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The Youth of Maxim (1937) movie
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Versions of the fictional Baron have appeared on stage, screen, radio, and television, as well as in other literary works. Though the Baron Munchausen stories are no longer well-known in English-speaking countries, they are still popular in continental Europe. The character has inspired numerous memorials and museums, and several medical conditions and other concepts are named after him, including Munchausen syndrome, the Münchhausen trilemma, and Munchausen numbers.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1929) animated cartoon
Genres: Animation, adventure
Production Co: Mezhrabpomfilm
Directed by D. Cherkez
Script: N. Sats, D. Cherkes
Animators: I. Ivanov-Vano, V. Suteev, V. Valerianova
Adventures of the Little Chinese (1928) puppet movie
Genres: Animation, adventure
Production Co: Mezhrabpomfilm
Director: Mariya Benderskaya, Sergey Benderskay
Writer: V. Leventon
One of Many (1927) movie
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Production Co.: Mezhrabpom-Rus
Directed by Nikolaj Hodataev
Writing Credits: Nikolaj Hodataev
Cinematografy by P. Menshin
Animators: Olga Hodataeva, Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg
Cast:
Aleksandra Kudriavtseva as girl
Masquerade (1941) movie
Genre: Drama
Production Co: Lenfilm Studio
Directed by Sergey Gerasimov
Writing Credits: Sergey Gerasimov, Vyacheslav Gordanov, Mikhail Lermontov (play)
Music by Venedikt Pushkov
Cinematography by V. Gardanov
Production Design by Semyon Mejnkin
Costume Design by P. Gorokhov, Yevgenia Slovtsova
Cast:
Nikolai Mordvinov as Arbenin
Tamara Makarova as Nina
Mikhail Sadovsky as Knyaz Zvezdich
Sofiya Magarill as Baroness Shtral
Antonin Pankryshev as Kazarin
Emil Gal as Shprikh
Sergey Gerasimov as Neizvestnyj
Bukovina, a Ukrainian Land (1939) documentary
Genre: Documentary
Directors: Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) movie
Genres: Comedy
Production Co: Goskino
Directed by Lev Kuleshov
Writing Credits: Nikolai Aseyev, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cinematography by Aleksandr Levitsky
Cast:
Porfiri Podobed as Mr. John S. West
Boris Barnet as Jeddy - the cowboy
Aleksandra Khokhlova as Countess von Saks
Vsevolod Pudovkin as Shban
Sergey Komarov as The One-Eyed Man
Leonid Obolensky as The Dandy
Vera Lopatina as Ellie - the American girl
G. Kharlampiev as Senka Svishch
Pyotr Galadzhev as Crook
S. Sletov as Crook
Viktor Latyshevskiy as Crook
Andrei Gorchilin as Policeman
Vladimir Fogel
China in Flames (1925) animated cartoon
Genres: Animation
Production Co: Kino-Moskva
Directed by Nikolai Khodataev, Zenon Komissarenko, Youry Merkulov
Writing Credits: I. Vinogradov
Cinematography by Grigory Kabakov, V. Shulman
Animation Department: Lyudmila Blatova, Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Nikolai Khodataev, Olga Khodatayeva, Zenon Komissarenko, Youry Merkulov
Chess Fever (1925) movie
Genre: Comedy
Production Co: Mezhrabpom-Rus
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky
Writing Credits: Nikolai Shpikovsky
Cinematography by Anatoli Golovnya
Cast:
José Raúl Capablanca - The World Champion, cameo
Vladimir Fogel as The Hero
Anna Zemtsova as The Heroine
Natalya Glan
Zakhar Darevsky
Mikhail Zharov as House Painter
Anatoli Ktorov as Tram Passenger
Yakov Protazanov as Chemist
Yuli Raizman as Chemist's Assistant
Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Policeman
Konstantin Eggert
Ernst Grunfeld cameo
Fyodor Ivanov
Sergey Komarov as Grandfather
Frank Marshall cameo
Richard Reti cameo
