
Acting
Vladimir Ratomsky
Born 1891-07-23 · Barnaul, Barnaulskiy uezd, Tomskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Acting credits
NRA satirical comedy with elements of metaphysical horror about religion in rural 1960s Soviet Russia. Notable for using first-person pseudo-documentary "found footage" technique framing the movie as the creation of the protagonist, who is returns to his home village from the city to discover that a local drunk has formed a doomsday cult.
The End of the World
1963
4.5Pilot Losev, who lost his family during the war, learns that his daughter Aurika was saved during the bombing, and sets off in search of her. The former pilot will survive many fates and stories before a familiar chorus of a lullaby helps him to recognize his daughter in a random fellow traveler.
Lullaby
1959
5.6Soviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values in Dream of a Cossack (aka Cavalier of the Golden Star). The title character, played by future director Sergei Bondarchuk (and billed for obscure reasons as Semyon Bondarchuk), is an ex-soldier who returns home to the Kuban region, there to take up life as a farmer. Instead, he galvanizes the local citizenry into participating in a massive construction project, which will result in a new power station and canal. Thus does Raisman offer an prime example of Russian collectivism while making it seem as though it had sprung from individual initiative. Dream of a Cossack is based on a popular novel by S. Babayefsky.
Dream of a Cossack
1951
5.3A Moscow group of Komsomol members arrives on the virgin lands, in the Kazakh steppes, and immediately faces bureaucracy and carelessness. Someone flees the state farm for more reliable earnings, and someone simply does not want to work. But a new energetic director appears — and real life begins...
It Began This Way...
1956
4.7No synopsis available yet.
Little Masha and The Bear
1960
4.5Tank crew Officer-member Fedotov on the way from a hospital on visiting home became acquainted with young Sonya, mother of three children. After demobilization went back to her. Happiness of them was short. Sonya became ill and died. Soon her husband arrived after children, but left with a father only junior.
Blood Ties
1964
NRA crane and other magical creatures save a poor fisherman from a greedy miller. Based on Russian folk tales.
The Old Man and the Crane
1958
NROnce a year, under every tree and bush, a small man-bearer is born. All the summer he works tirelessly over the magical colors, which in the autumn will paint the leaves in yellow, orange and red. This animation film will tell about one such little man who appeared under the maple and about the hooligan Kuzma, who took away his paint from him. With their help, he won recognition and respect at the contest of autumn drawing, but did not have time to enjoy them, since his deception quickly opened.
Tale About Another's Paint
1962
6.0Collective farmer Lyavon Chyh prefers private farming to public farming. For his beloved cow Krasuli, he tries to steal hay from a collective farm stack, refuses to consent to the wedding of his daughter Sonya with a zootechnician Misha, because the young people are going to live in a new comfortable house without a private plot. After all, he hoped that in the person of his son-in-law he would acquire a new employee in his vast household. Worried about rumors that household plots will be cut off, he complains to the regional committee.
Horned Bastion
1964
7.7A naughty kitten runs away from home to take part in a dangerous forest adventure. A special "fluffy effect" was developed for this cartoon to make animals look more lively.
A Naughty Kitten
1953
NRThe tale of the little badger, who did not want to learn to produce their own food and dig burrows. And once, when he told his father that he's hurt his back, and he played and lost, he realized how much need to be able to survive. Because such small animals as he is in the woods lurks so many dangers... And, above all, wolf!
In the Heart of the Forest
1954
7.5Driver Panachuk, who took «left» passengers, is in a hurry to Gorsk. Panachuk tells the policeman who stopped him that he saw a murdered doctor in a crashed «Moskvich» car on the way.
Crash
1965
10.0Nadya Vakhmistrova, the daughter of a collective farmer from the Volgo-Don agricultural artel, works honestly and conscientiously on her collective farm. But then, like all the young people in the country, she hears the news: the party is calling on young men and women to develop virgin and fallow lands. Nadya, a member of the Komsomol, believes that her place is where the party calls her. But her beloved, Grigory, the collective farm foreman, does not share this decision. He is overcome with doubts: is it worth leaving his native village if he is needed here on the collective farm; wouldn't it be better to get married and build a personal happiness here? But Nadezhda is adamant. She leaves, leaving Grigory behind...
Nadezhda
1955
6.8Two stories ("The feat of the soldier Mukhin", "The Last Autumn"). The events of one concern 1917, when Lenin had to hide in Finland, the second takes place in 1923-1924 during the last months of his life in Gorki.
Stories About Lenin
1957
6.1While investigating a regular traffic accidents detectives find evidence of foreign intelligence involvement.
Case No. 306
1956
5.5A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army forces during the Russian Civil War.
The Unforgettable Year 1919
1951
8.0The story of how the young worker was bored with life.
The Brave Tailor
1964
NRA modern fairy tale about how the draining of swamps forces forest evil spirits - Baba Yaga, Vodyany, Leshego - to retreat or "re-educate".
The End of the Black Swamp
1960
5.7Tractor driver Matvey Morozov returns to his native village from the prison. And he recalls the story of his marriage, his fatal love, failed betrayal and committed reckless “crime”, in which he doesn't repent at all.
It Happened in Penkovo
1958
6.0Two old friends remain socially active even after their retirement...
In a Quiet Marina
1958
5.8An old man suddenly realizes that both his daughters aren't happy so he decides to help them to find happiness.
Devotion
1954
9.0A progressive agronomist fights with a conservative collective farm chairman.
Land and People
1956
7.0Every family has its scout.
Forest Travellers
1951