Konstantin Isayev

Writing

Konstantin Isayev

Born — Died

1907-01-15 — 1977-01-09

Place of birth

Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

Known for

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10 poster
NR

Fighting Film Collection No. 10 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 10) is the tenth issue of Boyevoy kinosbornik series, released in June 1942. It contains two segments: "Bestsennaya golova/A Priceless Head" and "Molodoye vino/Young Wine". Both depict the anti-Nazi resistance, the first in Poland and the second in Romania.

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10

1942

Sadko poster
5.7

In the old Russian city of Novgorod, the merchants are feasting in a gorgeous palace and Sadko is bragging that he can bring to their land a sweet-voiced bird of happiness. They laugh at him, but he is offered help by the Ocean King's daughter, who is mesmerized by Sadko's singing and is in love with him. The hero is destined to visit many lands in his search of the bird.

Sadko

1953

The Magic Voyage of Sinbad poster
NR

American-dubbed, re-edited version of the 1953 Soviet fantasy film Sadko. Produced by Roger Corman's Filmgroup in 1962, it's shorter by 8 minutes, all music is removed, the names of characters are changed.

The Magic Voyage of Sinbad

1962

True Friends poster
7.1

Alexander, Boris and Vasily are old friends, who now rarely see each other as they're busy with their professional life. They embark on long-planned voyage on a raft down the Volga river, which turns into a series of comical accidents but also strengthens their friendship.

True Friends

1954

Be Careful, Grandma! poster
4.2

Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her grandmother and her 'old guards'. Look out Lena's enemies. Here's her grandma coming!

Be Careful, Grandma!

1961

Pavel Korchagin poster
3.4

A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".

Pavel Korchagin

1956

Behind the camera

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10 poster
NR

Fighting Film Collection No. 10 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 10) is the tenth issue of Boyevoy kinosbornik series, released in June 1942. It contains two segments: "Bestsennaya golova/A Priceless Head" and "Molodoye vino/Young Wine". Both depict the anti-Nazi resistance, the first in Poland and the second in Romania.

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10

1942

Sadko poster
5.7

In the old Russian city of Novgorod, the merchants are feasting in a gorgeous palace and Sadko is bragging that he can bring to their land a sweet-voiced bird of happiness. They laugh at him, but he is offered help by the Ocean King's daughter, who is mesmerized by Sadko's singing and is in love with him. The hero is destined to visit many lands in his search of the bird.

Sadko

1953

The Magic Voyage of Sinbad poster
NR

American-dubbed, re-edited version of the 1953 Soviet fantasy film Sadko. Produced by Roger Corman's Filmgroup in 1962, it's shorter by 8 minutes, all music is removed, the names of characters are changed.

The Magic Voyage of Sinbad

1962

True Friends poster
7.1

Alexander, Boris and Vasily are old friends, who now rarely see each other as they're busy with their professional life. They embark on long-planned voyage on a raft down the Volga river, which turns into a series of comical accidents but also strengthens their friendship.

True Friends

1954

Be Careful, Grandma! poster
4.2

Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her grandmother and her 'old guards'. Look out Lena's enemies. Here's her grandma coming!

Be Careful, Grandma!

1961

Pavel Korchagin poster
3.4

A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".

Pavel Korchagin

1956

May Night, or the Drowned Maiden poster
5.5

The son of an obstinate mayor cannot get his father's consent to wed the beautiful Hanna. He receives unexpected assistance from evil, mysterious forces – Satan, witches, and rusalki – who work together to bring the couple happiness, bringing mayhem and celebration.

May Night, or the Drowned Maiden

1953

Not Under the Jurisdiction poster
5.8

In a training flight, the Il-28 plane crashes. Shooter-radio operator Sorokin without an order leaves the plane, lands first and writes a denunciation to the pilot Yegorov. Yegorov has to leave military service, his beloved girlfriend Nadya is leaving him. Sixteen years have passed since then. Nadya is married to the slanderer Sorokin and brings up a son with him who doesn't know who his real father is. One day, the whole family ends up on an airplane controlled by Yegorov. Clarification of relations leads to a belated triumph of truth, which affects all heroes: one destroys, the other exalts, in the third instills hope...

Not Under the Jurisdiction

1969

Unfinished Story poster
5.3

The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She is lonely, although she is cared for by a confident and promising colleague. Yelizaveta Maksimovna has one patient, a manly, full-energy ship builder Yershov, chained to the bed with a paralysis of both legs. All doctors recommend him rest, and Elizaveta Maksimovna advises to work and not feel sorry for herself. Yershov with all his heart falls in love with his doctor, and she loves him, but she does not dare to say her feelings. Ershov thinks that he has no hopes, but...

Unfinished Story

1955

No artwork available
9.5

Soviet border guards detained a suspicious individual who claimed to be a lost archaeologist. However, the soldiers were alarmed by the radio transmitter and code he possessed. The case was handed over to the KGB, who were tasked with tracking down and neutralising the foreign intelligence agent the detainee had been in contact with.

Game Without Tie

1967

The North Variant poster
5.0

In a place called Giblaya Protoka, a team of oil workers is conducting exploration work for the second year. Foreman Yuri Kozhevatov is gloomy: the geophysicists' forecast is not confirmed – there is no oil in the northern direction. Life is complicated by love disputes: the drillers got into a fight over the beautiful Alevtina, and Kozhevatov sends her back to the mainland.

The North Variant

1974

Secret Agent poster
5.6

Soviet agent Fedotov is air-dropped into Nazi occupied land. He changes over into Mr. Ekhert, a German entrepreneur wishing to take advantage of eastern worker slave labor in occupied Ukraine. Ekhert (Fedotov) enters into a partnership with a German entrepreneur who's son, Willie, is a high ranking Nazi. Together they go to Vinnitsa, Ukraine and start a factory. Fedotov begins seeking contacts with headquarters, but faces problems when a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator manages to infiltrate the Soviet partisans.

Secret Agent

1947

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Krylataya zashchita

1954

When September Comes poster
6.4

Pensioner Levon Poghosyan flew to Moscow from Armenia to congratulate his grandson on his first day of school. And it doesn't matter at all that Levon is already at an advanced age and terminally ill. The main thing is to bring joy to loved ones and new acquaintances, of whom there are many in this big, noisy city...

When September Comes

1975

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

First Day

1958

Taimyr Calls You poster
5.1

A few hotel guests are constantly getting into various funny situations.

Taimyr Calls You

1971

The Star of Hope poster
6.0

Two part film about David Bek and Mkhitar Sparapet's major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.

The Star of Hope

1978

An Extraordinary Assignment poster
6.5

The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.

An Extraordinary Assignment

1966

Secret Mission poster
4.5

The Soviet intelligence officer Martha Shirke honorably fulfills the command mission, but the Nazis expose her.

Secret Mission

1950