Aleksandr Chistyakov

Acting

Aleksandr Chistyakov

Born 1880-01-01 · Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Aleksandr Chistyakov was born in 1880, he never graduated from high school, he worked as an accountant. From 1921 he studied at the First State Film School (Leo Kuleshov's workshop). Since 1925, he actively acted in films. The first role - a worker in the film "Arsenals" became a characteristic role for the subsequent work of the actor. He also was the champion of the Russian Empire in hammer throwing. Self-taught, he began to master hammer throwing at the end of the 19th century and in 1912 became the first record holder in Russia. He was a very good cyclist and an able wrestler too.

Acting credits

A Severe Young Man poster
5.5

A young sportsman Grisha Fokin falls in love with Masha, the wife of an outstanding scientist - Yuliyan Nikolayevich Stepanov.

A Severe Young Man

1935

Love and Hate poster
5.4

A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and decide to blow up the mine, the women organize a guerrilla action to stop them.

Love and Hate

1935

Stepan Razin poster
4.5

Don Cossack Stepan Razin vowed to take revenge on the boyars for his tortured friends. Having led the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of an entire army. Humiliated and insulted people flock to him from all over the Russian land.

Stepan Razin

1939

Beautiful Garden poster
NR

To help out his friend Lenya, Yura steals a Stradivarius violin belonging to the professor from his grandfather, a violin maker. Having learned about everything, the professor begins to study with the talented Lenya. Circus performers persuade Lenya to give up the violin and perform in the circus...

Beautiful Garden

1935

I Love poster
9.5

Russian Empire, 19th century. Poor Nykanor leaves his village and becomes a miner in the Donbas. His son Ostap also becomes a miner and works in the mine for thirty years, but after his father's sudden dismissal, he realizes that the state system needs radical changes.

I Love

1936

The Thirteen poster
5.4

The film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Middle Asian desert. They are forced to do battle with superior forces of Basmachi rebels for the dry draw-well.

The Thirteen

1937

Professor Mamlock poster
6.0

Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappaport, the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politically-aware, fascism-resisting son, an intern, as their lives become entangled with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany, where they live and practice. Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital, and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff.

Professor Mamlock

1938

Misunderstood poster
NR

The film tells about the class struggle in the countryside during the creation of the first collective farms. Only the first part has survived. Director Ivan Pyryev began work on the film. It has not been preserved in its entirety.

Misunderstood

1931

The End of St. Petersburg poster
6.7

Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.

The End of St. Petersburg

1927

The Last Night poster
NR

Historical-revolutionary film about the struggle of the Bolshevik underground against the interventionists during the civil war in Odessa, about the participation of children in underground work.

The Last Night

1933

No artwork available
NR

About the fate of a former prisoner of war, who returns to his homeland, to the Soviet Union.

Nastenka Ustinova

1934

Daughter of the Motherland poster
NR

On the detention of fascist saboteurs and border violators by the collective farmers of Soviet Byelorussia. The main heroine, the actual "daughter of the Motherland", is the chairman of the kolkhoz, and has detained eight trespassers. But the main enemy may be lurking from within the borders.

Daughter of the Motherland

1937

A Great Life, Part 2 poster
8.0

This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War.

A Great Life, Part 2

1946

Mother poster
7.1

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

Mother

1926

Outskirts poster
6.2

In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.

Outskirts

1933

Salamander poster
6.3

The film is based on real events and reveals the tragic episodes from the life of the Austrian biologist scientist-materialist Paul Kammerer (1880-1926), hunted by regressive scientists and Catholic reactionaries who committed suicide.

Salamander

1928

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

No One is Funnier than Us poster
8.0

A young man, Russian by nationality, goes to a Turkmen bride in a remote border village, not knowing that his large family decides to surprise him and also goes to Turkmenistan to meet the bride and her parents. The chain of comic misunderstandings ends with an episode of a skirmish on the border with saboteurs.

No One is Funnier than Us

1940

The Return poster
10.0

Little Nikita, the son of polar scientist Sergei Ivanov, runs away from home with the intention of reaching the Arctic, where he believes his father works. The boy manages to reach Leningrad, where he ends up at the Arctic Institute. Sergei is tasked with returning the runaway home, but Nikita stubbornly hides his origins and the purpose of his escape. Soon, his grandmother arrives, and Ivanov learns that Nikita is his son. He writes a letter to his ex-wife and convinces her of the need to return to him. The couple reconciles, and, preparing for another expedition, Sergei promises his wife and young son that he will return to the mainland on time.

The Return

1940

For Your Health poster
NR

About the fight against alcoholism in the workplace.

For Your Health

1929

The Drive of Death poster
NR

The fate of a simple railroad machinist Gavrilov, who under the influence of the events of the Civil War finds his place in the new era.

The Drive of Death

1929

Heroes of the Furnace poster
NR

Lost movie.

Heroes of the Furnace

1929

Storm Over Asia poster
6.5

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the hills after brawling with the trader who cheated him. In 1920 he becomes a Soviet partisan, and helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the occupying British army. However he is captured by the British when they try to requisition cattle from the herdsmen at the same time as the commandant meets with a reincarnated Grand Lama. After the trapper is shot, the army discovers an amulet that suggests he is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. They find him still alive, so the army restores his health and plans to use him as the head of a puppet regime. The trapper is thus thrust into prominence as he is placed in charge of the puppet government. By the end, however, the "puppet" turns against his masters in an outburst of fury.

Storm Over Asia

1928

The Vyborg Side poster
4.9

The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins to fight off sabotaging underlings. Dymba, now a violent enemy of the Republic, tries to rob a wine store but is arrested with Maksim's help. Maksim also exposes a conspiracy of a group of tsarist officers who prepare an attempt against Lenin. He then joins the Red Army in its fight against the German occupation.

The Vyborg Side

1939