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Kotovsky (film)
Kotovsky, (russian: Котовский) is a 1942 Soviet biopic propaganda film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer. Plot The film tells about Grigory Kotovsky, a famous participant in the Civil War, who several times managed to escape from prison and never lost on the battlefield. Starring * Nikolai Mordvinov as Kotovsky (as N. Mordvinov) * Vasili Vanin as Kharitonov (as V. Vanin) * Nikolay Kryuchkov as Kabanyuk / Zagari (as N. Kryuchkov) * Vera Maretskaya as The doctor (as V. Maretskaya) * Mikhail Astangov as Knyaz Karakozen / Yego syn (as M. Astangov) * Konstantin Sorokin as Ordinarets (as K. Sorokin) * Evgeniy Grigorev as Selyanin (uncredited) * Ivan Klyukvin Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ... References External links * 1942 films 1940s Russian-l ...
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Aleksandr Faintsimmer
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. Filmography * '' The Czar Wants to Sleep'' (''Poruchik Kizhe'') (1934), better known as ''Lieutenant Kijé''. Sergei Prokofiev wrote a famous instrumental piece, ''Lieutenant Kijé'', as its main theme. * '' Men of the Sea'' (''Baltiytsy'') (1938) * ''Tanker "Derbent"'' (1941) * '' Kotovsky'' (1942) * ''Naval Battalion'' (1944) * ''For Those Who Are at Sea'' (1947) * ''A Girl with a Guitar'' (1948) * ''They Have a Motherland'' (1949) * ''Konstantin Zaslonov'' (1949) * ''Aušra prie Nemuno'' (1953) * ''The Gadfly'' (1955) * ''A Girl with Guitar'' (1958) * ''Far in the West'' (1968) * ''50 to 50'' (1972) * ''Without the Right to Mistake'' (1974) * ...
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Aleksei Kapler
Aleksei (born Lazar) Yakovlevich Kapler (also Alexei, russian: link=no, Алексей (born Лазарь) Яковлевич Каплер; 28 September 1903 – 11 September 1979) was a prominent Soviet filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and writer. He was known as screenwriter of many Soviet movies, such as ''Lenin in 1918'', ''Amphibian Man'', '' The Blue Bird'' and '' Striped Trip'', as well as one of the anchors and directors of TV program ''Kinopanorama'' (a cinema overview). In 1941, Kapler was awarded the Stalin Prize. Internments in the Gulag Kapler is also known as the first love of Joseph Stalin's then teenage daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, who was more than 20 years his junior. According to Stalin's daughter, that was the reason for Kapler to be sentenced in 1943 to five years in exile on charges of anti-Soviet agitation. He was sent to Vorkuta region, where he worked as a photographer and lived in a tiny room partitioned off in the corner of the local photo studio. In 19 ...
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Nikolay Mordvinov (actor)
Nikolay Dmitriyevich Mordvinov (15 February 1901 – 26 January 1966) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and theater director. He appeared in nine films from 1936 to 1965. People's Artist of the USSR (1949). Filmography References External links * 1901 births 1966 deaths 20th-century Russian male actors Honored Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the USSR Stalin Prize winners Lenin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Soviet male film actors {{USSR-actor-stub Soviet male stage actors Soviet theatre directors Spoken word artists Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery ...
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Vasili Vanin
Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin (russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ва́нин; 13 January 1898, Tambov – 12 May 1951, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1949). Biography Vasili Vanin was born on 13 January 1898 in Tambov, in the family of a small railway employee. Having lost his father early, in 1906 he was assigned to an orphanage. Filmography * ''Tommy'' (1931) *'' The Return of Maxim'' (1937) *''Lenin in October'' (1937) *''Peat-Bog Soldiers'' (1938) * ''Lenin in 1918'' (1939) * ''Member of the Government'' (1939) * ''Valery Chkalov'' (1941) *'' Kotovsky'' (1942) *'' The District Secretary'' (1942) *''The Front'' (1943) * '' The Liberated Earth'' (1946) *''Light over Russia'' (1947) *''The Precious Seed ''The Precious Seed'' (russian: Драгоценные зёрна) is a 1948 Soviet drama film directed by Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi. Plot To prepare the thesis, the young journalist is s ...
