Lev Sverdlin

Acting

Lev Sverdlin

Born 1901-11-03 · Astrakhan, Astrakhanskiy uyezd, Astrakhanskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

Acting credits

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man poster
7.2

On September 1, the first day of school, a happy young boy named Fedya draws a picture of a little man on a white wall using coal.

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man

1960

Night Guard poster
6.5

The accountant of the commodity base discovers a small mistake in the documents, as told by the manager of the base. That night, someone hacked and robbed a safe with accounting documents, and committed the killing of an accountant. The case for the search for criminals was entrusted to police commissioner Krechetov and lieutenant Kasyanov.

Night Guard

1957

The Romantics poster
9.0

Set in the high North, this tale of a Russian teacher who begins to educate the children of the Chukchi tribe reinforces the director's firm belief in the power of education to overcome distrust and establish a shared civilizational foundation for all human beings.

The Romantics

1941

Story of a Real Man poster
5.0

Alexey Meresyev was a fighter pilot during the war. One day he was shot down by Nazis, and because of his wounds both of his legs had to be cut off up to his knees. Because of his spirit and courage, Alexey was able to overcome his disability. He learned not only to walk on his artificial limps, but even dance and fly the plane again. Based on a real-life story.

Story of a Real Man

1948

A Little Time Machine poster
NR

This film tells about the discovery achieved at the intersection of many sciences: cybernetics, astrophysics, telepathy and veterinary medicine. Soviet scientists made a sensational invention - the device "TV-1" (a transistor of time) was designed. Trial samples were disguised in household items: they were equipped with beads, a flower and a cane. The owners of experimental devices were random people.

A Little Time Machine

1967

The First Trolleybus poster
6.0

Svetlana, young pretty girl, works as a trolleybus driver in a small town and almost all her permanent passengers are at least a little bit in love with her.

The First Trolleybus

1963

Days and Nights poster
6.2

This literary adaptation was the first Soviet feature length dramatization, as opposed to documentary film, on the momentous Battle of Stalingrad.

Days and Nights

1945

No artwork available
7.0

Based on the novel by P.A. Pavlenko "In the Far East". Centering on the construction of an important border road in the Far East, which should cross the Golden Pass.

In the Far East

1937

The Elusive Revengers poster
6.9

Danka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village brutally ends when their father is killed by a White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge, they join forces with Valerka, an intellectual from big city, and the gipsy Yashka, but before they can get close to their enemy they have to help their village and the advancing Red Army.

The Elusive Revengers

1967

Circus poster
6.3

An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.

Circus

1936

The Road poster
6.6

A group of semitrailers is moving through a snow storm - and no one doesn't know that there is a spy between the drivers.

The Road

1955

Adults and Children poster
NR

Several short stories tell the story of the complex relationships between difficult children and their parents.

Adults and Children

1963

Guerrilla Brigade poster
5.8

Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of Ukraine in 1918 during World War I, and made as an example of the guerrilla warfare and fierce spirit in which Ukrainian peasants were again resisting Teuton onslaughts in 1939. Highlights a small band of guerrillas and their battles using scythes, shotguns and, often, just clubs against the Kaiser's army in the Ukrainian forests.

Guerrilla Brigade

1939

The Birthday Party poster
NR

The boy fights the demon to save the shepherd brother and the flock. Animated version of the Dagestan fairy tale.

The Birthday Party

1959

Alitet Leaves for the Hills poster
5.8

The inhabitants of Chukotka are shown to be cruelly exploited before the revolution. Once Chukotka is visited by the representative of the Kamchatka Revolutionary Committee, Los, and the ethnographer Zhukov. The news of the arrival of the Russians immediately disperses along the coast. Contrary to the pressure of the American Thomson and the local "oligarch" Alitet in Chukotka, fair trade laws are established, as a result of which the Americans and Alitet leave Chukotka.

Alitet Leaves for the Hills

1949

Разноцветные камешки poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Разноцветные камешки

1960

A Magic Saving Stick poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

A Magic Saving Stick

1956

Minin and Pozharsky poster
6.1

Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin and Pozharsky people's militia. The beginning of the XVII century. Already the sixth year the Muscovite land under the yoke of intervention. In the fall of 1610 Polish pans in deceitfully seized the Kremlin and tried to break through to the north. Everywhere rebellions broke out, but well-armed interventionists smashed the scattered peasant detachments. The liberation movement was led by Nizhny Novgorod merchant Kuzma and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.

Minin and Pozharsky

1939

As the Heart Commands poster
9.0

Ibragim Karimov is a respected agronomist who contributed to Soviet power in Tajikistan, fought the Basmachi, and organized collective farms. Despite health issues, he chose to stay in his role to support the district.

As the Heart Commands

1968

Three Fat Men poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

Three Fat Men

1963

Wishes Come True poster
7.7

If anything's possible, what's important?

Wishes Come True

1957

Gunan-Bator poster
NR

Gunan is a shepherd in love with the beautiful Oyuun, the daughter of the khan Iribsyn. When he is taking part in a competition for the hand of Oyun, he must defeat not only the rich princes, but also the three-headed monster Mongoose. Based on the Mongol folk tale of the same name.

Gunan-Bator

1965

My Universities poster
5.5

My Universities is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.

My Universities

1940

Cuban Novella poster
NR

The nationalization of banks in Cuba by Fidel Castro's government brought many worries to both the counterrevolutionaries who fled the country and the ordinary workers who found themselves called upon to run these institutions. Garcia, sent by the former owners of the bank to Roberto, its manager, persuades him to help him break into the bank building to steal the checks of the American-Cuban Bank. Roberto hesitates: on the one hand, the former owners have made him, once a simple accountant, the manager, but on the other hand, he cannot go against the people. He must help the worker Maximo, appointed by the revolutionary government as the bank's commissioner, to understand all the intricacies of the case. Maximo trusts him, consulting him in everything.

Cuban Novella

1962