Solomon Mikhoels

Acting

Solomon Mikhoels

Born 1890-03-16 · Daugavpils, Latvia

Acting credits

The Return of Nathan Becker poster
8.0

A bricklayer of Jewish ancestry leaves capitalist America during the Depression for the promise of Soviet Russia.

The Return of Nathan Becker

1932

The Oppenheim Family poster
8.7

Based on Lyon Feuchtwanger's novel about the tragedy of society, through a look at the tragedy of one single family.

The Oppenheim Family

1939

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

Moonstone poster
5.5

Geological expedition is looking for a rare element in Pamir mountains.

Moonstone

1935

Jewish Luck poster
5.6

The story of a Jewish entrepreneur ins Tsarist Russia always look for a get rich quick scheme.

Jewish Luck

1925

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman poster
7.0

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

2018

Stalin's Last Plot poster
8.0

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.

Stalin's Last Plot

2011

Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union poster
NR

Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish actor and director Solomon Mikhoels. An official proclamation mourns the death of "a great People's Artist of the Soviet Union." What people are really mourning is the death of the most popular Jewish theater in the Soviet Union, and the man who kept it alive against all odds for over 20 years. No doubt many suspected the truth: he had just been assassinated by Stalin's secret police.

Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

2008

No artwork available
NR

In 1941, a group of the Soviet Union's most prominent Jewish writers and artists, including Solomon Mikhoels, Peretz Markish, and Sergei Eisenstein, signed an appeal to Jews throughout the world, asking them to join the Soviet people in fighting against fascism.

An Appeal to the Jews of the World

1941

The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-Stokes poster
8.0

A film about the destruction of the Jewish intelligentsia - from the defeat of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to the “Doctors’ Plot.”

The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-Stokes

1991

To the Jews of the Whole World! poster
NR

On August 24, 1941, a meeting of “representatives of the Jewish people” was convened.

To the Jews of the Whole World!

1941