Rudolph Spielmann cameo
Carlos Torre cameo
F.D. Yates cameo
Boris Barnet cameo
Vladimir Nabokov cameo
Fyodor Otsep as Game spectator
The Fourty First (1927) movie
Genres: Drama, War
Production Co: Mezhrabpom-Rus
Directed by Yakov Protazanov
Writing Credits: Boris Lavrenyev (novel), Boris Lavrenyev (screenplay), Boris Leonidov
Cinematography by Pyotr Yermolov
Cast:
Ada Vojtsik as Maryutka
Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Govorukha-Otrok
Ivan Shtraukh as Yevsiukov
The Village Teacher (1947) movie
Genre: Drama
Production Co: Soyuzdetfilm
Directed by Mark Donskoy
Writing Credits: Mariya Smirnova
Music by Lev Shvarts
Cinematography by Sergey Urusevskiy
Cast:
Vera Maretskaya as Varvara "Varenka" Vasilievna Martinovna
Pavel Olenev as Igor Petrovich, school custodian
Daniil Sagal as Sergei Dmitriyevich Martinov
Vladimir Lepeshinsky as Prov Voronov, as a boy
Vladimir Maruta as Voronov, a gold miner
Vladimir Belokurov as Bukov, a gold miner
Anatoli Gonichev as Yefim Tsigankov, as a boy / Sergei Tsigankov, his son
Emma Balashova as Dumya, a girl
Dmitri Pavlov as Prov Voronov, as an adult
Rostislav Plyatt as The Secondary School Headmaster
Boris Belyayev as Ivan Zernov, a boy
Oleg Shmelyev as Nikita Bukov, a boy
N. Bershadskaya
Aleksey Konsovskiy
Anna Lisyanskaya
A. Lsak
Nadir Malishevsky
Boris Runge
Aleksandr Zhukov
M. Maritka
Iosif Vankov as Bukov's guest
Additional information:
"I’ll teach you to dream", said the film’s heroine to the children starting their life. In 1984 this promise became the name of a documentary by G. Chukhrai, Yu. Shvyryov and M. Volotsky about the life of one of a kind poet and hero of the national cinema, Mark Donskoy. The Italian neo-realists believed that their art originated from the "flow of life" typical of Donskoy’s films, considered the director their predecessor and emulated his poetic approach to everyday life. In the early 1970s Mark Donskoy’s name was included in the West in a number of lists of the best film directors of modern time.
The Case of the Three Million (1926) movie
Genres: Comedy
Production Co: Mezhrabpom-Rus
Directed by Yakov Protazanov
Writing Credits: Umberto Notari (novel), Yakov Protazanov, Valentin Turkin
Cinematography by Pyotr Yermolov
Cast:
Olga Zhizneva as Noris Ornano, The Banker's Wife
Nikolai Prozorovsky as Guido, Noris Ornano's lover
Vladimir Fogel as a Man with a binocular
Daniil Vvedenskiy as A Burglar
Aleksandr Glinsky as Innkeeper
Vladimir Mikhaylov as Monk
Marc Ziboulsky as Monk
Boris Shlikhting as Police chief
Mikhail Yarov as Policeman
Serafima Birman as Sitting Lady with Rose
Olga Bobrova
Igor Ilyinsky
Mikhail Klimov
Anatoli Ktorov
Sofya Levitina as Audience Member in Court
Gulbike Sherbatova
Thunderstorm (1934) movie
Genre: Drama
Production Co: Gosudarstvennoe Upravlenie Kinematografii i fotografii (GUKF)
Directed by Vladimir Petrov
Writing Credits: Aleksandr Ostrovskiy (play), Vladimir Petrov
Music by Vladimir Shcherbachov
Cinematography by Vyacheslav Gordanov
Cast:
Alla Tarasova as Katerina Petrovna Kabanova
Ivan Chuvelyov as Tikhon Kabanov, her husband
Mikhail Tsaryov as Boris Grigoriyevich, her lover
Varvara Massalitinova as Marfa Ignatovna Kabanova, her mother-in-law
Irina Zarubina as Barbara Kabanova, her sister-in-law
Mikhail Zharov as Koudryash
Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya as The Old Seer
Mikhail Tarkhanov as Saveli Prokofiyevich Dikoy
A Strict Young Man (1935) movie
Genre: Drama
Production Co: Ukrainfilm
Directed by Abram Room
Writing Credits: Yuri Olesha
Music by Gavriil Popov
Cinematography by Yuri Yekelchik
Cast:
Dmitri Dorlyak as Grisha Fokin
