Mikhail Nazvanov
Also Known As: Михаил Названов, Михайло Названов
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian Empire, [now Russia]
Birthday: February 24, 1914
Deathday: July 13, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Свадьба Кречинского
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-04-05
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Hamlet
Overview: Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Meeting on the Elbe
Overview: Soviet and American soldiers are meeting on the shores of the Elbe river in Germany in 1945.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-03-16
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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Overview: This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-10-10
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Overview: Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-11-11
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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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Attack from the Sea
Overview: The historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France begins aggressive wars. The Russian and allied troops freeing Italy are headed by A. V. Suvorov. The victory in the fortress of Corfu is ensured by operation of the admiral Ushakov.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-10-04
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Battle on the way
Overview: He was appointed as the new chief engineer of a tractor factory. The presence of this man, direct, hard and uncompromising, creates a lot of conflict - primarily between him and the director of the plant. However, clashes in the production are nothing compared with the pain that causes the loss of the beloved hero ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-09-26
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The Russian Question
Overview: The film is based on the play by K. Simonov. It is the story of an American journalist who spends time in Russia and sees socialism in action. Upon his return to the U.S., a prestigious editor asks him to write a book about his experience. He receives a handsome advance for the project and he and his fiancée are able to buy a house, a car, and other symbols of the American dream. But the editor’s generosity comes with a caveat: the book must present a negative picture of Soviet society. Will he simply keep the money and do what is expected of him, or will he instead tell the truth?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-03-08
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Taras Shevchenko
Overview: Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people. The poems of Shevchenko are imbued with love for the common people. Fiery freedom-loving creativity of Taras Shevchenko is known throughout Russia. Nicholas I exiles the poet to the distant Caspian fort where he is to serve as an ordinary soldier and is banned from writing or drawing. In the poet's difficult days he has the support of Ukrainian soldier Skobelev, Polish revolutionary Sierakowski, captain Kosarev and the commandant of the fortress, Uskov. For the sake of his release Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov are hard at work. And so, the sick and aged Shevchenko is finally free. Together with Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, he dreams of a bright future of the motherland, when the Russian and Ukrainian peoples throw off the chains of slavery.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-12-17
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Belinsky
Overview: A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production of the film was completed in 1951, but it was not released until 1953, following the reshooting of various scenes demanded by Stalin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-06-04
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The Great Glinka
Overview: About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.
Genres: Music History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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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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Zhukovsky
Overview: A biographical film about the fate of the great Russian mechanic and creator of aerodynamics Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-07-13
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The Safety Match
Overview: A man of big status disappears in a small provincial town. An old bored investigator and his young hyperactive assistant are on a trail of a bloody murderer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-08-10
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An Unusual Summer
Overview: The film takes place in 1919 in Saratov. Student Kirill Izvekov becomes Commissioner of the Red Army and participates in the battle with Wrangel and the capture of the city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-02-07
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Первые радости
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-07-02
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Duel
Overview: Love story filmed in Russia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-12-02
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Flower on the Stone
Overview: Set in a new mining town in the Donets Coal Basin, it centres on a clash between the young miners, the political establishment, and a religious cult lead by a devious Pentecostal evangelist infiltrated into the community who tries to make the workers fall under his influence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-09-09
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Innkeeper
Overview: An attractive woman who runs a country hotel tricks three men who challenge her favour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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First Trials
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-07-28
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The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
Overview: Animated film based on the story of Alexander Pushkin. The new king's wife wants to get rid of their stepdaughter and expels it to certain death in the forest. Princess finds refuge in the forest in the seven bogatyrs. The queen, finds out about it and poisons her...
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Gutta-Percha Boy
Overview: The end of the XIX century. Petya, an eight-year orphan who has been cast in training German acrobat Karl Becker, who curses and beatings would incorporate the new assistant to the circus profession and ruthlessly exploited child in their speeches. The only consolation, brightens the harsh life gutta-percha boy, as referred to Petya on the posters, is the concern of the carpet clown Edwards, who regretted the fatherless and secretly taught him this circus arts...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-08-26
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Сокровища республики
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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My Younger Brother
Overview: Based on the novel of Vasiliy Aksyonov "A Ticket to the Stars". School is over, final exams are behind — and Dimka was the first to think of waving away from home. The convictions of his elder brother Viktor about a serious attitude to the future life only more “warmed up” the four friends, and for the first time they went to Tallinn for the first time without the bored care of adults...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-08-20
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In a Busy Place
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-09-16
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The Tale About Malchish-Kibalchish
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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