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Sofya Levitina
Sofya Levitina (russian: link=no, София Левитина) was a Soviet actress. Selected filmography * 1924 — ''Aelita'' * 1934 — ''Boule de Suif Boule may refer to: ;Ball games * Boules, a collective term for games involving players throwing balls at a smaller target ball ** Pétanque, a common variety originating in France and sometimes loosely called "boules" in English ** Boule Lyonnais ...'' * 1944 — '' The Wedding'' References External links СОФЬЯ ЛЕВИТИНАon kino-teatr.ru * 20th-century Russian actresses 1877 births 1950 deaths {{Russia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aelita
''Aelita'' (russian: Аэли́та, ), also known as ''Aelita: Queen of Mars'', is a 1924 Soviet silent film, silent science fiction film directed by Yakov Protazanov and produced at the Gorky Film Studio, Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio. It was based on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Alexei Tolstoy's 1923 Aelita (novel), novel of the same name. Nikolai Tseretelli and Valentina Kuindzhi were cast in leading roles. Though the main focus of the story are the daily lives of a small group of people during the post-war Soviet Union, the film's enduring importance comes from its early sci-fi elements. It primarily tells of an engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los (russian: Лось) traveling to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders, with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope. In its performances in the cinemas in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich played on the pia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boule De Suif (1934 Film)
''Boule de Suif'' (russian: Пышка) is a 1934 Soviet drama film directed and written by Mikhail Romm. It is an adaptation of eponymous short story by Guy de Maupassant. Plot A group of French capitalists leave Rouen, occupied by Prussia. They are accompanied by a pretty woman. Starring * Galina Sergeyeva as Mlle. Elizabeth Rousset (Boule-de-suif) * Andrey Fayt as Prussian Officer * Faina Ranevskaya as Mme. Loiseau * Pyotr Repnin as Lamadon, miller * Tatyana Okunevskaya as Mme Carre-Lamadon * Mikhail Mukhin as Count de Breville * Anatoliy Goryunov as Louiseau, wine merchant * Karl Gurnyak as German soldier * Valentina Kuznetsova as Maid * Vladimir Lavrinovich as Cornudet * Vladimir Osenev Vladimir Ivanovich Osenev (russian: Владимир Иванович Осенев; 8 September 1908 – 1 April 1977) was a Soviet stage, film and voice actor. After graduating from Vakhtangov Theatre in the 1930s he had a stage career spanning ... as German soldier (uncredite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wedding (1944 Film)
''The Wedding'' (russian: Свадьба, Svadba) is a 1944 Soviet comedy film directed by Isidor Annensky. The film, created by the eponymous vaudeville of Anton Chekhov, the stories of ''The Wedding with General'', ''Before the wedding'', the novel in two parts of the ''Marriage of convenience'' skit ''Bride and papa'' is a caustic satire on the mores of the middle class philistine pre-revolutionary Russia. Plot The burgess Zhigalov family who have a marriageable daughter Dasha, learn to their horror that the official Aplombov (Erast Garin) who dined with them every day and established himself as a groom, is not going to marry her at all. With great difficulty Dasha's father manages to persuade the ambitious groom to propose. The groom agrees, putting the condition of compulsory attendance of the General at the wedding. And then finally the wedding takes place. At the festive moment the chief guest has arrived—the General. A scandal erupts at the peak of merriment when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1877 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . * January 8 – Great Sioux War of 1876 – Battle of Wolf Mountain: Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana. * January 20 – The Conference of Constantinople ends, with Ottoman Turkey rejecting proposals of internal reform and Balkan provisions. * January 29 – The Satsuma Rebellion, a revolt of disaffected samurai in Japan, breaks out against the new imperial government; it lasts until September, when it is crushed by a professionally led army of draftees. * February 17 – Major General Charles George Gordon of the British Army is appointed Governor-General of the Sudan. * March – ''The Nineteenth Century (periodical), The Nineteenth Century'' magazine is founded in London. * Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
