Nikolai Cherkasov
Also Known As: Nikolay Cherkasov, Николай Черкасов, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Nikolai Tscherkassow
Biography: An outstanding Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1937). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the USSR (02.26.1947). He graduated from the Institute of Performing Arts (1926). Since 1919 - a mimic artist of the Petrograd Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater, the Bolshoi Drama Theater and other theaters. In the years 1926-1929 - actor of the Leningrad Youth Theater. In 1929-1931 - artist of the Leningrad and Moscow music halls. In the years 1931-1933 - artist of the Leningrad Mobile Theater "Comedy". In 1933-1965 - artist of the Leningrad Academic Drama Theater named after Pushkin. Nikolai Cherkasov is the only actor whose face is imprinted on the order. Stalin personally chose and approved the portrait of Cherkasov for one of the highest state awards - the Soviet Order of Alexander Nevsky. Member of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR 1-2 convocations. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 3-4 convocations (1950-1958). Chairman of the Leningrad branch of the WTO (since 1948). Member of the Soviet Peace Committee (since 1949). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940. September 14, Nikolai Konstantinovich died at the 64th year of life. When the great actor passed away, one of his students said that he died not from heart failure, but from insufficient heartiness... The actor was buried in the Necropolis of Artists of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Leningrad. July 27, 1970 the name of Cherkasov was assigned to one of the streets in Leningrad.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St Petersburg, Russian Empire
Birthday: July 27, 1903
Deathday: September 14, 1966
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Gender: Male
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Alexander Nevsky
Overview: When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-11-24
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Granitsa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-09-25
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Концерт на экране
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Актёр Николай Черкасов
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-07-27
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Мелодии Дунаевского
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-12-30
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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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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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In the Name of Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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Mussorgsky
Overview: Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-11-27
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Rimsky-Korsakov
Overview: Biographical film about the composer Rimskiy-Korsakov. Belongs to the gallery of costume historical and biographical films of the postwar cinema of the Soviet Union. The film tells about the last two decades in the life of Russian composer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-08-24
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Nights of Farewell
Overview: Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersburg, where he is invited to become the first dancer. He doesn't know that his life will develop both happily and dramatically, and his work will be the glory and pride of Russian ballet.
Genres: History Drama Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-11-16
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Don Quixote
Overview: Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-05-23
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Happiness
Overview: A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Spring
Overview: A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-07-02
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All Remains to People
Overview: Renowned scientist Dronov works in Novosibirsk on the creation of ultra-modern engine. He has a bad heart, he was afraid not to have time to finish the job, and test engine at a factory in Moscow, unfortunately, is not the first time passes unsuccessfully. Dronov abandons the rest of the work, even the leadership of the Institute entrusts to his disciple Morozov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-12-28
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Peter the First, Part I
Overview: This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs. Rulers like Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great were widely admired for their dedication to Russia and their absolute determination to enhance her position in the world. But praise for the hated later Romanovs conflicted too heavily with the very beliefs that had brought about the Revolution in 1917.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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Peter the First, Part II
Overview: Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-08-22
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The Battle of Stalingrad
Overview: A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-11-11
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Capt. Grant's Family
Overview: The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures in Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand... Based on Jules Verne novel.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-06-06
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His Excellency
Overview: This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-03-20
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Friends
Overview: The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Lenin in 1918
Overview: Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in Russia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-04-06
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Academician Ivan Pavlov
Overview: Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov’s dismay, he orders the destruction of a beautiful apple orchard. 1894: Experimenting on dogs, Pavlov tries to comprehend the interaction between nerves and external signals governing digestion. In 1904, he formulates the principles of conditional reflexes. When Zvantsev, an opponent of Pavlov’s materialist worldview, leaves the laboratory, the scientist hires Varvara Ivanova who becomes his most reliable assistant. 1912: Pavlov receives an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. 1917: Despite Pavlov’s political scepticism, the Bolshevik administration treats him with great respect.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-02-21
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Little Tragedies
Overview: Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight, The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-02-06
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Treasure Island
Overview: An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" with drastic changes to the plot. A group of English rebels searches for pirate's treasures to buy weapons for the civil war.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-12-20
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They Knew Mayakovsky
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-06-19
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Brother
Overview: The chairman of the factory committee of one of the Leningrad factories, Fyodor Gorbachev, a weak-willed man who was unable to completely overcome his petty-proprietor psychology, is visited from the village by his brother Sergei, a former kulak and trader. His arrival brings quarrels and discord into the friendly Gorbachev family. At Fyodor's request, the factory director hires Sergei, but demands a favor in return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Moon on the Left
Overview: The main character, the chairman of the district revolutionary tribunal, Comrade Kovalev, believes that a true revolutionary should have only one love - revolution. And women, especially attractive ones, are a great hindrance to Comrade Kovalev. But he is unable to connect theory with practice. Love overcomes the ridiculous prejudices of the hero, who along the way achieves his real victory - the defeat of the White bandit gang...
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-02-02
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The Invincible
Overview: The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest possible time combat vehicles are tested directly on battlefields, fighting with fascists in the outskirts of the city. The first feature film about the heroic everyday life of city defenders was shot directly in assembly shops of plants and in the streets of Leningrad when the city was fighting against the enemy
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-01-21
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60 Days
Overview: Adventures of the medicine professor during reserve duty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-05-02
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Pirogov
Overview: A biopic based on the life of Russian scientist and doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881), famous for being the founder of field surgery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-12-16
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Happy Sailing
Overview: A story about boys in a sailors school.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-10-27
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Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Overview: The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-13
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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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For the Soviet Motherland
Overview: The film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into Karelia, killed Soviet activists, burned houses ... In the rear of the enemy with a special task - to destroy the headquarters of the White Finns on the Kimas Lake - a detachment of Soviet cadets under the command of Toivo Antikainen (Oleg Zhakov) was sent.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-10-26
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Crown Prince of the Republic
Overview: After news of the future birth of a child, Sergei split from his wife, Natasha, and settled in the company of young architects, who occupied a room in a big house. As a result of a chain of unforeseen events, brought by one of the tenants found a child, Sergei finds a newborn son. Friends are doing everything possible to find a lost mother, but Sergei does not disclose their affiliation and tries to give the baby the wrong hands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-12-12
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My Son
Overview: A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Hectic Days
Overview: A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-05-01
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New Home
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Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-09-10
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Alexander Popov
Overview: A biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer, inventor of radio communications Alexander Semenovich Popov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-05-03
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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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The Girlfriends
Overview: Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-02-19
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Defense of Tsaritsyn
Overview: Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red army during the Russian civil war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-03-29
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