Ivan Chuvelyov
Also Known As: Иван Чувелёв, Иван Чувелев, И. Чувелёв, И. Чувелев
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 04, 1897
Deathday: December 31, 1942
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Siberian Patrol
Overview: The story of a British POW who converts to communism.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1931-04-01
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Heaven
Overview: Osoaviahimovets (volounteer military trainee) Andron organizes an aviation circle on his Volna collective farm and plans to build a parachute tower. Pilot Oreshkin, in love with Varenka, the daughter of the collective farm chairman, who is categorically opposed to aviation in the village, promises the guys to bring a parachute soon. And no matter how cunning the chairman is, young people still manage to convince him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-06-13
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Five Minutes
Overview: The news of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin shocked the whole world. The working people of England and France, Spain and China, Africa and America in the great sorrows bowed their heads. January 27, 1924 at four o'clock in the afternoon, when in Moscow, on Red Square, the Soviet people buried Lenin, in everything work stopped for five minutes. Plants and factories stopped, stopped the movement of trains, ships and cars. This day is large American concessionaire should have made a good deal with a representative of one of the countries of the East. On the way, the Chinese driver stopped his car for five minutes. These minutes decided the success of the millionth deal. But no persuasion, bribery and threats to the concessionaire could force the driver to continue driving.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1929-01-22
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Way of the Ship
Overview: The Soviet motor ship "Albanov", running into a submarine rock, crashes in North sea. Passengers and command on boats head for off-shore rocks and find temporal shelter. Getting a signal about the calamity of motor ship, detachment of divers-rescuers at the head with the chief of party - commissar Petrov - begin works on getting up "Albanov".
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-06-06
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Thunderstorm
Overview: The cinematic adaptation of "The Storm" play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive Katerina marries Tikhon, a violent drunkard, and thus enters the crude milieu of greedy salesmen, the "dark kingdom". Her mother-in-law, Kabanikha, rules the family with an iron fist and endlessly harasses Katerina. One day, when Tikhon is away, she meets Boris, a man who embodies everything Katerina is longing for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-03-25
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Metall
Overview: Directed by Hans Richter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-02
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Volga - Volga
Overview: Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-04-24
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My Apprenticeship
Overview: Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-09-12
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Minin and Pozharsky
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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The Red Village
Overview: The movie's opening sequence takes place in 1921, towards the end of Russia's civil war, as the Red Army are vanquishing the last Menshevik forces of the White Guard along the western frontier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-04-08
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Woman's World
Overview: A young peasant woman decides to become a tractor driver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1932-01-22
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The End of St. Petersburg
Overview: Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-12-13
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For the Soviet Motherland
Overview: The film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into Karelia, killed Soviet activists, burned houses ... In the rear of the enemy with a special task - to destroy the headquarters of the White Finns on the Kimas Lake - a detachment of Soviet cadets under the command of Toivo Antikainen (Oleg Zhakov) was sent.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-10-26
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The White Eagle
Overview: The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-10-09
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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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Peasants
Overview: The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-04-01
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Yudishka Golovlyov
Overview: Film adaptation of The Golovlyov Family ("Господа Головлёвы), a classic novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. In the mid-19th century old-fashioned estate based on serfdom laws and traditions, tough and shrewd Arina Petrovna tries her best to make her realm prosper and even expand – despite unwillingness of her husband and three of her four children to lend helping hands... Ten years on, serfdom abolished, and now Porfiry-Yudishka, the epitome of a corrupt, cruel hypocrite, becomes the heir to the estate. Dullness and horrors of life, spent in destroying everybody around him, finally makes him to slowly realize things went somehow wrong. Half-mad, apparently, he goes to the cemetery to "ask for forgiveness" from his mother Arina Petrovna, and dies somewhere along his way, his frozen corpse found the next day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-01-23
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Zangezur
Overview: The film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1938-05-23
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I Love
Overview: Once a long ago the father of Ostap left a village and came on earnings to Donbas. The lined up a shanty put beginning to miner's settlement of Sobacheevka. Ostap went on the way of father, thirty years of bending a back on the owner of mine. And when a father was driven out from work, Ostap understood that it is senseless to blame in the troubles only master.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-05-09
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The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-11-13
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