Aleksandra Popova

Acting

Aleksandra Popova

Born 1917-01-08 · Tsarskoye Selo, St. Petersburg guberniya, Russian Empire

Acting credits

Родина электричества poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Родина электричества

1967

In One District poster
8.0

About the secretary of the district committee of the party, Sabyr Bayanov, who at the beginning of his work deservedly won the authority and respect of people, and then, having become arrogant, he lost his sense of responsibility and turned into a bureaucrat.

In One District

1961

Herdsman's Song poster
NR

A young singer from Buryat-Mongolian collective farm is sent to Moscow to study. Despite his strong voice, he fails a music exam. After the police station he becomes a soloist in a choir and a police sergeant, while studying music reading and dreaming of a conservatory.

Herdsman's Song

1957

Call to Arms poster
10.0

This is a film from the series of so-called "defense" films, which presents a hypothetical "scenario" of a future war. The crew of test pilot Sergei Novikov makes a long non-stop flight on an airplane of a new design. Novikov's son, Yurka, a passionate inventor, manages to contact his father using a transmitter he designed himself. Just before landing Novikov felt bad - an old leg wound, received during the Civil War, had opened. But still the pilot managed to land the plane on the airfield of the aircraft factory. After an editorial article in the newspaper Pravda, the movie was removed from the screens.

Call to Arms

1936

The Sixteenth Spring poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Sixteenth Spring

1963

A Man Without A Case poster
NR

At the school where worker Nikolai Zhikharev studied, students were given a lot of theoretical information, but how to work with machinery was not explained. Therefore, on one of the first working days at the plant Zhikharev made a serious mistake - he let steam out of the boiler. He was transferred to the clerk's office, but even there difficulties awaited the hero. However, Zhikharev did not give up. He decided to change the educational process in schools so that trained and prepared workers would come to the factories.

A Man Without A Case

1932

Battle Beyond the Sun poster
4.4

English-dubbed and re-edited version of the 1959 Soviet film Nebo Zovyot. Acquired by Roger Corman and reworked by a young Francis Ford Coppola, the film relocates its Cold War “space race” to a fictional future where rival nations—North Hemis and South Hemis—compete to reach Mars first. When one crew’s mission goes awry, their rivals risk their own flight to attempt a daring rescue nearthe Martian moons, where strange cosmic dangers await.

Battle Beyond the Sun

1959

The Sky Calls poster
3.6

This movie follows the crew of the spaceship Homeland, preparing for the first manned mission to Mars. When an American ship, Typhoon, rushes to beat them and suffers a critical malfunction, the Soviets divert their mission to attempt a rescue. Stranded on the asteroid Icarus with depleted fuel, the cosmonauts await a desperate rescue mission that may cost another crew their lives.

The Sky Calls

1959

Collegues poster
5.5

A drama about the group of young people starting their adult lives.

Collegues

1962

Little Friend poster
7.8

Funny adventures of two best friends Mishka and Kolya and their dog called Little Friend.

Little Friend

1958

But What If This Is Love? poster
5.4

High school students Ksenya and Boris are in love but all the world is against them.

But What If This Is Love?

1961

Au-u! poster
7.6

The film comprises three cinematic novellas: (1) “And They Arrived at the Peasant’s Hut… or the Adventures of Writer Senya in Search of the Hidden Word,” in which writer Senya draws inspiration for his rural novels from his housekeeper Yermolayevna’s tales; (2) “The Song, or How the Great Louarsab Organized a Choir,” where a city visitor attempts to form a choir of centenarian elders in a Georgian mountain village; (3) “What Is Our Life?! or What Is Our Life?!”—during a musical reenactment of pre-Revolutionary France, a drunken actor’s tardiness forces King Louis XIV (also the theater committee chairman) and the cast to improvise the play’s ending.

Au-u!

1976

Gutta-Percha Boy poster
7.5

The end of the XIX century. Petya, an eight-year orphan who has been cast in training German acrobat Karl Becker, who curses and beatings would incorporate the new assistant to the circus profession and ruthlessly exploited child in their speeches. The only consolation, brightens the harsh life gutta-percha boy, as referred to Petya on the posters, is the concern of the carpet clown Edwards, who regretted the fatherless and secretly taught him this circus arts...

Gutta-Percha Boy

1957

Fifth Ocean poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Fifth Ocean

1940

The Song of Koltsov poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Song of Koltsov

1959

A Jew at War poster
10.0

A Jew at War is a 1930 Soviet film directed by Grigori Roshal.

A Jew at War

1930