Olga Zhizneva as Masha Stepanova
Yuri Yuryev as Professor Yuliyan Stepanov
Maksim Shtraukh as Fyodor Tsitronov
Valentina Serova as Liza
Georgiy Sochevko as Kolya
Irina Volodko as Olga
Aleksandr Chistyakov as Olga's Father
Dmitri Golubinsky as Surgeon Ivan Germanovich
Ekaterina Melnikova as Grisha's Mother
Yekaterina Gureykina as Katya, Grisha's Neighbour
Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskiy as Olga's Husband
Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Sailor
Dmitri Konsovsky as Grisha Fokin
Pyotr Repnin as Kolya's Uncle
The New Babylon (1929) movie
Genres: Drama, History
Production Co.: Sovkino
Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Writing Credits: Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Music by Dmitri Shostakovich
Cinematography by Andrei Moskvin
Cast:
David Gutman as Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop
Yelena Kuzmina as Louise Poirier, the shop-assistant
Andrei Kostrichkin as The main shop-assistant
Sofiya Magarill as An actress
Arnold Arnold as Commune's Central Committee member
Sergey Gerasimov as Lutro, the journalist
Yevgeni Chervyakov as National Guard's officer
Pyotr Sobolevsky as Jean, the soldier
Yanina Zhejmo as Therese, a seamstress
Oleg Zhakov as National Guard's soldier
Vsevolod Pudovkin as Police intendent
Lyudmila Semyonova as Can-can dancer
A. Glushkova as Washerwoman
Emil Gal as Bourgeois
S. Gusev as Poirier, an old man
Tamara Makarova as Can-can dancer
Aleksandr Orlov as King Menelay in the play
Natalya Rashevskaya as Washerwoman
Roman Rubinshtein as Singer in the play
Anna Zarzhitskaya as Young girl on the barricades
Boris Azarov as National Guard's soldier
The Great Consoler (1933) movie
Genre: Drama
Production Co: Mezhrabpomfilm
Directed by Lev Kuleshov
Writing Credits: O. Henry (story "A Retrieved Information"), Lev Kuleshov (writer), Aleksandr Kurs (writer)
Produced by Ivan Gorchilin, N. Jakovlev, Martynova, S. Skvorcov
Music by Zinovi Feldman
Cinematography by Konstantin Kuznetsov
Art Direction by Lev Kuleshov
Cast:
Konstantin Khokhlov as Bill Porter
Ivan Novoseltsev as Jim Valentine - aka Ralph D. Spenser
Vasili Kovrigin as Warden
Andrey Fayt as Det. Ben Price
Daniil Vvedenskiy as Jailguard
Weyland Rodd as Black convict
O. Rayevskaya as Jim's mother
S. Sletov as Jailguard
Aleksandra Khokhlova as Dulcie
Galina Kravchenko as Annabel Adams
Pyotr Galadzhev as E. Adams - banker / reporter
Vera Lopatina as Sadie
Mikhail Doronin as Innkeeper
Andrei Gorchilin as Convict
Engineer Prite's Project (1918) movie
Genre: Adventure
Production Co: Khanzhonkov
Directed by Lev Kuleshov
Writing Credits: Boris Kuleshov
Produced by Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
Cinematography by Mark Naletni
Film Editing by Lev Kuleshov, Vera Popova-Khanshokova
Art Direction by Lev Kuleshov
Cast:
N. Gardy, Yelena Komarova, Boris Kuleshov, Eduard Kulganek, L. Polevoy
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924) movie
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Silent film
Production Co: Mezhrabpom-Rus
Directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
Writing Credits: Aleksei Fajko, Fyodor Otsep
Cinematography by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
Art Direction by Vladimir Ballyuzek, Sergei Kozlovsky
Cast:
Yuliya Solntseva as Zina Vesenina, cigarette girl
Igor Ilyinsky as Nikodim Mityushin, bookkeeper
Anna Dmokhovskaya as Maria Ivanovna
Nikolai Tsereteli as Latugin, cameraman
Leonid Baratov as Barsov-Aragonsky, film director
M. Tsybulsky as Oliver Mac-Bride, American
The next shots (the death of Tolstoy) are excerpts from a Pathe Russia film released in 1910.
