Raisa Yesipova

Acting

Raisa Yesipova

Born 1906-03-05

Acting credits

Woman's World poster
4.7

A young peasant woman decides to become a tractor driver.

Woman's World

1932

The Oppenheim Family poster
8.7

Based on Lyon Feuchtwanger's novel about the tragedy of society, through a look at the tragedy of one single family.

The Oppenheim Family

1939

The First Cavalry poster
5.0

The film tells the of certain events of the Polish-Soviet War as is accepted in Soviet history.

The First Cavalry

1941

No artwork available
NR

The director of the state farm Giant falls in love with a journalist. The heroine’s friend opposes the romance. The journalist demands a lot of attention in the relationship, while the director is too busy with work. The film was completed only in a rough cut but was banned and destroyed. It is now lost. The director was arrested and subsequently spent nearly twenty years in labor camps.

Love

1933

Flames on the Volga poster
6.7

Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries.

Flames on the Volga

1956

Coming of Age poster
7.0

A story about Bolsheviks underground in occupied Belorussia during 1918.

Coming of Age

1935

Steep Steps poster
8.0

In 1905 Germany, Evgeny Narezhny, a talented bridge engineer and son of a Russian émigré, rejects lucrative offers to serve Russia. Arriving in St. Petersburg during the 1905 revolution, he focuses on science, believing it can solve global issues, unlike his Bolshevik wife, Elena Chernova. As a renowned scientist, Narezhny is repulsed by capitalism and is forced to reconsider his views on the revolutionaries’ struggle.

Steep Steps

1957

We Are from Kronstadt poster
5.0

In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment made up of communist Reds defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces

We Are from Kronstadt

1936

The Trial Should Continue poster
6.3

Soviet courtroom drama directed by Efim Dzigan.

The Trial Should Continue

1931

Cross and Mauser poster
4.0

The film takes place during the pre-revolutionary years and the initial period of the Soviet regime. At a monastery shelter in one of Russia's western towns, orphan Yulka gives birth to a son from the shepherd Jerome. Matron of the shelter Pavlikha as directed by the father kills the newborn baby and disposes of the corpse in the Jewish Quarter. The Black Hundreds are spreading the rumor that the murder was committed by the Jews for ritual purposes. Mayhem arises which is supported by the authorities of the city. The church refuses to shelter Jews fleeing from the violent thugs.

Cross and Mauser

1925

Behind White Lines poster
NR

Lost movie.

Behind White Lines

1925

The White Horseman poster
10.0

Seeing how the priests convince men to "defend the Motherland" by joining the battlefront slaughter of WWI, a young man and his wife reject religion.

The White Horseman

1929