
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
9.5Russian 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
8.0This 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
5.2A 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
7.2An 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
5.1A criminal tries to regain the trust of fellow citizens after the release from prison.
Trust Me, People
1964
NRStory of animal trainers at a circus.
Clumsy Friend
1959
Behind the camera
9.5Russian 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
8.0This 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
5.2A 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
7.2An 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
5.1A criminal tries to regain the trust of fellow citizens after the release from prison.
Trust Me, People
1964
NRStory of animal trainers at a circus.
Clumsy Friend
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Youth
1934
5.0Antonina 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
5.8A classic movie based on a famous "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen" novel by Jules Verne.
A Captain at Fifteen
1946
9.0The 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
NROn the participation of urban pioneers in the struggle for the socialist transformation of the Ukrainian countryside.
The Roots of the Commune
1931
NROn the participation of urban pioneers in the struggle for the socialist transformation of the Ukrainian countryside.
The Roots of the Commune
1931
About the Komsomol members' struggle for the improvement of railway transport.
Echelon №...
1933
About the Komsomol members' struggle for the improvement of railway transport.
Echelon №...
1933
6.0A story about the friendship between two young men, two soldiers - Arkady from Odessa and Sasha from Ural.
Two Soldiers
1943
5.6Life 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
5.6Life 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
7.3A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.
The Miners of Donetsk
1951
7.0In 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
7.5The 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
6.5The 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
7.5The 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
6.4Young 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
6.4Young 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
6.1A family movie about a life of Trubachyov's pioneers detachment during the years before WWII.
Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades
1955
5.1About 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
8.0The 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
8.0The 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
7.0The 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
9.0In 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
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
6.0Three friends are bored in eighth grade but everything changes after a new teacher arrives to the class.
Mishka, Seryoga and I
1961
8.5The 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
Russian film album for the war
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #8
1942
7.0The monotonous life of a provincial town Verhopoli violates the arrival of the railway builders - engineers Cherkun and Tsyganov.
The Barbarians
1953
4.1The film tells about the struggle of the Donbas miners in Ukrainian SSR with saboteurs.
A Great Life
1939
6.0Heroic 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
9.0Propaganda film on the participation of Komsomol members in the restoration of the coal industry of Donbas.
The Italian Woman
1931
7.5A story about young pioneers life in USSR right after a victory in WWII.
Red Tie
1948
No synopsis available yet.
Komsomol Is My Motherland
1931
