Shtukov, painfully thinking about his native plant, supported the proposal of one of the workers to cast the billet from the church bell, and the vessel was ready for launch on time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1932-04-24
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The Miners
1937-08-22
The Miners
Overview: Semyon Primak, in the direction of the regional committee, arrives in one of the small towns of Donbas and immediately enters into battle with the chief of the mine, Chub, who, in a situation of continuous assault, plays into the hands of the Trotskyites and bandits operating in the mine. Having received moral support from the new secretary, the best 'udarnik', shockworker Matvey Bobylev implements a new method of coal mining and, contrary to the intentions of the enemy group, finds a wide response among the miners of Donbas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-08-22
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Mother
1926-10-11
Mother
Overview: A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-10-11
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Two-Buldi-Two
1929-01-01
Two-Buldi-Two
Overview: Naturally, the circus milieu of 2 Buldy 2 (1929) encourages stunts. A father and son, both clowns, are to perform together for the first time, but the civil war separates them, and the elder Buldy, tempted for a moment to acquiesce to the White forces, casts his lot with the revolution. At the climax Buldy Jr. escapes the Whites thanks to flashy trampoline and trapeze acrobatics; the gaping enemy soldiers forget to shoot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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The Thirteen
1937-05-08
The Thirteen
Overview: The film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Middle Asian desert. They are forced to do battle with superior forces of Basmachi rebels for the dry draw-well.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-05-08
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Storm Over Asia
1928-11-10
Storm Over Asia
Overview: In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the hills after brawling with the trader who cheated him. In 1920 he becomes a Soviet partisan, and helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the occupying British army. However he is captured by the British when they try to requisition cattle from the herdsmen at the same time as the commandant meets with a reincarnated Grand Lama. After the trapper is shot, the army discovers an amulet that suggests he is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. They find him still alive, so the army restores his health and plans to use him as the head of a puppet regime. The trapper is thus thrust into prominence as he is placed in charge of the puppet government. By the end, however, the "puppet" turns against his masters in an outburst of fury.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-11-10
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No One is Funnier than Us
1940-01-01
No One is Funnier than Us
Overview: A young man, Russian by nationality, goes to a Turkmen bride in a remote border village, not knowing that his large family decides to surprise him and also goes to Turkmenistan to meet the bride and her parents. The chain of comic misunderstandings ends with an episode of a skirmish on the border with saboteurs.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Outskirts
1933-03-25
Outskirts
Overview: In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
Genres: War Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1933-03-25
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Эх, яблочко, куды котишься
1926-12-26
Эх, яблочко, куды котишься
Overview: 1918 Odessa. German occupiers plunder the city. Sailor Petrus, who has lagged behind the Red Army detachment, saves one of the victims of bandit terror - the girl Marusya... Years have passed. The time has come for peaceful construction in the country. Red commander Petrus and Marusya, who has become a teacher, meet in Moscow in one of the cafes, where both were attracted by the sounds of the popular song “Eh, apple...”, accompanying the adventure of the heroes.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-12-26
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A Simple Case
1930-12-31
A Simple Case
Overview: As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER ASIA (1928), Vsevolod Pudovkin unleashed his flair for experimentation in what was supposed to be the director’s first sound feature. Everything went wrong: technical problems forced him to complete the film as a silent; viewers were baffled by the lack of a recognizable plot; then, the ideological climate of the Soviet Union changed. He was now being blamed for catering to bourgeois taste! Time has come to set the record straight. Here’s lyrical cinema at its best, deliberately operatic and yet intimate as it matches the characters’ inner life with the solemn rhythms of nature, and depicted through breathtaking black-and-white photography. A sensation at last year’s Pordenone fest, Pudovkin’s long-forgotten swan song to the art of montage is resurrected by Gabriel Thibaudeau’s emotionally charged live music performance. –PCU (USSR, 1930, 75m)
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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Misunderstood
1931-12-31
Misunderstood
Overview: The film tells about the class struggle in the countryside during the creation of the first collective farms. Only the first part has survived. Director Ivan Pyryev began work on the film. It has not been preserved in its entirety.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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The End of St. Petersburg
1927-12-13
The End of St. Petersburg
Overview: Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-12-13
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A Severe Young Man
