Aleksandr Melnikov
Also Known As: А. Мельников
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Adult: No
Birthday: May 25, 1906
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 14, 2004
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July 11
Overview:
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-10-20
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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 History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-03-22
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Sasha
Overview: A Russian woman tells the tragic story of her life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1930-04-25
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The Republic of ShKID
Overview: The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Song of Happiness
Overview: A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-04-01
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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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Baltic Deputy
Overview: A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-03-27
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Defeat of Yudenich
Overview: About the struggle of the red Army and the revolutionary workers of Petrograd against the white guards in 1919....
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-04-24
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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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Hectic Days
Overview: A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-05-01
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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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The Lonely White Sail
Overview: Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-11-25
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Street Is Full of Surprises
Overview: Chief accountant Porfiry Petrovich Smirnov-Alyansky, who took a good walk on the anniversary of his colleague cashier Ivan Zakharovich Vodnev, climbs into the traffic controller's booth and disrupts traffic on one of the streets of Leningrad. However, the guard Vasiliy Shaneshkin mistakenly delivers to the police station not an escaped offender, but a quite decent cashier. In addition, Vodnev, offended by the police, turns out to be the father of the bride Shaneshkin — Katya. Vasiliy admits his guilt, but, not daring to explain himself, leaves the angry Ivan Zakharovich with bad thoughts about the Soviet police. Fortunately, the young sergeant will soon have an opportunity to prove to others the responsibility and conscientiousness of the police officers.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-01-21
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Wagtail's Army
Overview: The civil war in Russia, guerrillas fighting with Kolchak formations. As a result of sabotage, accident with white Russian train takes place. In disaster area the flag with the inscription "Wagtail's Army" is found. Kolchak commanders think that they are Bolsheviks, but guerrilla leader does not know anything. It turns out that this is work of three boys.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-28
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Musicians of the Same Regiment
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Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-09-13
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On the Wild Shore
Overview: The story of the confrontation between chief engineer Petin, a careerist and a fraudster, and Litvinov, an experienced construction supervisor, a solid, direct and generous man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-02-27
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My Motherland
Overview:
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1933-10-31
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Помни, Каспар!
Overview: In January 1945 during WWII, German corporal Kaspar and a Russian fugitive become partners in survival.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-09-20
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Shyol soldat s fronta
Overview: The film takes place during the German occupation of Ukraine in 1919, the main characters are folk characters - the brave soldier Semon Kotko and the beautiful girl Sofya.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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At the Breaking Point
Overview: After his father's death, teenager Viktor Tsaplin was sent by his stepmother, who suspected the boy of stealing watches, to an Odessa orphanage. The guys met the new guy unfriendly, and when the teacher's antique watch was missing, Victor was considered the culprit. After enrolling in a nautical school and once going to sea with tipsy fishermen, Victor crashes a boat. He is being expelled from the college. Deciding to start a new life and in a new place, Victor leaves to work as a fireman in Kamchatka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-12-09
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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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Улица Ньютона, дом 1
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-10-21
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