Leonid Lukov

Directing

Leonid Lukov

Born — Died

1909-05-02 — 1963-04-24

Place of birth

Mariupol, Russian Empire

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Leonid Lukov was born on 2 May 1909 in Mariupol, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for A Great Life (1939), Miners of the Don (1951) and To A New Shore (1955). He died on 24 April 1963 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].

Known for

Behind the camera

I Love poster
9.5

Russian Empire, 19th century. Poor Nykanor leaves his village and becomes a miner in the Donbas. His son Ostap also becomes a miner and works in the mine for thirty years, but after his father's sudden dismissal, he realizes that the state system needs radical changes.

I Love

1936

A Great Life, Part 2 poster
8.0

This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War.

A Great Life, Part 2

1946

The Village Teacher poster
5.2

A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people and examples by 1880s revolutionary "People's Will" member teachers, a young woman spent her life in a village and evidenced the changes a Russian village has undergone from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to late 1940s.

The Village Teacher

1947

Maria, the Wonderful Weaver poster
7.2

An old soldier helps a young boy find his mother, who's been kidnapped to the magical underwater kingdom in a remote Russian lake.

Maria, the Wonderful Weaver

1959

Trust Me, People poster
5.1

A criminal tries to regain the trust of fellow citizens after the release from prison.

Trust Me, People

1964

Clumsy Friend poster
NR

Story of animal trainers at a circus.

Clumsy Friend

1959

Youth poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Youth

1934

The Rescued Generation poster
5.0

Antonina Vasilyevna, as a member of the bureau of the district committee of the party, was instructed to save the Leningrad children, whom the war overtook in the suburban camps. She took them to the Kirov region. After twelve days of hard travel, the children arrived in the village of Supryadki...

The Rescued Generation

1960

A Captain at Fifteen poster
5.8

A classic movie based on a famous "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen" novel by Jules Verne.

A Captain at Fifteen

1946

Private Aleksandr Matrosov poster
9.0

The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy's bunker with his body.

Private Aleksandr Matrosov

1947

The Roots of the Commune poster
NR

On the participation of urban pioneers in the struggle for the socialist transformation of the Ukrainian countryside.

The Roots of the Commune

1931

The Roots of the Commune poster
NR

On the participation of urban pioneers in the struggle for the socialist transformation of the Ukrainian countryside.

The Roots of the Commune

1931

No artwork available
NR

About the Komsomol members' struggle for the improvement of railway transport.

Echelon №...

1933

No artwork available
NR

About the Komsomol members' struggle for the improvement of railway transport.

Echelon №...

1933

Two Soldiers poster
6.0

A story about the friendship between two young men, two soldiers - Arkady from Odessa and Sasha from Ural.

Two Soldiers

1943

Aleksa Dundic poster
5.6

Life and times of Aleksa Dundic, a volunteer in the Serb army during WW1, who later became a legend by fighting for the Red Army in the Russian Civil War.

Aleksa Dundic

1958

Aleksa Dundic poster
5.6

Life and times of Aleksa Dundic, a volunteer in the Serb army during WW1, who later became a legend by fighting for the Red Army in the Russian Civil War.

Aleksa Dundic

1958

The Miners of Donetsk poster
7.3

A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.

The Miners of Donetsk

1951

Two Lives poster
7.0

In the center of the film - two lives, two destinies. A simple, illiterate soldier Vostrikov of the Tsar's Army during the years of Soviet power grew into a devoted fighter of the revolution, he became a general of the Soviet Army, respected by all. A guards officer, a brilliant prince Naschyokin, who fought against Soviet power, emigrated from his native country and eventually became a lackey in a port restaurant.

Two Lives

1961

It Happened in the Donbass poster
7.5

The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbass and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.

It Happened in the Donbass

1945

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

Trubachyov's Detachment Is Fighting poster
7.5

The Trubachyov's pioneers detachment is stuck in the occupied territories during WWII. The children are trying to fight the enemy...