2019-02-13
A Severe Young Man
Overview: The film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the 1930s. The cast of characters is extremely unlikely in almost every conventional respect. The action involves the household of the prominent Dr. Stepanov and his young wife, Masha, who share their large and richly adorned mansion with the parasitical Fedor Tsitronov, whose presence in the household is given only the most implausible of explanations. Equally implausible is the acquaintance of the family with the young and proud Grisha Fokin, whose leadership role in the Young Communist League is never clearly defined and who is never seen engaged in any work or professional activity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-02-13
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The Pilots
1935-04-24
The Pilots
Overview: The daredevil pilot Sergei Belyaev takes a risk flying a plane which is not properly maintained and crashes dangerously, landing in hospital, his plane going up in smoke. The aviation student Galya Bystrova, having a crush with Belyaev, unfortunately tends to imitate him in the air. Later, heeding the advice of the wise headmaster Rogachev, they become experienced pilots. Bystrova is assigned to Pamir, and Rogachev, in love with her, is sent to Sakhalin.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-04-24
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The Vyborg Side
1939-04-01
The Vyborg Side
Overview: The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins to fight off sabotaging underlings. Dymba, now a violent enemy of the Republic, tries to rob a wine store but is arrested with Maksim's help. Maksim also exposes a conspiracy of a group of tsarist officers who prepare an attempt against Lenin. He then joins the Red Army in its fight against the German occupation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-04-01
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Love and Hate
1935-03-03
Love and Hate
Overview: A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and decide to blow up the mine, the women organize a guerrilla action to stop them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-03-03
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Salamander
1928-04-11
Salamander
Overview: The film is based on real events and reveals the tragic episodes from the life of the Austrian biologist scientist-materialist Paul Kammerer (1880-1926), hunted by regressive scientists and Catholic reactionaries who committed suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-04-11
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The Return of Maxim
1937-04-01
The Return of Maxim
Overview: The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of the working-class in the Duma. Maksim, who just returned from exile, calls the workers to strike as a protest against the firing of six of their colleagues. The traitor Platon Dymba assaults Maksim, wounding him severely. When the strike unfolds the workers demonstrate by the thousands, the news of the outbreak of World War I suddenly arrives. Maksim gets drafted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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Deserter
1933-09-18
Deserter
Overview: A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1933-09-18
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Seaman's daughter
1941-02-03
Seaman's daughter
Overview: Together with other graduates of the Maritime Institute, Irina Zakharova returns to her native Odessa. At the distribution commission, she seeks the appointment of the first assistant to the captain on the infamous Pobeda vessel, with the most loosened crew. Carrying a personal example of sailors, Irina successfully fights for a turning point in the mood of sailors, and when the ship gets into a storm, she shows the outstanding qualities of a real sailor. Against the background of these events, the theme of lyrical relationships between Irina and the navigator of the red-flagged ship "Abkhazia" Vasily in love with her is unfolding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-02-03
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Daughter of the Motherland
1937-01-01
Daughter of the Motherland
Overview: On the detention of fascist saboteurs and border violators by the collective farmers of Soviet Byelorussia. The main heroine, the actual "daughter of the Motherland", is the chairman of the kolkhoz, and has detained eight trespassers. But the main enemy may be lurking from within the borders.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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I Love
1936-05-09
I Love
Overview: Once a long ago the father of Ostap left a village and came on earnings to Donbas. The lined up a shanty put beginning to miner's settlement of Sobacheevka. Ostap went on the way of father, thirty years of bending a back on the owner of mine. And when a father was driven out from work, Ostap understood that it is senseless to blame in the troubles only master.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-05-09
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Stepan Razin
1939-02-09
Stepan Razin
Overview: Don Cossack Stepan Razin boyars vowed revenge for his friends tortured torture. As head of the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of the whole army. With all the Russian land flock to him humiliated and oskorblennye.Tsar Alexey concerned the growing power Ataman. Church anathematizes Stepan collected in the march on Moscow. Regular king's troops manage to stop rebel forces near the walls Simbirska.Spodvizhniki perish, and the chieftain captured. Severe torture did not break the will of Razin.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-02-09
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The Drive of Death
1929-08-13
The Drive of Death
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-08-13
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