Valentin Kataev

Writing

Valentin Kataev

Born 1897-01-16 · Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Pages of Life poster
8.0

The story of a young woman who, after her years at university in the city, returns to her hometown an engineer and begins work on a huge new power plant. She continues to supervise work on the plant throughout the war.

Pages of Life

1948

Crazy Day poster
6.1

A funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year.

Crazy Day

1956

Time, Forward! poster
5.3

The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...

Time, Forward!

1965

Circus poster
6.3

An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.

Circus

1936

Call to Arms poster
10.0

This is a film from the series of so-called "defense" films, which presents a hypothetical "scenario" of a future war. The crew of test pilot Sergei Novikov makes a long non-stop flight on an airplane of a new design. Novikov's son, Yurka, a passionate inventor, manages to contact his father using a transmitter he designed himself. Just before landing Novikov felt bad - an old leg wound, received during the Civil War, had opened. But still the pilot managed to land the plane on the airfield of the aircraft factory. After an editorial article in the newspaper Pravda, the movie was removed from the screens.

Call to Arms

1936

Poet poster
6.0

Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.

Poet

1956

The Pipe and the Pitcher poster
6.0

Girl named Zhenya goes berry picking with her family but struggles to find any berries. She meets an old forest spirit who offers her a magical pipe that reveals hidden berries in exchange for her jug. After realizing the pipe doesn't help her gather the berries, she learns the value of hard work and eventually fills her jug by picking the berries herself.

The Pipe and the Pitcher

1950

For the Power of the Soviets poster
7.0

Petya meets his father from a partisan detachment in the Odessa Catacombs.

For the Power of the Soviets

1956

The Flower with Seven Colors poster
2.0

The girl Zhenya receives a wonderful gift from the sorceress - a seven-flower flower. If you tear one petal from it, you can make any wish and it will surely come true. However, there are only seven petals.

The Flower with Seven Colors

1968

Son of the Regiment poster
8.4

During the war years, russian soldiers pick up an orphaned boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the artillery battery. When the calculation of the battery dies in battle with the German tanks that have broken through, Vanya is sent to the Suvorov School, whose students participate in a military parade on Red Square.

Son of the Regiment

1946

The Last Petal poster
7.9

Zhenya is a young girl who find a old beautiful house in the city when she followed a dog that he stole her donuts. At the old house, a old woman lives. The old woman offers to Zhenya a magic flower. When Zhenya pull up a petal of the flower, she can make a wish. In this moment, Zhenya should decide correctly her wishes.

The Last Petal

1977

Farm in the Steppe poster
NR

Young friends participate in the Odessa Bolshevik underground's activity in the pre-revolutionary years (1910-1912).

Farm in the Steppe

1971

The Flower with Seven Colours poster
6.2

A little girl is walking around the city with a bunch of bagels. All the bagels are eaten by a dog that follows her while the little girl was looking around. The girl is upset, but she is comforted by her grandmother, who gives her a magic flower that grants wishes...

The Flower with Seven Colours

1948

Son of the Regiment poster
8.0

Summer 1943. A group of scouts from an artillery division stumbles upon a 12-year-old boy during a raid behind enemy lines. The scouts are shocked by his appearance - completely wild, dirty, ragged, angry and hungry - a real "wolf cub". The scouts take him with them and study that he has been wandering through the forests for about two years, feeding on what infections, and hiding all the time.

Son of the Regiment

1981

Valentin Kataev's Humoresque poster
NR

Based on the stories of V. Kataev "The Diary of a Bitter Drunkard", "Fur Coat" and "Pearl".

Valentin Kataev's Humoresque

1968

The Lonely White Sail poster
5.5

Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic

The Lonely White Sail

1937