Boris Livanov

Acting

Boris Livanov

Born — Died

1904-05-08 — 1972-09-22

Place of birth

Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

Known for

The Fall of Berlin poster
5.0

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.

The Fall of Berlin

1950

Admiral Ushakov poster
6.1

Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.

Admiral Ushakov

1953

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) poster
6.9

As the Russian monarchy crumbles, conflicts at Petrograd intensify, with Soviet hero V.I. Lenin leading the rebellion that overthrows the tsar's Winter Palace.

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

1928

The Great Glinka poster
6.7

About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.

The Great Glinka

1946

The Battle of Stalingrad poster
4.0

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad.

The Battle of Stalingrad

1949

Baltic Deputy poster
4.6

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.

Baltic Deputy

1937

Film credits

1960s · 6 titles

The Blind Musician poster
6.8

In the wealthy noble family of Popelsky, the only son Petrik is blind from birth. His mother Anna Mikhailovna, infinitely loving and pitying the boy, educates him as a rare fragile flower. And only Uncle Maxim, who fought under the banner of Garibaldi in his youth, is trying to accustom the boy to independence. The boy begins to recognize the world by touch, and one day his fingers find the keys of a piano. But, still not knowing the price of his talent, he leaves with the tramps "to seek the truth." And now only love can reconcile him with the world of the sighted.

The Blind Musician

1961

Degree of Risk poster
4.0

A drama based on the daily life of a hospital and its doctors.

Degree of Risk

1968

Now Judge... poster
6.0

The fate of Illarion Groza was tragic. Many years ago, upon returning from the front, he learned that his wife had given birth to a daughter by an Italian officer, and he shot her with his machine gun. But even now, Illarion cannot forget his wife, forgive her betrayal, or justify his cruelty. And that is why his relationship with his daughter Yulka is so dramatic and tense... The artist Bogutovsky, who lives in the captivity of false pompous art, carries the burden of past years... After hearing Illarion's story, the writer Iskra destroys the manuscript of his play: life turns out to be much more complicated than he imagined.

Now Judge...

1967

The Kremlin Chimes poster
10.0

Performance of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater based on the play by N. Pogodin.

The Kremlin Chimes

1967

Dead Souls poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Dead Souls

1960

Death of the Squadron poster
8.0

Summer 1918. There is a danger of ships being captured by Germany in the Black Sea Fleet. The Soviet government decides to destroy the fleet. The film tells about the intense struggle of the Bolsheviks against the forces of counterrevolution trying to disrupt the execution of the order.

Death of the Squadron

1966

1950s · 7 titles

The Fall of Berlin poster
5.0

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.

The Fall of Berlin

1950

Admiral Ushakov poster
6.1

Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.

Admiral Ushakov

1953

Poem of the Sea poster
5.2

A Soviet dam project means that many old Ukrainian villages will end up under water. There are conflicts between the dam engineers and villagers who don't want to move.

Poem of the Sea

1958

Aleksa Dundic poster
5.6

Life and times of Aleksa Dundic, a volunteer in the Serb army during WW1, who later became a legend by fighting for the Red Army in the Russian Civil War.

Aleksa Dundic

1958

On the Eve poster
6.4

The story is set in the 1800s. Elena and Inzarov, a revolutionary Bulgarian, fall in love. After secretly marrying they decide to join the liberation, but on the eve of departure Dmitry dies. Elena takes Inzarov's body to the Balkans.

On the Eve

1959

Captain of the First Rank poster
8.0

Zakhar Psaltyrev went through many ordeals in the royal fleet, where massacres and bullying of people became a custom. Only thanks to his natural intelligence and perseverance, the illiterate peasant boy managed to avoid the fate of many of his comrades, who became drunkards and lost their human dignity. Captain 1st Rank Lezvin, commander of the cruiser "Svyatoslav", himself suffocating in the difficult atmosphere of the tsarist autocracy, fatherly fell in love with his messenger for his simple Russian soul, quick-witted mind, love for the homeland and hatred of oppression. Zakhar learned a lot from Lezvin, but soon they had to part. Zakhar becomes an active underground Bolshevik.

