Aerograd
''Aerograd'' (russian: Аэроград, also referred to as ''Air City'' or ''Frontier'') is a 1935 Soviet drama film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, a coproduction between Mosfilm and VUFKU. It is an adventure story set in the Soviet Far East in the future. Plot A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese in this patriotic film from 1935. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government. Work on the new outpost is complicated when tensions develop between workers and a religious sect. The sect threatens to give their support to a band of marauding samurai warriors who battle for control of the region. Relations between the two countries are further strained in the days before World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—incl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko or Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko ( uk, Олександр Петрович Довженко, ''Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko''; russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Довже́нко, ''Aleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko''; November 25, 1956), was a Ukrainian Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory. Biography Oleksandr Dovzhenko was born in the hamlet of Viunyshche located in the Sosnitsky Uyezd of the Chernihiv Governorate of the Russian Empire (now part of Sosnytsia in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine), to Petro Semenovych Dovzhenko and Odarka Yermolayivna Dovzhenko. His paternal ancestors were Ukrainian Cossacks (Chumaks) who settled in Sosnytsia in the eighteenth century, coming from the neighbouring province of Poltava. Oleksander was the sev ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stepan Shagaida
Stepan Vasilievich Shagaida ( uk, Степан Васильович Шагайда, real name Stepan Shagardin; January 9, 1896 in the village Belogolovy (now Ternopil region, Ukraine) – January 12, 1938 in Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian Soviet theater and film actor. Biography He served in the Red Army from 1920 until 1922. His stage career began during the years of the Russian Civil War in the regimental Drama Theatre of the 45th Infantry Division. In 1922, he studied at the Drama Studio theater ''Berezil'' (now Kharkiv Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Academic Drama Theatre). He began acting in films in 1924. In 1928, he became an actor of the Odessa and Kiev studios. He appeared in the films of Les Kurbas and Alexander Dovzhenko (The writer and director of Aerograd (1935)). At the end of 1937 he was arrested along with many Ukrainian film makers and shot in early 1938.П. Медведик, Л. Щербак. Шагайда Степан Васильович // Тернопільсь ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (russian: Дми́трий Бори́сович Кабале́вский ; 14 February 1987) was a Soviet composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue of Russian gentry descent. He helped set up the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow and remained one of its leading figures during his lifetime. He was a prolific composer of piano music and chamber music; many of his piano works were performed by Vladimir Horowitz. He is best known in Western Europe for his Second Symphony, the "Comedians' Galop" from '' The Comedians'' Suite, Op. 26 and his Third Piano Concerto. Life Kabalevsky was born in Saint Petersburg in 1904, but moved to Moscow at a young age. His father was a mathematician and encouraged him to study mathematics, but he showed a fascination for the arts from a young age. He studied at the Academic Music College in Moscow and graduated in 1922. He then continued his studies with Vasily Selivanov. In 1925, he then went on to study at the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mosfilm Films
Mosfilm (russian: Мосфильм, ''Mosfil’m'' ) is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output includes most of the more widely acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein, to Ostern, Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production ''Dersu Uzala (1975 film), Dersu Uzala'' () and the epic ''War and Peace (film series), War and Peace'' (). History The Moscow film production company with studio facilities was established in November 1920 by the motion picture mogul Aleksandr Khanzhonkov ("first film factory") and I. Ermolev ("third film factory") as a unit of Goskino, the USSR's film monopoly. The first movie filmed by Mosfilm was ''On the Wings Skyward'' (directed by Boris Mikhin). In 1927, the construction of a new film studio complex began on Potylikha Street (renamed to Mosfilmovskay ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mosfilm
Mosfilm (russian: Мосфильм, ''Mosfil’m'' ) is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output includes most of the more widely acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein, to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production ''Dersu Uzala'' () and the epic ''War and Peace'' (). History The Moscow film production company with studio facilities was established in November 1920 by the motion picture mogul Aleksandr Khanzhonkov ("first film factory") and I. Ermolev ("third film factory") as a unit of Goskino, the USSR's film monopoly. The first movie filmed by Mosfilm was ''On the Wings Skyward'' (directed by Boris Mikhin). In 1927, the construction of a new film studio complex began on Potylikha Street (renamed to Mosfilmovskaya Street in 1939) in Sparrow Hills of Moscow. This film st ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eduard Tisse
Eduard Kazimirovich Tisse (russian: Эдуа́рд Казими́рович Тиссэ́, lv, Eduards Tisē; 13 April 1897 – 18 November 1961) was a Soviet cinematographer. Early life and career He was born to an Estonian Swedish father and Russian mother in Liepāja; he grew up in Liepāja and studied both painting and photography. Tisse started his career as a newsreel cameraman working under difficult conditions. From 1916 to 1918, he worked as a military cameraman. In 1921, Tisse became a professor at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. His career did not take off until he worked with director Sergei Eisenstein on the film ''Strike''. Tisse would become Eisenstein's standard cinematographer for the next twenty years. Tisse, along with Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov went on a trip in 1929. They traveled to Europe and the United States with the intent of finding new sound equipment and creating connections between Hollywood and the Soviet film industry. Eisenste ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nikolai Smirnov (cinematographer)