1908-1910: Leo Tolstoy and his wife walks in the garden.
Photos of Leo Tolstoy and his wife S.A.Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy leaves the station with his wife.
Various photos Tolstoy.
Steam train rides on the winter road.
Railway station Astapovo.
The building of the station, the station-house, which stood Tolstoy.
Members of the family of Leo Tolstoy on the platform at the station house.
Tolstoy on his deathbed.
The coffin with the body of Leo Tolstoy.
The funeral of Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana 9th November 1910
Tolstoy in the crew enters the gates of his estate in Khamovniki, the crew at the house;
Thick in the family:
Check out the writer Leo Tolstoy Krekshino the station in Moscow September 18, 1909 g, Tolstoy, SA Thick, VG Chertkov and other approaches to the station, go to the platform; LN Tolstoy gets in the car.
Last visit of Leo Tolstoy in Moscow on 18-19 September 1909, the crowd at the Bryansk Station, Tolstoy and DP Makovitsky depart on horseback from home, go to a forest clearing.
Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana (1908-1910) documentary
Genre: Documentary
Production Co: A. Drankov's studio, Pathé, Moscow Branch,
Cinematografy by Alexander Drankov, Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
With the enemies at the gates, in an incredible show of normalcy, the annual October Revolution parade on Red Square still took place. Usually the Minister of Defense would deliver the commemoration speech on Red Square, however with the situation in the country dire, and the Soviet people fighting for their very survival, Joseph Stalin gives the speech to rally the troops in 1941. After this parade there would be no parades again on Red Square until 1 May 1945.
Stalin's speech at the parade November 7, 1941 (1941) documentary
Genre: Documentary
Production Co.: Tsentralnaya Studiya Dokumentalnikh Filmov (TsSDF)
Director: Leonid Varlamov
Cinematografy by Mark Troyanovsky, Ivan Belyakov
Romance with a Double Bass (1911) movie
Genre: Comedy
Production Co: Pathé
Directed by Kai Hansen
Writing Credits: Anton Chekhov (short story "Roman s kontrabasom"), Cheslav Sabinsky
Cinematography by Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
Production Design by Cheslav Sabinsky
Cast:
Vera Gorskaya as Princess Bibulova
Nikolai Vasilyev
Young Petr (Ivan Mosjoukhine, who we’ve seen in “Christmas Eve” and “House in Kolomna”) is in love with Masha (Aleksandra Goncharova, from “16th Century Russian Wedding” and “The Brigand Brothers”). They make time together in a haystack, to the approval of his father, and convince her father that they should be wed. While they are planning, a fire destroys the house of Masha’s family, and they sink into poverty as they are forced to sell off their most important possessions, including the cow that brought in most of the family income. Masha goes to the city in search of labor, as many young peasant people did in Russia during the Czarist period. Just as with an American film in which a healthy, honest young woman from the farm seeks her fortune in the city, Masha soon falls into a dangerous and corrupting situation. She becomes a serving-girl to a wealthy man with an automobile and ulterior motives. Back on the farm, her father becomes ill and the family dispatches a letter asking her to send money quickly. She gets it the only way she can see how – by asking the master for it and doing what he asks in return. She delivers the money, and confesses how she got it, and she and her father commiserate over their unfortunate lot. Petr is now married, and Masha turns to another suitor, but they seem to be mooning over one another as they work together in the fields once more.
