
Acting
Yuriy Tolubeev
Born — Died
1906-05-01 — 1979-12-28
Place of birth
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Known for
Acting
Credits
46 titles
Known for
3.9The film tells the story of those who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, which became a turning point in the Great Patriotic War. For five months, the city resisted the Nazi offensive. Surrendering Stalingrad to the enemy would have meant losing the war, but holding on to the city seemed almost impossible.
The Turning Point
1945
6.7Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.
Don Quixote
1957
7.2Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.
Hamlet
1964
8.0Two old Leningrad workers, Sukhov and Solyanov, have a long-standing friendship — they worked at the same plant, lived in the neighborhood. Now Solyanov, at the insistence of his son, decides to retire. But it is not so easy to part with his native plant, which, as it turned out, still needs an old personnel officer...
The Soul Calls
1962
7.0A biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer, inventor of radio communications Alexander Semenovich Popov.
Alexander Popov
1949
4.0A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad.
The Battle of Stalingrad
1949
Film credits
1970s · 8 titles
5.7KGB agents are organizing the disinformation campaign for a western spy.
Tracer Element
1972
5.4A second episode in the trilogy about the partisans fighting against the Nazis during the WWII on the territory of Russia. Film is set in the winter of 1943-1944. Major Mlynsky is the commander of the partisan group, that is fighting behind the Nazi's front-lines. Major Mlynsky is invited to the Chief of Staff, where he is promoted to Lt.-Colonel for his courage. Now Mlynsky is in charge of the new partisan's operation.
Front Beyond the Front Line
1978
NRThe distant sixties – a time of romantic impulses, deep feelings, and pure thoughts. In one of the quiet, cozy alleys of old Moscow lives a talented puppet master, Fyodor Kuzmich. He has a loyal friend, Christophor, a son named Kuzya, and many puppets. Suddenly, a sweet and tender girl named Viktosha appears in the house, and she is loved by both the father and the son, and even by the puppets…
Tales of the Old Arbat
1973
5.8Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid Keshka, is stealing a collection of paintings and sculptures from the abandoned estate owners. Hoping to transport her abroad, criminals wander with a circus troupe, and in their wake goes a tireless criminal investigator — Makar Ovchinnikov.
The Property of Republic
1972
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Next to a Friend
1970
NRThe film is a monograph about the life and work of the great Russian actor. Actors, theater figures, relatives and friends remember working with him.
Nikolay Simonov's World
1975
6.0A thirteen years old Anton escapes home in order to cross the country and get to his brother who works very far away.
Fifth Quarter
1972
4.0The events that are crucial to the fate of the heroes take place during one night shift at one of the country's largest construction sites.
Night Shift
1971
1960s · 10 titles
7.2Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.
Hamlet
1964
8.0Two old Leningrad workers, Sukhov and Solyanov, have a long-standing friendship — they worked at the same plant, lived in the neighborhood. Now Solyanov, at the insistence of his son, decides to retire. But it is not so easy to part with his native plant, which, as it turned out, still needs an old personnel officer...
The Soul Calls
1962
5.7The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka.
Intervention
1968
3.5In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."
Dead Souls
1969
6.5A drama about football coaches and players.
Goal! Another Goal!
1968
7.5Driver Panachuk, who took «left» passengers, is in a hurry to Gorsk. Panachuk tells the policeman who stopped him that he saw a murdered doctor in a crashed «Moskvich» car on the way.
Crash
1965
5.4Sergei, a constructor creates a robot, Robert, as his own copy. Tanya teaches Robert to feel and the robot becomes more human than his rationalistic creator.
We Called Him Robert
1967
4.0Twelve graduates of the tenth "A" arrive to the virgin lands. Freed from childhood illusions, yesterday's schoolchildren get used to the unsettled life, to hard work on combines, tractors, on the threshing floor. Soon other difficulties are discovered.
Horizon
1962
5.3A story about last three days of the PE-2 soviet diving bomber crew - the three young men about 20: a former school teacher, musician and artist. Set during WWII.
A Diving Bomber Chronicle
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Seagull
1964
1950s · 10 titles
6.7Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.
Don Quixote
1957
5.3The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She is lonely, although she is cared for by a confident and promising colleague. Yelizaveta Maksimovna has one patient, a manly, full-energy ship builder Yershov, chained to the bed with a paralysis of both legs. All doctors recommend him rest, and Elizaveta Maksimovna advises to work and not feel sorry for herself. Yershov with all his heart falls in love with his doctor, and she loves him, but she does not dare to say her feelings. Ershov thinks that he has no hopes, but...
