
Directing
Vasily Katanyan
Born 1924-02-21
Of Armenian origin, Katanyan grew up in Tiflis (now Tbilisi). He was the director of the first Soviet panoramic film, "Spring Road" (1959). He is the son of Vasily Abgarovich Katanyan.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
5.4In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Anna Karenina
1967
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arkadiy Raykin
1967
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arkadiy Raykin
1967
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Maya Plisetskaya
1964
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sakhalin Island
1955
NRThe film tells about the position of Earth in outer space. Modern scientific knowledge is contrasted with ancient ideas about the structure of the world.
Earth in Space
1945
NRAbout the work of fishing vessels of the Okhotsk expedition.
In the Far Eastern Seas
1955
NRDocumentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum.
Stars Meet in Moscow
1959
NR“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s.
The Magic Beam
1963
NRDocumentary made for the 60th anniversary of Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein.
Sergei Eisenstein
1958
NRDocumentary made for the 60th anniversary of Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein.
Sergei Eisenstein
1958
5.8Following an introduction by Bing Crosby, the Cinerama screen widens for scenes of landscapes, cities, peoples, and entertainments of the Soviet Union. Highlights include the historic buildings and churches of Moscow, as the Kremlin; its subway and streets, a spring carnival, the seaside resorts on the Black Sea, a trip down the Volga River, skiers, a troika racing along a snow-covered road, a helicopter view of the North Pole, an Antarctic whale hunt, the capture of a wild boar in the Moyun-Kum of Central Asia, a race by reindeer-drawn sleds, divers in the Sea of Okhotsk, battling an octopus, the capture of antelopes, rafting logs down the Tisza River, and the development of new towns in Siberia. Other scenes include a visit to the Moscow Circus, where the renowned clown Oleg Popov performs, the dancing of the Moiseyev and Piatnitsky companies, and excerpts from the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater Ballet.
Cinerama's Russian Adventure
1966