The Peasants’ Lot (1912) movie
Genre: Drama
Production Co.: Aleksandr Khanzhonkov Studios
Directed by Arseny Bibikov
Script by Arseny Bibikov
Cinematografy by of Louis Forestye
Produced by Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
Cast:
Aleksandra Goncharova, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Pyotr Chardynin, Arseny Bibikov, Lidiya Tridenskaya, Andrey Gromov
The film represents a series of shots taken at an actual fish processing center on the Volga. The fish are delivered, cleaned, salted and shipped out, and we also see the workers during their lunch break. The emphasis on workers may help explain why a Soviet archive felt it was worth preserving. They actually seem pretty happy, for an oppressed working class, and frequently turn and smile to the camera (on the other hand, the presence of the film crew may have been an excuse to slack off). Nearly all the workers we see are women, except for a few men who steer the rafts that are used to deliver the fish. Most of the work is done by hand in a very inefficient and un-ergonomic manner.
Fish Factory in Astrakhan (1908) documentary
Directed by : Unknown
Production : Pathé
When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. He tells her an allegory about the Lily of Belgium: The lily stands in splendor beside a stream, admired by the creatures of the woods. But an army of beetles, bent on conquering new territories, wants to cross the stream - and the lily is blocking their way.
The Lily of Belgium (1915) movie
Genres: Animation, Drama
Production Co: Skobelev Committee
Directed by Vladislav Starevich
Writing Vladislav Starevich
Cinematography by Vladislav Starevich
Production Design by Vladislav Starevich
Cast:
Irina Starevich, Jan Wichniekski
Wolf Hunting in Russia (1910) documentary
Genre: Documentary
Produced by Pathé Frères
Rusalka (The Mermaid) (1910) movie
Genres: Drama, Fantasy
Production Company: Khanzhonkov
Directed by Vasilii Goncharov
Screenplay: Vasilii Goncharov
Photography by Vladimir Siversen
Art Director: V. Fester
Cast:
Vasilii Stepanov as Miller
Aleksandra Goncharova as Daughter
Andrei Gromov as Prince
The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) animation
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Production Co.: Aleksandr Khanzhonkov Studios
Directed By Władysław Starewicz
Produced By Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
Written By Władysław Starewicz
The film is in four parts. First, the camera pans the Kremlin and Marshal's Bridge. Sleds are parked in rows. Horse-drawn sleighs run up and down a busy street. Next, we visit the mushroom and fish market where common people work and shop. In Petrovsky Park are the well-to-do. Men are in great coats. A file of six or seven women ski past on a narrow lane. Last, there's a general view of Moscow. A slow pan takes us to a view above the river front where the film began.
Moscow Clad in Snow (1908) documentary
Genre; Documentary
Production Co: Pathé Frères, Moscow branch
Directed by Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
Kino Eye (1924) documentary
Genre: Documentary
Produced by Sovkino
Director: Dziga Vertov
Writer: Dziga Vertov
Cinematography by Mikhail Kaufman
The Music Box (1933) animated cartoon
Genre: Animation, satire
Produced by The Moscow Artistic Animated Cinema Workshop
Directed by Nikolai Khodataev
Art Director: Georgy Echeistov, Nikolai Khodataev, Daniel Cherkes
Glumov's Diary (1923) movie
Genre: Comedy
Production Co: Proletkult
Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein
Produced by Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
Cinematography by Boris Frantsisson
Cast:
Grigori Aleksandrov as Glumov 2, Golutvin
Aleksandr Antonov as Joffre
Sergei M. Eisenstein as Himself (takes bow at end)
Mikhail Gomorov as Turusina
Junior Inkizhinov as Small child
Vera Muzykant as Mashenka, Mary McLack
Ivan Pyrev as Fascist clown
Maksim Shtraukh as Milyukov-Mamaev
Vera Yanukova as Mamaeva
Ivan Yazykanov as Glumov 1
Kino-pravda no. 6 (1922) documentary film
Genre: Documentary film
Production Co: Kultkino
Directed by Dziga Vertov
Fascist Jackboots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland (1941) animated cartoon
Genre: Animation, War
Production Co: Soyuzmultfilm
Directed by A. Ivanov, I. Vano
Music by Prokofiev from Alexander Nevsky (1938).
