Mikhail Astangov
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 03, 1900
Deathday: April 21, 1965
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The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
1953-01-05
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
Overview: Sadko is based on an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was based on a Russian epic tale of the same name. In the old Russian city of Novgorod, the merchants are feasting in a gorgeous palace and Sadko is bragging that he can bring to their land a sweet-voiced bird of happiness. They laugh at him, but he is offered help by the Ocean King's daughter, who is mesmerized by Sadko's singing and is in love with him. The hero is destined to visit many lands in his search of the bird. First shown in the USA in 1953 with English subtitles. This entry is for 1962 English-dub by Roger Corman's Filmgroup, which runs about 8 minutes shorter (removes much of the music) than the Russian original (see, Sadko, 1953)
Genres: Action Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-01-05
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Princess Mary
1955-08-15
Princess Mary
Overview: Screen adaptation of the chapter of the same name by M. Yu. Lermontov “A Hero of Our Time”. Pechorin, having learned about his friend Grushnitsky's passion for Princess Mary Ligovskaya, out of boredom and a desire to annoy the completely false cadet, falls in love with the girl. The film tells about the romantic story of Pechorin, whose reckless love game turns into a tragedy for himself - a man who clearly does not fit into the laws of the time in which fate has sentenced him to live...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-08-15
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The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
1965-01-01
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
Overview: A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Battle of Stalingrad
1949-11-11
The Battle of Stalingrad
Overview: A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-11-11
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A Captain at Fifteen
1945-06-06
A Captain at Fifteen
Overview: A classic movie based on a famous "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen" novel by Jules Verne.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-06-06
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General Suvorov
1941-01-23
General Suvorov
Overview: Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Russia and Austria against Napoleon.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-01-23
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Conveyor of Death
1933-11-06
Conveyor of Death
Overview: Directed by Ivan Pyryev.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1933-11-06
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The Murderers Are Coming
1942-01-01
The Murderers Are Coming
Overview: Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, including "the Physicist", "Judicial Process", and "the Jewish Wife".
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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The Mystery of the Eternal Night
1956-04-13
The Mystery of the Eternal Night
Overview: At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, an explosion occurred, as a result the underwater vegetation started to grow rapidly in size and a part of the coast was flooded by a tsunami.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-04-13
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The Third Blow
1948-04-26
The Third Blow
Overview: On April 1944, Joseph Stalin orders the Red Army to liberate the Crimea from the German occupiers. The Wehrmacht's local commanders beg Hitler to allow them to retreat from the vulnerable position, but he refuses. After a fierce battle, the Soviet forces destroy the German and Romanian units defending the peninsula and retake Sevastopol.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-04-26
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Minin and Pozharsky
1939-11-03
Minin and Pozharsky
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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The Russian Question
1948-03-08
The Russian Question
Overview: The film is based on the play by K. Simonov. It is the story of an American journalist who spends time in Russia and sees socialism in action. Upon his return to the U.S., a prestigious editor asks him to write a book about his experience. He receives a handsome advance for the project and he and his fiancée are able to buy a house, a car, and other symbols of the American dream. But the editor’s generosity comes with a caveat: the book must present a negative picture of Soviet society. Will he simply keep the money and do what is expected of him, or will he instead tell the truth?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-03-08
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Kotovsky
1943-01-07
Kotovsky
Overview: Kotovsky, who went a long revolutionary way and became the recognized military commander of the cavalry troops: commander, brigade commander, commander. Six times he escaped from prison, was sentenced to death, and again escaped to become one of the most ardent warriors of the revolution. His famous equestrian brigade fought with the enemy near Kiev and the Belaya Tserkov, at Nikolaev and Odessa, and did not know defeat anywhere.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-01-07
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Dream
1943-09-13
Dream
Overview: The spiritual and material misery of a group of people inhabiting the hotel of the title during the War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-09-13
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The District Secretary
1942-11-30
The District Secretary
Overview: A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-11-30
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Maximka
1952-06-19
Maximka
Overview: Saved by Russian sailors black boy turned out to be the smart and kind nipper.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1952-06-19
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The Oppenheim Family
1939-01-02
The Oppenheim Family
Overview: Directed by Grigori Roshal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-01-02
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They Have a Motherland
1949-04-29
They Have a Motherland
Overview: The Great Patriotic War is over, but Major Sorokin and Colonel Dobrygin still have a lot to do for their homeland. They must go to West Germany in order to find and return the children who were taken out of the Soviet Union by the Nazis and are now kept in atrocious conditions under the supervision of British intelligence. Former allies want to grow real spies out of their children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-04-29
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Young Fritz
1943-11-23
Young Fritz
Overview: War-time satire about the inhumanity of the nazis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-11-23
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Spring flow
1940-12-29
Spring flow
Overview: After graduation, Nadia Kulagina comes to work in a school where she once studied. After her appearance, the most hopeless student Dimka Lopatin, who was even wanted to be expelled from school, becomes one of the best students and a faithful friend of the new class teacher.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-12-29
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Convicts
1936-12-10
Convicts
Overview: In northward far camp NKVD arrives echelon with the group of prisoners. Among them there are an engineer Sadovskiy and inveterate criminal Kostya, that quickly becomes the ringleader of barrack and forbids to all the appearances at work. The officials of cheka begin a persistent and tactful fight for the change of these people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-12-10
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Going Inside a Storm
1965-11-15
Going Inside a Storm
Overview: Sergei Krylov and Oleg Tulin, are promising young physicists in the field of thunderstorms. They dream of weather control. But later their ways in science parted - Oleg is ready to tradeoff his standpoints for personal success, but Sergei knows that the truth is more critical.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-11-15
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Without Prejudice
1947-11-03
Without Prejudice
Overview: The film was made on the basis of the literary version of events in the life of the famous Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, biologist and traveler who studied the indigenous population of South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-11-03
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The Mexican
1956-04-13
The Mexican
Overview: Based on the short story by Jack London. 1910 year. Mexican patriots are preparing an uprising against the dictatorship of Diaz. Young Felipe Rivera joins the revolutionary junta, whose father and mother were shot by dictators. The hour of rebellion is near, but the heroes lack weapons. To get the necessary amount of money, Rivera decides to perform in the ring against Ward, America’s strongest boxer...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-04-13
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Крутые ступени
1957-07-25
Крутые ступени
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-07-25
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The Shareholders
1963-07-11
The Shareholders
Overview: Soviet propaganda cartoon depicting the evils of American capitalism. A worker who owns a small share in a big company is living large, until his company replaces its workers with robots and its small shares become worthless. The shareholder finds himself alone in a cruel world.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-07-11
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Wishes Come True
1957-03-21
Wishes Come True
Overview: If anything's possible, what's important?
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-03-21
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