Acting

Aleksandr Zhukov

Born — Died

1898-08-01 — 1965-07-14

Place of birth

Moscow, Russian Empire

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

Known for

Operation 'Trust' poster
9.0

The series is about the operation code-named "Trest", which under the leadership of F.E.Dzerzhinsky was carried out by the VChK to identify and eliminate the counter-revolutionary and monarchist underground on the territory of the USSR, associated with foreign white-emigrant organizations.

Operation 'Trust'

1968

Quiet Flows the Don poster
6.3

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

Quiet Flows the Don

1957

Her Way poster
8.0

When Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he’s called away to fight in World War I not long after, she tends to their farm on her own, determined to make the best of a bad situation.

Her Way

1929

Precious Gift poster
5.2

The inveterate fisherman Karp Trofimovich has his birthday during competition of fishermen so his nephew clings a huge pike to the uncle's hook .

Precious Gift

1956

The Anna Cross poster
5.1

To save her family from disgrace and hunger, a young dowerless girl gets married to a rich old man, only to turn into an unscrupulous kept woman who forgets her close ones.

The Anna Cross

1954

True Friends poster
7.1

Alexander, Boris and Vasily are old friends, who now rarely see each other as they're busy with their professional life. They embark on long-planned voyage on a raft down the Volga river, which turns into a series of comical accidents but also strengthens their friendship.

True Friends

1954

Film credits

1950s · 10 titles

Quiet Flows the Don poster
6.3

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

Quiet Flows the Don

1957

Precious Gift poster
5.2

The inveterate fisherman Karp Trofimovich has his birthday during competition of fishermen so his nephew clings a huge pike to the uncle's hook .

Precious Gift

1956

The Anna Cross poster
5.1

To save her family from disgrace and hunger, a young dowerless girl gets married to a rich old man, only to turn into an unscrupulous kept woman who forgets her close ones.

The Anna Cross

1954

True Friends poster
7.1

Alexander, Boris and Vasily are old friends, who now rarely see each other as they're busy with their professional life. They embark on long-planned voyage on a raft down the Volga river, which turns into a series of comical accidents but also strengthens their friendship.

True Friends

1954

May Night, or the Drowned Maiden poster
5.5

The son of an obstinate mayor cannot get his father's consent to wed the beautiful Hanna. He receives unexpected assistance from evil, mysterious forces – Satan, witches, and rusalki – who work together to bring the couple happiness, bringing mayhem and celebration.

May Night, or the Drowned Maiden

1953

The Frigid Sea poster
6.5

Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ...

The Frigid Sea

1955

New Adventures of Puss in Boots poster
5.5

Lyuba, a daughter of King of Chess is kidnapped by playing Cards... Young Vanya and his best friend - Puss in the boots - are trying to rescue Lyuba.

New Adventures of Puss in Boots

1958

Special Assignment poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Special Assignment

1958

Foma Gordeyev poster
6.5

Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of life around him. Foma is seeking solace in a drunken rampage and wild antics. After many years of desolation, he is half-ill at the opening of a night shelter built with his father’s money.

Foma Gordeyev

1959

No artwork available
NR

In the 1920s, a young Komsomol member is elected as a shepherd in a farmstead on the Don River. After the kulaks kill the chairman of the executive committee in revenge, the shepherd writes to a newspaper about it.

The Shepherd

1958

1930s · 11 titles

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

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky poster
6.0

Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse.

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky

1938

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

Outskirts poster
6.3

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

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

Ruddy's Career poster
6.0

The movie tells about the first years of Nazism. In the center of the plot is a German student graduating from an institute and receiving a diploma with a gold medal for success in science. The same is honored by his Jewish friend Joseph Voltmeyer. During the solemn ceremony, Nazi students provoke a fight, beat Joseph and Ruddy, who stood up for him.

Ruddy's Career

1934

Wish Upon a Pike poster
4.9

Adapted from four different Russian folk-tales, this early Soviet fantasy film tells the story of Emelya the Fool, who, fishing one day, catches a talking pike who pleads for his life and in return grants Emelya wishes for a life spared.

Wish Upon a Pike

1938

Be Like This poster
NR

Based on the story by Arkady Gaidar "R.V.S." The film is silent and black-and-white. It has not survived completely.

Be Like This

1930

The Thaw poster
6.0

A story about capitalistic corruption in a small village and the personal struggles of Anka (Vera Marinich) as she is pregnant and abandoned by her lover.

The Thaw

1931

Friends From the Camp poster
7.0

Roma boy and his bear find themselves at the heart of Civil War. Being fearless and smart, they choose to side with the Red Army.

Friends From the Camp

1938

A Girl with Character poster
5.3

A young girl is traveling from Siberia to Moscow in order to get help with the mink farm she is working in and which is suffering under incompetent management.

A Girl with Character

1939

1920s · 8 titles

Her Way poster
8.0

When Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he’s called away to fight in World War I not long after, she tends to their farm on her own, determined to make the best of a bad situation.

Her Way

1929

Bulat-Batyr poster
4.0

In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the local population to Orthodoxy by force, the monks and soldiers meet a tough rebuff from the locals. The wife of the peasant Bulat dies, and his son Asfan is taken away in an unknown direction.

Bulat-Batyr

1928

The Captain's Daughter poster
5.0

An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.

The Captain's Daughter

1928

Морока poster
NR

It is a social drama that focuses on a peasant village dealing with the struggle of young Komsomol members against old ways of living. The story heavily features themes of combating religious superstitions, prejudices, and a parasitic, phony shaman who exploits uneducated workers with fake medical cures.

Морока

1925

Wings of a Serf poster
5.0

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with historical materialist commentary on the dialectical collision of scientific progress and patriarchal religious tyranny under Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It follows a self-taught inventor from the serf class Nikishka, whose efforts to build a flying machine incite accusations of witchcraft. Nikishka and his beloved Fima are persecuted by the feudal lord Kurlyatev, who took their village in a petty land squabble. They’re rescued when Kurlyatev’s lands are taken by the Tsar in his autocratic campaign against the feudal system. Ivan puts Nikishka to work in his linen mill, where the young serf is coveted by Tsarina Maria Temryukovna, who the Tsar’s been ignoring in favor of his cupbearer Feodor. A series of harrowing intrigues wind a bloody dance through bedchamber, feast hall, cathedral and dungeon.

Wings of a Serf

1926

The Other Woman poster
7.0

Komsomol member Pavel Kudryashov, after seeing his pregnant wife to the village, sheltered a young woman who had fallen behind the train. In Paul's friendly relations with an outside woman, the local philistinism saw a criminal connection. Lost movie.

The Other Woman

1929

Torn-Off Sleeves poster
NR

About struggle of pioneers against children homelessness in time of New Economic Policy.

Torn-Off Sleeves

1928

No artwork available
NR

A young Belarussian man joins Soviet partisans in order to fight Polish occupational forces in Belarus.

Tale of the Woods

1926

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