Aleksandr Antonov

Acting

Aleksandr Antonov

Born — Died

1898-02-13 — 1962-11-26

Place of birth

Moscow, Russian Empire

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aleksandr Pavlovich Antonov (1898 – 1962) was a Russian film actor who had a lengthy career, stretching from the silent era to the 1950s. His best known role was as Grigory Vakulinchuk in Sergei Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin. He also had a part in another Eisenstein film, Strike. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aleksandr Pavlovich Antonov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Battleship Potemkin poster
7.6

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin revolt against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Battleship Potemkin

1925

Strike poster
7.4

Just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, factory workers strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a piece of machinery, he commits suicide, and his colleagues revolt against the overarching Czarist regime. As the strike drags on and government officials grow increasingly desperate to end it, their methods of dealing with the rebellious workers become more and more aggressive.

Strike

1925

I Love poster
9.5

Russian Empire, 19th century. Poor Nykanor leaves his village and becomes a miner in the Donbas. His son Ostap also becomes a miner and works in the mine for thirty years, but after his father's sudden dismissal, he realizes that the state system needs radical changes.

I Love

1936

The Battle of Stalingrad poster
4.0

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad.

The Battle of Stalingrad

1949

Rich Bride poster
6.5

A comedy about the happy life of Ukrainian collective farmers. Harvesting in one of the Ukrainian collective farms. The tractor driver Pavlo and the best collective farmer Marinka work perfectly. They love each other. I like not only Paul. The official and adventurer Kovynko has long been yearning for the Marinka and building all sorts of intrigues to the Komsomol members.

Rich Bride

1946

The White Poodle poster
7.5

A story about three circus actors and their adventures. Based on classic novel by Aleksandr Kuprin.

The White Poodle

1955

Film credits

1950s · 7 titles

The White Poodle poster
7.5

A story about three circus actors and their adventures. Based on classic novel by Aleksandr Kuprin.

The White Poodle

1955

Incident in the Taiga poster
8.0

Young scientist is going to taiga for his experiments but meets poachers on the way.

Incident in the Taiga

1954

The Sailor Went Ashore poster
8.0

Sailor Alexei takes a job as a loader at the port in order not to leave his two young sons growing up without a mother for a long time. In the port he meets a girl Tanya. The resulting feeling is not an easy test.

The Sailor Went Ashore

1957

The Frigid Sea poster
6.5

Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ...

The Frigid Sea

1955

Twelfth Night poster
4.9

Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.

Twelfth Night

1955

A Weary Road poster
6.0

The station keeper Kruglikov was exiled to a remote Siberian village many years ago for shooting his superior, a general, who demanded that he go with him as a matchmaker to Kruglikov's favorite girl, Raya. A political exile is brought to the station. She turns out to be Raya. For a few minutes the former bride and groom were together, and then she was taken away again.

A Weary Road

1956

Stars On the Wings poster
6.0

Aviation school. Future officers of the jet squadron are engaged in practical studies. When performing a training assignment, cadet Korenyuk violates flight discipline. The instructor pilot, considering Korenyuk to be a talented cadet, forgives him for this offense. When, during another training flight, Korenyuk dives onto a fishing vessel, cadet Bukreev, who is in the cockpit, takes the blame. Bukreyev is arrested for ten days...

Stars On the Wings

1955

1940s · 7 titles

The Battle of Stalingrad poster
4.0

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad.

The Battle of Stalingrad

1949

Rich Bride poster
6.5

A comedy about the happy life of Ukrainian collective farmers. Harvesting in one of the Ukrainian collective farms. The tractor driver Pavlo and the best collective farmer Marinka work perfectly. They love each other. I like not only Paul. The official and adventurer Kovynko has long been yearning for the Marinka and building all sorts of intrigues to the Komsomol members.

Rich Bride

1946

No artwork available
3.3

Archive footage from Potemkin (1925), with English dialogue dubbed in by American actors, is combined with new footage to tie together the brave stand of Odessa Russian guerrilla bands of the 1940's against German forces with the similar situation of 1905 when Odessa citizens aided in the revolt against the Czar as depicted in Eisenstein's classic Potemkin (1925).

Seeds of Freedom

1943

The District Secretary poster
4.7

A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.

The District Secretary

1942

General Suvorov poster
6.0

Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Russia and Austria against Napoleon.

General Suvorov

1941

Four Hearts poster
5.7

The plot is built around two charming sisters — a strict, wayward Galina, an assistant professor of mathematics, and a windy, frivolous student Shurochka. Despite the fact that the girls are so different, they are looking, of course, for one thing — love. The events take place in the summer pre-war Moscow and in the country where both sisters go: one in order to prepare for the re-examination, the other — to conduct math classes with the military from the Yuryev Camps located near the dacha village. Funny and difficult situations, intrigues, tears, joy — all this will be experienced by young girls on the way to their happiness.

