Alexandr Faintsimmer

Directing

Alexandr Faintsimmer

Born — Died

1906-12-31 — 1982-03-21

Place of birth

Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire [now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine]

Known for

Directing

Credits

18 titles

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer (Feinzimmer, Russian: Александр Михайлович Файнциммер; 31 December 1906 – 21 March 1982) was a Soviet film director. He has been cited as a filmmaker on the forefront of Russian language social thriller. His son Leonid Kvinikhidze was also a film director.

Known for

The Sleeping Lion poster
7.0

After a shy bank employee helps to catch two robbers he becomes a totally different person.

The Sleeping Lion

1965

Fifty-Fifty poster
7.5

A Soviet KGB agents are trying to prevent British-American operation of stealing information about an important scientific project from USSR.

Fifty-Fifty

1972

A Girl with Guitar poster
5.3

A romantic story about the girl working in the musical instruments store.

A Girl with Guitar

1958

They Have a Motherland poster
10.0

The Great Patriotic War is over, but Major Sorokin and Colonel Dobrygin still have a lot to do for their homeland. They must go to West Germany in order to find and return the children who were taken out of the Soviet Union by the Nazis and are now kept in atrocious conditions under the supervision of British intelligence. Former allies want to grow real spies out of their children.

They Have a Motherland

1949

The Gadfly poster
5.7

Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization “Young Italy”, envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and is jealous of his bride Gemma. He talks about this at a confession to a priest, as a result of which gendarmes take revolutionaries under arrest...

The Gadfly

1955

Night Without Mercy poster
NR

Based on a story by K. Zandner. An American air base is located in the mountainous desert of a Middle Eastern country. Henry Davis (Alexander Belyavsky) dreamed of being an art historian, but became a military pilot. His work is associated with risk, but the hero is satisfied with a decent income. Performing a reconnaissance flight, Henry invades the airspace of the Soviet Union and comes under fire from border anti-aircraft guns. Davis barely manages to make it to the base. He is presented with an award and offered to prepare to fly a new super-fast airplane.

Night Without Mercy

1962

Behind the camera

The Sleeping Lion poster
7.0

After a shy bank employee helps to catch two robbers he becomes a totally different person.

The Sleeping Lion

1965

Fifty-Fifty poster
7.5

A Soviet KGB agents are trying to prevent British-American operation of stealing information about an important scientific project from USSR.

Fifty-Fifty

1972

A Girl with Guitar poster
5.3

A romantic story about the girl working in the musical instruments store.

A Girl with Guitar

1958

They Have a Motherland poster
10.0

The Great Patriotic War is over, but Major Sorokin and Colonel Dobrygin still have a lot to do for their homeland. They must go to West Germany in order to find and return the children who were taken out of the Soviet Union by the Nazis and are now kept in atrocious conditions under the supervision of British intelligence. Former allies want to grow real spies out of their children.

They Have a Motherland

1949

The Gadfly poster
5.7

Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization “Young Italy”, envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and is jealous of his bride Gemma. He talks about this at a confession to a priest, as a result of which gendarmes take revolutionaries under arrest...

The Gadfly

1955

Night Without Mercy poster
NR

Based on a story by K. Zandner. An American air base is located in the mountainous desert of a Middle Eastern country. Henry Davis (Alexander Belyavsky) dreamed of being an art historian, but became a military pilot. His work is associated with risk, but the hero is satisfied with a decent income. Performing a reconnaissance flight, Henry invades the airspace of the Soviet Union and comes under fire from border anti-aircraft guns. Davis barely manages to make it to the base. He is presented with an award and offered to prepare to fly a new super-fast airplane.

Night Without Mercy

1962

No Margin for Error poster
6.5

A criminal story which happened in a small Russian town.

No Margin for Error

1975

The "Artist's" Last Tour poster
8.0

The militia is looking for a dangerous repeat offender, Sobol, also known as "Artist," who's known to be linked to a fugitive from a penal colony and is preparing to attack a cash conveyor.

The "Artist's" Last Tour

1980

Kotovsky poster
9.7

Kotovsky, who went a long revolutionary way and became the recognized military commander of the cavalry troops: commander, brigade commander, commander. Six times he escaped from prison, was sentenced to death, and again escaped to become one of the most ardent warriors of the revolution. His famous equestrian brigade fought with the enemy near Kiev and the Belaya Tserkov, at Nikolaev and Odessa, and did not know defeat anywhere.

Kotovsky

1943

Far to the West poster
8.0

Spring of 1944. The war is nearing its end. Thousands of concentration camp inmates were brought to the Normandy coast to repair the defenses damaged by Allied aircraft. On one of the islands, a small group of prisoners, led by Colonel Zakharov, prepares an uprising. The course of events was accelerated by an action taken by French prisoners of war. They barricaded themselves in the bunker and were ready, sacrificing themselves, to undermine the fortress.

Far to the West

1969

The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya poster
6.4

A tavern on Pyatnitskaya street is a meeting place for all kind of criminals. The only way for police to infiltrate the criminals is to send an undercover agent to the tavern.

The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya

1978

Men of the Sea poster
NR

The film is about the heroic feat of the Kronstadt sailors, defending against the approaches of the revolutionaries from Petrograd during the Russian Civil War.

Men of the Sea

1938

Sunrise Over the Neman poster
NR

The rise of a Lithuanian collective farm in the post-war years and the struggle against the remnants of the past in people's minds.

Sunrise Over the Neman

1953

Naval Battalion poster
8.0

Soviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.

Naval Battalion

1946

Konstantin Zaslonov poster
8.0

Young railroad worker, seemingly accommodating to Nazi overlords at a captured rural depot, secretly spearheads acts of sabotage against the evil occupying forces.

Konstantin Zaslonov

1949

Lieutenant Kijé poster
5.5

A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kijé". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The courtiers, eager to avoid the wrath of the temperamental Tsar, create a Kijé to serve as their royal scapegoat.

Lieutenant Kijé

1934

For Those Who Are at Sea poster
5.5

The film is about the sailors who fought on torpedo boats in the Great Patriotic war.

For Those Who Are at Sea

1948

Tanker "Derbent" poster
NR

One night, the crew of the Derbent tanker receives a signal about oil ignition on the Agamali tanker. Despite the fire threatening to spill onto the ship, Derbent is in a hurry to help ...

Tanker "Derbent"

1941