Old and New / General Line (1929) movie
Genre: Drama
Production Co: Sovkino
Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Writing Credits: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Cinematography by Eduard Tisse
Cast:
Marfa Lapkina as Marfa
M. Ivanin as Marfa's son
Konstantin Vasilyev as Tractor Driver
Vasili Buzenkov as Secretary of the milk cooperative
Nejnikov as Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
Chukamaryev as The butcher
Ivan Yudin as Komsomolets
E. Suhareva as Witch
G. Matvei as Priest
Efimkin Efimkin as Peasant
Vyacheslav Gomolyaka
Mikhail Gomorov as Peasant
Hurtin as Peasant
M. Palej as Peasant
Maksim Shtraukh as Peasant
Tshukhmarev
Black and White (1932) animated cartoon
Genre: Animation
Production Co: Mezhrabpomfilm
Directed by Leonid Amalrik, Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Writing Credits: A. Kovalenko (written by), Vladimir Mayakovsky (poem), Iosif Sklyut (written by)
Sound Department: Nikolai Pisarev
Animation Department: A. Bergengrin, Ye. Felzer, Konstantin Malyshev, Erich Wilhelm Steiger
Cast:
Konstantin Eggert (voice)
Painting the USSR's international foes as bunch of layabouts, dimwits and blowhards, this animated short has little doubt that Mother Russia will remain stronger and wiser. Some sequences are tinted a revolutionary red.
War Chronicles (1939) animated cartoons
Genre: War, Historical
Production Co: Soyuzmultfilm
Directed by Dmitry Babichenko
Screenwriter: Dmitry Babichenko, M. Kossovsky
Music by A. Aksenov
In summer and autumn of 1923 in the USSR began the first economic crisis of the NEP caused artificial high prices for manufactured goods while lowering food prices (price discrepancies). By October of 1923, this phenomenon has led to the fact that peasants EN masse stopped buying the products of industry.
The 13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was held during 23–31 May 1924 in Moscow. This congress was the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)' first to take place after the death of Vladimir Lenin, and represents a transition between the Lenin and Joseph Stalin regimes. It was also the first confrontation between the Left Opposition (led by Leon Trotsky) and the "troika" (led by Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev).
Congress approved the establishment of the people's Commissariat of internal trade and set before them all the trading bodies the task of mastering the market and ousting private capital from trade.
The Congress has set the goal to expand cheap credit to the peasantry of the state and to oust the usurer from the village.
As the main aim of the work in the village, the Congress put forward the slogan of full cooperation of the peasant masses.
Results of the 13th Party Congress of Cooperation (1925) animated cartoon
Genre: Animation
Production Co: Petrograd Union Production Bureau
Director: Unknown
Victoriuos Destination (1939) animated cartoon
Genre: Animation
Production Co: Soyuzmultfilm
Directed by Leonid Amalrik, Dmitriy Babichenko, Vladimir Polkovnikov
Writing Credits: N. Petrov, Aleksandr Zharov
Music by A. Aksenov, Konstantin Listov
Cinematography by D. Karetnyy
The movie consists of the following pieces united by a subject of inevitable death of the fascism that has encroached on the Soviet Union:
- What Hitler Wants?
