Mykola Nademskyi
Also Known As: Н. Надемский
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine]
Adult: No
Birthday: December 21, 1892
Age: 132 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 27, 1937
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Beautiful Garden
Overview: To help out his friend Lenya, Yura steals a Stradivarius violin belonging to the professor from his grandfather, a violin maker. Having learned about everything, the professor begins to study with the talented Lenya. Circus performers persuade Lenya to give up the violin and perform in the circus...
Genres: Family
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1935-10-07
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Соловей
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-11-05
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Caprice of Catherine ІІ
Overview: The film is based on V. Yurezanskyi’s novel The Missing Village about the struggle of Ukrainian Cossacks for their freedom during the reign of Catherine II. Free Cossacks from the village of Turbai in Poltava region, who were included in registers of Myrhorod Pact, suddenly find out that at the order of Catherine II they become the property of the Ukrainian landlord, pan Bazylevskyi. He treats Cossacks like his usual serfs. Cossacks ask the empress for help, but receive no reply. Then, they rebel and set Bazylevskyi’s estate on fire. The owner and his family die during the fire. The vengeance of the Russian empress is terrible, as dozens of Cossacks are beaten to death, and the village of Turbai is doomed to destruction. The film is lost.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Earth
Overview: Vasyl, a member of the Komsomol, with the help of a local party organization, gets a tractor and plows private boundaries "on kulak fields". However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1930-04-08
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Zvenygora
Overview: The momentous film stars Mykola Nademskyi as the grandfather of Tymish (Semen Svashenko), whom he alerts to secret treasure buried in the mountains of Zvenygora – Treasure that rightfully belongs to his homeland. The film wonderfully blends both lyricism and politics and uses its central construct to build a montage praising Ukrainian industrialization, attacking the bourgeoisie, celebrating the beauty of the Ukrainian steppe and retelling ancient folklore. Said Sergei Eisenstein of the film, "As the lights went on, we felt that we had just witnessed a memorable event in the development of the cinema".
Genres: Drama Fantasy History Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1928-04-13
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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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Nazar Stodolya
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Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1937-04-13
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Bennie the Howl
Overview: The seamy Jewish underworld of Odesa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-04-28
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Навздогін за долею
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1928-01-24
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Arsenal
Overview: A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-02-25
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The Guest from Mecca
Overview: The action takes place in the early 1930s in the fictional Asian state of Gulistan. The construction of railways in the country is hampered by a strong foreign state. Under the guise of a “saint from Mecca,” a saboteur-provocateur arrives in Gulistan. Carrying out the will of his masters, he incites the people to hostility against any progressive actions in the country, preparing an uprising with the aim of causing foreign intervention. But the Gulistans expose the “saint”; their faith in the USSR is unshakable...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1930-01-01
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Hamburg
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-11-16
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The Czarina Commands
Overview: The film attempts to display an episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian punitive expedition in 1768.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1934-09-16
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P.K.P.
Overview: The defeated remnants of vile Ukrainian nationalists, headed by the leader of the Ukrainian liberation movement, Symon Petliura, cannot accept their historical fate and are plotting an insurrection against the Soviet regime in Ukraine. There is nothing Petliura and his cohorts would not do to win back control over Ukraine, including selling it to the highest bidder, in this case, the Polish dictator Jozef Pilsudski. A group of plotters are coordinating an insurrection in Kyiv with an attack from Poland headed by Petliura’s general Yurko Tiutiunnyk. Predictably, the invincible Red Army defeats the nationalist plotters and proves that the Soviet borders are impregnable.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-09-28
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Prometey
Overview: The life was cruel with Ivas. The landlord sent him at war, and his girlfriend – in the house of ill fame. In the troops an ordinary peasant gets acquainted with an ideological revolutionary and becomes inspired with the feeling of inequity to the existing social structure. And when the time comes to return to the native village, he will make the sir pays by his blood for all wrong-doings against the peasants. A film based on works and biography of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko (1814 - 1861).
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1936-02-04
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Ivan
Overview: After the critical lambasting of his masterpiece Earth, Dovzhenko returned with a more popular iteration of its main motifs. Much like Earth, Ivan concerns itself with the natural rhythms of country life, disrupted by the beat of looming industrialisation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1932-11-05
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Love's Berries
Overview: Jean, the hairdresser, is flabbergasted: what is that baby his girlfriend Lisa has put in his arms out of the blue? The fruit of love? Out of the question. From that moment on, the reluctant father has but one thought in his head: he must get rid of the cumbersome 'article'. And, take his word for it, all the ways are good.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1926-04-28
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The Night Coachman
Overview: Set in Odesa at the end of the Civil War when the town is occupied by the Whites. The night coachman, fifty-year-old Hordiy Yaroshchuk, lives with his daughter Katya who gets involved with a Bolshevik and revolutionary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1929-04-08
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Dress Rehearsal
Overview: The film recreates the events of 1905. In the center of the picture is the struggle of the proletariat, led by the Bolshevik party, against tsarism. The demonstration of labor unrest is replaced by episodes of the Russo-Japanese war, Black-Hundred demonstrations, accompanied by a pogrom of Jews, and beating of the intelligentsia. The film paints the attitude of the Mensheviks towards armed insurrection, reproduces the picture of barricade battles, the arrest of the Council of Workers' Deputies and the brutal reprisals of the tsarist autocracy with revolutionaries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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The Little Shoes
Overview: To justify the fantastic adventures of the blacksmith Vakula, the authors of the film “simplify” Gogol’s plot: Vakula, having drunk too much at Patsiuk’s place, falls asleep. And he sees this dream where the devil takes him to the palace of Catherine II in Saint-Petersburg; and there Vakula takes off the little shoes of the Russian empress to give them to his fiancée Oksana. And, really, drunk Vakula takes off the shoes while sleeping… but from Patsiuk. Later, when Vakula unwraps the package with the “royal slippers” in front of Oksana, he finds only Patsiuk’s dirty shoes there.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1928-02-13
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Людина без футляра
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Mitya
Overview: Exposing the customs of provincial philistinism in the years of NEP. Small town. Mitya, going to the party of his bride Shurochka, finds a dying woman with infants. When he comes to visit the child, everyone decides that he was the father - and kicks him out. Mitya decides to drown himself. Unknown saves him and helps to stage his own funeral. During the mourning ceremony, Mitya rise from the grave, thanks the inhabitants petrified by horror, and leaves the city forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-04-05
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Three Rooms with a Kitchen
Overview: The film uses motifs from V. Mayakovsky's script "Как поживаете?" - about the struggle against philistinism in everyday life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1928-02-08
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