Unfinished Story
1955
6.0Khlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. Petersburg. Khlestakov is mistaken for an undercover inspector, and uses the situation for taking bribes from the local governor and flirting with both his wife and daughter. He abuses the corruption and hypocrisy of the local authorities until, at the end, the real inspector shows up.
The Inspector General
1952
5.9A story about a government clerk who has his precious new overcoat stolen. No-one seems willing to help him retrieve his prized possession, a fact that continues to concern him even when he is beyond the grave.
The Overcoat
1959
5.9A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production of the film was completed in 1951, but it was not released until 1953, following the reshooting of various scenes demanded by Stalin.
Belinsky
1953
7.5Professor Lavrov, a student and follower of Michurin, is trying to refute the discoveries of the theory of heredity and is successfully working on developing a new breed of chickens with high egg production and productivity. The brave experimenter is supported by the Central Committee of the CPSU in the person of Comrade, who arrived at the experimental poultry farm.
The Great Force
1950
No synopsis available yet.
First Day
1958
7.0A story about training and educating of a future Red Army officers.
The Honor of Comrade
1953
7.5A biopic about the life of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Russian polymath, scientist and writer.
Mikhail Lomonosov
1955
6.8Based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. Two poor actors, Neschastlivtsev and Schastlivtsev, — no money, no work, no tobacco and that, having put on fake orders, armed with a pistol and a guitar, decide to visit the rich Neschastlivtsev's aunt — the landowner Gurmyzhskaya...
The Forest
1953
1940s · 9 titles
3.9The film tells the story of those who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, which became a turning point in the Great Patriotic War. For five months, the city resisted the Nazi offensive. Surrendering Stalingrad to the enemy would have meant losing the war, but holding on to the city seemed almost impossible.
The Turning Point
1945
7.0A biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer, inventor of radio communications Alexander Semenovich Popov.
Alexander Popov
1949
4.0A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad.
The Battle of Stalingrad
1949
6.7Two look-alike boys, one a poor street kid and the other a prince, exchange places to see what the other's life is like.
The Prince and the Pauper
1942
8.0Story on the life and work of the first chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov.
Yakov Sverdlov
1940
8.0Young railroad worker, seemingly accommodating to Nazi overlords at a captured rural depot, secretly spearheads acts of sabotage against the evil occupying forces.
Konstantin Zaslonov
1949
6.6Set during the 1939–1940 Winter War, the film follows a group of young women from Leningrad who volunteer for service at the front. Working as nurses in hospitals and on the battlefield, they devote themselves to saving the lives of wounded soldiers, while also taking up arms alongside the men in combat. Through hardship and sacrifice, their courage forges bonds of friendship and love that endure amid the trials of war.
The Girl from Leningrad
1941
6.2A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.
Simple People
1945
5.5WWII. The Nazis subject the radio station on Bezymyanny Island to a brutal bombardment and soon land a landing force. The enemy mercilessly destroys all life, but the radio station continues to operate—meteorologist Asya has installed a spare radio on an abandoned schooner. The Soviet warship and seaplane continue to fight the invaders.
Nameless Island
1947
1930s · 9 titles
7.0A story about Bolsheviks underground in occupied Belorussia during 1918.
Coming of Age
1935
5.5Geological expedition is looking for a rare element in Pamir mountains.
Moonstone
1935
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
7.5Semyon Primak, in the direction of the regional committee, arrives in one of the small towns of Donbas and immediately enters into battle with the chief of the mine, Chub, who, in a situation of continuous assault, plays into the hands of the Trotskyites and bandits operating in the mine. Having received moral support from the new secretary, the best 'udarnik', shockworker Matvey Bobylev implements a new method of coal mining and, contrary to the intentions of the enemy group, finds a wide response among the miners of Donbas.
The Miners
1937
6.0Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappaport, the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politically-aware, fascism-resisting son, an intern, as their lives become entangled with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany, where they live and practice. Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital, and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff.
Professor Mamlock
1938
7.0A comedy from the life of Soviet gold prospectors at a mining site.
The Golden Taiga
1937
5.3The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of the working-class in the Duma. Maksim, who just returned from exile, calls the workers to strike as a protest against the firing of six of their colleagues. The traitor Platon Dymba assaults Maksim, wounding him severely. When the strike unfolds the workers demonstrate by the thousands, the news of the outbreak of World War I suddenly arrives. Maksim gets drafted.
The Return of Maxim
1937
7.0Famous polar explorer Ivan Lebedev arrives at a southern health resort. There he meets his friend, renowned pilot Mikhail Lavrov. To avoid unwanted attention, the two decide to conceal their professions. However, their strange behavior arouses suspicion among those around them...
On Vacation
1937
5.5A story about the adventures of young boy Kolya Novikov who runs from his home in order to get to the border where his older brother was killed.
Patriot
1939
