Pyotr Chardynin

Directing

Pyotr Chardynin

Born 1873-02-08

Acting credits

Eugene Onegin poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eugene Onegin

1911

Boyarin Orsha poster
7.0

Based on Lermontov's poem of the same name, Boyarin Orsha (Peter Chardynin) leaves the service of Ivan the Terrible.

Boyarin Orsha

1910

No artwork available
5.0

A dramatization of a wedding in 16th-century Russia, between members of two prominent boyar families (based on paintings by Konstantin Makovskii): Three matchmakers first visit the family of the prospective bride, and then do the same with the prospective bridegroom's family. Later, as the time of the wedding draws near, the bride is dressed with great formality and prepared for the ceremony, as the guests get ready to celebrate the upcoming wedding.

A Sixteenth Century Russian Wedding

1909

Dead Souls poster
7.0

Film adaptation of excerpts from Nikolai Gogol's novel of the same name. Only two episodes are recreated faithfully: Chichikov's visit to Sobakevich and Chichikov's visit to Plyushkin. These episodes are followed by a series of scenes in which other characters appear without any connection with the plot. In the finale, everyone is photographed next to the bust of Gogol.

Dead Souls

1909

The Enchantress poster
10.0

This tragedy depicts a father and son in love with the same woman, who is an enchantress. She keeps them both in subjection with her charms, butthe mother and wife of the victims kills the seducer. However, both the father and the son are severely affected by her actions, which they cannot forgive.

The Enchantress

1909

No artwork available
9.0

An actress is given a telegram in her theater bathroom in the presence of a fan: she has won the trial and can receive one hundred thousand rubles. The actress and a fan drive around Moscow in a troika, entering and exiting the entrances of luxury restaurants.

Drama in Moscow

1909

No artwork available
NR

Based on the drama by Dmitry Averkiev. The reign of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible. Boyar Vorotynsky loudly expresses his indignation at the untruth. Many agree with the boyar in their hearts, only Malyuta hates him and dreams of revenge. Having whispered to Grozny about Vorotynsky, he receives an order to arrest him.

Vasilisa Melentievna and Tsar Ivan the Terrible

1911

The Country Man, or The Involuntary Tragedian poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Country Man, or The Involuntary Tragedian

1911

Volga And Siberia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Volga And Siberia

1914

No artwork available
NR

Based on the plot of L. Mey's play "The Pskovite Woman". A poetic legend about the arrival of Tsar Ivan the Terrible and his oprichniki in Pskov. Having destroyed Novgorod, the tsar moved to free Pskov, the city was waiting for the same fate. But the city was not ruined - the Terrible met in Pskov his illegitimate daughter Olga, whose existence he did not even suspect.

Choosing A Bride For The Tsar

1910

No artwork available
NR

Comedy vaudeville based on the play-joke by R. Chinarov "Dear Kiss".

What A Kiss!

1911

Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent poster
6.0

Paula is a circus performer married to the alcoholic clown-acrobat Lorio. Lorio's heavy drinking leads to him being severely injured during a performance. This forces Paula and the now-crippled Lorio to become street musicians. This film formerly ran to 81 minutes – regrettably, the second half is considered lost.

Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent

1918

Vadim poster
5.0

The landowner Palitsyn (Chardynin) long and successfully sues the neighbor. The lawsuit led to the ruin. He died, leaving orphans children — humpback a young boy Vadim (Speransky) and three-year Olga. In order to avoid condemnation, the Palitsyn takes the girl to the pupils. The young man vows to take revenge on the offender and leaves this region. Several years pass. Olga (Goncharova) becomes the beauty and object of desire of the elderly Palitsyn. Comes the hour of revenge. Returned and did not learn of Vadim goes to the Lord in slaves. Soon he reveals to Olga the truth about the real family. The girl agrees to help Vadim. Meanwhile, the younger Palitsyn — son Yuri returns to the estate. Olga falls in love with the young landowner and refuses to help her brother. Finally angry Vadim decides to finish with the whole hated family. He goes to the camp of Pugachev to later return to the estate of Palitsyn and take revenge.