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Nikolai Smirnov may refer to: * Nikolai Ivanovich Smirnov (1917–1992), Soviet Navy Admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union * Nikolai Mikhailovich Smirnov, Governor of the Saint Petersburg Governorate, 1855–1861 * Nikolai Smirnov (cinematographer), Soviet film cinematographer that shot ''Aerograd'' * Nikolai Smirnov (water polo) (born 1961), Soviet water polo player who participated in the 1988 Olympics * Nikolai Smirnov (mathematician) (1900–1966), Soviet mathematician * Nikolai Ivanovich Smirnov (?–?), head of the Office of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) See also * Smirnov (surname) * Smirnoff (surname) Smirnoff is a Germanization of the Russian-language surname Smirnov. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexandra Smirnoff (1838–1913), Finnish scientist, pomologist and writer * Alexis Smirnoff, Canadian professional wrestler * Boris S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dovzhenko Film Studios
The Dovzhenko Film Studios ( uk, Національна кіностудія художніх фільмів імені О. Довженка, translit. ''Natsional'na kinostudiya khudozhnikh filmiv imeni O. Dovzhenka'') is a former Soviet film production studio in Ukraine that was named after the Soviet film producer, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, in 1957. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the studio became a property of the government of Ukraine. In 2000 the film studio was awarded national status. History The studios began in 1920s when the All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema-Directorate (VUFKU) announced a project proposition for the construction of a cinema factory in 1925. Out of 20 of them was chosen the project of Valerian Rykov, who led his architect group composed of students of the Architectural Department of Kyiv Art Institute in the construction of the O. Dovzhenko Film Studios beginning in 1927. It was at the time the largest in the Ukrainian SSR. Although the filming pavilions ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yelena Maksimova
Yelena Aleksandrovna Maksimova ( rus, Еле́на Алекса́ндровна Макси́мова; November 23, 1905 – September 23, 1986) was a Soviet film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1958). Selected filmography * Women of Ryazan (1927) as Lukerya * The Last Attraction (1929) as Polly * An Hour with Chekhov (1929) as housemaid * Earth (1930) as Natalya, Vasili's fiancée * And Quiet Flows the Don (1930) as Daria Melekhova * Aerograd (1935) as Maria Kudina * The Nightingale (1936) as Tanya * Timur and His Team (1940) as a woman selling milk * First-Year Student (1948) as flower girl * The Young Guard (1948) as Valeriya Borts's mother * Bountiful Summer (1951) as Kolodchka * Admiral Ushakov (1953) as Senyavinova * The Frigid Sea (1954) as Dergachikha * Two Captains (1955) as aunt Dasha * Other People's Relatives (1955) as Varvara Stepanovna * The Grasshopper (1955) as peasant woman from Glukhov * For the Power of the Soviets (1956) as Natalia's mot ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Boris Dobronravov
Boris Georgiyevich Dobronravov (russian: Борис Георгиевич Добронравов, 16 April 1896, Moscow, Imperial Russia, – 27 October 1949, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet actor, associated with the Moscow Art Theatre.Boris Dobronravov at the Soviet Theatre Encyclopedia // Театральная энциклопедия. Гл. ред. С. С. Мокульский. Т. 1 — М.: Советская энциклопедия, А — «Глобус», 1961, стр. 707) The People's Artist of the USSR (1937), and a recipient of numerous high-profile state awards, including the Order of Lenin (1938) and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1837), he is best remembered for his parts in ''An Ardent Heart'' and '' The Storm'' by Alexander Ostrovsky (Narkis, Tikhon respectively), ''The Days of the Turbins'' (Mikhail Bulgakov, Myshlayevsky), ''Dead Souls'' (Nikolai Gogol, Nozdryov), ''The Cherry Orchard'' (Anton Chekhov, Lopakhin).Boris Dobronravov at the Great Sov ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sergei Stolyarov
Sergei Dmitrievich Stolyarov (russian: Серге́й Дми́триевич Столяро́в; – 9 December 1969) was a film and theater actor. The winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1951). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1958. Selected filmography * 1935 — ''Aerograd'' as Vladimir Glushak *1936 — ''Circus'' as Ivan Petrovich Martynov * 1944 — '' Kashchey the Deathless'' as Nikita Kozhemyaka * 1951 — ''Far from Moscow'' as Alexander Ivanovich Rogov * 1952 — ''Sadko'' as Sadko * 1956 — ''Ilya Muromets'' as Alyosha Popovich * 1959 — '' A Man Changes Skin'' as Vladimir Ivanovich Sinitsyn * 1967 — ''The Andromeda Nebula'' as Dar Veter Notes References External links * * *Sergei Stolyarov's Filmography on KinoPoisk Kinopoisk (russian: Кинопоиск, a portmanteau of "cinema" and "search") is a Russian online database of information related to films, TV shows including ca ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vladimir Uralsky
Vladimir Mikhailovich Uralsky (russian: link=no, Владимир Миха́йлович Уральский) was a Soviet actor. Vladimir played in more than 100 films. Selected filmography * 1924 — ''Aelita'' * 1925 — ''Strike'' * 1925 — ''Battleship Potemkin'' * 1930 — '' St. Jorgen's Day'' * 1939 — '' The Fighters'' * 1946 — ''The Great Glinka'' * 1948 — '' The Young Guard'' * 1948 — ''First-Year Student ''First-Year Student'' (russian: Первоклассница) is a 1948 Soviet film directed by Ilya Frez. Plot The film tells about a girl named Marusya Orlova, who went to school. A teacher and new friends will help her to become a discipline ...'' References Soviet male silent film actors External links Владимир Уральскийon kino-teatr.ru * {{DEFAULTSORT:Uralsky, Vladimir 1887 births 1955 deaths Soviet male film actors ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |