Russian Basis I
Naum Kleiman's list of first generation director's basic russian/soviet/russian movies
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- DirectorYakov ProtazanovElizaveta ThimanStarsOlga PetrovaVladimir ShaternikovMikhail TamarovA group of peasants comes to see Leo Tolstoy and his wife, the Countess, to request some land. Tolstoy must explain to them that it is his wife who has authority over their land-holdings, and she will not help them. Stung by their negative reaction to him, Tolstoy becomes increasingly preoccupied with the problems of the poor. This leads to a number of conflicts with his wife, and then to a deep despondency, as the noted writer continues vainly to search for answers to the sufferings he sees around him.low priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsTamara DuvanIvan MozzhukhinVera OrlovaWhile hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.high priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsIvan MozzhukhinNathalie LissenkoPolycarpe PavloffPastor Talnox furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.mid priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsOlga GzovskayaS. PavlovaVladimir GajdarovAfter the death of Count Chambery his wife and daughter were left without means of subsistence. Seeing no other way out, a young woman settles maid in the house of Baroness Angers.low priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovAlexandre VolkoffStarsIvan MozzhukhinOlga KondorovaV. DzheneyevaPrince Kasatsky is a just and proud youth, shock and disappointment with the world bring him to church, he becomes father Sergius. It is a story of his piety and temptation.high priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsYuliya SolntsevaIgor IlyinskyNikolai TsereteliEngineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars 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.high priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsOlga ZhiznevaNikolai ProzorovskyVladimir FogelWho is a thief - a street pickpocket, a social lion or a banker? The thief is the one who takes it small, the man with prospects is called a winner.mid priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsMariya Blyumental-TamarinaAnatoliy BykovVladimir MikhaylovCareless and merciless bureaucratic machine turns a case of 80 year old peasant Pelageya Demina about crossing a railroad in a wrong place into criminal offense. Her oldman seeking help to get her out of jail.low priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsAda VoytsikIvan Koval-SamborskyIvan ShtraukhTragic romance between a female Red Army sharpshooter and a White Army officer.high priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsMichael ChekhovMikhail KlimovMikhail NarokovAn elderly man works as a waiter at a luxurious restaurant. He's content and full of hope, and treasures his family more than anything. But it's time of the First World War and news from the front change his life.high priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsVasili KachalovVsevolod MeyerholdAndrey Petrovsky"Not to spare bullets!" was the highest command to a governor in case of a workers' revolt. Desperate time - desperate measures. No participant can find rest after the event.high priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovMikhail DollerStarsMikhail TarkhanovMariya StrelkovaN. ShcherbakovBased on three short stories written by Anton Chekhov: "Anna on the Neck", "The Death of a Government Clerk" and "The Chameleon".mid priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovPorfiri PodobedStarsIgor IlyinskyAnatoli KtorovMariya StrelkovaSatire of religious charlatanry where priests, police, and stock market officials conspire to fleece pilgrims who've come to see relics of a supposed saint. A pair of con men hatch a scheme to pass off one of the duo as the saint reincarnated.mid priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsAleksandr ZhutaevMikhail KedrovVasili KovriginDuring the Civil War in Russia which followed the Bolshevik Revolution, a young English soldier fighting on the side of the Whites defects to the Reds.low priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovPorfiri PodobedStarsAnatoli KtorovNikolai RadinValentina TokarskayaPolitical pamphlet, ridiculing fascists ready to fly to the arms against Soviet Union. The owners of the capitalist world are frightened by approaching of crisis and height of revolutionary moods of the masses. They decide to put at the head of some state of Bufferiya, abutting upon Soviet Union, new king - obedient marionette in their hands.low priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovAleksandr RouStarsOlga PyzhovaNina AlisovaAnatoli KtorovLarisa Ogudolova (Nina Alisova), unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry. She falls in love with a dashing scoundrel who betrays her in about sixty minutes. Griefing, she turns down another suitor, honest but plain, who kills her in despair.high priority
