Yakov Gudkin
Also Known As: Яков Гудкин
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Smolensk, Russian Empire
Birthday: March 19, 1905
Deathday: October 07, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Sky Slow-Mover
Overview: Three pilots are best friends and good fighters. During the WWII they are taking an oath to refrain from love until the end of the War. But soon they meet three women-pilots. One by one they give up the oath, and all three fall in love.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-12-28
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The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
Overview: The career of Spirka Shpandyr, a master pickpocket!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-11-08
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Skarlatina
Overview: Directed by Fridrikh Ermler.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1924-01-02
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House in the Snow-Drifts
Overview: An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg apartment because he was not needed in the revolutionary city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-04-01
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Shame
Overview: Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s. This film could be considered as a Stalin propaganda film. The plot involves an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1932-11-07
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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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Blue Express
Overview: Chinese workers start a rebellion, arm themselves and take over the train on which they are travelling and manage to break through the frontier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-12-05
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Talents and Admirers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-01-31
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Katka's Reinette Apples
Overview: A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest work in a factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-12-24
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Lady with the Dog
Overview: On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair. After a short time, she returns to Saratov, he to Moscow, believing it’s good-by forever. All winter he is miserable, enervated, distracted by tristesse. In desperation, he contrives to go to Saratov, surprising her at a concert. Fearing discovery in her home town, she promises to come to Moscow. Will they cast aside reputation to live together, or will theirs be an affair of infrequent encounters in hotel rooms?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-01-28
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The Parisian Cobbler
Overview: This little known Russian movie, from the director of the following year's Oblomok imperii/ A Fragment of Empire is both surprising and accomplished. The mute cobbler is interested in the local girl but she is already pregnant by one of the gang of sailor suit toughs. The Soviet Youth League secretary's only assistance to her is a book about sex in Russian literature and things turn nasty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-04-28
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The Enchanted Chemist
Overview: The hero of the picture is a young eccentric engineer who comes to work in the provinces and invents "shatterproof glass" there. The work on the film was long and difficult. In early 1937, attempts to save the film were stopped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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