Boris Shlikhting
Also Known As: Борис Шлихтинг, Б. Шлихтинг
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Russian Empire
Birthday: November 24, 1890
Deathday: September 15, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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July 11
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Genres: History War Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-10-20
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A Man Changes its Skin
Overview: The construction of the Vakhsh Canal, one of the largest new buildings of the first five-year plan, is underway. Two Americans are coming here under contract. A seasoned spy, Colonel Bailey, who introduced himself as the harmless traveler Mr. Murry, would later be caught red-handed and exposed. And Mr. Clark, who came to the "make money" channel, will gradually become convinced that work and politics are not such different concepts. Not accepting socialism, he quite sincerely sympathizes with the enthusiasm of the Soviet people. Love for the translator - Komsomol member Maria Polozova - helps Clark to comprehend what is happening.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-05-30
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Jimmy Higgings
Overview: Jimmy Higgings is a worker of the plant making weapons for the Tsarist Russia and the German Empire. During World War I, Jimmy speaks at a spontaneous rally against the war. He is arrested. When released, he becomes unemployed. He is happy to hear the news about the revolution; he volunteers into the American expeditionary force thinking that having the weapons he can fight against Germans – the enemies of the Russian revolution. However, finding himself in Russia, Jimmy soon realises that the expeditionary force of American volunteers fights not against the Germans, but against the young Socialist Russia. Without any hesitations, he takes the path of revolutionary struggle, he spreads propaganda among the American soldiers and distributes Bolshevik leaflets. Captured by the American military police, Jimmy Higgings does not betray his friends. He is sentenced to twenty years in a military prison. Jimmy cannot stand it and loses his mind…
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-10-09
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The Case of the Three Million
Overview: History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a religious community.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-04-28
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Sniper
Overview: During World War 1 a Russian soldier (Pyotr Sobolevsky) serves in Russian Expeditionary Force in France where he is chosen for his marksmanship and trained as a skilled sniper. After the Russian revolution the soldier returns home while his commander (Boris Shlikhting) fights against the Soviet Russia. In 1930 the former soldier works on a factory and also he is the instructor in shooting club. Once the town that is near the Soviet border is attacked by foreign troops (the hostile state isn't named but the uniform of the soldiers resembles Finnish). The character meets againt with his former commander who serves in invading forces.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1932-08-24
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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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Treasure of the Wrecked Vessel
Overview: A group of divers are trying to bring up the wrecked ship from the Black Sea bottom.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-12-09
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Banda batki Knysha
Overview: Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang of Batka Knysh to provoke the White Russians before the final blow.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1924-05-29
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Nasreddin in Khujand, or the Enchanted Prince
Overview: Based on the popular comedy novel, as well as many international anecdotes about Nasreddin Hodja, a witty Muslim traveler.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-03-14
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You're not a Thief Till You're Caught
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1923-07-31
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The Rubicon
Overview: Bill Parker, a sailor in the English Merchant Navy faces rudeness from the ship captain and is kicked off. However, he finds solace in a Soviet logging truck, where he meets Sydney, a representative from a Western company buying timber from Soviet Russia. He supports a stokers' strike and is offered an assistant position at a woodworking plant. Russia surprises Bill with its unique aspects. The film is considered lost.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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Glory of World
Overview: About how the antifascists of a Western European country in the 1930s disrupted the loading of weapons intended for the war with the Soviet Union. The film is considered lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1932-03-23
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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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