Four Hearts

1944

Glorious Path poster
8.0

A girl from a small village goes to the big city to realize her dream of driving trains.

Glorious Path

1949

1930s · 13 titles

I Love poster
9.5

Russian Empire, 19th century. Poor Nykanor leaves his village and becomes a miner in the Donbas. His son Ostap also becomes a miner and works in the mine for thirty years, but after his father's sudden dismissal, he realizes that the state system needs radical changes.

I Love

1936

No artwork available
7.0

On liberation from prison of a group arrested after the defeat of the 1905 Russian revolution and workers sentenced to death. Lost movie.

Tomorrow Night

1930

City Under Attack poster
8.0

The action of the movie takes place during a possible future war. A foreign state is preparing an attack on the Soviet Union. Professor Runge in his laboratory conducts an experiment with a new deadly gas. The plan of aggression is carried out. On a major Soviet industrial center the enemy command sends squadrons of planes with high-explosive and chemical bombs, with an airborne landing force led by White Guard officers.

City Under Attack

1933

No artwork available
7.0

About an old retired turner who returned to the machine in the hard days for the plant. Considered lost.

Turner Alekseev

1931

Kubans poster
7.0

From the life of one of the leading Kuban horse breeding collective farms. Veterinarian Mitrich, a disguised enemy who follows all the instructions of yesaul Soroka, sets about the main task - to destroy the entire collective farm herd. But the criminals will be detained on time, and in the autumn the collective farm will see off young Cossacks to the Red Army.

Kubans

1939

Convicts poster
10.0

In northward far camp NKVD arrives echelon with the group of prisoners. Among them there are an engineer Sadovskiy and inveterate criminal Kostya, that quickly becomes the ringleader of barrack and forbids to all the appearances at work. The officials of cheka begin a persistent and tactful fight for the change of these people.

Convicts

1936

No artwork available
10.0

While his wife takes care of the daily shopping, the Soviet soldier Lastochin takes care of preparing the children's meals. Tired by this task, he decides that he will eat only in the popular canteen.

Can’t You Just Leave Me Out?

1932

No artwork available
NR

Lost film.

Alyona's Love

1934

A Night in September poster
5.8

Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.

A Night in September

1939

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Judas

1930

The Civil Servant poster
8.0

A humble and honest cashier is robbed while carrying a large sum of money and the bag ends up in the basement of a building. When he later discovers that the robber has not taken it with him, he decides to keep the money making everyone believe that the thief has the bag.

The Civil Servant

1931

No artwork available
9.0

During the Russian Civil War, pilot Sergey Sedov engages in battle with the Black Cat enemy fighter, controlled by the famous pilot Baru. In the battle, Sedov wounded Baru, but Sedov's plane fell apart in the air. Sedov was only miraculously saved. A few years later, Sedov and Baru meet in international competitions in Tehran. Baru are to defend the honor of a French company, Sedov and his student Ivanov - the honor of their country. In the end, the defeated Baru can only express hope of a rematch during a new meeting with Sedov in a future war. The film has not survived.

Wings

1932

The Great Count poster
NR

A feature film that depicts scenes from the census of Imperial Russia in 1882 and the upcoming census of the Soviet Union as of January 17, 1939. The census takers interview citizens, fill out census forms in the homes of urban residents, collective farmers, and among the guests of the "Moscow" hotel.

The Great Count

1938

1920s · 9 titles

Battleship Potemkin poster
7.6

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin revolt against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Battleship Potemkin

1925

Strike poster
7.4

Just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, factory workers strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a piece of machinery, he commits suicide, and his colleagues revolt against the overarching Czarist regime. As the strike drags on and government officials grow increasingly desperate to end it, their methods of dealing with the rebellious workers become more and more aggressive.

Strike

1925

Road to Damask poster
10.0

About a clash on the open sea between Soviet sailors and a group of White Guard officers. Lost movie.

Road to Damask

1927

Glumov's Diary poster
5.1

Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little film.

Glumov's Diary

1923

Tanka the Bar Girl poster
10.0

A little girl denounce her evil step-father who plotted against the communist movement. The film, under the influence of Russian formalism, has some interesting experimental compositions.

Tanka the Bar Girl

1929

A Bright City poster
NR

Partially lost movie. Based on the novella ‘The Red Scarf’ by Mikhail Pavlovich Rogi. The story of a peasant woman who comes to the city to join her husband, a factory worker, and finds it difficult to adjust to her new life. Only the fourth part of the film has survived.

A Bright City

1928

The Fankony Cafe poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Fankony Cafe

1927

The Wind poster
8.0

During the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, a Red cavalry officer is warned by a staffer from headquarters about his dangerous attraction to the female leader of a band of Cossacks, a violent woman who is aroused by killing.

The Wind

1926

When the Fields Bloom poster
9.0

The village youth organize a collective farm in the place of the monastery garden.

When the Fields Bloom

1929