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsLev SverdlinKonstantin MikhaylovEmmanuil GellerFollows the adventures of the "Robin Hood of the East". Posing as a wise man from Damascus Nasreddin becomes the tyrannical Emir's trusted adviser. Little does the Emir know that Nasreddin's secretly working against him - a plot that includes stealing the Emir's prize harem girl.high priority
- DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsNina ChernovaA. UgrjumovV. DemertA young, rich woman decides to dedicate her life to helping the poor, but a tragic incident changes her life.mid priority
- DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsElena P. SmirnovaNina KosljaninowaMichael SalarowSeamstress Mary dreams of a better life in luxury instead of her badly-paying sweatshop grind. Her dreams come true when she draws the attention of Victor, a bourgeoisie, who invites her to dinner and makes her a lady. But about a year later, she has become tired of him, and thanks to her his money is almost gone. When he asks that they settle down outside the big city, where his money should be enough for a modest living, she breaks with him and picks up a new lover. Victor is trying to shoot her, then himself, but finally gives up. A year later, he is living in a shabby, cold room under the roof, still trying to meet her again, a thing she definitely refuses, and showing him her feelings towards him, by ordering that he should get three Rubels when he leaves the stairs to her house. This has predictable results.high priority
- DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsAleksandr ChargoninAleksandr KheruvimovDora TschitorinaIn order to allow another servant to go home to be with her children, Nastya agrees to serve in her place, as a maid in the household in which Nastya's grandfather is a porter. Soon afterwards, the woman who owns the house goes on a trip, leaving her son Pavel at home. Pavel is engaged to Ellen, but Ellen flirts openly with other men. Nastya and the servants quickly realize that Ellen is having an ongoing romantic affair with Baron von Rehren. This puts the servants, and especially the sensitive Nastya, in a painfully uncomfortable position.high priority
- DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsVera KholodnayaVitold PolonskyOsip Runichmid priority
- DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsOlga RakhmanovaLidiya KorenevaVera KholodnayaWealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal. When Zhurov introduces his friend Prince Bartinsky to the family, both young women soon fall in love with the dashing but irresponsible prince. The prince is in love with Nata, but because of his enormous debts, he decides to marry Musya to get her dowry, and he allows Nata to marry Zhurov. All the while, Mrs. Khromova remains very uneasy, fearing that marriage is unlikely to cause the self-indulgent prince to change his ways.high priority
- DirectorYevgeny BauerOlga RakhmanovaStarsVjacheslav SvobodaNikolai RadinEmma BauerThe astute Rascol Venkov convinces young cardsharp Roger Brémond to ally with him and together loot Parisian high society cheating in casinos.high priority
- DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsIvane PerestianiVladimir StrizhevskyZoya BarantsevichIn 1907, the Russian authorities learn that a revolutionary known as 'Granddad' is living in hiding with his brother. The revolutionary is soon arrested and sent to Siberia. After ten years of struggling to survive in harsh conditions, he is finally released when the Tsarist government is overthrown in February 1917. He is welcomed home as a hero, but he soon finds that even his own son has different views than he does about the future of Russia.mid priority
- DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsVera KaralliAleksandr KheruvimovVitold PolonskyA grief-stricken ballerina becomes the obsession of an increasingly unhinged artist.mid priority
- DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsEmma BauerTasya BormanN. DennitsynaSince Zoya Verenskaya's husband passed away ten years ago, she has been devoted to her daughter Lee. At present, Lee is in poor health, and she is in danger of losing her eyesight. Zoya's suitor Dmitry wants to get married, but Zoya is determined to wait until Lee is better. Then, on a vacation in the Crimea, they learn Lee's true feelings for Dmitry, and suddenly all of their lives are thrown into turmoil.mid priority
- DirectorPyotr ChardyninStarsPraskovya MaksimovaSofya GoslavskayaIvan MozzhukhinBased on the verse story by Pushkin: Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she also enjoys flirting with the guards officers who pass by her window, and she has one particular favorite. One day, Parasha's mother asks her to hire a cook, and to do so as cheaply as possible. Parasha and her beau soon see a way to use this situation to their own advantage.high priority
