
Acting
Pyotr Aleynikov
Born — Died
1914-07-12 — 1965-06-09
Place of birth
Кривель, Могилёвская губерния, Российская империя
Known for
Acting
Credits
43 titles
Born into poverty, Aleynikov lost his family at an early age, forcing him to street-life before transitioning to an orphanage in the early 1920s. He discovered a love of movies when a local film projectionist began training him in the craft. Following time in a Russian labor compound, Aleinikov studied drama in Leningrad and made his film debut in the 1932 film “Counter”. His talent for music and comedy led him to numerous roles of varying degree of local fame that grew as World War II intensified. He continued to star and support in films until disagreements between him and production teams intensified, leaving him without work until his 1955 performance in “Land and People”. His caree…
Known for
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Legends of Cinema
2016
6.0Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.
Poet
1956
8.0This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War.
A Great Life, Part 2
1946
6.7About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.
The Great Glinka
1946
5.2The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.
The Man with the Gun
1938
6.0No synopsis available yet.
High Water
1963
Film credits
1960s · 5 titles
6.0No synopsis available yet.
High Water
1963
NR9-year-old boy complains about his hard life in a letter to his grandfather.
Vanka
1960
8.0The 1950s. The construction of the Karakum Canal is underway in Turkmenistan. The fate of this large construction site is closely linked to the fate of many of the film's characters: correspondent Koryshev, who reveals the lies of his colleague Zurabov's ostentatious, slanderous articles; talented young engineer Karabash, whose advanced construction methods are supported by the construction site chief Ermasov; embittered old engineer Khorev, who, out of envy for Karabash, writes denunciations to the Central Committee of the party against him and Ermasov..
Quenching the Thirst
1968
8.0A young engineer named Zotov has been appointed head of the 406th picket line at the construction of a railway line in the taiga. The construction workers huddled in a smoky, dark dugout did not welcome the new foreman very cordially: not everyone can do hard work and household disorder. But the day came when the builders occupied the house they had built themselves, and Zotov had a double holiday — the bride arrived. And again it's weekdays, and again the cold barracks is full — a new batch of builders has arrived.
Weekdays and Holidays
1961
9.01934. After the suppression of the uprising of the Schutzbund workers, engineer Hans Müller leaves Austria and emigrates to the USSR. In Russia Hans finds his love. His relationship with Galina is not simple. Her son Sanka agonizes over the arrival of a stranger in the house. But, in the end, Hans wins the boy's trust. When in Spain begins the Frankist rebellion, Hans voluntarily goes to fight in the ranks of the interbrigade. And after the liberation of Vienna, he returns to his homeland.
Они не пройдут
1965
1950s · 7 titles
6.0Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.
Poet
1956
7.3A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.
The Miners of Donetsk
1951
9.0A progressive agronomist fights with a conservative collective farm chairman.
Land and People
1956
6.1A family movie about a life of Trubachyov's pioneers detachment during the years before WWII.
Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades
1955
5.9A driver of a big manager is hospitalized with his boss's documents and adventures start...
Driver Involuntarily
1958
5.8The adopted daughter of Dr. Skvortsov, Tanya, having learned that her mother is alive, who was considered dead during the bombing of World War II, decides to go to her in a distant village on vacation.
A Home for Tanya
1959
8.5A funny story about Mishka Strekachyov and his remarkable journey across the Soviet Union.
The Unusual Voyage of Mishka Strekachyov
1959
1940s · 17 titles
8.0This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War.
A Great Life, Part 2
1946
6.7About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.
The Great Glinka
1946
6.6Surreal Soviet fantasy movie about a man whose love is kidnapped by the Tsar and he must save her with the help of a humpbacked horse.
The Humpbacked Horse
1941
4.9The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest possible time combat vehicles are tested directly on battlefields, fighting with fascists in the outskirts of the city. The first feature film about the heroic everyday life of city defenders was shot directly in assembly shops of plants and in the streets of Leningrad when the city was fighting against the enemy
The Invincible
1943
NRA cheerful comedy about the life of the peripheral town of the late 30s. Despite its remoteness from the center, the town lives a busy life: new houses are being built, old streets are becoming cramped. In order not to break the old buildings, the young inventor suggests moving them, as they already did on Gorky Street in Moscow ...
Make Noise, Town
1940
5.0The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
In the Name of the Motherland
1943
5.1About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Parkhomenko. In 1918, capturing Ukraine, the German occupiers sought to use the Haidamaks, the White Guards and the Greens in their struggle. By order of Voroshilov, Aleksandr Parkhomenko from Lugansk arrives in Tsaritsyn. At the same time, the Germans launched an active offensive. The "red" battalions are poorly armed, however, Parkhomenko manages to raise them to the attack and put the enemy to flight.
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
1942
9.0A young journalist is sent to the region to prepare her thesis. Here the heroine will have to independently publish several issues of the newspaper, meet people, understand their actions and herself...