Captain of the First Rank

1958

Mikhail Lomonosov poster
7.5

A biopic about the life of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Russian polymath, scientist and writer.

Mikhail Lomonosov

1955

1940s · 8 titles

The Great Glinka poster
6.7

About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.

The Great Glinka

1946

The Battle of Stalingrad poster
4.0

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad.

The Battle of Stalingrad

1949

Cruiser 'Varyag' poster
5.0

A story of heroic Russian war cruiser 'Varyag'.

Cruiser 'Varyag'

1946

The Lost Letter poster
6.1

The first Soviet cel-animated feature film, based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol. A messenger is tasked with delivering a letter to the Tsarina, which he tucks into his hat for safekeeping on the road. While resting at night, a band of demons steals the hat, and he must travel to Hell to retrieve it.

The Lost Letter

1945

General Suvorov poster
6.0

Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Russia and Austria against Napoleon.

General Suvorov

1941

Guilty Without Guilt poster
6.6

The famous actress Kruchinina graciously agrees to tour in a town with which she has heavy memories, and finds there a son, left by her due to circumstances many years ago. He has become embittered from his hard childhood, youth and young adulthood an insignificant and drinking like everyone else, an actor in the local provincial theater.

Guilty Without Guilt

1945

Sinbad the Sailor poster
NR

Based on the Arab fairy tales about Sinbad the Sailor and his incredible adventures in foreign countries.

Sinbad the Sailor

1944

Light over Russia poster
5.0

Memories of the old Baltic sailor who participated in a revolution and a few wars...

Light over Russia

1947

1930s · 9 titles

Baltic Deputy poster
4.6

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.

Baltic Deputy

1937

City Under Attack poster
8.0

The action of the movie takes place during a possible future war. A foreign state is preparing an attack on the Soviet Union. Professor Runge in his laboratory conducts an experiment with a new deadly gas. The plan of aggression is carried out. On a major Soviet industrial center the enemy command sends squadrons of planes with high-explosive and chemical bombs, with an airborne landing force led by White Guard officers.

City Under Attack

1933

Minin and Pozharsky poster
6.1

Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin and Pozharsky people's militia. The beginning of the XVII century. Already the sixth year the Muscovite land under the yoke of intervention. In the fall of 1610 Polish pans in deceitfully seized the Kremlin and tried to break through to the north. Everywhere rebellions broke out, but well-armed interventionists smashed the scattered peasant detachments. The liberation movement was led by Nizhny Novgorod merchant Kuzma and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.

Minin and Pozharsky

1939

The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe poster
7.0

Not being able to implement his invention in his home country, engineer Arrowsmith, the author of the patent for ore flotation, goes to the USSR to work at one of the flotation plants, where he soon learns that a group of Soviet engineers is conducting similar work.

The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe

1934

The Private Life of Pyotr Vinogradov poster
7.5

Graduating students of school Peter Vinogradov, Senya Kaufman and Kotya Ohotnikov leave from a distant city to Moscow. Friends promise not to forget a home town and friends. Peter with melancholy says goodbye to favorite girl Valya, dreaming to enter the Moscow conservatory. Arriving in the capital, friends act to work on a car factory and settle down in evening institution of higher learning. Life begins only.

The Private Life of Pyotr Vinogradov

1935

Dubrovskiy poster
3.0

Peasant rebelling, pictures of folk anger - here accent that had to put Ivanovo in a new film. The manuscript of novel was found post mortem Pushkin in his papers. The name he did not have and remained unfinished. Intention of "Dubrovskiy" was prompted by an actual incident. A few variants of upshot of novel were saved. Ivanov became familiar with all and wrote it.

Dubrovskiy

1936

Men of the Sea poster
NR

The film is about the heroic feat of the Kronstadt sailors, defending against the approaches of the revolutionaries from Petrograd during the Russian Civil War.

Men of the Sea

1938

Deserter poster
5.0

A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own country.

Deserter

1933

Анненковщина poster
NR

Mostly lost (only 2 minutes recovered).

Анненковщина

1933

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