Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky
Also Known As: Александр Сашин-Никольский
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian Empire
Adult: No
Birthday: September 12, 1894
Age: 130 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 27, 1967
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Herdsman's Song
Overview: A young singer from Buryat-Mongolian collective farm is sent to Moscow to study. Despite his strong voice, he fails a music exam. After the police station he becomes a soloist in a choir and a police sergeant, while studying music reading and dreaming of a conservatory.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-03-12
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Man of Music
Overview: The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.
Genres: History Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1952-06-06
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The Anna Cross
Overview: Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-05-13
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Boots
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-11-23
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Behind the Footlights
Overview: Russian Empire, the middle of the XIX century. Aged, beggar dramatic actor Lev Gurych Sinichkin, in search of work, wanders through the cities with his young daughter Liza. They dream that Lisa someday will succeed on stage and become a famous actress.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-06-28
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The Volunteers
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name in the verses of Yevgeni Dolmatovsky. Together with hundreds of other boys and girls, Komsomol members Kolya Kaitanov, Slava Ufimtsev, Alyosha Akishin, Lyolya and Masha came to the construction of the first stage of the Moscow metro. They are united by the romance of the feat, the desire to always be on the most difficult and dangerous site. A romantic and heroic story about the Komsomol members of the 1930s, about the fate of the generation that endured the construction of the first stage of the Moscow Metro, the war, the post-war reconstruction of the country.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-10-20
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Truth is Good, But Happiness is Better
Overview: The imperious old woman Mavra Tarasovna, the mother of the Moscow merchant Amos Panfilovich Baraboshev, is looking for a general groom for her granddaughter Polyxena.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1952-01-14
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Ekaterina Voronina
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-05-18
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