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Farewell, America
''Farewell, America'' (russian: Прощай, Америка!) is a 1951 propagandistic Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Plot The film is based on the book by the American journalist Annabelle Bucar "The Truth about American Diplomats". Starring * Liliya Gritsenko * Nikolai Gritsenko * Grigori Kirillov as Walter Scott, American Ambassador in Moscow * Janis Osis * Lyudmila Shagalova * Grigoriy Shpigel Grigory Oyzerovich Spiegel (russian: Григо́рий О́йзерович Шпи́гель; 24 July 1914 — 28 April 1981) was a Soviet and Russian actor and voice actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974). Biography He worked as a pleater at ... * as Hill, reporter * Elizaveta Alekseeva as Meri Kuper (uncredited) * Vera Orlova as Anna Bradford's Mother (uncredited) References External links * 1951 films 1950s Russian-language films Soviet propaganda films 1951 drama films Soviet drama films {{1950s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Gritsenko
Nikolai Olimpievich Gritsenko (russian: Николай Олимпиевич Гриценко, uk, Микола Олімпійович Гриценко; 24 July 1912 – 8 December 1979) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1942 and 1978. Gritsenko also was member of the Vakhtangov Theatre company in Moscow, Russia. There he was designated Honored Artist of the RSFSR and People's Artist of the USSR. He died on 8 December 1979, and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, in Moscow, Russia. Partial filmography * '' Mashenka'' (1942) - Kolya * ''Starinnyy vodevil'' (1947) - Lt. Anton Petrovich Fadeev * ''Proshchay, Amerika!'' (1949) * '' Dream of a Cossack'' (1951) - Artamashov * '' The Night Before Christmas'' (1951) - Vakula (voice) * '' Hostile Whirlwinds'' (1953) - Schreder * '' Marina's Destiny'' (1953) - Terenty * ''The Safety Match'' (1954) - Psekov, estate manager * '' A Big Family'' (1954) - club manager * '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigori Kirillov
Grigory, Grigori and Grigoriy are Russian masculine given names. It may refer to watcher angels or more specifically to the egrḗgoroi or Watcher angels. Grigory * Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian novelist * Grigory Barenblatt (19272018), Russian mathematician * Grigory Bey-Bienko (1903–1971), Russian entomologist * Grigory Danilevsky (1829–1890), Russian novelist * Grigory Falko (born 1987), Russian swimmer * Grigory Fedotov (1916–1957), Soviet football player and manager * Grigory Frid (1915–2012), Russian composer * Grigory Gagarin (1810–1893), Russian painter and military commander * Grigory Gamarnik (born 1929), Soviet wrestler * Grigory Gamburtsev (1903–1955), Soviet seismologist * Grigory Ginzburg (1904–1961), Russian pianist * Grigory Grum-Grshimailo (1860–1936), Russian entomologist * Grigory Gurkin (1870–1937), Altay landscape painter * Grigory Helbach (1863–1930), Russian chess master * Grigory Kiriyenko (born 1965), Russian fenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janis Osis
Janis may refer to: As a first name *Janis Amatuzio (born 1950), American forensic pathologist *Janis Antonovics (born 1942), Latvian-British-American biologist *Janis Babson (1950–1961), Canadian child, organ donation *Janis Carter (1913–1994), American actress *Jānis Daliņš (1904–1978), Latvian athlete *Janis Hughes (born 1958), British politician *Janis Ian (born 1951), American songwriter and folksinger *Janis Irwin (born 1984), Canadian politician *Janis Joplin (1943–1970), American singer and songwriter * Janis Kelly (volleyball) (born 1971), Canadian volleyball player * Janis Kelly (soprano), Scottish opera singer *Janis Paige (born 1922), American actress *Janis Rozentāls (1866–1916), Latvian painter * Janis Tanaka (born 1963), American bassist *Janis Winehouse, British pharmacist, mother of Amy Winehouse Fictional characters *Janis Gold, a fictional character on ''24'' *Janis Day, one of the two main characters in the comic strip ''Arlo and Janis'' *Janis H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmila Shagalova
