Gotlib Roninson

Acting

Gotlib Roninson

Born 1916-02-12

Acting credits

Old Men: Robbers poster
7.2

An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen.

Old Men: Robbers

1972

A Slave of Love poster
6.2

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

A Slave of Love

1976

Admiral Ushakov poster
6.1

Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.

Admiral Ushakov

1953

Afonya poster
7.7

Afonya Borshev is a plumber who drinks a lot, flirts a lot and doesn't care too much about tomorrow. His wife left him, his boss placed him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. When Afonya met Katya at a dance club he didn't pay her much attention, yet she may be the only one who can help him.

Afonya

1975

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! poster
7.3

A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

1976

A Bag Of Apples poster
7.4

Hare carries bag of apples for 4 sonnies and lovely daughter. But along the way he gives all apples to forest dwellers leaving his children hungry.

A Bag Of Apples

1974

Beware of the Car! poster
7.5

An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern Robin Hood.

Beware of the Car!

1966

Golden Boy poster
NR

In one city lived the Black Robber, the Pink King, the Blue Lady, the Green Bear and the Golden Boy. The first four heroes think that the boy is literally golden, and dream of getting him in order to fulfill their dreams.

Golden Boy

1969

12 Chairs poster
7.7

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.

12 Chairs

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Потерялась птица в небе

1988

Fourth Dad poster
NR

Little Sasha is growing up without a father, but he really wants to have one. He has already called three strangers "dad." One day, a friend of Fenechka's, Fyodor, came to visit her, and Sasha wouldn't leave his side for a moment...

Fourth Dad

1969

Mystery-Bouffe poster
NR

Based on Mayakovsky's twentieth-century morality play, in which workers receive the awards of the blessed, and monarchs and capitalist politicians are consigned to eternal damnation.

Mystery-Bouffe

1969

It Can't Be! poster
7.3

The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.

It Can't Be!

1975

Ten Days That Shook the World poster
NR

A folk performance in two acts with pantomime, buffoonery, and shooting, performed by the troupe of the Drama and Comedy Theater on Taganka.

Ten Days That Shook the World

1987

The Long Recess poster
7.3

A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.

The Long Recess

1972

The Flight poster
5.9

The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the flight" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to Russia. Some of them have understood that they can't live outside Russia and go back maybe to be happy, maybe not, some go back to face sure death for their crimes, some don't go back and know that are going to miss homeland forever, some are comfortably well off (are they?) in exile.

The Flight

1971

Cuban Novella poster
NR

The nationalization of banks in Cuba by Fidel Castro's government brought many worries to both the counterrevolutionaries who fled the country and the ordinary workers who found themselves called upon to run these institutions. Garcia, sent by the former owners of the bank to Roberto, its manager, persuades him to help him break into the bank building to steal the checks of the American-Cuban Bank. Roberto hesitates: on the one hand, the former owners have made him, once a simple accountant, the manager, but on the other hand, he cannot go against the people. He must help the worker Maximo, appointed by the revolutionary government as the bank's commissioner, to understand all the intricacies of the case. Maximo trusts him, consulting him in everything.

Cuban Novella

1962

Say a Word for the Poor Hussar poster
6.8

The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will eventually be defeated by the nobility, loyalty and love.

Say a Word for the Poor Hussar

1980

Literature Lesson poster
5.8

A young literature teacher does not like his job. He feels he has to change something in his life. And one day he decides to tell only the truth. This decision leads to a breakup with his fiancée, a series of misunderstandings at school.

Literature Lesson

1968

The Secret Agent's Return poster
5.9

After returning from the USSR, Tulyev was subjected to rigorous verification of his former "owners". He continues his work in Western intelligence, but already as a Soviet intelligence officer through the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. In a new capacity, he establishes the whereabouts of Hitler’s criminal Hoffmann, who was once sentenced to death, and helps the authorities arrest him. However, as a result of the conflict within NATO intelligence, Charlie Brighton, Hoffman's assistant, begins to hunt for him. At the same time, Tulyev manages to establish the identity of the murderer of his father, Karl Brockmann, with whom they crossed in the service of mercenaries somewhere in hot countries. He wants revenge, but, by an evil irony of fate, he must help prepare Brockmann for being cast as a spy in the Soviet Union.

The Secret Agent's Return

1982

An Honest Crocodile Word poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

An Honest Crocodile Word

1967

The Cure Against Fear poster
5.6

A police detective is trying to find a murderer who uses a new recently developed drug for his crimes.

The Cure Against Fear

1978

The Pickwick Papers poster
NR

A two-part television play based on the novel by Charles Dickens featuring songs by poet David Samoylov.

The Pickwick Papers

1972

Zigzag of Success poster
6.4

Photo studio "Contemporary" in a provincial town lives with its everyday problems. The director is concerned over the failure to fulfill the planned targets, receptionist Alevtina wants to get married, and photographer Vladimir Oreshnikov dreams of becoming a professional photographer. But suddenly luck smiles on Oreshnikov. He takes 20 rubles form the worker's mutual aid fund, buys a government lottery bond and wins 10,000 rubles. Oreshnikov wants to receive the win himself, but his colleagues object to him, because the money that he spent on the bond were public, hence the win should be divided equally among all workers. It creates a controversial situation, which is successfully resolved on the very eve of the New Year, under the chiming clock...

Zigzag of Success

1968