
Directing
Viktor Turin
Born — Died
1895-01-01 — 1945-05-18
Place of birth
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Known for
Directing
Credits
6 titles
Known for
NRThis is a screening of Solomon Lazurin’s novel of the same name. The engineer Georg Kurtniz invented a machine that replaces the work of many workers. Two powerful companies, headed by the billionaires Ringdal and Duk, compete for the right to own the machine. Ringdal wins. Kurtniz gets the billionaire’s daughter and a lot of money for the machine. The communist Jacob Miller calls workers fired by Ringdal to strike. Next to Jacob is the female worker Maika Kork. Workers want to destroy Kurtniz’s machine. The struggle is exacerbated when the second machine appears. It is even more sophisticated and threatens to put thousands of people out for work. This new machine is invented by the engineer Rebeck, a long-time competitor of Kurtniz both in the professional and personal life. This time, Rebeck receives a share of income and… Emilia, as Ringdal’s daughter abandons the looser Kurtniz. Workers declare a general strike which turns into an armed insurrection.
The Struggle of the Giants
1926
6.0Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.
The Steel Road
1929
9.2The film is about the revolution which began bacause of dissemination of Bolshevik ideas among workers.
Baku's People
1938
NRBased on the novel “The Three of Us“ by Oles Dovitnyi. Student Viktor Borovskyi becomes a member of an illegal student revolutionary organization, which soon becomes of interest to the police. Once in jail, Viktor cannot stand the interrogations, gives out the addresses of the organization's members and becomes an informant. He informs the police about the upcoming assassination of one of the tsarist generals. During the assassination attempt, the police arrest a girl terrorist, but the general is killed by the bullet of another revolutionary.
His Career
1928
Behind the camera
NRThis is a screening of Solomon Lazurin’s novel of the same name. The engineer Georg Kurtniz invented a machine that replaces the work of many workers. Two powerful companies, headed by the billionaires Ringdal and Duk, compete for the right to own the machine. Ringdal wins. Kurtniz gets the billionaire’s daughter and a lot of money for the machine. The communist Jacob Miller calls workers fired by Ringdal to strike. Next to Jacob is the female worker Maika Kork. Workers want to destroy Kurtniz’s machine. The struggle is exacerbated when the second machine appears. It is even more sophisticated and threatens to put thousands of people out for work. This new machine is invented by the engineer Rebeck, a long-time competitor of Kurtniz both in the professional and personal life. This time, Rebeck receives a share of income and… Emilia, as Ringdal’s daughter abandons the looser Kurtniz. Workers declare a general strike which turns into an armed insurrection.
The Struggle of the Giants
1926
6.0Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.
The Steel Road
1929
6.0Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.
The Steel Road
1929
9.2The film is about the revolution which began bacause of dissemination of Bolshevik ideas among workers.
Baku's People
1938
9.2The film is about the revolution which began bacause of dissemination of Bolshevik ideas among workers.
Baku's People
1938
NRBased on the novel “The Three of Us“ by Oles Dovitnyi. Student Viktor Borovskyi becomes a member of an illegal student revolutionary organization, which soon becomes of interest to the police. Once in jail, Viktor cannot stand the interrogations, gives out the addresses of the organization's members and becomes an informant. He informs the police about the upcoming assassination of one of the tsarist generals. During the assassination attempt, the police arrest a girl terrorist, but the general is killed by the bullet of another revolutionary.
His Career
1928
