Vladimir Chestnokov
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 12, 1904
Deathday: May 15, 1968
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Don César de Bazan
1957-09-02
Don César de Bazan
Overview: Based on the play of the same name by F. Dumanoir and D'Ennery about the pure and strong love of the dancer Maritana, the favorite of the poor of Madrid, and the unemployed vagabond - Grand , a courageous and noble defender of the oppressed.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-09-02
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The Seagull
1964-01-01
The Seagull
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Naval Battalion
1946-01-01
Naval Battalion
Overview: Soviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Executed at the Dawn
1965-04-19
Executed at the Dawn
Overview: About Lenin's brother Alexander Ulyanov and his comrades' fight against the Russian autocracy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-04-19
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Academician Ivan Pavlov
1949-02-21
Academician Ivan Pavlov
Overview: Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov’s dismay, he orders the destruction of a beautiful apple orchard. 1894: Experimenting on dogs, Pavlov tries to comprehend the interaction between nerves and external signals governing digestion. In 1904, he formulates the principles of conditional reflexes. When Zvantsev, an opponent of Pavlov’s materialist worldview, leaves the laboratory, the scientist hires Varvara Ivanova who becomes his most reliable assistant. 1912: Pavlov receives an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. 1917: Despite Pavlov’s political scepticism, the Bolshevik administration treats him with great respect.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-02-21
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Little Tragedies
Little Tragedies
Overview: Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight, The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri
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Original Language: ru
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Russian Pioneers
1967-11-01
Russian Pioneers
Overview: 1918. Workers from Petrograd come to Altai region to establish the first agricultural commune. In spite of the hostility of the local White Army cossacks the workers build houses, cultivate land. The poor peasants are turning towards the commune. However, White Army cossacks take vengeance on the members of the commune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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713th Asks for Landing
1961-12-31
713th Asks for Landing
Overview: Transatlantic flight 713 is in trouble because the pilot and crew are poisoned while flying above the ocean. Now the passengers have to take control to save their lives.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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Green carriage
1967-06-06
Green carriage
Overview: Varvara Aksenkova - the great Russian actress of the first half of the XIX century. Her tragic creative fate and early death served as the basis for this film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-06-06
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Taras Shevchenko
1951-12-17
Taras Shevchenko
Overview: Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people. The poems of Shevchenko are imbued with love for the common people. Fiery freedom-loving creativity of Taras Shevchenko is known throughout Russia. Nicholas I exiles the poet to the distant Caspian fort where he is to serve as an ordinary soldier and is banned from writing or drawing. In the poet's difficult days he has the support of Ukrainian soldier Skobelev, Polish revolutionary Sierakowski, captain Kosarev and the commandant of the fortress, Uskov. For the sake of his release Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov are hard at work. And so, the sick and aged Shevchenko is finally free. Together with Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, he dreams of a bright future of the motherland, when the Russian and Ukrainian peoples throw off the chains of slavery.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-12-17
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Professor Mamlock
1938-09-04
Professor Mamlock
Overview: Made in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Professor Mamlock was one of the first films worldwide to tackle Nazi anti-Semitism openly. Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappaport, the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politically-aware, fascism-resisting son, an intern, as their lives become entangled with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany, where they live and practice. Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital, and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-09-04
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Pirogov
1947-12-16
Pirogov
Overview: A biopic based on the life of Russian scientist and doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881), famous for being the founder of field surgery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-12-16
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Belinsky
1953-06-04
Belinsky
Overview: A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production of the film was completed in 1951, but it was not released until 1953, following the reshooting of various scenes demanded by Stalin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-06-04
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October Days
1958-01-01
October Days
Overview: Historical drama depicting the events leading up to the 1917 October Revolution produced to celebrate the 40th anniversary.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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I Love You, Life
1961-06-10
I Love You, Life
Overview: Timofej Korneev is a fresh member of the Communist Party. He works as an engineer for Leningrad candy factory. Since most of its colleagues are young girls he soon finds himself in a love triangle. Moreover, there's a third girl trapped by a scheming Jehovah Witnesses sect. Will Timofej be able to stop the brainwashing?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-06-10
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Defeat of Yudenich
1941-04-24
Defeat of Yudenich
Overview: About the struggle of the red Army and the revolutionary workers of Petrograd against the white guards in 1919....
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-04-24
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The Very First Space
1962-04-09
The Very First Space
Overview: After a test flight, pilot Sergei Sazonov was invited to a group of astronauts. Intensive preparation begins for the flight into space: classes in the weightlessness chamber, constant study. Sergei decides that he does not have the right to meet with a cheerful student Natasha, whom his friends accuse of frivolity. But their telephone conversation ends up asking him to marry him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-04-09
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The Gadfly
1955-04-12
The Gadfly
Overview: Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization “Young Italy”, envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and is jealous of his bride Gemma. He talks about this at a confession to a priest, as a result of which gendarmes take revolutionaries under arrest...
Genres: Drama Action War Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-04-12
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Alexander Popov
1949-05-03
Alexander Popov
Overview: A biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer, inventor of radio communications Alexander Semenovich Popov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-05-03
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Chetvyortyy periskop
1939-01-01
Chetvyortyy periskop
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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His Time Will Come
1958-12-17
His Time Will Come
Overview: Kazakh scientist and traveler, Chokan Valikhanov studied at St. Petersburg University and was well known in Russia. When sent to war against the Kazakhs, Valikhanov was forced to make a choice between Tzar and native land.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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