Pavel Massalsky

Acting

Pavel Massalsky

Acting credits

Ivan the Terrible, Part I poster
7.3

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944

Lermontov poster
6.3

Chronicle of the life of Russian poet Michail Lermontov, from the final days of Alexandr Pushkin to the fatal destiny of the poet himself.

Lermontov

1943

Scarlet Sails poster
6.3

When Assol was a little girl, she met a wizard who foretold that it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail would arrive and the noble prince would take her away to the world of her dreams where she will be loved and happy. The neighbours joked about her, children teased her, but Assol chose to believe in miracles and wait for her prince.

Scarlet Sails

1961

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot poster
7.4

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

1958

Our Theatre poster
NR

An overview of the 75-year history of the Moscow Art Theatre containing unique historical footage, including rare excerpts from various stage productions.

Our Theatre

1975

The School of Scandal poster
10.0

Nowhere have they so deftly slandered and arranged intrigues, as in the salon of Lady Sniruel. Young lady Tizl quickly enters the taste of high life, taking the gentleman's wooing. She does not suspect that a serious test awaits her.

The School of Scandal

1952

Circus poster
6.3

An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.

Circus

1936

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

Sweet Bird of Youth poster
NR

The play based on the play of the same name by T. Williams at the Moscow Academic Art Theater.

Sweet Bird of Youth

1978

Now Let Him Go poster
5.0

England. The old and sick artist Symonds Kendle, fleeing from the insistent claims of his children to his remaining paintings and drawings, goes with his granddaughter Felicity to another city to a friend. But on the way the artist falls ill and ends up in a small station hotel. Felicity and Stan, the son of the innkeeper, search for boxes of Simon's paintings that have fallen into another station.

Now Let Him Go

1963

Resurrection poster
6.6

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.

Resurrection

1960

Mary Stuart poster
NR

Gorky Moscow Art Theater. A play based on the play of the same name by F. Schiller. About the confrontation between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Queen Mary of Scotland.

Mary Stuart

1976

The Hour of Life poster
NR

About the life and revolutionary activities of the Ulyanov family members in Kyiv during the period leading up to the 1905 Revolution.

The Hour of Life

1972

How Do I Call You Now?.. poster
7.0

A story about a brave Soviet spy working behind the enemy lines during WWII.

How Do I Call You Now?..

1965

High Award poster
9.0

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High Award

1939

The Unforgettable Year 1919 poster
5.5

A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army forces during the Russian Civil War.

The Unforgettable Year 1919

1951

Woodprint poster
NR

The former artist, and now the director of the Glass-Porcelain trust, Fyodor Kudrin, saw an amazing engraving at the exhibition. The meeting with its creator turned Fedor’s life upside down.

Woodprint

1966

Gavroche poster
9.0

Gavroche learns that his father, who was exiled to hard labor, dies. Hatred of the tyrant-king leads the boy to the barricades of Montmartre.

Gavroche

1937

Gavroche poster
9.0

Gavroche learns that his father, who was exiled to hard labor, dies. Hatred of the tyrant-king leads the boy to the barricades of Montmartre.

Gavroche

1937

Anna Karenina poster
7.0

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation. The performance of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky based on the novel of the same name by L. N. Tolstoy, staged for the stage by one of the founders of the theater V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.

Anna Karenina

1953

The Lower Depths poster
9.0

A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.

The Lower Depths

1952

A Border on Lock poster
NR

A border guards are hunting a spy infiltrated to the USSR.

A Border on Lock

1937

Elder Sister poster
5.8

A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career.

Elder Sister

1967

The Academician From Askania poster
9.0

The twenties. Hungry and impoverished country. Lenin signs a decree on the protection of breeding livestock. Nevertheless, Ivanov's experiments become known not only to the country of the Soviets, but also to enemies working for American farmers. The Chekists become involved in Ivanov's research.

The Academician From Askania

1962