
Directing
Iosif Kheifits
Born — Died
1905-12-04 — 1995-04-24
Place of birth
Minsk, Russian Empire
Known for
Directing
Credits
44 titles
Iosif Yefimovich Kheifits (17 December [O.S. 4 December] 1905 – 24 April 1995) was a Soviet film director, winner of two Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946), People's Artist of USSR (1964), Hero of Socialist Labor (1975).
Known for
7.0No synopsis available yet.
To Remember
1993
Lost movie.
Wind in the Face
1930
7.7Dedicated to the development of the oil industry of Soviet Azerbaijan in the background of the first half of the twentieth century, including their selfless work in strengthening the economic and military might of the USSR.
The Fires of Baku
1958
5.8On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair.
Lady with the Dog
1960
8.0In 1929, the Chinese are preparing an attack on the CER, recruiting soldiers to their gang. Among them there is a resident of a lodging house Van. Having recovered after a sudden attack on a Soviet border village, the Red Army squad goes on the offensive. Wang is among the prisoners. Wang and another prisoner go on the run. But on the road between the fugitives there is a conflict and young Chinese Wang begins to realize who his true enemy is...
My Motherland
1933
4.7At sixteen, Maria becomes an underground revolutionary. In the terrible year of 1919, while conducting propaganda among the sailors of the interventionist fleet, the heroine meets the Spanish sailor Pablo. After parting, they meet again only a few years later. Pablo and Maria leave for Spain for illegal work. After burying her husband and son, she trains personnel for Soviet intelligence during the Second World War.
Hail, Mary!
1971
Film credits
1990s · 1 titles
1970s · 1 titles
1940s · 1 titles
Series credits
Behind the camera
Lost movie.
Wind in the Face
1930
7.7Dedicated to the development of the oil industry of Soviet Azerbaijan in the background of the first half of the twentieth century, including their selfless work in strengthening the economic and military might of the USSR.
The Fires of Baku
1958
5.8On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair.
Lady with the Dog
1960
5.8On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair.
Lady with the Dog
1960
8.0In 1929, the Chinese are preparing an attack on the CER, recruiting soldiers to their gang. Among them there is a resident of a lodging house Van. Having recovered after a sudden attack on a Soviet border village, the Red Army squad goes on the offensive. Wang is among the prisoners. Wang and another prisoner go on the run. But on the road between the fugitives there is a conflict and young Chinese Wang begins to realize who his true enemy is...
My Motherland
1933
8.0In 1929, the Chinese are preparing an attack on the CER, recruiting soldiers to their gang. Among them there is a resident of a lodging house Van. Having recovered after a sudden attack on a Soviet border village, the Red Army squad goes on the offensive. Wang is among the prisoners. Wang and another prisoner go on the run. But on the road between the fugitives there is a conflict and young Chinese Wang begins to realize who his true enemy is...
My Motherland
1933
4.7At sixteen, Maria becomes an underground revolutionary. In the terrible year of 1919, while conducting propaganda among the sailors of the interventionist fleet, the heroine meets the Spanish sailor Pablo. After parting, they meet again only a few years later. Pablo and Maria leave for Spain for illegal work. After burying her husband and son, she trains personnel for Soviet intelligence during the Second World War.
Hail, Mary!
1971
4.7At sixteen, Maria becomes an underground revolutionary. In the terrible year of 1919, while conducting propaganda among the sailors of the interventionist fleet, the heroine meets the Spanish sailor Pablo. After parting, they meet again only a few years later. Pablo and Maria leave for Spain for illegal work. After burying her husband and son, she trains personnel for Soviet intelligence during the Second World War.
Hail, Mary!
1971
6.2A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.
Hectic Days
1935
6.2A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.
Hectic Days
1935
5.6Military doctor Vladimir Ustimenko is a man of duty and honor, committed to the cause he serves, and one single love that he carries through his whole life: Varvara Stepanova is a whimsical girl who dreamed of becoming a great actress but eventually became a geologist. The war will cruelly interfere in the fate of the heroes and confuse their relationship even more.
My Dear Fellow
1958
5.6Military doctor Vladimir Ustimenko is a man of duty and honor, committed to the cause he serves, and one single love that he carries through his whole life: Varvara Stepanova is a whimsical girl who dreamed of becoming a great actress but eventually became a geologist. The war will cruelly interfere in the fate of the heroes and confuse their relationship even more.
My Dear Fellow
1958
6.4Kolya Kasatkin, who saw in his wife Tanyusha the ideal of female charm, tenderness, kindness, who loved her to the point of oblivion, was at a loss before the idle conversations of well-wishers about his wife's betrayal. Having found his wife with the choir director, Nikolai demanded a divorce. Continuing to love each other, the former spouses are unhappy in separation. Kasatkin's new hasty marriage did not return his peace of mind. In daily agony, in the pursuit of a past life, he also lost his old dream — to live and work in the Far East, where he served in the army. Both realized too late that love does not forgive hasty decisions, that it must be able to keep and protect.
