Acting

Sergei Komarov

Born 1891-03-02 · Moscow, Russian Empire

Sergei Komarov was a Soviet actor, film director, and screenwriter. He began his career in theater before transitioning to film. Komarov is best known for directing and starring in the silent film The Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924), a satirical comedy that showcased his versatility as both an actor and director. His contributions to early Soviet cinema were significant, particularly in the comedy genre.

Acting credits

Cosmic Journey poster
6.4

Scientist Pavel Sedykh grows impatient with the restrictions of the conservative Soviet space institute in Moscow. Sedikh builds his own spacecraft, and accompanied by a female astronaut and a boy, he embarks on a the first human trip to the moon.

Cosmic Journey

1936

The Death Ray poster
5.2

In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a Death Ray to fight back. Partially lost movie.

The Death Ray

1925

The End of St. Petersburg poster
6.7

Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.

The End of St. Petersburg

1927

Deep Raid poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Deep Raid

1937

The Case of the Three Million poster
6.1

History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a religious community.

The Case of the Three Million

1926

No artwork available
NR

About the fate of a former prisoner of war, who returns to his homeland, to the Soviet Union.

Nastenka Ustinova

1934

Outskirts poster
6.2

In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.

Outskirts

1933

July 11 poster
NR

Civil war. Polish interventionists approach Berezina. The Red Army temporarily leaves Belarusian lands. Partisan detachments are organized, one of which is led by Bolshevik Stepan. His brother, who is in collusion with Polish spy Kapusta, is also in this detachment. With Kapusta's help, Polish lancers who have appeared in the village reach the partisan camp and capture the headquarters. Yanko manages to warn the headquarters about the movement of the White Poles, and the partisans are forced to retreat through impassable swamps. They manage to escape and join the Red Army, which occupies Minsk on July 11.

July 11

1938

Salamander poster
6.3

The film is based on real events and reveals the tragic episodes from the life of the Austrian biologist scientist-materialist Paul Kammerer (1880-1926), hunted by regressive scientists and Catholic reactionaries who committed suicide.

Salamander

1928

Minin and Pozharsky poster
6.1

Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin and Pozharsky people's militia. The beginning of the XVII century. Already the sixth year the Muscovite land under the yoke of intervention. In the fall of 1610 Polish pans in deceitfully seized the Kremlin and tried to break through to the north. Everywhere rebellions broke out, but well-armed interventionists smashed the scattered peasant detachments. The liberation movement was led by Nizhny Novgorod merchant Kuzma and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.

Minin and Pozharsky

1939

For Your Health poster
NR

About the fight against alcoholism in the workplace.

For Your Health

1929

By the Law poster
6.6

After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several months until they can turn him over to the law.

By the Law

1926

The Doll with Millions poster
6.6

The rich widow Madame Collie leaves the fortune to her lost niece Maria Ivanova. Two cousins of Maria go from Paris to Moscow in order to search her. They have to find a 17 year old girl with the birthmark on her right shoulder. The documents of the heiress are hidden in her doll.

The Doll with Millions

1928

Two-Buldi-Two poster
7.8

A father and son, both clowns, are to perform together for the first time, but the civil war separates them, and the elder Buldy, tempted for a moment to acquiesce to the White forces, casts his lot with the revolution.

Two-Buldi-Two

1929

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks poster
5.9

An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his bodyguard.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

1924

The Old Courtyard poster
NR

The house manager, Sinichkin, is obsessed with his plan to turn the courtyard into a place for cultured recreation. He devotes all his time and energy to thinking through and drafting projects. Meanwhile, the courtyard has been taken over by the neighborhood kids, who have turned it into a football field. The excitement spreads to the adults—and even to the thoughtful building manager himself…

The Old Courtyard

1941

The Secret of Two Oceans poster
5.4

The enemy agents from an unknown nation have secret automated facilities set up in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for the purposes of sinking ships. The super submarine "Pioneer" and it's intrepid crew is dispatched to find the source of these mysterious sinking's...Unknown to the captain, his chief engineer is working for the bad guys, intent on stopping their efforts, at any cost...It seems the real chief had a twin brother who was a circus acrobat who murdered and replaced him.

The Secret of Two Oceans

1957

By the Bluest of Seas poster
6.4

Two men shipwrecked on an island in the Caspian Sea are saved by members of a collective farm, where they work on its fishing boats and woo the young woman leading the fishermen.

By the Bluest of Seas

1936

Marionettes poster
4.7

Fearing the Soviet Union, rich businessmen who want more influence in Europe decide to give the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle drunkard.

Marionettes

1934

Sickle and Hammer poster
NR

A down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero. Partially lost.

Sickle and Hammer

1921

Chess Fever poster
6.4

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.

Chess Fever

1925

Siberians poster
7.0

Two six-graders are trying to find the Stalin's pipe and return it to the owner.

Siberians

1940

Miss Mend poster
5.9

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

Miss Mend

1926

Shchors poster
5.8

Cheered up by the revolutionary zeal, courage and energy of their leader, Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors, in 1919 the peasants and workers' groups gathered in the civil war- devastated Ukraine, to defeat the foreign conquerors and enemies of the revolution. However, it does not take long until a new danger threatens: this time the Polish Pans enter Ukraine, and General Dragomirov marches to Kiev. Shchors, however, gathers the revolutionary forces of the country and brings them to a victorious counter-attack.

Shchors

1939

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