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Valery Chkalov (film)
''Valery Chkalov'' (russian: Валерий Чкалов, UK title - ''The Red Flyer'', United States title - ''Wings of Victory'') is a Soviet biopic about the life of Valery Chkalov, directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. The screenplay was written by Georgy Baidukov, Boris Chirskov and Dmitri Tarasov. The film was produced by Lenfilm and distributed in the United States by Artkino Pictures (1941), and later by Top1Video (1999). Cast * Vladimir Belokurov as ''Valery Chkalov'' * Mikheil Gelovani as ''Joseph Stalin'' * Semyon Mezhinsky as ''Sergo Ordzhonikidze'' * Kseniya Tarasova as ''Olga Chkalova'' * Vasili Vanin as ''Pasha Palic'' * Serafima Birman * Pyotr Berezov as ''Georgiy Baidukov'' * Boris Zhukovsky as ''Cmdr. Alyoshin'' * Fyodor Bogdanov as ''Grandfather'' * Irina Zarubina * Sergei Yarov as '' Alexander Belyakov'' * I. Smyslovsky * Mikhail Kalatozov * Boris Andreyev * Arkady Raikin Arkady Isaakovich Raikin (russian: Аркадий Исаакович Райки ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Kalatozov
Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov ( ka, მიხეილ კალატოზიშვილი, russian: Михаил Константинович Калатозов; 28 December 1903 – 26 March 1973), born Mikheil Kalatozishvili, was a Soviet film director of Georgian origin who contributed to both Georgian and Russian cinema. He is most well known for his films ''The Cranes Are Flying'' and ''I Am Cuba''. In 1969, he was named a People's Artist of the USSR. His film ''The Cranes Are Flying'' won the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkady Raikin
Arkady Isaakovich Raikin (russian: Аркадий Исаакович Райкин; – 17 December 1987) was a Soviet stand-up comedian, theater and film actor, and stage director. He led the school of Soviet and Russian humorists for about half a century. Biography Raikin was born into a Jewish family in Riga, in the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire (present-day Latvia). He graduated from the Leningrad Theatrical Technicum in 1935 and worked in both state theatres and variety shows. In 1939, he founded his own theatre in Leningrad, where he used skits and impersonations to ridicule the inefficiency of Communist bureaucracy and the Soviet way of life. He also appeared in several comedies during and after the Great Patriotic War. Raikin created an array of popular satirical characters, some of which were featured in the TV serial ''People and Mannequins''. He launched careers of several other prominent stand-up comedians, such as Mikhail Zhvanetsky and Roman Kartse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Andreyev (actor)
Boris Fyodorovich Andreyev (russian: Бори́с Фёдорович Андре́ев; – 25 April 1982) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in 51 films between 1939 and 1982. People's Artist of the USSR (1962). Andreev won Stalin Prizes for Pyryev’s ''Ballad of Siberia'' (1946) and '' The Fall of Berlin'' (1950). Biography Boris Andreyev was born 9 February 1915 in Saratov, Russian Empire to a family of workers. His childhood and youth years were spent in Atkarsk, Saratov Governorate. After completing the seventh grade at school, Andreyev went to work as a mechanic-electrician at a сombine factory, where he started going to a local theatrical circle. There he was noticed by a famous Saratov actor, Ivan Slonov, who suggested that he enter the Saratov Theatre Technical School, from which Boris Andreyev successfully graduated in 1937. For a while, Boris Andreyev played on the Saratov Drama Theater's stage. During the theater tour in Moscow, film director Ivan Pyr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov
Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov (russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Беляко́в; – 28 November 1982) was a Soviet flight navigator who, together with command pilot Valery Chkalov and co-pilot Georgy Baydukov, set a record for the longest uninterrupted flight in 1936 and made , flying from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington. He was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and served as a lieutenant general of the Soviet Air Forces. Biography Early life and training Alexander Belyakov was born in 1897 in the village of Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District, Bezzubovo, Moscow Governorate (now Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District, Moscow Oblast) and grew up in Ryazan. He studied forestry in 1915-1916 after finishing his gymnasium (school), gymnasium studies and began serving in the infantry of the Imperial Russian Army in 1916. He fought in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russian Red Army's 25th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 25th Rifle Division d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Yarov
Sergius is a male given name of Ancient Roman origin after the name of the Latin ''gens'' Sergia or Sergii of regal and republican ages. It is a common Christian name, in honor of Saint Sergius, or in Russia, of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, and has been the name of four popes. It has given rise to numerous variants, present today mainly in the Romance (Serge, Sergio, Sergi) and Slavic languages (Serhii, Sergey, Serguei). It is not common in English, although the Anglo-French name Sergeant is possibly related to it. Etymology The name originates from the Roman ''nomen'' (patrician family name) ''Sergius'', after the name of the Roman ''gens'' of Latin origins Sergia or Sergii from Alba Longa, Old Latium, counted by Theodor Mommsen as one of the oldest Roman families, one of the original 100 ''gentes originarie''. It has been speculated to derive from a more ancient Etruscan name but the etymology of the nomen Sergius is problematic. Chase hesitantly suggests a connection with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