The Only One
1976
6.4Kolya Kasatkin, who saw in his wife Tanyusha the ideal of female charm, tenderness, kindness, who loved her to the point of oblivion, was at a loss before the idle conversations of well-wishers about his wife's betrayal. Having found his wife with the choir director, Nikolai demanded a divorce. Continuing to love each other, the former spouses are unhappy in separation. Kasatkin's new hasty marriage did not return his peace of mind. In daily agony, in the pursuit of a past life, he also lost his old dream — to live and work in the Far East, where he served in the army. Both realized too late that love does not forgive hasty decisions, that it must be able to keep and protect.
The Only One
1976
5.5A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.
In the Town of S.
1967
5.5A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.
In the Town of S.
1967
6.0Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...
The Duel
1973
6.0Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...
The Duel
1973
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Defeat of Militaristic Japan
1946
7.0The film tells about the founder of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the leader of the Mongolian People's Revolution - Damdin Sukhe-Bator.
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
1942
7.0The film tells about the founder of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the leader of the Mongolian People's Revolution - Damdin Sukhe-Bator.
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
1942
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Road to the Stars
1943
4.0Twelve graduates of the tenth "A" arrive to the virgin lands. Freed from childhood illusions, yesterday's schoolchildren get used to the unsettled life, to hard work on combines, tractors, on the threshing floor. Soon other difficulties are discovered.
Horizon
1962
9.0A young journalist is sent to the region to prepare her thesis. Here the heroine will have to independently publish several issues of the newspaper, meet people, understand their actions and herself...
The Precious Seed
1948
6.5Sasha Rumyantsev, a long-range driver, becomes an unwitting accomplice in a crime committed by the head of the motor depot where he works. The honest guy is accused of stealing a car of a hard-to-find product. The collective of the motor depot amicably stands up to protect their comrade and helps the investigator, Colonel Afanasyev, to find and expose the true criminals.
The Rumyantsev Case
1956
6.5Sasha Rumyantsev, a long-range driver, becomes an unwitting accomplice in a crime committed by the head of the motor depot where he works. The honest guy is accused of stealing a car of a hard-to-find product. The collective of the motor depot amicably stands up to protect their comrade and helps the investigator, Colonel Afanasyev, to find and expose the true criminals.
The Rumyantsev Case
1956
5.0Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis.
Native Shores
1943
A group of people from Japan who will carry out espionage and sabotage operations have been landed on our border. They got lost in the air and came to the old herdsman, ransacked his house, robbed his belongings, and forced him to show them the way. The old man took the money and told his grandson Sengeee to go to the headquarters of the detachment and immediately report this incident, and he took them with him and led the way for his soldiers. When the enemy left, Sengee was imprisoned in the house, but the old man Shagdar was saved when the boy sneaked out of the house and delivered the news to the detachment headquarters.
Fearless Patriot
1942
9.0The positive assessment of the work of young historian Nadezhda Kovrova went to her head. Confident in her infallibility, she makes a mistake.
Spring in Moscow
1953
9.0The positive assessment of the work of young historian Nadezhda Kovrova went to her head. Confident in her infallibility, she makes a mistake.
Spring in Moscow
1953
4.8In the 1930s, during Collectivization, we follow Alexandra Sokolova, who having joined a kolkhoz, is promoted by the Party to the management of the farm: she becomes chairman of the kolkhoz, courageously coping with the difficulties of collectivization, the distrust of some fellow villagers, and family conflict.
Member of the Government
1940
5.1Broken old bus with a small troupe of actors travels from village to village to give a day two or three performances in front of a small audience. In the troupe — people, each of them in his own way in love with the theater…
Nomad Bus
1989
5.1Broken old bus with a small troupe of actors travels from village to village to give a day two or three performances in front of a small audience. In the troupe — people, each of them in his own way in love with the theater…
Nomad Bus
1989
3.8A small town in southern Germany. A party of students, mountain scenery and Asya - a wild, flighty strange girl who frightened N. N., the hero of the movie, with the strength of her love.
Asya
1977
3.8A small town in southern Germany. A party of students, mountain scenery and Asya - a wild, flighty strange girl who frightened N. N., the hero of the movie, with the strength of her love.
Asya
1977
4.6A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.
Baltic Deputy
1937
4.6A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.
Baltic Deputy
1937
5.1At 20, Tonya gave birth to a daughter — alone, without a husband. At 30 — personal happiness became an unattainable dream. She devoted herself to her beloved daughter. But at the age of 40, life seemed to make a circle and return to its starting point. There is nothing left to lose — which means you can take a chance, start all over again. Mom is married for the first time, and it’s hard for a selfish daughter to put up with this...
Married for the First Time
1979
5.1At 20, Tonya gave birth to a daughter — alone, without a husband. At 30 — personal happiness became an unattainable dream. She devoted herself to her beloved daughter. But at the age of 40, life seemed to make a circle and return to its starting point. There is nothing left to lose — which means you can take a chance, start all over again. Mom is married for the first time, and it’s hard for a selfish daughter to put up with this...
Married for the First Time
1979
NRAnton Skulov, a war invalid, shot a drunk young man with a hunting rifle who climbed into his garden and ruined rare flowers that his wife, a war veteran, had grown before her death. The investigation was short-lived, the accused immediately admitted his guilt and was ready to stand trial, having already convicted himself of the murder.
The Defendant
1985



