Sergei Gerasimov
Biography: Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov (21 May 1906 – 26 November 1985) was one of the most reputable Soviet film directors and screenwriters. The oldest film school in the world, the VGIK, bears his name. Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. At first he appeared in Kozintsev and Trauberg films, such as The Overcoat and The New Babylon. Later, he was commissioned to produce screen versions of the literary classics of Socialist realism. His epic screenings of Alexander Fadeyev's The Young Guard (1948) and Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don (1957–58) were extolled by the authorities as exemplary. During several decades of their teaching in the VGIK Gerasimov and his wife Tamara Makarova prepared many generations of Russian actors. In his last movie Gerasimov played Leo Tolstoy, while Makarova was cast as Tolstoy's wife. Gerasimov is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery of Moscow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sergei Gerasimov (film director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 21, 1906
Deathday: November 26, 1985
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Daughters-Mothers
1975-03-27
Daughters-Mothers
Overview: The young girl Olga Vasilyeva grew up in an orphanage. She never knew her mother and wants to find her. The only trace she has is a preserved letter from her mother from her personal file, which she managed to get from the administration of the orphanage. For a short vacation at her factory school, she travels from Sverdlovsk to Moscow following the unreliable traces of this letter. Yelena Alekseyevna — the woman she finds when she arrives at the address turns out to be a teacher in a ballet school, the wife of an ordinary senior teacher at the Moscow Technical Institute (who didn't defend his dissertation and is complacent about this) and an old-Moscow intellectual. She kindly meets her, but she is not the person Olga is looking for, she only has the same last name and first name and consonant middle name. She is kind and hospitable, ready to help the girl find her real mother and offers Olga to visit her house during a short stay in Moscow.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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Wake Lena Up
1934-04-08
Wake Lena Up
Overview: Lenochka dreams about cowboys and indians while her brother plays tricks on her while she sleeps. The story of a little schoolgirl who was always late for lessons, and her friends who came up with an original way to re-educate a truant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-04-08
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Just Life...
1987-08-27
Just Life...
Overview: About the creative path and pedagogical activity of the Soviet film director and actor S.A. Gerasimov.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-08-27
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Lev Tolstoy
1984-10-26
Lev Tolstoy
Overview: The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. We shall hear “the voice of his thoughts”. In his sleepless nights, we shall follow his memory of the happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. We shall witness Tolstoy’s tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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Stars Meet in Moscow
1959-08-30
Stars Meet in Moscow
Overview: Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-08-30
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Fragment of an Empire
1929-10-28
Fragment of an Empire
Overview: Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a decade after the Great War as a shell-shocked amnesiac, until a glimpse of a woman through a train window sparks the return of his memory. He makes his way back to St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, a man out of time who struggles to make sense of the new society brought about by the revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-10-28
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The New Babylon
1929-01-01
The New Babylon
Overview: In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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The Overcoat
1926-05-10
The Overcoat
Overview: Soviet film based on Nikolai Gogol stories "Nevsky Prospekt" and "The Overcoat".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-05-10
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The Journalist
1967-09-23
The Journalist
Overview: A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of responsibility to those whom he was obliged to protect...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-09-23
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Masquerade
1941-09-16
Masquerade
Overview: Taken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov's Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing whose bracelet it belongs to, she gives it to an ardent Calvary officer admirer at the ball. This leads to deeper and deeper incisions upon the urbane social body of Tsarist Russia. A drama of pride, marital distrust, gambling, infidelity and humiliation twirls around the decaying corpse of a perverted social class.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-09-16
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The Devil's Wheel
1926-03-15
The Devil's Wheel
Overview: Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-03-15
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Men and Beasts
1962-11-02
Men and Beasts
Overview: The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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Chuzhoy pidzhak
1927-01-01
Chuzhoy pidzhak
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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The Club of the Big Deed
1927-03-22
The Club of the Big Deed
Overview: The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides that it's time for a game. But on whom to make a bet? He asks the cards. But he's not the only one who makes the choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-03-22
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One Hour With Kozintsev
1970-03-22
One Hour With Kozintsev
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-03-22
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Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
1976-02-02
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Overview: A semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov. Includes newsreels from the 1930s, footage from films featuring Aleynikov and interviews with his closest friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-02-02
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Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
1973-05-21
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-05-21
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VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979-03-22
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Overview: The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-03-22
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