Lev Sverdlin
Also Known As: Лев Свердлин, Лев Наумович Свердлин, Lev Sverdlin, Л. Свердлин
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Astrakhan, Astrakhan uyezd, Astrakhan Governorate, Russian Empire [now Astrakhan Oblast, Russia]
Adult: No
Birthday: November 03, 1901
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 29, 1969
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Youth of Commanders
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-05-13
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Кубинская новелла
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-07-26
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The Elusive Revengers
Overview: Dan'ka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge they join forces with an intellectual from the city Valerka and jipsy Yashka, but before they get close to their enemy they have to help their village and advancing Red Army.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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The White Fang
Overview: According to the story by Jack London. The history of the wild wolf, who picked up the boy and raised an Indian. After falling to the evil man - the owner of the bar, White Fang turned into a ferocious evil beast, coming out victorious from all the dog fights, which suited his enterprising owner. But once it strangled, snatched from the jaws of the bulldog engineer Weedon Scott. His kindness has transformed the beast.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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Night Guard
Overview: The accountant of the commodity base discovers a small mistake in the documents, as told by the manager of the base. That night, someone hacked and robbed a safe with accounting documents, and committed the killing of an accountant. The case for the search for criminals was entrusted to police commissioner Krechetov and lieutenant Kasyanov.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-12-16
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The Road
Overview: A group of semitrailers is moving through a snow storm - and no one doesn't know that there is a spy between the drivers.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-10-03
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Circus
Overview: An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-05-25
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Gunan-Bator
Overview: Gunan is a shepherd in love with the beautiful Oyuun, the daughter of the khan Iribsyn. When he is taking part in a competition for the hand of Oyun, he must defeat not only the rich princes, but also the three-headed monster Mongoose. Based on the Mongol folk tale of the same name.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-02-02
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Story of a Real Man
Overview: Alexey Meresyev was a fighter pilot during the war. One day he was shot down by Nazis, and because of his wounds both of his legs had to be cut off up to his knees. Because of his spirit and courage, Alexey was able to overcome his disability. He learned not only to walk on his artificial limps, but even dance and fly the plane again. Based on a real-life story.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-10-21
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The First Trolleybus
Overview: Svetlana, young pretty girl, works as a trolleybus driver in a small town and almost all her permanent passengers are at least a little bit in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-12-04
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Different Fortunes
Overview: Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya is in love with Styopa, but he loves Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. The rejected Styopa leaves for a distant Siberian city and starts working at the factory, studying at the evening institute. Sonya leaves after him and gets a job at the same factory. Tanya and Fedya, having married, go to college, and the young husband has to earn some money as a driver to support his family. The selfish nature of Tanya refuses to put up with the modest position in which the newlyweds are forced to be, and she starts an affair with an elderly composer...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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Wait for Me
Overview: A story of true love set during the WWII.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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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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My Universities
Overview: My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. The "university" of the title is actual the school of Hard Knocks, as Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-03-27
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By the Bluest of Seas
Overview: Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young woman leading the fishermen.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-04-20
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Guerrilla Brigade
Overview: Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of the Ukraine in 1918 during World War 1, and made as an example of the guerrilla warfare and fierce spirit in which Ukrainian peasants were again resisting Teuton onslaughts in 1939. Highlights a small band of guerrillas and their battles using scythes, shotguns and, often, just clubs against the Kaiser's army in the Ukrainian forests.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-07-29
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A Little Time Machine
Overview: This film tells about the discovery achieved at the intersection of many sciences: cybernetics, astrophysics, telepathy and veterinary medicine. Soviet scientists made a sensational invention - the device "TV-1" (a transistor of time) was designed. Trial samples were disguised in household items: they were equipped with beads, a flower and a cane. The owners of experimental devices were random people.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Cruiser 'Varyag'
Overview: A story of heroic Russian war cruiser 'Varyag'.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-12-13
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The Romantics
Overview: Set in the high North, this tale of a Russian teacher who begins to educate the children of the Chukchi tribe reinforces the director's firm belief in the power of education to overcome distrust and establish a shared civilizational foundation for all human beings.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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David Bek
Overview: The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1944-02-14
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Far from Moscow
Overview: The major oil pipeline construction is going on under heavy bombings by the Nazi Air-Force. The construction workers must work under dangerous conditions around-the-clock in order to deliver oil to the Armies on the front-line. The construction manager Batmanov resolves many problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-12-19
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Alitet Leaves for the Hills
Overview: Mark Donskoy went to the wilds of Siberia to film this Soviet movie about a community that resists the temptations of a wicked American capitalist who wants to exploit their lands.
Genres: War Drama History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-04-10
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Days and Nights
Overview: This literary adaptation was the first Soviet feature length dramatization, as opposed to documentary film, on the momentous Battle of Stalingrad.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-08-28
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Three Fat Men
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Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-06-03
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The Defense of Volotchayevsk
Overview: Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far Eastern Republic and partisans in the struggle against the intervention and White army.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-01-20
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The Birthday Party
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Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-03-14
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A Magic Saving Stick
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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Wishes Come True
Overview: If anything's possible, what's important?
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-03-21
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Father and Son
Overview: While a factory director is distracted by production problems, his adolescent son suffers from loneliness. His mother is dead, and the father – a kind man and exemplary communist, winner of a Lenin Prize – is unable to find the time to educate his son, or a way to express his feelings. After an argument, the young boy runs away and, at his own risk, joins a band of criminals.
Genres: Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-04-14
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Two Lives
Overview: In the center of the film - two lives, two destinies. A simple, illiterate soldier Vostrikov of the Tsar's Army during the years of Soviet power grew into a devoted fighter of the revolution, he became a general of the Soviet Army, respected by all. A guards officer, a brilliant prince Naschyokin, who fought against Soviet power, emigrated from his native country and eventually became a lackey in a port restaurant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-10-16
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Разноцветные камешки
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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A Tale of the Forest Giant
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Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-06-20
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His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
Overview: The film tells about the founder of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the leader of the Mongolian People's Revolution - Damdin Sukhe-Bator.
Genres: History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-10-12
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Nasreddin in Bukhara
Overview: Smart Man Nassredin easily penetrates into Bukhara Emir inner circle posing as Wise Man from Damascus. He becomes Emir trusted advisor, and even convinces the tyrant to relax the rule and release a lot of political prisoners (because stars favor this arrangement).
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-06-06
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Adults and Children
Overview: Several short stories tell the story of the complex relationships between difficult children and their parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-07-20
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The Price
Overview: Two brothers who haven't seen each other for 16 years meet in the old house of their late father. And the reason for that was the sale of the father’s furniture. A successful doctor and a poor policeman conduct a dialogue in which the different life positions are revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Sinbad the Sailor
Overview: Sinbad the Sailor is a Soviet animated short by Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg, released in 1944 by Soyuzmultfilm. The film is based on the Arab fairy tales about Sinbad the Sailor and his incredible adventures in foreign countries.
Genres: Animation Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-03-23
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A Hot Stone
Overview: A boy finds a magic stone that will allow people to live their lives over again. His bearded, noble Grandfather prefers his life of hardship, revolution and Communist victory to remain just as it is.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Dreamers
Overview: About an international brigade that fought during the years of the civil war in Donbass. About how people of different nationalities, dreaming of a peaceful life, begin to rebuild the destroyed economy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-05-18
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As the Heart Commands
Overview: Ibragim Karimov is a respected agronomist who contributed to Soviet power in Tajikistan, fought the Basmachi, and organized collective farms. Despite health issues, he chose to stay in his role to support the district.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-11-25
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