Aleksandr Larikov
Also Known As: Александр Лариков
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sankt Petersburg, Russian Empire
Birthday: August 29, 1890
Deathday: May 13, 1960
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Peter the First, Part I
Overview: This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs. Rulers like Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great were widely admired for their dedication to Russia and their absolute determination to enhance her position in the world. But praise for the hated later Romanovs conflicted too heavily with the very beliefs that had brought about the Revolution in 1917.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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The Poet and the Tsar
Overview: Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff. Pushkin hears rumours of D’Anthès’s love for his wife and challenges him to a duel. The officer attempts to save his life by marrying Natalia’s sister Ekaterina. Returning from his country estate, Pushkin receives anonymous letters and insists on a duel with D’Anthès.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-09-20
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Once Upon a Girl
Overview: Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.
Genres: Family Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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Andreyka
Overview: The July days of 1917 in Petrograd. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets, including the elderly and children. They are marching with red banners, singing songs. And suddenly, machine gun fire is heard from the attic. The dead and wounded fall to the pavement. And immediately detachments of mounted Cossacks poured out of the alleys... Andreika, the son of a St. Petersburg worker, miraculously survived this altercation. But little Elena's mother was killed. That's how Andreika got a little sister. The Provisional Government issues a decree on Lenin's arrest. There are spies all over Petrograd. One of them, Ensign Kolokov, disguised as Uncle Vitya's janitor, settled not far from Andreika's house.
Genres: Family History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-09-25
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Simple People
Overview: A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-12-31
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Beethoven Concerto
Overview: Two young boys are learning to play violin and getting ready to participate in a great music competition.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-12-09
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Unfinished Story
Overview: The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She is lonely, although she is cared for by a confident and promising colleague. Yelizaveta Maksimovna has one patient, a manly, full-energy ship builder Yershov, chained to the bed with a paralysis of both legs. All doctors recommend him rest, and Elizaveta Maksimovna advises to work and not feel sorry for herself. Yershov with all his heart falls in love with his doctor, and she loves him, but she does not dare to say her feelings. Ershov thinks that he has no hopes, but...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-10-17
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Naval Battalion
Overview: Soviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Life in Your Hands
Overview: The film is based on authentic events that took place in 1957 in Kursk. Fifteen years after the war, the sappers will have to clear away the ammunition depot left by the German's. The town rebuilt with such difficulty is under threat of explosion...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-05-23
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Alexander Popov
Overview: A biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer, inventor of radio communications Alexander Semenovich Popov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-05-03
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Man in a Shell
Overview: The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a case, on the principle: “no matter what happens”. By this principle, he literally "terrorized" the gymnasium and the villagers. Hope appeared when Varenka arrived in the village - “not a girl, but marmalade”, although she was already aged, and “did not mind being married, even if only to a teacher of the Greek language”.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-05-25
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Tanker "Derbent"
Overview: One night, the crew of the Derbent tanker receives a signal about oil ignition on the Agamali tanker. Despite the fire threatening to spill onto the ship, Derbent is in a hurry to help ...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-06-09
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The Value of Everything
Overview: The young chairman of the collective farm, Roman Baklanov, once made a mistake: having given in to his wife and her relatives, he helped out his father-in-law, who drank the collective farm's hay, and gave him a fictitious certificate. Then, due to Baklanov’s fault, an honest guy was arrested, and he again did not find the strength to correct the situation. But when the scammers demanded that Baklanov himself directly participate in their dark affairs, Roman went to the secretary of the district committee for support...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-09-18
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