Production

Joseph N. Ermolieff

Born 1889-03-24 · Moscow, Russian Empire

One of the first Russian film entrepreneurs. In October 1907, while still a law student at Moscow University, he was hired as a junior technician in the Moscow branch of the "Pathé Brothers" film company. A year later, he was already the head of the company's sales department, and three years later, he was the general representative of "Pathe" in Russia. Since 1912 - co-owner of the rental company "Ermoliev, Zarkhin and Segel" (in Rostov-on-Don). In 1915 he founded his own film studio "I. Ermoliev”, under the auspices of which more than 120 films were released. In 1918 he opened a branch of the film company in Yalta. Since 1920 - in exile. Settled in France, where he organized the company "Ermolieff-Cinéma". It translated Russian films for foreign distribution. In 1936, he was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor for services to the French film industry. A year later, he moved to the United States, where he produced films in Hollywood until the end of his life.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Taras Bulba poster
7.0

Bulba's younger son Andry has fallen in love with Panochka since meeting her at the seminary in Kyiv. She is the daughter of the Polish provincial governor. Andry dreams of her and flees from school through a window to his beloved, climbs up a tree in front of her house and slips down the chimney into the house.

Taras Bulba

1924

Taras Bulba poster
7.0

Bulba's younger son Andry has fallen in love with Panochka since meeting her at the seminary in Kyiv. She is the daughter of the Polish provincial governor. Andry dreams of her and flees from school through a window to his beloved, climbs up a tree in front of her house and slips down the chimney into the house.

Taras Bulba

1924

Sin poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sin

1916

Life is a Moment, Art is Forever poster
NR

After a man's wife leaves him for a sculptor, his only comfort is a statue of his wife.

Life is a Moment, Art is Forever

1916

The Beggar Woman poster
5.0

A great stage performer falls ill and loses her voice and beauty, and she and her admirer's lives crumble because of it.

The Beggar Woman

1916

In a Lively Place poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

In a Lively Place

1916

Fort Algiers poster
6.2

In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.

Fort Algiers

1953

White and Black poster
NR

The plot is built on the external similarity of the characters - a millionaire and an apache killer.

White and Black

1919

The Soldier and the Lady poster
7.3

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.

The Soldier and the Lady

1937

In The Whirlpool Of Moscow poster
NR

Biography of a village boy who got into the city. Having settled down as a sex worker in a tavern, the hero falls in love with a dressmaker - and leaves her as soon as she becomes a mother. Then he meets with the owner of the tavern, robs her and after a series of revels goes to prison. Meanwhile, a woman abandoned by him decides to commit suicide. She is saved from death by a switchman, who soon marries her. Here, after a few years, the hero who returned from hard labor ends up and, for the sake of the happiness of his own daughter, decides to leave the owners of this quiet monastery alone.

In The Whirlpool Of Moscow

1914

The Hawk's Nest poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Hawk's Nest

1916

Outpost in Morocco poster
5.3

Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.

Outpost in Morocco

1949

She Seeked Happiness So Madly, So Passionately poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

She Seeked Happiness So Madly, So Passionately

1916

Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Long Gone are Chrysanthemums in a Garden

1916

Sashka The Seminarian poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sashka The Seminarian

1915

The Station Master poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Station Master

1918

Little Ellie poster
NR

A perverted town mayor murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on the short story La petite Roque by Guy de Maupassant.

Little Ellie

1918

The Czar's Courier poster
7.5

A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way. German language version of the French film Michel Strogoff, adapting the novel by Jules Verne.

The Czar's Courier

1936

Jenny the Maid poster
5.5

After the death of Count Chambery his wife and daughter were left without means of subsistence. Seeing no other way out, a young woman settles maid in the house of Baroness Angers.

Jenny the Maid

1918

Punin and Baburin poster
NR

Based on the first half of Ivan Turgenev's novel.

Punin and Baburin

1919

Here Comes The Postal Troyka... poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Here Comes The Postal Troyka...

1915

The House of Mystery poster
5.3

Julien Villandrit is the owner of the estate of Les Basses-Bruyères and its textile factory, where the manager is his childhood friend Corradin. Julien marries his neighbour Régine, unaware that Corradin also loves her. Julien is sent to gaol for a murder actually committed by Corradin. The only witness to the truth is the woodsman Rudeberg and Corradin buys his silence by paying for the education of his son Pascal. Julien's struggle to clear his name and to rescue Régine and their daughter Christiane from Corradin's scheming extends over many years and faces many setbacks.

The House of Mystery

1923

Nuits de princes poster
9.0

In the Parisian Russian émigré community, an attractive young woman, Hélène, is torn between her husband, her lover, and the love she feels for a new suitor.

Nuits de princes

1938

Dance of Death poster
NR

A conductor is haunted by hallucinations during a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre.

Dance of Death

1917