Nikolai Cherkasov
An outstanding Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1937). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the USSR (02.26.1947). He graduated from the Institute of Performing Arts (1926). Since 1919 - a mimic artist of the Petrograd Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater, the Bolshoi Drama Theater and other theaters. In the years 1926-1929 - actor of the Leningrad Youth Theater. In 1929-1931 - artist of the Leningrad and Moscow music halls. In the years 1931-1933 - artist of the Leningrad Mobile Theater "Comedy". In 1933-1965 - artist of the Leningrad Academic Drama Theater named after Pushkin. Nikolai Cherkasov is the only actor whose face is imprinted on the order. Stalin personally chose and approved the portrait of Cherkasov for one of the highest state awards - the Soviet Order of Alexander Nevsky. Member of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR 1-2 convocations. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 3-4 convocations (1950-1958). Chairman of the Leningrad branch of the WTO (since 1948). Member of the Soviet Peace Committee (since 1949). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940. September 14, Nikolai Konstantinovich died at the 64th year of life. When the great actor passed away, one of his students said that he died not from heart failure, but from insufficient heartiness... The actor was buried in the Necropolis of Artists of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Leningrad. July 27, 1970 the name of Cherkasov was assigned to one of the streets in Leningrad.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
as Czar Ivan IVThis is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny,...
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Alexander Nevsky
as Alexander NevskyWhen German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the...
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
as Czar Ivan IVSet during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his...
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Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
as Alexander NevskyThe fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and...
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Happiness
as uncreditedA hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a...
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Pirogov
as LyadovA biopic based on the life of Russian scientist and doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov...
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Don Quixote
as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso QuixanoSenor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don...
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The Battle of Stalingrad
as President Franklin D. RooseveltA 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir...
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Capt. Grant's Family
as Jacques PaganelThe son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an...
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Mussorgsky
as Vladimir StasovSaint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest...
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Spring
as Arkadi Mikhailovich GromovA drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer...
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Lenin in 1918
as Maksim GorkyHistorical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great...
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Baltic Deputy
as uncreditedA film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge...
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Defense of Tsaritsyn
as uncreditedPropaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn...
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Rimsky-Korsakov
as StasovBiographical film about the composer Rimskiy-Korsakov. Belongs to the gallery of costume...
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The Invincible
as Rodionov the father, a workerThe autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed...
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Nights of Farewell
as GedeonovParis, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St....
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Alexander Popov
as uncreditedA biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer,...
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Academician Ivan Pavlov
as Maxim GorkyRussia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the...
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Crown Prince of the Republic
as uncreditedAfter news of the future birth of a child, Sergei split from his wife, Natasha, and settled in...
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Peter the First, Part I
as Prince AlexeiThis, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the...
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His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
as baron von Ungern-SternbergThe film tells about the founder of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the leader of...
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All Remains to People
as scientist Fyodor DronovRenowned scientist Dronov works in Novosibirsk on the creation of ultra-modern engine. He has a...
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Hectic Days
as uncreditedA Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.
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Peter the First, Part II
as Prince AlexeiDepicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to...
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Moon on the Left
as KaluginThe main character, the chairman of the district revolutionary tribunal, Comrade Kovalev,...
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Friends
as осетин БетаThe Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey...
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60 Days
as uncreditedAdventures of the medicine professor during reserve duty.
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The Girlfriends
as white officer (uncredited)Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are...
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For the Soviet Motherland
as uncreditedThe film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into...
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My Son
as PatA man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.
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Brother
as uncreditedThe chairman of the factory committee of one of the Leningrad factories, Fyodor Gorbachev, a...
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Happy Sailing
as kapitan LevashovA story about boys in a sailors school.
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