- DirectorPyotr ChardyninStarsVera YurenevaIvan MozzhukhinM. MorskayaNora Alsen, a famous doctor, is so busy with her work that she neglects her fiancé, Robert Harting. Robert seeks entertainment with Nelly Waldan, a waitress in a lunchroom. A year later: Nelly has fallen very ill and Nora is called in. In a crisis, Nelly constantly calls out Robert's name and the latter can no longer hear this and throws himself into her arms. Nora is left alone.low priority
- DirectorPyotr ChardyninStarsVera KholodnayaVladimir MaksimovVitold Polonskymid priority
- DirectorPyotr ChardyninCheslav SabinskyStarsPyotr ChardyninKonstantin KhokhlovVera KholodnayaActress Paula who left circus on disability of the husband acrobat, leaves a family to the wealthy man. A remarkable research of diseases of pre-revolutionary society where "owners of life" manipulating the equities and human destinies.high priority
- DirectorPyotr ChardyninStarsAmvrosi BuchmaVasili LyudvinskyIvan Khudoleyevmid priority
- DirectorIvan MozzhukhinStarsIvan MozzhukhinNathalie LissenkoBartkevitchA foundling is left in front of the home of a rich aristocratic bachelor during the Nice carnival. The marquis adopts the child but soon finds that he cannot cope, so he employs a nanny who turns out to be the child's real mother. Just as the two have fallen in love and there is a happy ending in sight, the woman's husband - long thought dead - turns up.high priority
- DirectorAlexandre VolkoffStarsIvan MozzhukhinCharles VanelNicolas KolineAn imaginative wedding scene shot in silhouette, begins a tale of murder blackmail and romance covering a period of about 18 years, ending around 1923.low priority
- DirectorAlexandre VolkoffStarsIvan MozzhukhinNathalie LissenkoHenry Kraussmid priority
- DirectorRudolf BiebrachStarsAlexander MoissiErnst BehmerRudolf BiebrachThe actor Edmund Kean, adored by his fans and critics, makes another brilliant performance. The young Anna Danby clings to his lips. But Kean has a liaison with a married woman.high priority
- DirectorAlexandre VolkoffStarsIvan MozzhukhinSuzanne BianchettiDiana KarenneA flamboyant portrait of the famous seducer seen by a former baritone of the Moscow Opera who, after a vocal accident, leaves for Germany and then France to devote himself to cinema.high priority
- DirectorAlexandre VolkoffStarsNicolas KolineIván PetrovichDimitri DimitrievA cobbler dreams that he is a prince, in this takeoff on an Arabian Nights style romance.low priority
- DirectorAlexandre VolkoffStarsIvan MozzhukhinLil DagoverBetty AmannHis son and mother in peril at the hands of his enemies, a banished Caucasian warrior is forced to make an alliance with the Russians.high priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczMr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?high priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczAll summer, the grasshopper sings and plays music with friends. Meanwhile, the ant works hard collecting food and building a shelter. The grasshopper makes fun of the ant's efforts, but when winter comes, things are much different.high priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsPavel KnorrIvan MozzhukhinOlga ObolenskayaA couple of lovers deal with an evil presence that is threatening them.mid priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsIvan MozzhukhinOlga ObolenskayaLidiya TridenskayaBased on Gogol's story: It's Christmas Eve, and everyone in the village has plans. The devil and the witch Solokha are looking for ways of causing mischief. Chub the Cossack just wants some vodka. Solokha's son, Vakula the smith, wants to court Chub's charming daughter Oksana, who sets him on a quest: if Vakula will bring her the tsaritsa's shoes, Oksana will marry him. Meanwhile, the popular Solokha has a series of male visitors to contend with. When Vakula interrupts her, it sets off a chain of events that leads to a busy night for everyone.high priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsFechtner A.Arsenii BibikovAndrey Gromovlow priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsAndrey GromovIvan LazarevV. VasilyevThe subject of a mysterious portrait emerges from the painting and terrorizes the young man who hung it in his room.high priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsIrene StarewiczJan WichniekskiA girl in the forest found a broken lily and brought it to her grandfather, who at that time thought about the horrors of the outbreak of World War I, and the broken lily reminds him of poor Belgium. In response to a granddaughter's request to tell a fairy tale - he tells her about the lily.high priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsFryderyk JarossyArsenii BibikovB. Dzenayevichlow priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsVladimir GajdarovOlga Gzovskayalow priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczAurélie, the fly, lives in the countryside with her uncle Anatole, the beetle. One day, while stealing honey from the bee, she is surprised by it. Capricorn saves her and they become engaged.high priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsWladyslaw StarewiczNina StarA drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his agents on Earth.low priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczThe frogs are bored with their lot, and ask God to give them a king - but God, irritated with their inability to govern themselves, quickly makes them change their minds.high priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsNina StarA partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the nightingale and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not made to be captive but free. In return for its freedom, the nightingale loans the child its voice for use in the daytime, which is why nightingales only sing at night.high priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsNina Starmid priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczIn a small neighborhood of a city China , there lived a little girl who had was collected by a dealer antiques. Among the miserable trinkets on sale in the shop was a vessel owned personally the little girl , we had always said it was precious vase , but she did not know why. Now a day , sleeping after having smoked curiosity opium pipe dealer , the little girl dreamed that she had broken the vase and that dragons, and fantastic characters painted on the sides began to live counting for she the following story: Formerly the prince loved Sun Princess Sunray, but the wicked Mandarin Tan -Tan (symbolizing clouds ) opposed their happiness. Eager to escape , the two lovers began in route for the country of Love where they had said they were clouds , never not darkened the sun . On the road stood a dragon that sought to attract travelers in his cave . The unfortunates who fall in his trap, never seen the day again . But the two lovers , with their affection , resisted the dangerous seduction. Tan- Tan, less cautious than they, was killed. Having happily continued their journey, the Prince and Princess arrived the country where happiness reigns forever . Thousands of years ( represented on the screen by a curious game constellations) passed. Disappointed to see always happy ones he had in vain tried to its victims , the dragon tore his eyes. His eyes became two beautiful diamonds that fell into the hands of the hero. Their friend the Sun warned them that he alone gave pure and vivifying rays and the lights diamonds were dangerous ; without listening , they played with wonderful jewels and every living thing that was touched a radius of a diamond is immediately petrified , becoming similar to porcelain ; thus themselves , having imprudently exposed light stones , were transformed into a porcelain vase valuable . The girl , still half asleep , saw an English tourist that wante to buy the vase. The little girl didn't want to sell it so she bites the English in his lamb . The terrified buyer dropped the vase, it brokes , and the merchant awaked . The English persisted in wanting become the owner of the trinket, even broken . this insistence gave much food for thought to the merchant , who, at random , doubled its price ; tenacious customer accepted this new award , and went carrying carefully debris porcelain. In fact, an old manuscript had taught him the presence of two beautiful diamonds in the even dough vase . After his departure , the attention of the girl was caught by two shiny objects in two tiny debris escaped the vigilance of English : they were diamonds. The child amused for a moment , then disdaining their fake ray she gave the good merchant precious stones , and went outside to enjoy the beautiful sun shine .low priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczThe Country Rat visits his friend, the Town Rat, but finds that life in the great metropolis is rather too hectic (and dangerous - there's a live cat among all the puppet rats!)high priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsNina StarBogdan ZoubowitchIt's the story of Yolande, a little girl (about 12) who wanted to become a princess. Bombastus, her old father, has created a marvelous and big clock crowded with little characters (animated puppets). On each hour ring, one of the twelve knights of the clock comes into motion. They're all in love with the princess but a strong black knight doesn't agree... It's not a happy end. So Yolande will dive deep into her dreams, maybe to change the story. It's the second part of the movie. Sylph, master of this imaginary earth and Ondin, master of the aquatic world are the main characters. Yolande and then the man of her dreams join this strange world...mid priority
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczThe misadventures of a traveling theatrical company, as the actors attempt to put on a show while romantic rivalries erupt backstage.low priority
- DirectorIrene StarewiczWladyslaw StarewiczStarsClaude DauphinRomain BouquetSylvain ItkineWhen Renard the Fox's mischievous pranks go too far, King Lion is forced to attempt to bring the trickster to justice.high priority
Actually made in 1930-1931 - DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczThis animation short combines two of the La Fontaine fables,The Lion and the Gnat, plus The Lion Grown Old.high priority