Aleksandr Chistyakov
Aleksandr Chistyakov was born in 1880, he never graduated from high school, he worked as an accountant. From 1921 he studied at the First State Film School (Leo Kuleshov's workshop). Since 1925, he actively acted in films. The first role - a worker in the film "Arsenals" became a characteristic role for the subsequent work of the actor. He also was the champion of the Russian Empire in hammer throwing. Self-taught, he began to master hammer throwing at the end of the 19th century and in 1912 became the first record holder in Russia. He was a very good cyclist and an able wrestler too.
Mother
as Vlasov, the FatherA Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of...
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Storm Over Asia
as The Russian Rebel LeaderIn 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a...
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Outskirts
as Pyotr Ivanonich KadkinOutskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian...
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The End of St. Petersburg
as RabočijShortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to...
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The Thirteen
as Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist (as A. Chistyakov)The film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Middle...
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Salamander
as uncreditedThe film is based on real events and reveals the tragic episodes from the life of the Austrian...
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The Miners
as uncreditedSemyon Primak, in the direction of the regional committee, arrives in one of the small towns of...
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Love and Hate
as uncreditedA group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy...
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The Pilots
as Moustachioed mechanic KhrushchevThe daredevil pilot Sergei Belyaev takes a risk flying a plane which is not properly maintained...
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A Simple Case
as Uncle SashaAs a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM...
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The Vyborg Side
as MishchenkoThe final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the...
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Deserter
as uncreditedA wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an...
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The Return of Maxim
as Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached workerThe second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the...
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Seaman's daughter
as uncreditedTogether with other graduates of the Maritime Institute, Irina Zakharova returns to her native...
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I Love
as uncreditedOnce a long ago the father of Ostap left a village and came on earnings to Donbas. The lined up...
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Two-Buldi-Two
as uncreditedNaturally, the circus milieu of 2 Buldy 2 (1929) encourages stunts. A father and son, both...
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No One is Funnier than Us
as uncreditedA young man, Russian by nationality, goes to a Turkmen bride in a remote border village, not...
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A Severe Young Man
as Olga's FatherThe film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the...
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Misunderstood
as Ivan TimofeyevThe film tells about the class struggle in the countryside during the creation of the first...
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Daughter of the Motherland
as uncreditedOn the detention of fascist saboteurs and border violators by the collective farmers of Soviet...
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