
Acting
Nina Shaternikova
Born — Died
1902-05-16 — 1982-10-27
Place of birth
Moscow, Russian Empire
Known for
Acting
Credits
19 titles
Known for
8.0A comedy starring Nina Shaternikova, The Skotinins is loosely based on the 18th century play The Minor by Denis Fonvizin. In it, the upper class is shown as both depraved and stupid, engaging a variety of absurd, over-the-top follies.
The Gentlefolks of Skotinin
1927
NRIn the United States, oil magnate Johnston backs Roberts, a ruthless political candidate who has his main rival murdered and rises to the governorship. When journalist Jack Lawrence exposes Roberts’s corruption, the authorities crush a workers’ strike and silence the newspaper, ultimately framing Lawrence for murder and executing him.
Flag of the Nation
1929
NRStudent work, artistic director Sergei Gerasimov. A post as a clerk is promised to the impoverished teacher Vremensky, who has lost his job. However, as a result of the intrigues of influential city ladies, the director of the public schools gives the position to the young careerist Polzukhin.
Ladies
1954
5.9At the end of the 1920s, young lace factory workers' Komsomol cell faces a conflict between political activists and hooligans, while dealing with an inactive club and bureaucratic apathy.
Lace
1928
5.5A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kijé". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The courtiers, eager to avoid the wrath of the temperamental Tsar, create a Kijé to serve as their royal scapegoat.
Lieutenant Kijé
1934
7.0Military maneuvers are being conducted in the Kuban villages of Dalnyaya and Kochevskaya, with the participation of village Cossack detachments. The Kochevskaya reconnaissance unit is led by the dashing Cossack Mikhail, while his fiancée Dasha Gorkunova is a communications officer for the "enemy" unit. Dasha cleverly deceives her "enemy" and, having escaped from her pursuers, gives instructions to "her own."
Stanitsa Dalnaya
1940
Film credits
1950s · 3 titles
NRStudent work, artistic director Sergei Gerasimov. A post as a clerk is promised to the impoverished teacher Vremensky, who has lost his job. However, as a result of the intrigues of influential city ladies, the director of the public schools gives the position to the young careerist Polzukhin.
Ladies
1954
7.0Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian Futurist poet of the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in 1893, into a Russian Cossack family in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire. There he spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi. Mayakovsky moved to Moscow at the age of 14, after his father's death. He became a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer/director and public speaker.
This Is How Mayakovsky Began
1959
6.3A story of a young girl going through the number of hard events in her life.
A Man Was Born
1956
1940s · 3 titles
7.0Military maneuvers are being conducted in the Kuban villages of Dalnyaya and Kochevskaya, with the participation of village Cossack detachments. The Kochevskaya reconnaissance unit is led by the dashing Cossack Mikhail, while his fiancée Dasha Gorkunova is a communications officer for the "enemy" unit. Dasha cleverly deceives her "enemy" and, having escaped from her pursuers, gives instructions to "her own."
Stanitsa Dalnaya
1940
7.5The movie tells about the life of Soviet scientists. Professor Dobrotvorsky, together with his colleague Losev, is on his way to completing a scientific work of great importance in medicine. Professor Dobrotvorsky's friend Academician Vereisky learns from a foreign journal that important data about this work has fallen into the hands of American businessmen.
Court of Honor
1949
6.3Chronicle of the life of Russian poet Michail Lermontov, from the final days of Alexandr Pushkin to the fatal destiny of the poet himself.
Lermontov
1943
1930s · 5 titles
5.5A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kijé". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The courtiers, eager to avoid the wrath of the temperamental Tsar, create a Kijé to serve as their royal scapegoat.
Lieutenant Kijé
1934
7.0Biographical film "Youth of the poet", dedicated to Pushkin-Lyceum student. At the 1937 world exhibition in Paris, the film was awarded a gold medal. The Director managed to accurately recreate the historic era, to convey the atmosphere of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in the years of the formation of the poetic genius of Pushkin.
Youth of the Poet
1937
8.0A comedy about the life of a young married couple—Soviet students. Film has not survived.
Do I Love You?
1934
6.0Based 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
7.0A comedy from the life of Soviet gold prospectors at a mining site.
The Golden Taiga
1937
1920s · 7 titles
8.0A comedy starring Nina Shaternikova, The Skotinins is loosely based on the 18th century play The Minor by Denis Fonvizin. In it, the upper class is shown as both depraved and stupid, engaging a variety of absurd, over-the-top follies.
The Gentlefolks of Skotinin
1927
NRIn the United States, oil magnate Johnston backs Roberts, a ruthless political candidate who has his main rival murdered and rises to the governorship. When journalist Jack Lawrence exposes Roberts’s corruption, the authorities crush a workers’ strike and silence the newspaper, ultimately framing Lawrence for murder and executing him.
Flag of the Nation
1929
5.9At the end of the 1920s, young lace factory workers' Komsomol cell faces a conflict between political activists and hooligans, while dealing with an inactive club and bureaucratic apathy.
Lace
1928
Partially lost.
The Comediant Girl
1923
7.5The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.
The Black Sail
1929
NRAn agit-film about the struggle of Ukrainian peasants against the White Poles. A young woman, the daughter of a blacksmith taken prisoner by the White Poles, and a Red commander organise a partisan unit. One scene depicts the capture of a Polish landowner attempting to elude capture. He had been hiding from the Red Army soldiers in a barrel. The peasants nailed the barrel shut and, having inscribed the words: ‘To Warsaw – to Mr Piłsudski’, threw it into the Dnieper. Lost film.
In the Days of Struggle
1920
10.0Partially lost.
Poison
1927