The Precious Seed
1948
June 22, 1941. In a Ukrainian village, a mother sees off her two eldest sons as they head to the front. The front lines are drawing ever closer. Nazi planes appear in the sky, and the first reports of casualties reach the village. The mother sees off her youngest son...
Mother
1941
7.4In September 1941, lieutenant Ilya Streltsov, who graduated from the flight school, was assigned to the fighter aviation regiment guarding the sky of Moscow. He meets in part the nurse Zoya, with whom he grew up in the same yard and with whom he has long been in love. During the first training flight on the "Seagull", lieutenant Streltsov shot down a German plane and received the nickname "Lucky." Streltsov is jealous of the squadron commander to nurse Zoya, believes that he is finding fault with him. For a whole month he is not allowed to fly sorties. In October 1941, lieutenant Streltsov made his first sortie, he shot down one plane and rams the second. For this battle, he is awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Moscow Skies
1944
5.8The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before her eyes. She and the other villagers leave to go into the woods. Pasha leads the villagers to fight some German troops. Coming out victories, the partisans become a feared opponent of the Germans, with the leadership of Comrade P.
No Greater Love
1943
Russian film album for the war
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #8
1942
6.5August 1941. Residents of the Ural town escorted to the front of men. Left alone, women take on the most difficult cases, showing outstanding organizational skills and will. Together with the evacuated plant, refugees arrive in the town. The heroine of the Film Anna takes to her house a woman with children — her example is followed by the rest…
The Ural Front
1944
6.3Andrei Latonin had jumped with a parachute many times before, but on the day of the holiday he got scared and stayed in the cockpit of the plane. Deeply upset by his failure, Latonin decides to leave his homeland forever and joins a steamship as a sailor. On the way, Andrei meets an expedition group heading for the crater of an active volcano and joins the scientists.
Incident on a Volcano
1941
8.0Soviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.
Naval Battalion
1946
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Fifth Ocean
1940
NRHigh in the mountains of the Trans-Ili Alatau there is an experimental station of the Kazakh Institute of Animal Husbandry. A young scientist, Jacques Dosanov (Shaken Aimanov), is working on breeding a new breed of sheep, trying to cross a merino sheep and a wild argali ram. With great difficulty, he manages to catch argali in the mountains. Datsanov and his assistant Saule take care of five sheep fertilized by a wild ram. But in difficult mountain conditions, four queens died, and the only lamb born from the fifth sheep was killed by an accidental shot by a hunter. However, Hasanov does not give up. He undertakes to repeat his experience, this time on an immeasurably large scale. A few years later, the scientist managed to grow a whole flock of archaromerinos.
Golden Horn
1948
1930s · 12 titles
5.2The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.
The Man with the Gun
1938
8.0A comedy about the life of a young married couple—Soviet students. Film has not survived.
Do I Love You?
1934
6.7Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.
The Girlfriends
1936
8.5In 1932, thousands of Komsomol members set off for the Far East to build the "city of youth" — Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Among the builders is a saboteur. Soon, fuel depots explode at the new factories in Komsomolsk.
Komsomolsk
1938
4.5Six polar explorers arrive to a remote island in Arctic for a year-long scientific expedition. When their ship departs, they unpack only to find a young stowaway, who romanticized Arctic heroes, and tried to join them on multiple occasions finally succeeding. That's how six became seven. Life of polar explorers is tough, and full of danger. During one year they are largely isolated from the mainland, and should survive using their resourcefulness, smarts, knowledge, and existing supplies with occasional unreliable radio communications. The Seven are resilient, cheerful, they forged a true friendship. Now they are ready to face the unforgiving Arctic.
The Brave Seven
1936
5.0The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s.
Counterplan
1932
4.9The story takes place in a Soviet placed in what is now Ukraine. A mechanic arrives in the Soviet, lead by a young independent woman driving tractors and, between many comedy sketches and propaganda mottoes, a love comes to light.
Tractor Drivers
1939
7.0The film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into Karelia, killed Soviet activists, burned houses ... In the rear of the enemy with a special task - to destroy the headquarters of the White Finns on the Kimas Lake - a detachment of Soviet cadets under the command of Toivo Antikainen (Oleg Zhakov) was sent.
For the Soviet Motherland
1937
9.0During the Russian Civil War, orphan Fyodor (Fedka) Trofimov, whose father was killed by Whites, is adopted by a Red cavalry unit.
Fedka
1937
3.0Fighter pilots Sergei and Nikolai test new planes together and try to beat each other in everything. Their rivalry began back in school, when both were passionate about the pretty classmate Varey. A tragic accident led Sergei to complete blindness. Varya, who has long loved him, has a difficult decision: to become a wife of a disabled person.
Fighters
1939
4.1The film tells about the struggle of the Donbas miners in Ukrainian SSR with saboteurs.
A Great Life
1939
6.4The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved.
Peasants
1935

