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List Of Soviet Films Of 1917–1921
A list of films produced in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1921: 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 __NOTOC__ {{DEFAULTSORT:Soviet films: 1917-1921 1917-1929 Lists of 1910s films Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... Lists of 1920s films ... [...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] |
Cinema Week
Cinema may refer to: Film * Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography * Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image ** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking ** Filmmaking, the process of making a film * Movie theater (US), called a cinema elsewhere, a building in which films are shown TV * Home cinema tries to replicate the movie theater at home * Cinema or Movie mode, a picture mode characterized by warmer Color temperature, color temperatures Music Bands * Cinema (band), a band formed in 1982 by ex-Yes members Alan White and Chris Squire * The Cinema, an American indie pop band Albums * Cinema (Andrea Bocelli album), ''Cinema'' (Andrea Bocelli album), released 2015 * Cinema (The Cat Empire album), ''Cinema'' (The Cat Empire album), released 2010 * Cinema (Elaine Paige album), ''Cinema'' (Elaine Paige album), released 1984 * Cinema (Nazareth album), ''Cinema'' (Nazareth album), or the titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ave Caesar!
''Ave Caesar!'' is a 1919 Hungarian drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Oscar Beregi Sr., María Corda and Gábor Rajnay. A debauched Habsburg Prince sends out one of his aide-de-camps to bring him back a gypsy girl. The film was considered as an attack on the aristocracy.Kulik p.25-26 It was made by Korda for the state-owned film industry during the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Once the regime fell later that year Korda was arrested and eventually compelled to leave Hungary as part of the White Terror. Cast * Gábor Rajnay * María Corda * Oscar Beregi, Sr. Oscar Beregi (born Oszkár Beregi, 24 January 1876 – 18 October 1965) was a Hungarian-Jewish actor who appeared primarily in German films. Biography Beregi was born in Budapest, Hungary, and was the father of actor Oscar Beregi Jr. He a ... References Bibliography * Kulik, Karol. ''Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles''. Virgin Books, 1990. External links * 1919 films Hung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 In Film
The year 1919 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top three 1919 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *February 5 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists. *March – Oscar Micheaux premieres ''The Homesteader'', the first feature-length race film, starring pioneering African American actress Evelyn Preer, becoming the first African American to produce and direct a motion picture. *May 13 – D. W. Griffith's first film to be released by United Artists, ''Broken Blossoms'', has its premiere in New York City. * August 29 – '' The Miracle Man'' displayed Lon Chaney's talent for make-up and made him famous as a character actor. * September 1 – United Artists release their first film, ''His Majesty, the American'' starring Douglas Fairbanks. * September 18 – Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin opens rebuilt as a permanent cinema with the première o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tale Of Priest Pankrat
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Tale may refer to: * Narrative, or story, a report of real or imaginary connected events * TAL effector (TALE), a type of DNA binding protein * Tale, Albania, a resort town * Tale, Iran, a village * Tale, Maharashtra, a village in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra state, India * River Tale, a small river in the English county of Devon * ''The Tale'', 2018 American drama film See also * Tale-e Rudbar, a village in Iran * Taleh, a town in Somalia * Tales (other) Tales may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Tales'' (album), a 1995 album by Marcus Miller * ''Tales'' (film), a 2014 Iranian film * ''Tales'' (TV series), an American television series * ''Tales'' (video game), a 2016 point-and-click adventure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Kuleshov
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (russian: Лев Владимирович Кулешов; – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School. He was given the title People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1969. He was intimately involved in development of the style of film making known as Soviet montage, especially its psychological underpinning, including the use of editing and the cut to emotionally influence the audience, a principle known as the Kuleshov effect. He also developed the theory of creative geography, which is the use of the action around a cut to connect otherwise disparate settings into a cohesive narrative. Life and career Lev Kuleshov was born in 1899 into an intellectual Russian family.Lev Kuleshov, Aleksandra Khokhlova, ''50 Years in Films''. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1975, 303 pp. (Autobiography) His father Vladimir Sergeevich Kuleshov was of noble heritage; he studied ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Project Of Engineer Prite
