Yuliya Solntseva
Biography: Yuliya Solntseva is a Soviet director and actress, known for The Enchanted Desna (1964), Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961), Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) and Poem of the Sea (1958). She is the first woman to win Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 07, 1901
Deathday: October 28, 1989
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Aelita: Queen of Mars
1924-09-24
Aelita: Queen of Mars
Overview: A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1924-09-24
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Earth
1930-04-08
Earth
Overview: Vasyl, a member of the Komsomol, with the help of a local party organization, gets a tractor and plows private boundaries "on kulak fields". However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1930-04-08
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Jimmy Higgings
1928-10-09
Jimmy Higgings
Overview: Jimmy Higgings is a worker of the plant making weapons for the Tsarist Russia and the German Empire. During World War I, Jimmy speaks at a spontaneous rally against the war. He is arrested. When released, he becomes unemployed. He is happy to hear the news about the revolution; he volunteers into the American expeditionary force thinking that having the weapons he can fight against Germans – the enemies of the Russian revolution. However, finding himself in Russia, Jimmy soon realises that the expeditionary force of American volunteers fights not against the Germans, but against the young Socialist Russia. Without any hesitations, he takes the path of revolutionary struggle, he spreads propaganda among the American soldiers and distributes Bolshevik leaflets. Captured by the American military police, Jimmy Higgings does not betray his friends. He is sentenced to twenty years in a military prison. Jimmy cannot stand it and loses his mind…
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-10-09
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The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
1924-12-02
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
Overview: As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigarettes on the sidewalk, and he frequently buys cigarettes from her even though he does not smoke. One day, a film crew uses Zina as an extra in an outdoor scene, and the cameraman, Latugin, falls in love with her. Latugin soon arranges an acting job for Zina. To complicate matters further, Zina has yet another admirer in Oliver MacBride, an American businessman who is visiting Moscow.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1924-12-02
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Dve zhenshchiny
1929-10-01
Dve zhenshchiny
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-10-01
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