Ivan Koval-Samborskiy

Acting

Ivan Koval-Samborskiy

Born 1893-09-16 · Kharkiv, Ukraine

Acting credits

His Call poster
10.0

The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.

His Call

1925

A Severe Young Man poster
5.5

A young sportsman Grisha Fokin falls in love with Masha, the wife of an outstanding scientist - Yuliyan Nikolayevich Stepanov.

A Severe Young Man

1935

Annushka poster
6.5

The main character, Anna Denisova, is a simple Russian woman, on whose shoulders all the hardships of wartime fell. Like all her compatriots, Annushka did everything in her power to bring Victory Day closer. In this war, she lost her husband, Pyotr, but managed to save the lives of her three children — Sasha, Nina and Granata. The trials of Annushka didn't end with the end of the war. In the first years of peace, all survivors had to survive the famine and spend their last strength on rebuilding the country.

Annushka

1959

The Big Attraction poster
7.0

Riccardo and his troupe travel around the world performing musical and dance numbers in vaudevillian and circus theaters. Dancer Kitty is so impressed when she hears him sing that she asks to enter the company, but is turned down by Riccardo. Then in the middle of a number at the Winter Garten she pops in and the audience loves it. Now she will try to win Riccardo's heart, although he has a secret from his past that might be an obstacle.

The Big Attraction

1931

The Forty-First poster
4.9

A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him, by boat, into captivity across the Aral Sea. A storm strands the two on an island.

The Forty-First

1927

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sündenfall

1929

Cagliostro poster
4.8

Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)

Cagliostro

1929

The Last Night poster
NR

Historical-revolutionary film about the struggle of the Bolshevik underground against the interventionists during the civil war in Odessa, about the participation of children in underground work.

The Last Night

1933

Bookkeeper Kremke poster
7.8

In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of only a few women directors of the time and was also the head of the German Social Democratic Film Office. She made only two known films before her accidental death in exile in Mexico in 1936.

Bookkeeper Kremke

1930

No artwork available
NR

About the fate of a former prisoner of war, who returns to his homeland, to the Soviet Union.

Nastenka Ustinova

1934

Daughter of the Motherland poster
NR

On the detention of fascist saboteurs and border violators by the collective farmers of Soviet Byelorussia. The main heroine, the actual "daughter of the Motherland", is the chairman of the kolkhoz, and has detained eight trespassers. But the main enemy may be lurking from within the borders.

Daughter of the Motherland

1937

Prolog poster
7.0

After the brutal massacre of a peaceful demonstration of the working people on their way to the Tsar, Lenin and other Party members in exile call for an armed uprising of the workers. At Presnya build barricades. The people are arming themselves. But the heroic armed uprising of the workers of Presnya is brutally suppressed by the tsarist troops. However, the struggle of the workers under the leadership of Lenin continued.

Prolog

1956

Mother poster
7.1

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

Mother

1926

The Green Patrol poster
NR

A group of children are spending the summer in the forest in the middle Russia.

The Green Patrol

1961

The Alteration Is Correct poster
7.5

After release from jail Andrey tries to start a new honest life but not everything is going as planned.

The Alteration Is Correct

1959

Explodigger 1010 poster
7.0

The engineer Karl Hartmann invents a new, gigantic brown coal excavator. He discovers that there are large deposits below his home country and decides to use the excavator there.

Explodigger 1010

1929

Shift Begins At Six poster
5.0

The events take place in one of the mines of Kryvyi Rih. Peter Chumak, after graduating from the institute, is appointed chief engineer of the mine. From the very first days of work Chumak initiates innovative methods of coal mining. The most fierce opponent of his proposals - engineer Alexei Zheleznyak. The confrontation of young specialists is complicated by the fact that Zheleznyak is the brother-in-law of Pyotr's wife.

Shift Begins At Six

1959

Hunters in Siberia poster
7.0

Egorov, a young hunter, dreams of catching a tiger. Traveling through the remote corners of the Soviet Union, Egorov comprehends the difficult profession of a trapper.

Hunters in Siberia

1959

Youth poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Youth

1934

The Year 18th poster
6.3

Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.

The Year 18th

1958

Gutta-Percha Boy poster
7.5

The end of the XIX century. Petya, an eight-year orphan who has been cast in training German acrobat Karl Becker, who curses and beatings would incorporate the new assistant to the circus profession and ruthlessly exploited child in their speeches. The only consolation, brightens the harsh life gutta-percha boy, as referred to Petya on the posters, is the concern of the carpet clown Edwards, who regretted the fatherless and secretly taught him this circus arts...

Gutta-Percha Boy

1957

One Summer poster
6.4

Ilf and Petrov's only work in cinema is a comedy about the adventures of two passionate car enthusiasts during a road trip. On their way to Moscow in a car assembled from scrap materials, they meet a charlatan—a "professor" with a pretty niece. Convinced that the "professor" is a common swindler, the friends turn him in to the police, while they themselves continue on their way with the girl and are the first to reach one of Moscow's squares—the finish line of the road trip.

One Summer

1936

The Communist poster
6.1

A young ordinary communist, Vasiliy Gubanov, was among many who took part in the construction of the most important facility for the young republic, the power plant. He did his job in a way that was beyond human ability. He could love, too, with a passion and a passion for self, but his life was cut short very early.

The Communist

1958

Storm poster
8.0

In the winter of 1918, a provincial Russian town is faced with a shortage of food, firewood, and medicine. Discontent is brewing in the Red Army regiment stationed in the town, as former Tsarist officers sow seeds of discord in an attempt to organize a counter-revolutionary rebellion.

Storm

1957