Nikolai Simonov

Acting

Nikolai Simonov

Born 1901-11-21 · Samara, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Acting credits

Hectic Days poster
6.2

A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.

Hectic Days

1935

My Son is Somewhere poster
6.5

An old fisherman spends his days waiting to hear from his son who left the village long time ago.

My Son is Somewhere

1962

The Captain's Daughter poster
5.0

An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.

The Captain's Daughter

1928

Anathema poster
8.0

It is year 1900 in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Deacon Olympius begins to take interest in secular literature. When he stumbles upon a book by Tolstoy, he is humbled and inspired to lead a just life. Based on a story by Aleksandr Kuprin.

Anathema

1960

Chapayev poster
5.9

An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.

Chapayev

1934

The Knight of Dreams poster
NR

The childhood of a sixteen-year-old dreamer was spent in a shack with an always-drunk father. The only joy for the boy was walking to the pier, where he imagined himself as the captain of a brigantine sailing across the distant and mysterious sea. One night, he secretly left home and sailed away on a steamship, embarking on a journey filled with romantic and beautiful adventures. This marked the beginning of the unfulfilled journey of the writer Alexander Grin.

The Knight of Dreams

1969

The Gadfly poster
5.6

Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization “Young Italy”, envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and is jealous of his bride Gemma. He talks about this at a confession to a priest, as a result of which gendarmes take revolutionaries under arrest...

The Gadfly

1955

Amphibian Man poster
6.8

People living at a seashore town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature called "the sea devil". Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiander can live under water. This gives him certain advantages, but also creates a lot of problems.

Amphibian Man

1962

Brother poster
10.0

The chairman of the factory committee of one of the Leningrad factories, Fyodor Gorbachev, a weak-willed man who was unable to completely overcome his petty-proprietor psychology, is visited from the village by his brother Sergei, a former kulak and trader. His arrival brings quarrels and discord into the friendly Gorbachev family. At Fyodor's request, the factory director hires Sergei, but demands a favor in return.

Brother

1929

Red Partisans poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Red Partisans

1924

Before Sundown poster
NR

Staged by the Leningrad Drama Theater named after. A.S. Pushkin.

Before Sundown

1963

The Battle of Stalingrad poster
3.9

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.

The Battle of Stalingrad

1949

No artwork available
NR

Story of the conflict between old art forms such as ballet and the revolution and the need for creating new, proletarian forms of art. First feature by Sergey and Georgiy Vasiliyev, partially lost.

Sleeping Beauty

1930

The Return poster
10.0

Little Nikita, the son of polar scientist Sergei Ivanov, runs away from home with the intention of reaching the Arctic, where he believes his father works. The boy manages to reach Leningrad, where he ends up at the Arctic Institute. Sergei is tasked with returning the runaway home, but Nikita stubbornly hides his origins and the purpose of his escape. Soon, his grandmother arrives, and Ivanov learns that Nikita is his son. He writes a letter to his ex-wife and convinces her of the need to return to him. The couple reconciles, and, preparing for another expedition, Sergei promises his wife and young son that he will return to the mainland on time.

The Return

1940

Blow the Horns poster
6.0

Engineer Dukalsky arrives from Moscow on the instructions of an underground anti-Soviet center to the Baltic Shipyard in order to take possession of the blueprints of a powerful ship engine. The pest meets the author of the project - a young and incorruptible self-taught master Ivanov. After a series of unsuccessful attempts to buy out or steal the drawings from the author, Dukalsky decides to take Ivanov with him. Criminal Investigation Officers will attack the trail of criminals.

Blow the Horns

1925

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Povorot

1930

Commissioner Berlach's Last Case poster
5.9

The last months of Police Commissioner Berlach's life are devoted to tracking down the war criminal, Nazi doctor-examiner Emenberger. Hiding under a false identity, he continues to carry out cruel experiments on human beings even in peaceful days. The terminally ill Berlach manages to expose the criminal and break him, forcing him to confess to what he has done

Commissioner Berlach's Last Case

1972

Katerina Izmailova poster
9.5

Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman.

Katerina Izmailova

1926

Patriot poster
5.5

A 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

Heroes of Shipka poster
5.5

Heroes of Shipka was the first solo effort for Soviet director Sergei Vasilyev, who had previously collaborated with his late brother Georgi. The film is set in 1887 during the pivotal battle between the Russians and the Turks at the Shipka Pass. Stressing the solidarity of the Soviet states, tribute is paid to the courageous Bulgarian volunteers who helped the Russians fend off their mutual enemy.

Heroes of Shipka

1955

The Worker's Settlement poster
3.8

Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.

The Worker's Settlement

1966

Peter the First, Part II poster
4.6

Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him.

Peter the First, Part II

1938

Ninth of January poster
9.0

About the shooting of a workers' demonstration on January 9, 1905. The film has not been completely preserved.

Ninth of January

1925

On the Same Planet poster
7.7

Tired of watching the total collapse of the army on the fronts of World War I, left without his scattered squad, Lieutenant Reshetov goes to Petrograd to kill the main culprit of the tragedy of Russia — Vladimir Lenin.

On the Same Planet

1966

Behind the camera