Semen Svashenko
Also Known As: Семен Свашенко, Semyon Svashenko
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Derhachi, Ukraine
Birthday: September 13, 1904
Deathday: November 23, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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War and Peace
Overview: A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Genres: History Drama War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-04-28
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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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Ballad of a Soldier
Overview: During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Duel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-05-22
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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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Fata Morgana
Overview: Based on the Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi’s novel. At the distillery farmers begin to strike. Local rich men without punitive detachment begin reprisals from rebels. Punitive detachment of dragoons, who called from the city, only completes the massacre.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1931-01-01
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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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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Overview: The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-03-14
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House in the Snow-Drifts
Overview: An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg apartment because he was not needed in the revolutionary city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-04-01
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Dokhunda
Overview: The screen adaptation of the novel by Tadjik writer Sadriddine Aini, telling the story of a tramp who falls in love with a rich girl, was supposed to become the first full-length feature film in Central Asian film history. But the unfinished Dokhunda was banned by the Soviet authorities when film production was already in full swing. No footage survived. This is why Izvolov had to rely on Lev Kuleshov’s draft to study and appreciate the maestro’s vision and the unique aesthetic concept, which was never to be realised during Kuleshov’s lifetime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Night Raids
Overview: A peasant visits the DneproGES construction. Agitprop film about industrialisation and Dnieper Hydroelectric Station construction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1931-03-05
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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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Perekop
Overview: This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.
Genres: War
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1930-11-21
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Страницы былого
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Kubans
Overview: From the life of one of the leading Kuban horse breeding collective farms. Veterinarian Mitrich, a disguised enemy who follows all the instructions of yesaul Soroka, sets about the main task - to destroy the entire collective farm herd. But the criminals will be detained on time, and in the autumn the collective farm will see off young Cossacks to the Red Army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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An Optimistic Tragedy
Overview: 1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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Gloomy Morning
Overview: The third film in the trilogy ("The Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", "The Gloomy Morning") based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy "The Road to Calvary". About the fate of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the collapse of the Russian Empire and the civil war, which turned the lives of all the heroes of the film narration. Defending Tsaritsyn, the red commander Telegin was seriously wounded. At the hospital, he meets Dasha. After his recovery, the young spouses go together to the Red Army.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-04-26
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Two Women
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-10-01
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Quiet Flows the Don
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-10-26
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Blown Up Days
Overview: The year 1929. A “shock worker” from a tractor plant visits a film studio premises and is furious to see fake stage designs for a kitsch production about a Soviet life. He refuses to help the crew with his tractor, but is happy to ask one of the cameramen to go with him to visit an actual Soviet village. There they witness the birth of the kolkhoz and the dekulakization of wealthy villagers. Then they are transported to the future, to the year 1932, when the first five-year plan is done and the commune-sovkhoz is established. Movies can move faster than time, but the pace of change in Soviet society is even faster than that. In the movie, the entrance gate of the Odesa film factory, where all of the indoors scenes were shot, can be seen. The outdoors scenes were filmed all over Eastern Ukraine and Southern Russia (Kuban): at Kharkiv factories, in Ukrainian villages and in the 240 ha-sovkhoz “Gigant” in Rostov region, the latter representing the future after the five-year plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1930-11-03
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A Border on Lock
Overview: A border guards are hunting a spy infiltrated to the USSR.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-11-11
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