Aleksandr Sokolov

Acting

Aleksandr Sokolov

Born — Died

1906-08-28 — 1996-07-28

Place of birth

Kazinka, Valuyskiy uezd, Voronezhskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Known for

Striped Trip poster
6.8

A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his post out of fear, and the monkey takes over the captain's post. The ship gets under total control by the tigers and lions. Only one lady is standing up to the challenge. Her name is Marianna, she loves animals, and she takes the situation under control.

Striped Trip

1961

At the Breaking Point poster
NR

After his father's death, teenager Viktor Tsaplin was sent by his stepmother, who suspected the boy of stealing watches, to an Odessa orphanage. The guys met the new guy unfriendly, and when the teacher's antique watch was missing, Victor was considered the culprit. After enrolling in a nautical school and once going to sea with tipsy fishermen, Victor crashes a boat. He is being expelled from the college. Deciding to start a new life and in a new place, Victor leaves to work as a fireman in Kamchatka.

At the Breaking Point

1957

Give Me a Paw, My Friend! poster
4.8

A little girl takes in a German Shepherd puppy and the dog grows up to be her and her family's best friend.

Give Me a Paw, My Friend!

1967

The City Turns the Lights On poster
7.8

Former front-line intelligence officer, captain Nikolai Mityasov, after being wounded, returns to the destroyed city and learns the sad news: his wife Shura cheated on him. Bitterness and confusion gave way to hope. But peace has come, demobilization has begun, it is necessary to restore the homeland. Nikolai finds the strength to continue living, enters a construction institute, meets Valya and begins a new happy life without war...

The City Turns the Lights On

1958

Koriolan poster
6.0

The noble patrician Gaius Marcius became famous for his military exploits and victories over the enemies of the Romans, the Volscians. However, his hatred of the plebeians and thirst for power led to Coriolanus being condemned to eternal exile from Rome. Then he decided to betray his homeland and take command of the Volscian army.

Koriolan

1968

Stove Builders poster
6.7

A literature teacher struggles with a faulty stove, with a village major being called to assist.

Stove Builders

1982

Film credits

1980s · 6 titles

1970s · 6 titles

Monologue poster
5.7

Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. He raises his granddaughter, feeling a great affection for her.

Monologue

1973

The Prince and the Pauper poster
5.5

A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.

The Prince and the Pauper

1972

Green Signals poster
6.7

Three boys are helping Soviet Intelligence to catch German spies during WWII.

Green Signals

1970

The Zavyalov Weirdos poster
8.0

A film anthology featuring three stories: 1) “The Capron Christmas Tree” - Two men and a city dandy, courting a village girl, return home on New Year’s Eve, with the dandy’s nylon Christmas tree gift offending the men. 2) “A Ticket for the Second Showing” - Timofey, an elderly village swindler, regrets his life and prays to Saint Nicholas for a second chance. 3) “The Version” - A rural braggart recounts his city adventure with a restaurant manager, challenging disbelievers to join him on a repeat trip.

The Zavyalov Weirdos

1979

The Retired Colonel poster
8.0

Korney Korneevich Polunin is a career military officer, a retired colonel. His wife died when his son was one and a half years old, Alexey had already grown up, became independent, and they rarely see each other. Unable to stay at home, Polunin goes to the factory as a locksmith - in his old specialty. Friends perceive this as an oddity, and they look at him warily at work. But a group of teenagers comes to the plant's personnel department, and Polunin undertakes to lead this team, instilling in it respect for work and awareness of his need to achieve the final result of work.

The Retired Colonel

1977

Three Stormy Days poster
7.2

An attack is carried out on the accountant of a research institute, and a large sum of money is stolen. The criminal investigation colonel not only solves the crime but also investigates its motives.

Three Stormy Days

1978

1960s · 14 titles

Striped Trip poster
6.8

A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his post out of fear, and the monkey takes over the captain's post. The ship gets under total control by the tigers and lions. Only one lady is standing up to the challenge. Her name is Marianna, she loves animals, and she takes the situation under control.

Striped Trip

1961

Give Me a Paw, My Friend! poster
4.8

A little girl takes in a German Shepherd puppy and the dog grows up to be her and her family's best friend.

Give Me a Paw, My Friend!

1967

Koriolan poster
6.0

The noble patrician Gaius Marcius became famous for his military exploits and victories over the enemies of the Romans, the Volscians. However, his hatred of the plebeians and thirst for power led to Coriolanus being condemned to eternal exile from Rome. Then he decided to betray his homeland and take command of the Volscian army.