- Beat the Fascist Pirates
- Strike the enemy on the front lines and at home
- A Mighty Handshake
Newsreel No.2 (1941) animated cartoon
Genre: Animation
Production Co: Soyuzmultfilm
Directed by Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg, Alexander Ivanov, Olga Khodatayeva, Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Written by Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg, Alexander Ivanov, Olga Khodatayeva, Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Artists: Gennady Filippov, Pyotr Nosov
Animators: Gennady Filippov, Pyotr Nosov, Lev Pozdneev, Yu. Popov
The Vultures (1941) animated cartoon
Genre: Animation
Production Co: Soyuzmultfilm
Directed by P. Sasonov
The short is called ‘a cartoon satire in three acts’ and features a Charlie Chaplin-like character, who introduces us to three staged satires, all featuring Adolf Hitler:
In the first, ‘Adolf the dog trainer and his pooches’, Hitler throws a bone at his three dogs, Benito Mussolini, Miklós Horthy and Ion Antonescu, the leaders of his allies Italy, Hungary and Romania, respectively.
In the second, ‘Hitler visits Napoleon’, Hitler asks Napoleon’s tomb for advice, but the deceased drags him into the tomb. It’s the most prophetic of the three, for indeed both Napoleon and Hitler were defeated in Russia.
In the third, ‘Adolf the juggler on powder kegs’, Hitler juggles with several burning torches on a pile of powder-barrels, representing the countries he has occupied. When he accidentally drops one of the torches, the barrels explode. The animation is particularly silly in this sequence and a delight to watch.
Kino-circus / Cinema Circus (1942) animated cartoon
Genre: Animation
Production Co: Soyuzmultfilm
Directed by Leonid Amalrik, Olga Khodatayeva
Writing Credits: Leonid Amalrik, Konstantin Gavryushin, Olga Khodatayeva, N. Kopyevsky, Nikolay Volkov
Music by A. Aksenov
Cinematography by Boris Titov, Nikolay Voinov
Sound Department: N. Gunger, Viktor Kotov
Animation Department: Leonid Amalrik, Nikolai Khodataev, Olga Khodatayeva, Nadezhda Privalova, Boris Titov
The film depicts the avaricious bourgeois and a transitional period in the Soviet state; under the New Economic Policy (NEP), a limited form of enterpreneurship was allowed. Here the side effects of this liberallist policy need to be overcome by a strong cooperative proletarian effort.
Soviet Toys (1924) animated cartoon
Genre: Animation
Production Co.: Goskino
Director: Dziga Vertov
Writer: Dziga Vertov
Additiional information:
Dziga Vertov is best known for his dazzling city symphony A Man with a Movie Camera, which was ranked by Sight and Sound magazine as the 8th best movie ever made. Yet what you might not know is that Vertov also made the Soviet Union’s first ever animated movie, Soviet Toys.
Consisting largely of simple line drawings, the film might lack the verve and visual sophistication that marked A Man with a Movie Camera, but Vertov still displays his knack for making striking, pungent images. Yet those who don’t have an intimate knowledge of Soviet policy of the 1920s might find the movie — which is laden with Marxist allegories — really odd.
Christmas Eve (1913) movie
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy
Production Co: Khanzhonkov
Directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz
Writing Credits: Nikolai Gogol (story), Wladyslaw Starewicz (writer)
Cinematography by Wladyslaw Starewicz
Production Design by Wladyslaw Starewicz
Cast:
Ivan Mozzhukhin as Devil
Olga Obolenskaya as Oksana
Lidiya Tridenskaya as Solokha
Petr Lopukhin as Vakula
Aleksandr Kheruvimov as Golova
Pavel Knorr as Chub
The film concerns an episode in the Russian Civil War in 1918 in which the Kiev Arsenal January Uprising of workers aided the besieging Bolshevik army against the Ukrainian national Parliament Central Rada who held legal power in Ukraine at the time.
