Pavel Poltoratskiy

Acting

Pavel Poltoratskiy

Acting credits

Strike poster
7.4

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Strike

1925

Five Minutes poster
7.0

The news of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin shocked the whole world. The working people of England and France, Spain and China, Africa and America in the great sorrows bowed their heads. January 27, 1924 at four o'clock in the afternoon, when in Moscow, on Red Square, the Soviet people buried Lenin, in everything work stopped for five minutes. Plants and factories stopped, stopped the movement of trains, ships and cars. This day is large American concessionaire should have made a good deal with a representative of one of the countries of the East. On the way, the Chinese driver stopped his car for five minutes. These minutes decided the success of the millionth deal. But no persuasion, bribery and threats to the concessionaire could force the driver to continue driving.

Five Minutes

1929

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

Toguy Island poster
NR

On the struggle of Soviet border guards against border violators. Lost movie.

Toguy Island

1929

The Doll with Millions poster
6.6

The rich widow Madame Collie leaves the fortune to her lost niece Maria Ivanova. Two cousins of Maria go from Paris to Moscow in order to search her. They have to find a 17 year old girl with the birthmark on her right shoulder. The documents of the heiress are hidden in her doll.

The Doll with Millions

1928

House of the Dead poster
5.0

Soviet film based on Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel of his prison experiences in Tsarist days.

House of the Dead

1932

Loss of Feeling poster
4.9

In an unnamed English-speaking capitalist land, a young engineer invents inexhaustible giant robots to replace the fragile human workers on high-volume assembly-lines, and soon finds his invention co-opted by the military-industrial complex.

Loss of Feeling

1935

Marionettes poster
4.7

Fearing the Soviet Union, rich businessmen who want more influence in Europe decide to give the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle drunkard.

Marionettes

1934

Cross and Mauser poster
4.0

The film takes place during the pre-revolutionary years and the initial period of the Soviet regime. At a monastery shelter in one of Russia's western towns, orphan Yulka gives birth to a son from the shepherd Jerome. Matron of the shelter Pavlikha as directed by the father kills the newborn baby and disposes of the corpse in the Jewish Quarter. The Black Hundreds are spreading the rumor that the murder was committed by the Jews for ritual purposes. Mayhem arises which is supported by the authorities of the city. The church refuses to shelter Jews fleeing from the violent thugs.

Cross and Mauser

1925

Miss Mend poster
5.9

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

Miss Mend

1926

Who Are You? poster
NR

Adaptation of Jack Londos's short story "The South of the Slot". Partially lost.

Who Are You?

1927