Zoya Barantsevich

Acting

Zoya Barantsevich

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Actress and screenwriter. Most of the eleven films she wrote are now considered lost.

Known for

Film credits

1920s · 7 titles

You're not a Thief Until You're Caught poster
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Based on the novel "Three Thieves" by Italian writer Umberto Notari. The banker's wife Ornano gives the key to her house to her lover Count Guido. The swindler Cascariglia uses this situation in his own way - he steals three million in money and his wife from the banker. In order to recover at least part of the stolen money (perhaps only the first part), the banker helps the adventurer get elected to parliament.

You're not a Thief Until You're Caught

1924

The Three poster
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Based on a short story by O. Henry "The Ransom of the Red Chief". Three boys meet by chance. Myshko, a pioneer, is walking down the street in the ranks of a pioneer unit, while the homeless Semen is standing behind the unit, and Mr. Zhorzhyk is looking out of the window. The second time the boys meet is in the Crimea, where Myshko travels with the pioneers, the panych in a soft carriage with a bonnet, and Semen between the cars. Semen is kidnapped by bandits who mistake him for Zhorzhyk. Meanwhile, Zhorzhyk escapes from his bondage to a pioneer detachment. Soon, Semyon ends up there as well.

The Three

1928

Lord of the Black Rocks poster
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The film takes place somewhere abroad. One of the characters in the film, novice Morne, rescues a fisherman girl, Armela, who loses her mind from terror and seriously begins to believe that she is the "goddess of the winds". The monks of the monastery use this not without benefit. Armela's father finds his daughter and takes her home. Morne, in love with the girl, leaves the monastery and returns to his former profession of an artist. Soon Armela recovers and marries Morne.

Lord of the Black Rocks

1924

No artwork available
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About a miners' strike in pre-revolution Russia after a cave-in and the death of their comrade. Partially lost.

In the Whirlwind of the Revolution

1922

A Spectre Haunts Europe poster
7.3

Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been banished here due to his confrontational activities. The two fall in love but meet a violent end when the revolutionaries, led by Elka's father, destroy the palace.

A Spectre Haunts Europe

1923

Locksmith and Chancellor poster
7.0

The Government of the fictional country Norland has unleashed a war with the neighboring Galikania and is suffering one defeat after another. A group of conspirators who were dissatisfied with this state of affairs, led by the Social Democrat Frank Frey arrange a coup to overthrew the emperor of Norland. But the working class does not like the new order either. Workers expose Frank Frey's policy of continuing the war and a revolution breaks out in the country. The leader of the socialist revolution becomes a mechanic of the name Franz Stark.

Locksmith and Chancellor

1924

Ataman Khmil' poster
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Revolutionary melodrama based on Lev Nikulin's story "Хміль". 1917. The main character of the film - a "bourgeois intellectual" - does not sympathize with any side and avoids revolutionary events. However, as a result of a series of adventurous adventures, love intrigues and communication with the people, he goes over to the side of the proletariat.

Ataman Khmil'

1924

1910s · 24 titles

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Сказка синего моря

1916

Anna Karenina poster
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In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

1914

Daughter of Tormented Poland poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Daughter of Tormented Poland

1915

People And Passions poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

People And Passions

1916

Student Tanya Skvortsova poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Student Tanya Skvortsova

1916

Thérèse Raquin poster
NR

Based on the novel by Emile Zola. The picture was not released. The movie is not fully preserved.

Thérèse Raquin

1919

Black Rocks Legend poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Black Rocks Legend

1916

The Girl From the Basement poster
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No synopsis available yet.

The Girl From the Basement

1914

Who Ruined This Life? poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Who Ruined This Life?

1916

Oh, Magical Night Full of Bliss... poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Oh, Magical Night Full of Bliss...

1916

Miss Meri poster
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Based on the novel The Man Who Killed by Claude Farrère.

Miss Meri

1918

Twilight poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Twilight

1917

Princess Larisa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Princess Larisa

1917

Nelly Raintseva poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nelly Raintseva

1916

Annushka's Case poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Annushka's Case

1917

An Episode of Love poster
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After the death of her father, young Irina becomes the sole support of the family, as her mother is seriously ill and her little sister is still too young. One day during a walk she meets the artist Vladimir and falls in love with him. The two begin to date. Vladimir, having fallen in love with Irina, wants to get rid of his connection with a married woman Elena. Elena's husband has been watching the lovers for a long time and the farewell date of Vladimir and Elena serves as an excuse for him to challenge his rival to a duel. During the duel Vladimir dies. Having learned about the death of her beloved, Irina dies of a heart attack. Her mother, left all alone, mourns her daughter's death bitterly.

An Episode of Love

1918

A Revolutionary poster
6.1

In 1907, the Russian authorities learn that a revolutionary known as 'Granddad' is living in hiding with his brother. The revolutionary is soon arrested and sent to Siberia. After ten years of struggling to survive in harsh conditions, he is finally released when the Tsarist government is overthrown in February 1917. He is welcomed home as a hero, but he soon finds that even his own son has different views than he does about the future of Russia.

A Revolutionary

1917

The Alarm poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Alarm

1917

Nina poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nina

1916

Black Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Black Love

1917

The Poet and the Fallen Soul poster
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No synopsis available yet.

The Poet and the Fallen Soul

1918

Mysterious World poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mysterious World

1916

The Puppets of Fate poster
8.0

A love drama set in the life of the capital’s bohemian crowd.

The Puppets of Fate

1916

Faust poster
NR

The 35-year-old landowner Pavel Alexandrovich returns to his estate after a long absence. Having met his former university friend Priimkov, Pavel learns that he is married to Vera Yeletskaya, his former lover. Pavel is immersed in memories...

Faust

1919

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