
Acting
Iosif Tolchanov
Born 1891-04-29 · Moscow, Russian Empire
Acting credits
4.2A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky), bought a lottery ticket and handed it to his landlord, widow Shirinkina (Deykun) who wants to marry him. Petya is a hard-working tailor trying to start his own business. He is also in love with Katya (Maretskaya), whom he wants to marry. He has to survive a cascade of funny situations in the unstable Soviet reality, before his romance with Katya comes to a happy ending.
The Tailor from Torzhok
1925
NRThe love story of the great Roman commander Anthony and the oriental beauty Cleopatra, the tragic suicide of both, is recreated.
Antony and Cleopatra
1980
NRThe authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing of reality, instead conveying the dramatic tension of the post-revolutionary years: the explosion of awakened human energy and the tragic collisions of destinies.
Red Cavalry
1975
8.7Based on Lyon Feuchtwanger's novel about the tragedy of society, through a look at the tragedy of one single family.
The Oppenheim Family
1939
6.0The historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France begins aggressive wars. The Russian and allied troops freeing Italy are headed by A. V. Suvorov. The victory in the fortress of Corfu is ensured by operation of the admiral Ushakov.
Attack from the Sea
1953
NRA day in the life of the factory director Druyanov, who transformed a once backward enterprise into one of the leading companies in the industry.
All Day Long
1978
6.0A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Aelita: Queen of Mars
1924
5.2Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in Russia.
Lenin in 1918
1939
NRStaged by Yu.Olesha based on the novel by F.Dostoevsky.
Idiot
1979
NRA border guards are hunting a spy infiltrated to the USSR.
A Border on Lock
1937
8.0Beth Tyson is murdered in her mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell and Detective Philbert present three different versions of this crime.
Shares in Murder
1964