Lyudmila Alexandrovna Shagalova (russian: Людмила Александровна Шагалова; April 6, 1923 – March 13, 2012) was a Russian film supporting actress, active during the Soviet era. She was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1977. Shagalova was born in Rahačoŭ, Gomel Governorate, Russian SFSR, now Belarus. Her Soviet cinema credits include '' The Young Guard'' in 1948, for which she and rest of the film's cast won a Stalin Prize. Other films include ''Balzaminov's Marriage'' in 1964, and the ''Wounded Game'' in 1977. Her husband Vyacheslav Shumsky (1921–2011) was an award-winning cinematographer. Shagalova died on March 13, 2012, at the age of 88. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin released a statement in response to her death saying, "An actress of great talent who had a considerable impact on the history of the national film art. Many generations will always love the images created by her." Partial filmography *''Semiklassniki'' (1938) - Lyolya *'' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigoriy Shpigel
Grigory Oyzerovich Spiegel (russian: Григо́рий О́йзерович Шпи́гель; 24 July 1914 — 28 April 1981) was a Soviet and Russian actor and voice actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974). Biography He worked as a pleater at a dye factory in Leningrad. He studied at the directing department of the Central School of amateur theater in Moscow. In 1940 he graduated from an acting school at the Mosfilm. He worked as a National Film Actors' Theatre. He took part in voicing cartoon characters, known for his voice being unusually high pitched and sonorous for a man. Death Died April 28, 1981. He was buried in Moscow at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery. Selected filmography * ''The Oppenheim Family'' (Семья Оппенгейм, 1939) as ''high-school student'' (uncredited) * ''Taxi to Heaven'' (Воздушный извозчик, 1943) as ''Anany Svetlovidov'' * ''Ballad of Siberia'' (Сказание о земле Сибирской, 1947) as ''Gregory Galaida'' * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizaveta Alekseeva
Elizaveta is a village in the municipality of Bălți in the north of Moldova. Area: 26.77 km2, population: 3,523 at the 2004 Moldovan Census The 2004 Moldovan census was carried out between October 5 and October 12, 2004. The breakaway Transnistria failed to come into an agreement with the central government in Chişinău, and carried out its own census between November 11 and Novemb .... References Villages of Bălți Municipality {{Bălți-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Georgiyevna Orlova
Vera Geogriyevna Orlova (russian: Ве́ра Гео́ргиевна Орло́ва; May 27, 1894September 28, 1977), married Arenskaya (),Kino-teatr.ruВера Георгиевна Орлова was a Russian film actress, who garnered fame during the late Imperial Russian and early Soviet eras. Having completed her education at a female grammar school, she worked as an office clerk and simultaneously took private acting lessons. In 1913–1915, she studied at the Moscow Art Theater school. She continued working there as an actress until 1924, when she transferred to the Moscow Art Theater-II, where she continued to work until 1936. In 1945–1951, she worked at the State Theater of Film Actors.Encyclopedia of the CinemaОрлова Вера Георгиевна Selected filmography *1916: ''The Queen of Spades'', as Lise *1917: ''Satan Triumphant'', as Inga *1917: ''Father Sergius'', as the daughter of a merchant *1924: ''Aelita'', as Masha *1924: ''The Power of Darkness'', as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Films
The year 1951 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films United States The top ten 1951 released films by box office gross in the United States are as follows: International The highest-grossing 1951 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1951. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1951. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Events * February 15 – new management takes over at United Artists with Arthur B. Krim, Robert Benjamin and Matty Fox now in charge. * April – French magazine '' Cahiers du cinéma'' is first published. * July 26 – Walt Disney's '' Alice in Wonderland'' premieres; while a disappointment at first and hardly released in theaters, it would later become one of the biggest cult classics in the ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Russian-language Films
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
