Directing

Grigoriy Aronov

Born 1923-01-01 · Pochep, Bryanskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

Grigoriy Aronov (1923-1984) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed a handful of films throughout his 30 year career but is best known for co-directing The Seventh Companion (1968), the directorial debut of fellow Soviet filmmaker Aleksei German.

Acting credits

A Personal Matter poster
NR

Fifth-grade students, misbehaving during an air-raid drill, smash a cabinet in the physics lab. Lev Prokushev, one of the perpetrators, takes a microscope eyepiece, which is soon discovered in Arkady Zubov's school bag. Arkady categorically denies any involvement in the mischief but refuses to name the culprit.

A Personal Matter

1940

While Defending the Front Line poster
6.6

Volkhov Front in 1942. The young political instructor of the counter-propaganda department of the headquarters of the division Rusanov is torn to the forefront. Together with an experienced warrior — captain Shaternikov — the hero gets to the forefront and transmits from the sound transmission programs addressed to German soldiers. And in the hours of calm passes several kilometers in order to see Katya, the signal woman of a neighboring sector of the front.

While Defending the Front Line

1965

How the Steel Was Tempered poster
2.8

This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.

How the Steel Was Tempered

1942

Five From the Sky poster
7.0

The Soviet command has alarming information about the new invention of the enemy. According to intelligence, the Nazis delivered a batch of new chemical shells filled with gas of tremendous destructive power to one of the sections of the Eastern Front. The Nazis want to test them in combat conditions, and then apply them on a large scale.

Five From the Sky

1969

Seventh Graders poster
NR

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Seventh Graders

1938

Behind the camera

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7.0

Anna loses her son and husband to war. Her grief-stricken life undergoes a sudden change when three children, tasked with helping the elderly in the city, begin visiting her.

Sail Away, Little Ship...

1983

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7.0

Anna loses her son and husband to war. Her grief-stricken life undergoes a sudden change when three children, tasked with helping the elderly in the city, begin visiting her.

Sail Away, Little Ship...

1983

The Sailor Went Ashore poster
8.0

Sailor Alexei takes a job as a loader at the port in order not to leave his two young sons growing up without a mother for a long time. In the port he meets a girl Tanya. The resulting feeling is not an easy test.

The Sailor Went Ashore

1957

The Unknown Soldier poster
8.0

A third part of the adventures of Krosh and his friends.

The Unknown Soldier

1984

Tomorrow's Worries poster
NR

This voyage along the Northern Sea Route turned out to be difficult for Captain Gleb Volnov. He is worried about the crew - cadets who are going to sea for the first time. He is also worried about the mechanic Bitov, the father of his deceased friend. He went to sea after a long break: no one wanted to risk taking a sick old man on board. Gleb is also going through a personal drama. His new friend Captain Levin introduced Gleb to his old friend Agniya. But Gleb insulted Agniya with his indifference and realized too late what she means to him.

Tomorrow's Worries

1963

Vacations of Krosh poster
5.3

The continuation of and adventures of Krosh and his friends.

Vacations of Krosh

1980

The Seventh Companion poster
6.3

A portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a character study in General Adamov (Andrei Popov), a law professor in the tsarist army, who is incarcerated by the Bolshevik secret police along with many other members of the bourgeoisie. Finally released into the new world of the Soviet Union, the resigned officer finds that he has lost everything from his old life except a mantel clock that he carries through the night from place to place, until he ends up back where he started.

The Seventh Companion

1967

A Long, Long Case... poster
5.5

A murder just happened and it seems the answer is simple on who and how did it. But a casual talk between suspect's mother and prosecutor sets a different point of view on a just opened case.

A Long, Long Case...

1977

Green Signals poster
6.7

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

Green Signals

1970

Vesenniye perevyortyshi poster
8.5

A story of a thirteen year old boy who lives in North Russia and is forced to make some difficult decisions.

Vesenniye perevyortyshi

1974

Fifth Quarter poster
6.0

A thirteen years old Anton escapes home in order to cross the country and get to his brother who works very far away.

Fifth Quarter

1972

While a Person is Alive poster
6.0

Shirokov, an engineer and inventor at an electromechanical plant, becomes a victim of street chaos and is hospitalized for an extended period. Upon learning of the incident, his colleagues do everything they can to ensure that Shirokov's latest invention becomes a part of his beloved plant.

While a Person is Alive

1965