Vadim

1910

The Kreutzer Sonata poster
7.0

The Kreutzer Sonata is a 1911 Russian silent film directed by Pyotr Chardynin. The film is considered lost.

The Kreutzer Sonata

1911

No artwork available
6.3

Two gypsy lovers sneak away from camp at night. The man proposes, the woman refuses. He then murders her with a knife. The body is immediately discovered. The distraught man then leaps off a cliff to the rocks below.

Drama in a Gypsy Camp Near Moscow

1908

The Peasants' Lot poster
5.0

Two peasants in feudal Russia wish to marry but tragedy strikes. A grim if familiar depiction of the precarious condition of the rural life.

The Peasants' Lot

1912

Do You Remember?.. poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Do You Remember?..

1914

The Power of Darkness poster
NR

First known Russian film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's work, and reportedly the directorial debut of Pyotr Chardynin.

The Power of Darkness

1909

The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov

1909

Lord of the Black Rocks poster
NR

The film takes place somewhere abroad. One of the characters in the film, novice Morne, rescues a fisherman girl, Armela, who loses her mind from terror and seriously begins to believe that she is the "goddess of the winds". The monks of the monastery use this not without benefit. Armela's father finds his daughter and takes her home. Morne, in love with the girl, leaves the monastery and returns to his former profession of an artist. Soon Armela recovers and marries Morne.

Lord of the Black Rocks

1924

No artwork available
NR

Filming of the collection of donations during the cinematic film week "To a Soldier in the trenches" in Moscow at the A. Khanzhonkov Theater on November 30, 1915.

Cinema — for the Soldier

1915

Behind the camera

Behind the Monastery Wall poster
NR

The old nunnery owns the best lands. Nuns rent out the land to local rich men, and exploiting peasants they have a wealthy life. The peasants live in misery. Especially, the family of the peasant named Levin. He is forced to give away his last horse, his son Andrii is imprisoned, his daughter Nastia becomes a maid of a rich landlord. Trying to prevent the master’s harassment, Nastia escapes and gets to the nunnery. She can see the other life of the nuns who manufacture false relics, drink alcohol and kill children. Nastia ends up in the basement for resisting one of the “spiritual pastors.” Meanwhile, her brother Andrii escapes from prison. He stirs up a rebellion and saves his sister. The film is lost.

Behind the Monastery Wall

1928

Woman of Tomorrow poster
5.4

A female doctor is so busy with her work that she has too little time for her fiancé. He falls in love with a waitress and the two have a child. Though considered by some to be a proto-feminist yarn, the film dwells on the consequences that equal rights for women may generate rather than openly champion suffrage. Similar in to Ibsen's The Doll House in many ways, the film provides mannered, solemn melodrama, ably acted by Mosjoukine and Yureneva.

Woman of Tomorrow

1914

Boyarin Orsha poster
7.0

Based on Lermontov's poem of the same name, Boyarin Orsha (Peter Chardynin) leaves the service of Ivan the Terrible.

Boyarin Orsha

1910

Boyarin Orsha poster
7.0

Based on Lermontov's poem of the same name, Boyarin Orsha (Peter Chardynin) leaves the service of Ivan the Terrible.

Boyarin Orsha

1910

Petersburg Slums poster
NR

Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.

Petersburg Slums

1915

Chrysanthemums poster
6.3

A tragic story of a ballerina.

Chrysanthemums

1914

The Fastidious Bride poster
4.0

About a young pretty bride, who cannot choose between all the grooms that circles around her...

The Fastidious Bride

1912

Ukrasia poster
NR

The first Ukrainian adventure detective story. The action takes place in Odesa in 1920, occupied by Denikin's troops. The White Guard counterintelligence conducts a fruitless search for the Bolshevik agent "7+2". The search is led by officer Enger. Dizzying races, disasters, and murders further confuse the agent's trail. It is only with the arrival of the Bolsheviks that the case is solved. Incompletely preserved

Ukrasia

1925

The Idiot poster
10.0

A historic milestone in Russian cinema, recognized as the very first film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous 1869 novel.