Arsenal (1929) movie
Genres: Drama, War
Production Co: VUFKU
Directed by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Writing Credits: Aleksandr Dovzhenko (writer)
Produced by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cinematography by Daniil Demutsky
Film Editing by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Art Direction by Vadim Myuller, Iosif Shpinel
Cast:
Semyon Svashenko as Timosh, the Ukrainian
Amvrosi Buchma as Laughing-Gassed German Soldier
Georgi Khorkov as A Red Army Soldier
Dmitri Erdman as A German Officer
Sergey Petrov as A German Soldier
M. Mikhajlovsky as A Nationalist
Aleksandr Evdakov as Tsar Nikolay II
Nikolai Kuchinsky as Petliura
O. Merlatti as Sadovsky
Nikolai Nademsky as Grandpa
Luciano Albertini as Raffaele
Pyotr Masokha as Workman
Les Podorozhnij as Pavloo
T. Wagner
Boris Zagorsky as Dead Soldier
Departure of a Grand Old Man (1912) movie
Genres: Drama
Production Co: Thiemann & Reinhardt
Directed by Yakov Protazanov, Elizaveta Thieman
Produced by Pavel Thieman
Cinematography by Aleksandr Levitsky, Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
Production Design by Ivan Kavaleridze
Cast:
Olga Petrova as Sofja Andreevna
Vladimir Shaternikov as Lev Tolstoy
Mikhail Tamarov as Vladimir Chertkov
Elizaveta Thieman as Alexandra L'vovna
This brief comedy (about 15 minutes) is a surprise for all who have discovered this truly cinematic genius recently because of his tone, close to Lubitsch, Demille or La Cava silent comedies and far away from those enigmatic, tragic, hopeless "After death", "Daydreams" or "Silent witnesses". Especially wonderful the outdoor scenes, like it happens always in his movies, full of life and grace.
The 1002nd Ruse (1915) movie
Genres: Comedy
Production Co: Khanzhonkov
Directed by Yevgeni Bauer
Written by Vladimir Azov (play)
Produced by Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
Cast:
Lina Bauer as The Cunning Wife
S. Rassatov as The Husband
Sergei Kvasnitskii as Wife's Lover
The Dragonfly and the Ant (1913) movie
Genres: Animation
Production Co: Khanzhonkov
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz
Writer: Wladyslaw Starewicz
A Nenets Boy (1928) animation
Genres: Animation
Production Co: Sovkino
Directed by Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg, Nikolai Khodataev, Olga Khodatayeva
Writing Credits: Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg, Nikolai Khodataev, Olga Khodatayeva
Music by Leonid Polovinkin
Animation Department: Olga Khodatayeva, Vasili Semyonov
16th Century Russian Wedding (1909) movie
Genres: Drama, History
Production Co: Khanzhonkov
Directed by Vasili Goncharov
Writing Credits: Vasili Goncharov, Pyotr Sukhonin (play)
Produced by Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
Cinematography by Vladimir Siversen
Production Design by V. Fester
Cast:
Aleksandra Goncharova as Bride
Vasili Stepanov as Bride's father
Andrej Gromov as Groom
Lidiya Tridenskaya as Groom's mother
Pyotr Chardynin as Groom's father
Pavel Biryukov
Ivan Kamskiy
Ivan Potemkin
Antonina Pozharskaya
E. Fadeyeva as Bride's mother
Mariya Tokarskaya
The Insects' Christmas (1913) movie
Genres: Animation, Family
Production Co: Khanzhonkov
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz
Revolutionary (1917) movie
Genres: Drama
Production Co: Khanzhonkov
Directed by Yevgeni Bauer
Writing Credits: Ivane Perestiani
Produced by Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
Cinematography by Boris Zavelev
Cast:
Ivane Perestiani as 'Granddad', an old revolutionary
Vladimir Strizhevsky as Revolutionary's son
Zoya Barantsevich as Revolutionary's daughter
Mikhail Stalski as Dying prisoner
K. Askochenski
Vasiliy Ilyin
Konstantin Zubov