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Nikolay Kryuchkov
Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (russian: Никола́й Афана́сьевич Крючко́в; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1932 and 1993. Selected filmography * '' Outskirts'' (1933) * '' By the Bluest of Seas'' (1936) * '' The Return of Maxim'' (1937) * '' The Vyborg Side'' (1939) * '' Salavat Yulayev'' (1941) * '' They Met in Moscow'' (1941) * '' In the Rear of the Enemy'' (1941) * '' In the Name of the Fatherland'' (1943) * '' Heavenly Slug'' (1945) * ''Happy Flight'' (1949) * ''The Battle of Stalingrad'' (1949) * '' The Lights of Baku'' (1950) * ''Sporting Honour'' (1951) * '' Bountiful Summer'' (1951) * '' The Star'' (1953) * ''Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse'' (1955) * '' The Forty-First'' (1956) * '' Leningrad Symphony'' (1957) * ''Over Tissa'' (1958) * '' Ballad of a Soldier'' (1959) * ''Cruelty'' (1959) * ''Hussar Ballad'' (1962) * ''Balzaminov's Marriage'' (1964) * '' ...
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Vera Maretskaya
Vera Petrovna Maretskaya (Russian: Вера Петровна Марецкая) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1976). Early years Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was born in Barvikha, a suburb of Moscow. She helped her father Pyotr, who was a candy bar vendor at Moscow Circus. Maretskaya was auditioned by Yevgeny Vakhtangov and studied at Vakhtangov Theatre School, from which she graduated as an actress in 1924. That same year she became permanent member of Theatre-Studio led by Yuri Zavadsky. She soon married him, and they had one son. They remained lifelong friends and stage partners, even after the end of their brief marriage. Life and career In 1925, Maretskaya made her film debut in ''The Tailor from Torzhok''. She played roles in fifteen silent films. In 1937 Maretskaya suffered from political execution of her two brothers, journalists Dmitri and Gregori, who were the followers of opposition politici ...
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Mikhail Astangov
Mikhail Fyodorovich Astangov (russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Аста́нгов), real surname Ruzhnikov () ( in Warsaw – 20 April 1965 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1955). Filmography * '' The Conveyor of Death'' (1933) – Prince Sumbatov * ''Convict'' (1936) – Konstantin "Kostya" Dorokhov * ''The Oppenheim Family'' (1939) – Prof. Bernd Vogelsang * '' Minin and Pozharsky'' (1939) – Sigismund III Vasa * ''Suvorov'' (1941) – Count Aleksey Arakcheyev * ''Dream'' (1941) – Stanislav Komorovsky * '' Kotovsky'' (1943) – Prince Karakozen/his son * '' The District Secretary'' (1942) – Nazi Col. Makenau * ''The Murderers are Coming'' (1942) – Franz * '' The Young Fritz'' (1943, short) – Teacher * '' Fifteen-Year-Old Captain'' (1945) – Sebastian Pereira, alias Negoro * '' Miklukho-Maklai'' (1947) – Dr. Brandler * ''The Russian Question'' (1947) – McPherson * ''The Third Blow'' (1948) – Gener ...
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard pieces as the March from ''The Love for Three Oranges,'' the suite ''Lieutenant Kijé'', the ballet ''Romeo and Juliet''—from which "Dance of the Knights" is taken—and ''Peter and the Wolf.'' Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created—excluding juvenilia—seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas. A graduate of the ...
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Konstantin Sorokin
The first name Konstantin () is a derivation from the Latin name ''Constantinus'' (Constantine) in some European languages, such as Russian and German. As a Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. A number of notable persons in the Byzantine Empire, and (via mediation by the Christian Eastern Orthodox Church) in Russian history and earlier East Slavic history are often referred to by this name. "Konstantin" means "firm, constant". There is a number of variations of the name throughout European cultures: * Константин (Konstantin) in Russian (diminutive Костя/Kostya), Bulgarian (diminutives Косьо/Kosyo, Коце/Kotse) and Serbian * Костянтин (Kostiantyn) in Ukrainian (diminutive Костя/Kostya) * Канстанцін (Kanstantsin) in Belarusian * Konstantinas in Lithuanian * Konstantīns in Latvian * Konstanty in Polish (diminutive Kostek) * Constantin in Romanian (diminutive Costel), French * ...
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Ivan Klyukvin
Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgarian tsar Ivan Vladislav. It is very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, North Macedonia, and Montenegro and has also become more popular in Romance-speaking countries since the 20th century. Etymology Ivan is the common Slavic Latin spelling, while Cyrillic spelling is two-fold: in Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian and Montenegrin it is Иван, while in Belarusian and Ukrainian it is Іван. The Old Church Slavonic (or Old Cyrillic) spelling is . It is the Slavic relative of the Latin name , corresponding to English ''John''. This Slavic version of the name originates from New Testament Greek (''Iōánnēs'') rather than from the Latin . The Greek name is in turn d ...
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