The Project of Engineer Prite (russian: Проект инженера Прайта) is a 1918 short film directed by Lev Kuleshov. Plot Two power plants compete for the extraction of peat Peat (), also known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers and is the most efficien .... Starring * N. Gardy * Yelena Komarova * Boris Kuleshov * Eduard Kulganek * L. Polevoy References External links * 1918 films 1910s Russian-language films Russian silent films Russian black-and-white films {{1910s-Russia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Tango
The Last Tango (russian: link=no, italics=yes, Последнее танго) is a 1918 silent film directed by Vyacheslav Viskovsky. Plot The film is based on the words of a song performed by Iza Kremer in Odessa. Starring * A. Aleksandrov as Kellner * Vera Kholodnaya as Chloe * Ivan Khudoleyev as Sir Stone * Ossip Runitsch Ossip Iliych Runitsch ( rus, Осип Ильич Рунич, p=ˈosʲɪp ɨˈlʲjitɕ rʊˈnʲitɕ; born Osip Fradkin, 18896 April 1947) was a Russian Empire silent film actor, producer and stage director. He was one of the biggest stars of Russ ... as Joe References External links * 1918 films 1910s Russian-language films Russian silent films Russian black-and-white films {{Russia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, , vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj, Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg, links=y; – 14 April 1930) was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement. He co-signed the Futurist manifesto, ''A Slap in the Face of Public Taste'' (1913), and wrote such poems as "A Cloud in Trousers" (1915) and "Backbone Flute" (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal ''LEF'', and produced agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. Though Mayakovsky's work regularly demonstrated ideological and patriotic support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady And The Hooligan
''The Lady and the Hooligan'' (russian: Барышня и хулиган, Baryshnya i khuligan) is a 1918 Russian silent film co-directed by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Yevgeni Slavinsky. The script, written by Mayakovsky, is based on the play ''La maestrina degli operai'' (The Workers' Young Schoolmistress) by Edmondo De Amicis. Plot summary A young schoolmistress arrives in a small village to teach reading and writing to boys and men. A hooligan sees her on the street and falls in love with her. Soon he begins to attend her classes. When one lesson is disturbed by one of the students, he beats him. The student seeks revenge with the help of his father and some of his friends. The hooligan is stabbed to death in a fight. Before dying, he asks his mother to call the schoolmistress. After the schoolmistress has kissed him on the lips, he closes his eyes and dies. Cast * Vladimir Mayakovsky—Lava, the hooligan * Aleksandra Rebikova—the schoolmistress * Fyodor Dunaev—the direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Lissenko
Natalya Andrianovna Lisenko (russian: Наталья Андриановна Лисенко, 10 August 1884 – 7 October 1969), also known as Nathalie Lissenko, was a Russian actress who was active during the silent era. Biography Natalya Andrianovna Lisenko was born on 10 August 1884 to Andrew Lisenko (1851–1910), a physician. She had an older brother, Yuriy Lisenko (1881–1958). Some sources list Lisenko's birth date as 1886. She was the niece of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. In 1904 she left school at Moscow Art Theatre and started to work in theater with her first husband Nikolai Radin. After they were divorced, Natalya Lisenko became the wife of the well known Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine, and they appeared in multiple films together. Her film debut was in ''Katyusha Maslova'' (1915), directed by Pyotr Chardynin and based on Leo Tolstoy's novel ''Resurrection''. In 1920, Natalya Lisenko, alongside her husband and several other actors, left Russia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Mosjoukine
Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin ( rus, Иван Ильич Мозжухин, p=ɪˈvan ɨˈlʲjitɕ mɐˈʑːʉxʲɪn; —18 January 1939), usually billed using the French transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, was a Russian silent film actor. Career in Russia Ivan Mozzhukhin was born in Kondol, in the Saratov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Penza Oblast in Russia), the youngest of four brothers. His mother Rachel Ivanovna Mozzhukhina (née Lastochkina) was the daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest, while his father Ilya Ivanovich Mozzhukhin came from peasants and served as an estate manager for the noble Obolensky family. He inherited this position from his own father — a serf whose children were granted freedom as a gratitude for his service.Oleg Sirotin (2014). Double Star: Aleksandr and Ivan Mozzhukhin' double biography in the Penza Regional Library, electronic version (in Russian)Oleg Sirotin. Family and fatherland of Ivan Mozzhukhin' article from the Notes on Film St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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