Porfiri Podobed

Acting

Porfiri Podobed

Born 1886-10-16

Acting credits

The Death Ray poster
5.2

In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a Death Ray to fight back. Partially lost movie.

The Death Ray

1925

The Living Corpse poster
5.3

The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never really chosen between him and the more conventional Victor Karenin, a rival for her hand. He wants to kill himself, but doesn't have the nerve. Running away from his life, he first falls in with Gypsies, and into a sexual relationship with a Gypsy singer, Masha.

The Living Corpse

1929

By the Law poster
6.6

After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several months until they can turn him over to the law.

By the Law

1926

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks poster
5.9

An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his bodyguard.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

1924

The Yellow Ticket poster
5.6

Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.

The Yellow Ticket

1928

No artwork available
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One Kuleshov film that might be of great interest to scholars is The Breakthrough (Proryv, 1930). It was made in 48 hours. Naturally, such an unusual work did not stay in cinemas for a long time.

The Backlog!

1930