Trubachyov's Detachment Is Fighting

1957

Different Fortunes poster
6.4

Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya is in love with Styopa, but he loves Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. Rejected, Styopa leaves for a distant Siberian city and starts working at the factory, studying at the evening institute. Sonya leaves after him and gets a job at the same factory. Tanya and Fedya, having married, go to college, and the young husband has to earn some money as a driver to support his family. The selfish nature of Tanya refuses to put up with the modest position in which the newlyweds are forced to be, and she starts an affair with an elderly composer...

Different Fortunes

1956

Different Fortunes poster
6.4

Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya is in love with Styopa, but he loves Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. Rejected, Styopa leaves for a distant Siberian city and starts working at the factory, studying at the evening institute. Sonya leaves after him and gets a job at the same factory. Tanya and Fedya, having married, go to college, and the young husband has to earn some money as a driver to support his family. The selfish nature of Tanya refuses to put up with the modest position in which the newlyweds are forced to be, and she starts an affair with an elderly composer...

Different Fortunes

1956

Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades poster
6.1

A family movie about a life of Trubachyov's pioneers detachment during the years before WWII.

Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades

1955

Aleksandr Parkhomenko poster
5.1

About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Parkhomenko. In 1918, capturing Ukraine, the German occupiers sought to use the Haidamaks, the White Guards and the Greens in their struggle. By order of Voroshilov, Aleksandr Parkhomenko from Lugansk arrives in Tsaritsyn. At the same time, the Germans launched an active offensive. The "red" battalions are poorly armed, however, Parkhomenko manages to raise them to the attack and put the enemy to flight.

Aleksandr Parkhomenko

1942

It Can Not Be Forgotten poster
8.0

The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy agents. The story is pertinent due to resurgence of ultra-nationalist underground activity in Western Ukraine after World War II.

It Can Not Be Forgotten

1954

It Can Not Be Forgotten poster
8.0

The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy agents. The story is pertinent due to resurgence of ultra-nationalist underground activity in Western Ukraine after World War II.

It Can Not Be Forgotten

1954

Vassa Zheleznova poster
7.0

The tragedy of a talented and strong woman who built the well-being of her family on blood and blood. And well-being turned out to be just as false and ghostly.

Vassa Zheleznova

1953

Boy From the Outskirts poster
9.0

In the family of the driver Skvortsov on one of the outskirts of Moscow growing son Andrew, the future designer of high-speed firearms, but for now — inquisitive and hard-working boy, dreaming of studying. Ahead of the revolution and the Great Patriotic war…

Boy From the Outskirts

1947

No artwork available
8.0

June 22, 1941. In a Ukrainian village, a mother sees off her two eldest sons as they head to the front. The front lines are drawing ever closer. Nazi planes appear in the sky, and the first reports of casualties reach the village. The mother sees off her youngest son...

Mother

1941

Mishka, Seryoga and I poster
6.0

Three friends are bored in eighth grade but everything changes after a new teacher arrives to the class.

Mishka, Seryoga and I

1961

To a New Shore poster
8.5

The dramatic fates of the Līdumu, Tauriņu, and Pacepļu families from the 1920s to the 1950s. The conflict between the Līdumu and Tauriņu dynasties as a class struggle, ending with the victory of the Līdumu family.

To a New Shore

1955

No artwork available
7.0

Russian film album for the war

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #8

1942

The Barbarians poster
7.0

The monotonous life of a provincial town Verhopoli violates the arrival of the railway builders - engineers Cherkun and Tsyganov.

The Barbarians

1953

A Great Life poster
4.1

The film tells about the struggle of the Donbas miners in Ukrainian SSR with saboteurs.

A Great Life

1939

Vanka and the 'Avenger' poster
6.0

Heroic war adventures of an orphan shepherd boy, who saved two Red Army scout soldiers from the pursuit by White Army and as a reward was admitted into the squadron.

Vanka and the 'Avenger'

1928

The Italian Woman poster
9.0

Propaganda film on the participation of Komsomol members in the restoration of the coal industry of Donbas.

The Italian Woman

1931

Red Tie poster
7.5

A story about young pioneers life in USSR right after a victory in WWII.

Red Tie

1948

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Komsomol Is My Motherland

1931