Koriolan

1968

The Worker's Settlement poster
3.8

Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.

The Worker's Settlement

1966

Dead Souls poster
3.5

In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."

Dead Souls

1969

Ships in Lissa poster
NR

A television play based on stories by Alexander Grin. Five sailing ships are blocked in the port of Lissa by an enemy privateer. The captains of four of these ships gather around a hotel table, pondering how to set sail and outsmart the privateer's vigilance...

Ships in Lissa

1965

One-Two… And King Me! poster
NR

Based on the pamphlet "They Don't Talk About It" by Finnish writer Martti Lärni.

One-Two… And King Me!

1968

12 Chairs poster
7.2

Who was the first to bring the great novel "12 Chairs" to the screen? You say "Leonid Gaidai" - and it will be a mistake. In our country, the first director was Alexander Belinsky (Leningrad television, 1966). Filming the favorite books of millions is a difficult task. The audience knows the plot in detail. Winged phrases have long gone to the people. Everyone has their own idea of ​​the main characters. In general, dissatisfied will be sure. So the version of "12 chairs", proposed by Alexander Belinsky, of course, will not suit everyone.

12 Chairs

1966

Two Sundays poster
8.0

Lyuska, an employee of the only savings bank in the very young town of Radiozavodsk, wins a nylon fur coat on a lottery ticket. Her colleagues advise her to get the money and buy something useful. Lyuska goes to the regional capital, receives the money, and decides to spend it on a two-week trip to Moscow.

Two Sundays

1964

The Cropped Devil poster
NR

Returning home from school, a village boy saw a military man with a dog. The smart and handsome guard dog immediately attracted the boy. When it turned out that the border guard was taking this kind-hearted creature to a veterinary clinic to put it to sleep, the situation became really critical. The outraged child tried to take the shepherd dog for himself, but it was not at all easy to do so...

The Cropped Devil

1969

A Day of Sun and Rain poster
8.0

Two 7th graders, a hooligan Mukhin and a good student Kronov do not like each other. They decide to have a peace day together, which changed their attitude both towards each other and towards the world around them...

A Day of Sun and Rain

1968

The Green Carriage poster
7.3

Inspired by the life of Varvara Asenkova, a 19th-century actress who earned great acclaim on St. Petersburg stage before her death at the age of 24.

The Green Carriage

1967

Katerina Izmailova poster
4.6

Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994.

Katerina Izmailova

1966

Abyss poster
9.0

Family troubles, reproaches from acquaintances for stupidity and inability to live, illness of children, death of his wife brought Kirill Kiselnikov down. Flattered by a bribe, he commits a forgery. Betrayal of ideals is costly: the unfortunate person loses his mind. And that is not all…

Abyss

1960

1950s · 6 titles

At the Breaking Point poster
NR

After his father's death, teenager Viktor Tsaplin was sent by his stepmother, who suspected the boy of stealing watches, to an Odessa orphanage. The guys met the new guy unfriendly, and when the teacher's antique watch was missing, Victor was considered the culprit. After enrolling in a nautical school and once going to sea with tipsy fishermen, Victor crashes a boat. He is being expelled from the college. Deciding to start a new life and in a new place, Victor leaves to work as a fireman in Kamchatka.

At the Breaking Point

1957

The City Turns the Lights On poster
7.8

Former front-line intelligence officer, captain Nikolai Mityasov, after being wounded, returns to the destroyed city and learns the sad news: his wife Shura cheated on him. Bitterness and confusion gave way to hope. But peace has come, demobilization has begun, it is necessary to restore the homeland. Nikolai finds the strength to continue living, enters a construction institute, meets Valya and begins a new happy life without war...

The City Turns the Lights On

1958

On a Distant Island... poster
10.0

The Far East. A tugboat with six sailors was swept out into the open ocean. After unsuccessful search efforts, young Captain Yelagin presents a series of evidence pointing to deliberate criminal activity and declares it an act of treason. Meanwhile, stranded without fuel and supplies, the sailors build a mast, stitch a sail from blankets, and head towards their home shores...

On a Distant Island...

1957

One Night poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

One Night

1957

Searchers poster
7.0

After the end of WWII engineer Lobanov is trying to introduce the invention he made together with his friend during the war.

Searchers

1956

Foes poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Foes

1953