Konstantin Simonov

Writing

Konstantin Simonov

Born 1915-11-28 · Petrograd, Russian SFSR

Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill (Russian: Константин Михайлович Симонов, 28 November [O.S. 15 November] 1915 – 28 August 1979), was a Soviet author and a war poet. He was a playwright and a wartime correspondent, most famous for his poem Wait for Me.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Days and Nights poster
6.2

This literary adaptation was the first Soviet feature length dramatization, as opposed to documentary film, on the momentous Battle of Stalingrad.

Days and Nights

1945

Victory of the Chinese People poster
8.0

Film about the victory of the Chinese people under the leadership of Mao Tse Tung in the war with the puppet regime of Chiang Kai-shek and the establishment in 1949, the People's Republic of China.

Victory of the Chinese People

1950

The Polynin Case poster
5.0

A story about a love between a Soviet Army officer and an actress set during the WWII.

The Polynin Case

1970

A Soldier Was Walking... poster
NR

War correspondent and poet Konstantin Simonov reminisces about the experiences of Soviet soldiers during WWII.

A Soldier Was Walking...

1975

Normandy - Neman poster
5.2

A certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne nor Vichy's orders decide to join the USSR. Once they have reached Moscow they resume training and form a squadron they call "Normandie". Reinforced in 1944, the squadron wins many victories. Following the acts of valor displayed by its pilots during the Battle of the Nieman River, it becomes the "Normandie-Niemen" squadron for the rest of times...

Normandy - Neman

1960

If Your House Means a Thing to You... poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

If Your House Means a Thing to You...

1967

Twenty Days Without War poster
6.6

War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.

Twenty Days Without War

1976

Levashov poster
NR

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War in one of the divisions that defended Odessa.

Levashov

1963

The Ordinary Arctic poster
3.7

The plot is based on stories by B. Gorbachev: "The Trial of Stepan Grokhot," "Birth on Cucumber Land," "The Merchant Labas," and "The Great Flood." The main circumstance of the plot is five days of blizzard that began immediately after the arrival of a new boss at the Arctic construction site. The time of the action is 1935. A new manager arrives at a construction site that is in a state of crisis.

The Ordinary Arctic

1976

From Lopatin's Notes poster
7.0

Based on the stories of the same cycle of Konstantin Simonov, who visited as a war correspondent almost on all fronts of the great Patriotic war.

From Lopatin's Notes

1975

In the Name of the Motherland poster
5.0

The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.

In the Name of the Motherland

1943

The Immortal Garrison poster
4.7

In June of 1941, at the outset of the Nazi invasion of Russia, a group of Soviet servicemen languidly biding their time at the Brest fortress on the Polish border, are suddenly galvanized into action. All desires to return home to their wives and sweethearts are swept aside as the courageous garrison unites to thwart a common enemy.

The Immortal Garrison

1956

Wait for Me poster
4.5

A story of true love set during the WWII.

Wait for Me

1943

Under the Chestnut Trees of Prague poster
NR

The last days of the Second World War in Prague.

Under the Chestnut Trees of Prague

1965

We Will Not See You poster
NR

Journalist Lopatin always remembers those with whom his roads of war brought him together. Memories of them are an integral part of Lopatin’s thoughts about duty, honor, courage, and camaraderie.

We Will Not See You

1981

No artwork available
6.0

Armenians living in Chicago decide to leave the capitalist United States and emigrate to Soviet Armenia after World War II. Unfinished movie.

The Second Caravan

1950