
Acting
Maksim Shtraukh
Born 1900-02-23 · Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Acting credits
During the Russian Civil War, pilot Sergey Sedov engages in battle with the Black Cat enemy fighter, controlled by the famous pilot Baru. In the battle, Sedov wounded Baru, but Sedov's plane fell apart in the air. Sedov was only miraculously saved. A few years later, Sedov and Baru meet in international competitions in Tehran. Baru are to defend the honor of a French company, Sedov and his student Ivanov - the honor of their country. In the end, the defeated Baru can only express hope of a rematch during a new meeting with Sedov in a future war. The film has not survived.
Wings
1932
10.0No synopsis available yet.
The Fankony Cafe
1927
5.5A young sportsman Grisha Fokin falls in love with Masha, the wife of an outstanding scientist - Yuliyan Nikolayevich Stepanov.
A Severe Young Man
1935
7.4Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
Strike
1925
5.7The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his rebel gang. This existential drama disguised as a saga about the proletarian struggle presents a lonely and insecure individual who is challenged to act more heroically than he is prepared to, but who constantly questions his confidence and loyalties.
The Ghost That Never Returns
1930
5.5A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII.
Murder on Dante Street
1956
3.9A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.
The Battle of Stalingrad
1949
5.0Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
The Fall of Berlin
1950
NRBased on the play by A. N. Ostrovsky.
Talents and Admirers
1971
5.5The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.
Lenin in Poland
1966
4.0The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.
The Vow
1946
6.0A story about the friendship between two young men, two soldiers - Arkady from Odessa and Sasha from Ural.
Two Soldiers
1943
6.8Two stories ("The feat of the soldier Mukhin", "The Last Autumn"). The events of one concern 1917, when Lenin had to hide in Finland, the second takes place in 1923-1924 during the last months of his life in Gorki.
Stories About Lenin
1957
6.1While investigating a regular traffic accidents detectives find evidence of foreign intelligence involvement.
Case No. 306
1956
4.9The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins to fight off sabotaging underlings. Dymba, now a violent enemy of the Republic, tries to rob a wine store but is arrested with Maksim's help. Maksim also exposes a conspiracy of a group of tsarist officers who prepare an attempt against Lenin. He then joins the Red Army in its fight against the German occupation.
The Vyborg Side
1939
7.5The movie tells about the life of Soviet scientists. Professor Dobrotvorsky, together with his colleague Losev, is on his way to completing a scientific work of great importance in medicine. Professor Dobrotvorsky's friend Academician Vereisky learns from a foreign journal that important data about this work has fallen into the hands of American businessmen.
Court of Honor
1949
5.1In an Eastern European country, a strong political struggle breaks out over the possibility of accepting aid from the Marshall Plan or signing a cooperation treaty with the Soviet Union.
Conspiracy of the Doomed
1950
5.1Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little film.
Glumov's Diary
1923
5.2The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.
The Man with the Gun
1938
6.7The movie is set in the early 30s in a fictional capitalist country. The economic crisis throws three friends - young female workers - out on the street. Their dreams of a prosperous life are shattered, and each begins her own difficult journey.
Conveyor of Death
1933
7.0The film tells about the founder of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the leader of the Mongolian People's Revolution - Damdin Sukhe-Bator.
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
1942
7.5After the victory on Napoleon a hussar returns to Moscow. He is met by a desperate man who offers him a deal: marry his daughter before she turns 18 and inherit a huge fortune from her rich, eccentric aunt. There is also another condition...
The Lucky Bride
1946
8.0Story on the life and work of the first chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov.
Yakov Sverdlov
1940
6.5A funny comedy about doctor Aybolit and his assistants and patients - all animals.
Doctor Aybolit
1938