The Idiot

1910

Natasha Rostova poster
NR

Lost film based on Leo Tolstoy's story from War and Peace novel.

Natasha Rostova

1915

Taras Tryasylo poster
NR

It's the 17th century, when social antagonism is at its peak. The poverty of peasants and poor Cossacks is opposed to the lavish lifestyle of the Ukrainian and Polish noblemen, priests, and Cossack officers. Cossacks fight off Tatars’ attacks, however, they start to realise that the real enemy is much closer. Taras Triasylo raises Cossacks to help the rebellious peasants.

Taras Tryasylo

1927

Taras Shevchenko poster
NR

The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. At that time, it was one of the most expensive films, as for the first time experts in history, ethnography, and literary studies were involved in pre-production. Consisting of numerous short stories, the film that shows the life of Shevchenko as an adolescent, a soldier, a poet, was successfully demonstrated in Ukraine and abroad and became the most acknowledged cinema project of 1926.

Taras Shevchenko

1926

You're not a Thief Until You're Caught poster
NR

Based on the novel "Three Thieves" by Italian writer Umberto Notari. The banker's wife Ornano gives the key to her house to her lover Count Guido. The swindler Cascariglia uses this situation in his own way - he steals three million in money and his wife from the banker. In order to recover at least part of the stolen money (perhaps only the first part), the banker helps the adventurer get elected to parliament.

You're not a Thief Until You're Caught

1924

It Shines But It Doesn't Warm poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

It Shines But It Doesn't Warm

1911

It Shines But It Doesn't Warm poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

It Shines But It Doesn't Warm

1911

Forget the Fireplace; the Lights Went out in It ... poster
NR

Continuation of Chardynin's drama By the Fireplace. Lost film.

Forget the Fireplace; the Lights Went out in It ...

1917

Forget the Fireplace; the Lights Went out in It ... poster
NR

Continuation of Chardynin's drama By the Fireplace. Lost film.

Forget the Fireplace; the Lights Went out in It ...

1917

Dead Souls poster
7.0

Film adaptation of excerpts from Nikolai Gogol's novel of the same name. Only two episodes are recreated faithfully: Chichikov's visit to Sobakevich and Chichikov's visit to Plyushkin. These episodes are followed by a series of scenes in which other characters appear without any connection with the plot. In the finale, everyone is photographed next to the bust of Gogol.

Dead Souls

1909

Dead Souls poster
7.0

Film adaptation of excerpts from Nikolai Gogol's novel of the same name. Only two episodes are recreated faithfully: Chichikov's visit to Sobakevich and Chichikov's visit to Plyushkin. These episodes are followed by a series of scenes in which other characters appear without any connection with the plot. In the finale, everyone is photographed next to the bust of Gogol.

Dead Souls

1909

The Enchantress poster
10.0

This tragedy depicts a father and son in love with the same woman, who is an enchantress. She keeps them both in subjection with her charms, butthe mother and wife of the victims kills the seducer. However, both the father and the son are severely affected by her actions, which they cannot forgive.

The Enchantress

1909

The Queen of Spades poster
4.8

Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying nearby is said to possess a secret for winning a fortune at the game. Germann is determined to learn this secret from her, and he initiates a romance with her grand-daughter Liza, in order to improve his chances.

The Queen of Spades

1910

The Queen of Spades poster
4.8

Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying nearby is said to possess a secret for winning a fortune at the game. Germann is determined to learn this secret from her, and he initiates a romance with her grand-daughter Liza, in order to improve his chances.

The Queen of Spades

1910

The Golden Twist poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Golden Twist

1917

No artwork available
NR

After a lethargic dream, the general of the Tsarist army finds himself in Soviet Russia in 1927. Lost movie.

The General from Other World

1925