Vera Maretskaya
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 31, 1906
Deathday: August 17, 1978
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The Tailor from Torzhok
1925-04-09
The Tailor from Torzhok
Overview: A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky), bought a lottery ticket and handed it to his landlord, widow Shirinkina (Deykun) who wants to marry him. Petya is a hard-working tailor trying to start his own business. He is also in love with Katya (Maretskaya), whom he wants to marry. He has to survive a cascade of funny situations in the unstable Soviet reality, before his romance with Katya comes to a happy ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1925-04-09
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Our Cinema
1940-07-01
Our Cinema
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-07-01
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Generation of Victors
1936-11-05
Generation of Victors
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-11-05
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The Village Teacher
1947-06-06
The Village Teacher
Overview: A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people and examples by 1880s revolutionary "People's Will" member teachers, a young woman spent her life in a village and evidenced the changes a Russian village has undergone from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to late 1940s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-06-06
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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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No Greater Love
1943-05-20
No Greater Love
Overview: The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before her eyes. She and the other villagers leave to go into the woods. Pasha leads the villagers to fight some German troops. Coming out victories, the partisans become a feared opponent of the Germans, with the leadership of Comrade P.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-05-20
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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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An Easy Life
1964-08-24
An Easy Life
Overview: A chemist by training, Alexandr Bochkin manages a Moscow dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise," run in conjunction with "Queen Margot". But when his old friend from the chemical institute, Yuri Lebedev arrives in Moscow from the Siberian city of Dalnegorsk, along with a traveling companion, Olga, Bochkin becomes uncomfortable with his job title.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-08-24
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Call to Arms
1936-04-29
Call to Arms
Overview:
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-04-29
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Wedding
1944-06-15
Wedding
Overview: According to the eponymous vaudeville by A.P. Chekhov. Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov, who has been caring for Dasha all summer, has dined every day with them and has proved himself to be his bridegroom, is not going to marry at all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-06-15
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The Paris Commune
1936-12-20
The Paris Commune
Overview: "Paris Commune," 1870-1871. Poor working class in Paris rises up against their oppressors as France is defeated by Germany in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian war.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-12-20
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The House on Trubnaya
1928-08-30
The House on Trubnaya
Overview: Life is short and full of oppression, but that doesn't mean Parasha can't find love and laughter when she leaves her country home to take a job as a maid in the overcrowded, overworked, and underpaid world in the big city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-08-30
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Mother
1956-02-14
Mother
Overview: Timid old woman Pelageya Nilovna observes the revolutionary activities of her son Pavel Vlasov and gradually comes to realize that his cause is a great and noble one. She involves herself in the movement and finds joy and great courage in her new life as a revolutionary. Based on Gorky's novel, filmed in the silent era by Pudovkin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-02-14
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The Artamonov Case
1941-01-01
The Artamonov Case
Overview: Fabrikant, Ilya Artamonov of the former serfs. His desire to strengthen and develop the business knows no obstacles. He is still associated with the peasants and craftsmen, but with his death, this relationship ends. Between Peter Artamonov, his son, who became the owner of the factory, and the workers grows a wall of enmity. The first political speeches are brewing. On the side of the proletariat becomes the heir artemovskogo case Ilya Artamonov, Jr.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Polyushko, pole
1957-03-15
Polyushko, pole
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-03-15
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Member of the Government
1940-03-08
Member of the Government
Overview: In the 1930s, during Collectivization, we follow Alexandra Sokolova, who having joined a kolkhoz, is promoted by the Party to the management of the farm: she becomes chairman of the kolkhoz, courageously coping with the difficulties of collectivization, the distrust of some fellow villagers, and family conflict.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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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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Night Call
1970-07-21
Night Call
Overview: At the heart of the plot - the erroneous message about the death of Varvara Antonovna gathers around her son, daughter-in-law and grandson. They feel a sense of deep guilt, so carelessly treating a loved one for a number of years
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-07-21
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His Call
1925-01-02
His Call
Overview: The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1925-01-02
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Among Good People
1962-11-22
Among Good People
Overview: In the first days of the war, the mother lost her little daughter. Mikhailina found her and took her in, no doubt that she could become her real mother. All subsequent years she lived for the sake of the girl. But as time went on, the real mother continued to look for her child...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-11-22
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The Night Before Christmas
1951-01-01
The Night Before Christmas
Overview: Based on the work of Mykola Hohol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can present his sweetheart.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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The Strange Mrs. Savage
1976-04-03
The Strange Mrs. Savage
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-04-03
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Pages From The Autobiography
1968-04-30
Pages From The Autobiography
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-04-30
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The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe
1934-11-13
The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-11-13
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