Acting
Nikolay Vishnyak
Acting credits
About a miners' strike in pre-revolution Russia after a cave-in and the death of their comrade. Partially lost.
In the Whirlwind of the Revolution
1922
6.0A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Aelita: Queen of Mars
1924
NRAn agit-film about the struggle of Ukrainian peasants against the White Poles. A young woman, the daughter of a blacksmith taken prisoner by the White Poles, and a Red commander organise a partisan unit. One scene depicts the capture of a Polish landowner attempting to elude capture. He had been hiding from the Red Army soldiers in a barrel. The peasants nailed the barrel shut and, having inscribed the words: ‘To Warsaw – to Mr Piłsudski’, threw it into the Dnieper. Lost film.
In the Days of Struggle
1920
NRA down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero. Partially lost.
Sickle and Hammer
1921
5.5As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigarettes on the sidewalk, and he frequently buys cigarettes from her even though he does not smoke. One day, a film crew uses Zina as an extra in an outdoor scene, and the cameraman, Latugin, falls in love with her. Latugin soon arranges an acting job for Zina. To complicate matters further, Zina has yet another admirer in Oliver MacBride, an American businessman who is visiting Moscow.
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
1924
NRAdaptation of Jack Londos's short story "The South of the Slot". Partially lost.
Who Are You?
1927
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The House of the Golubins
1925