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List Of Soviet Films Of 1940 ...
A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1940 (see 1940 in film). 1940 See also * 1940 in the Soviet Union {{DEFAULTSORT:Soviet Films Of 1940 1940 Lists of 1940 films by country or language 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film
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 through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerbert Rappaport
Herbert Rappaport (1908–1983), known in the Soviet Union as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director. Rappaport was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to Jewish parents from Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine). From 1927 to 1929 he studied law at University of Vienna. Rappaport worked as screenwriter, music editor, and assistant director in Austria, Germany, and the United States from 1928 onward. During the early 1930s he worked as an assistant to Georg Wilhelm Pabst. In 1936 he was officially invited to the Soviet Union to internationalize the Soviet Cinema which he accepted and spent the following 40 years working as a filmmaker there. Among Rappaport's best known films is an adaptation of Dmitri Shostakovich's ''Cheryomushki'' ("Cherry Town") (1963). In 2008 the first workshowas initiated outside Russia by the Austrian Filmmuseum and SYNEMA-Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, showing about half of his films. Filmography * ''Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Razumny
Aleksandr Yefimovich Razumny (russian: Александр Ефимович Разумный, 1 May 1891 – 16 November 1972) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter. He was a graduate of the Grekov Odessa Art school in 1914. Filmography ;director * '' The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt (Жизнь и смерть лейтенанта Шмидта)'' (1917) * '' The Fourth Wife (Четвертая жена)'' (1918) * ''Uprising (Восстание)'' (1918) * '' Flavia Tessini (Флавия Тессини)'' (1918) * '' The Last Meeting (Последняя встреча)'' (1919) * '' White and Black (Белое и черное)'' (1919) * '' Comrade Abram (Товарищ Абрам)'' (1919) * '' Two Poles (Два поляка)'' (1920) * ''Mother (Мать)'' (1920) * '' Brigade Commander Ivanov (Комбриг Иванов)'' (1923) * '' The Gribushin Family (Семья Грибушиных)'' (1923) * '' Outlaws of Batka Knysh (Банда бать ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timur And His Team
''Timur and His Team'', (russian: Тимур и его команда, Timur e ego komanda) is a 1940 Soviet action film directed by Aleksandr Razumny based on the novel of the same name. Plot The film tells about a company of pioneers who help the families of soldiers of the Soviet army. Starring * Liviy Shchipachyov as Timur (as L. Shchipachyov) * Pyotr Savin as Georgy * Lev Potyomkin as Dr. Koloktschikow (as L. Potyomkin) * Viktor Seleznyov The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * Victor (1951 film), ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * Victor (1993 film), ... as Witja (as V. Seleznyov) * Nikolai Annenkov as (as N. Annenkov) * Marina Kovalyova as Olga (as M. Kovalyova) * Yekaterina Derevshchikova as Zhenja (as Ye. Derevzhchikova) * P. Grokhovsky as Kolja * Nikolay Kutuzov * Igor Smirnov as (as I. Smirnov) * Boris Yasen as Mishka Kvaki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeny Samoylov
Yevgeny Valerianovich Samoilov (russian: Евгений Валерианович Самойлов) (16 April 1912 in St. Petersburg – 17 February 2006 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor who gained prominence in youthful heroic parts and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. He was the father of Tatiana Samoilova. Life Samoilov is not related to the famous Samoilov family that dominated the Maly Theatre in the 19th century. He was educated in Leningrad, starting his career at a local theatre. In 1934 he was noticed by Vsevolod Meyerhold who invited him to join his own troupe in Moscow. Samoilov worked with Meyerhold for four years. He got his most substantial roles in Meyerhold's theatre playing Hernani in Hugo's drama and Chatsky in ''Woe from Wit''. When Meyerhold was arrested and purged in 1938, Samoilov was in the middle of rehearsing for Pushkin's ''Boris Godunov'' (the role of Grigory Otrepyev) and Ostrovsky's ''How the Steel Was Tempered'' (the role of Pavka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyubov Orlova
Lyubov Petrovna Orlova (russian: link=no, Любовь Петровна Орлова ; – 26 January 1975) was a Soviet and Russian actress, singer, dancer and People's Artist of the USSR (1950). Life and career She was born to a family of Russian hereditary nobles, her maternal side, and gentry, her paternal side. in Zvenigorod, 60 km from Moscow, then lived with her parents and older sister in Yaroslavl. Her acting and singing talents were evident very early on, but her noble parents considered acting a disgraceful career and directed her towards classical music. There she began to study music. In 1914, after her father left for the front, her mother Evgenia Nikolaevna and her daughters settled in Moscow, where the sisters entered the gymnasium. The Orlovs spent the difficult years of the Civil War in Voskresensk because their mother's sister lived here. The family subsisted on funds from the sale of milk which was given by the aunt's cow. Lyuba and Nonna drove near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigori Aleksandrov
Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (russian: Григо́рий Васи́льевич Алекса́ндров; original family name was Мормоненко or Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet cinema, Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1973. He was awarded the USSR State Prize, Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950. Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed ''Jolly Fellows'' and a string of other Musical theatre, musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova. Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films. They rival Ivan Pyryev's films as the most effective and light-hearted showcase ever designed for the Stalin-era USSR. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya (1940 Film)
''Tanya'' (russian: Светлый путь, Svetly put, en, Bright Path) is a 1940 musical-comedy film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and based on the play ''Cinderella'' by Viktor Ardov. Plot The film is set in the spring of 1930. The main character is an illiterate village girl Tanya Morozova who has moved to Moscow. She lives with a mistress who is a former NEPman in the position of a servant. Tanya is astute and has a thirst for knowledge. She is satisfied with her work until she gets dismissed from service by her mistress, who becomes jealous of Tanya to their new neighbor, engineer Alexei Lebedev. Tanya is invited by her friend Maria Sergeevna Pronina to live with her. She helps Tanya get work as a weaver at a factory where Maria works as a secretary of the party committee. After distinguishing herself in a fight against saboteur Samokhin, Tanya becomes member of the Stakhanovite movement. She quickly achieves outstanding performance in production, managing to supervise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakov Protazanov
Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов; 4 February ( O.S. 23 January ) 1881 – 8 August 1945) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian SFSR (1935) and Uzbek SSR (1944). Biography Born in the Vinokurov family estate to educated Russian parents, both of whom belonged to the merchantry social class. Mikhail Arlazorov. ''Protazanov''. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1973, pp. 7—9 His father Alexander Savvich Protazanov came from a long generation of merchants and was a hereditary distinguished citizen of Kiev (an inherited privilege first granted to Yakov's great-grandfather, a merchant also named Yakov Protazanov who moved with his family to Kiev from Bronnitsy). Alexander worked with the Shibaev brothers of the family of Old Believers whose father Sidor Shibaev was among the pioneers of the oil industry. Yakov's mother Eliz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salavat Yulayev (film)
''Salavat Yulayev'' (russian: Салават Юлаев) is a 1940 Soviet film directed by Yakov Protazanov, about Bashkir national hero, poet Salawat Yulayev (1754-1800) and Pugachev's Rebellion. Synopsis Son of the village elder, young Salavat, is forced to permanently leave his native village for physically assaulting an officer of the king. A runaway convict Khlopusha, helps him escape from pursuing soldiers. Salavat does not trust Khlopusha, because he thinks of every Russian as an enemy. But the shared shackles and forced labor in the mines bring them closer together. The friends manage to escape from prison. Two years Salavat and Khlopusha wander around the vast expanses of the Urals. In one of the Cossack farms they meet Pugachev and become his staunch supporters. Salavat is sent home to his native village. The people elevated by them flock to Pugachev's banner. Together with the Russian peasants and workers of the Ural fortified factories, the Bashkir cavalry led by ... [...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] |
Siberians (film)
Siberians (russian: Сибиряки) is a 1940 Soviet drama film directed by Lev Kuleshov. Plot On one New Year the old hunter tells two middle-school students the story of how Stalin presented his tobacco pipe to one hunter for help with his escape from exile. According to legend, the hunter died during the Civil War, and the pipe remained with his friend. The guys are interested in this story and they decide to find this pipe. Starring * Aleksandra Kharitonova as Valia * Aleksandr Kuznetsov as Serezha * Aleksandr Pupko as Petja * Mariya Vinogradova as Galka * Daniil Sagal as Aleksei - hunter and Valia's uncle * T. Alcheva as Anna Fedorovna * Georgiy Millyar as Grandfather Jakov * Aleksandra Khokhlova as Pelagueia * Andrey Fayt as Dr. Vasili Vasilievich * Andrei Gorchilin as Kolkhoz' chief * Sergey Komarov as Terentij * Dmitriy Orlov as Doshindon * Mikheil Gelovani Mikheil Gelovani ( ka, მიხეილ გელოვანი, Russified as Михаи́л Г ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
