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