Legends of Cinema
2016
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Acting
Pyotr Aleynikov
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 career often suffered disturbances due to his heavy reliance on alcohol, which would later take his life.
Filmography
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The Man with the Gun
1938
star 5.2
The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the pr...
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
1976
star 8.0
A semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov. Includes newsre...
The Humpbacked Horse
1941
star 6.6
Surreal Soviet fantasy movie about a man whose love is kidnapped by the Tsar and he must save her with the help...
Land and People
1956
star 9.0
A progressive agronomist fights with a conservative collective farm chairman.
For the Soviet Motherland
1937
star 7.0
The film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into Karelia, killed S...
A Home for Tanya
1959
star 5.8
The adopted daughter of Dr. Skvortsov, Tanya, having learned that her mother Natalya Avdeyevna is alive, who wa...
The Precious Seed
1948
star 9.0
A young journalist is sent to the region to prepare her thesis. Here the heroine will have to independently pub...
Komsomolsk
1938
star 8.5
In 1932, thousands of Komsomol members set off for the Far East to build the "city of youth" — Komsomolsk-on-Am...
The Girlfriends
1936
star 6.7
Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the soc...
Vanka
1960
9-year-old boy complains about his hard life in a letter to his grandfather.
High Water
1963
star 6.0
Shame
1932
star 5.0
Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s t...
The Invincible
1943
star 4.9
The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defen...
The Great Glinka
1946
star 6.7
About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.
No Greater Love
1943
star 5.8
The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before h...
The Ural Front
1944
star 6.5
August 1941. Residents of the Ural town escorted to the front of men. Left alone, women take on the most diffic...
The Unusual Voyage of Mishka Strekachyov
1959
star 8.5
A funny story about Mishka Strekachyov and his remarkable journey across the Soviet Union.
Tractor Drivers
1939
star 4.9
The story takes place in a Soviet placed in what is now Ukraine. A mechanic arrives in the Soviet, lead by a yo...
The Brave Seven
1936
star 4.5
Six polar explorers arrive to a remote island in Arctic for a year-long scientific expedition. When their ship...
A Great Life
1939
star 4.1
The film tells about the struggle of the Donbas miners in Ukrainian SSR with saboteurs.
Incident on a Volcano
1941
star 6.3
Andrei Latonin had jumped with a parachute many times before, but on the day of the holiday he got scared and s...
Fighters
1939
star 3.0
Fighter pilots Sergei and Nikolai test new planes together and try to beat each other in everything. Their riva...
Fifth Ocean
1940
star 7.5
Peasants
1935
star 6.4
The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commiss...
A Great Life, Part 2
1946
star 8.0
This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during...
Moscow Skies
1944
star 7.4
Based on the play of the same name by Georgi Mdivani. In September 1941, lieutenant Ilya Streltsov, who graduat...
In the Name of the Motherland
1943
star 5.0
The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
The Miners of Donetsk
1951
star 7.3
A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.
Naval Battalion
1946
star 8.0
Soviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.
Poet
1956
star 6.0
Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the com...
Mother
1941
star 8.0
June 22, 1941. In a Ukrainian village, a mother sees off her two eldest sons as they head to the front. The fro...
Driver Involuntarily
1958
star 5.9
A driver of a big manager is hospitalized with his boss's documents and adventures start...
Они не пройдут
1965
star 9.0
1934. After the suppression of the uprising of the Schutzbund workers, engineer Hans Müller leaves Austria and...
Quenching the Thirst
1968
star 8.0
The 1950s. The construction of the Karakum Canal is underway in Turkmenistan. The fate of this large constructi...
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
1942
star 5.1
About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr...