Nina Shaternikova
Also Known As: Нина Шатерникова
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian Empire
Birthday: May 16, 1902
Deathday: October 27, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Lieutenant Kizhe
Overview: A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The courtiers, eager to avoid the wrath of the temperamental Tsar, create a Kizhe to serve as their royal scapegoat.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-03-07
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This Is How Mayakovsky Began
Overview: Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian Futurist poet of the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in 1893, into a Russian Cossack family in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire. There he spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi. Mayakovsky moved to Moscow at the age of 14, after his father's death. He became a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer/director and public speaker.
Genres: Drama Family History
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1959-08-24
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Lermontov
Overview: Chronicle of the life of Russian poet Michail Lermontov, from the final days of Alexandr Pushkin to the fatal destiny of the poet himself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-07-07
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The Gentlefolks of Skotinin
Overview: A comedy starring Nina Shaternikova, The Skotinins is loosely based on the 18th century play The Minor by Denis Fonvizin. In it, the upper class is shown as both depraved and stupid, engaging a variety of absurd, over-the-top follies.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-01-10
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Professor Mamlock
Overview: Made in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Professor Mamlock was one of the first films worldwide to tackle Nazi anti-Semitism openly. Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappaport, the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politically-aware, fascism-resisting son, an intern, as their lives become entangled with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany, where they live and practice. Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital, and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-09-04
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Lace
Overview: Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical of Russian cinema. And Kruzheva is a good example of that as he illustrates the friendly rivalries between the youths on village in both a very rough and clowning way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-06-01
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Chyornyy parus
Overview: The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-07-01
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Станица Дальняя
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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Sud chesti
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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Youth of the poet
Overview: Biographical film "Youth of the poet", dedicated to Pushkin-Lyceum student. At the 1937 world exhibition in Paris, the film was awarded a gold medal. The Director managed to accurately recreate the historic era, to convey the atmosphere of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in the years of the formation of the poetic genius of Pushkin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-02-10
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