Pyotr Aleynikov
Born into poverty, Aleynikov lost his family at an early age, forcing him to street-life before transitioning to an orphanage in the early 1920s. He discovered a love of movies when a local film projectionist began training him in the craft. Following time in a Russian labor compound, Aleinikov studied drama in Leningrad and made his film debut in the 1932 film “Counter”. His talent for music and comedy led him to numerous roles of varying degree of local fame that grew as World War II intensified. He continued to star and support in films until disagreements between him and production teams intensified, leaving him without work until his 1955 performance in “Land and People”. His career often suffered disturbances due to his heavy reliance on alcohol, which would later take his life.
A Home for Tanya
as FyodorThe adopted daughter of Dr. Skvortsov, Tanya, having learned that her mother Natalya Avdeyevna...
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The Great Glinka
as Alexander PushkinAbout the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.
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The Humpbacked Horse
as ИванушкаSurreal Soviet fantasy movie about a man whose love is kidnapped by the Tsar and he must save...
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The Brave Seven
as Moliboga, cookSix polar explorers arrives to a remote island in Arctic for a year-long scientific expedition....
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In the Name of the Motherland
as IlyinThe film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
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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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Tractor Drivers
as SavkaThe story takes place in a Soviet placed in what is now Ukraine. A mechanic arrives in the...
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Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades
as uncreditedA family movie about a life of Trubachyov's pioneers detachment during the years before WWII.
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Naval Battalion
as PetyaSoviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.
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Driver Involuntarily
as шофёр грузовикаA driver of a big manager is hospitalized with his boss's documents and adventures start...
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Vanka
as uncredited9-year-old boy complains about his hard life in a letter to his grandfather.
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Peasants
as Petka, a boyThe peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and...
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No Greater Love
as SenyaThe first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler...
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Aleksandr Parkhomenko
as GaivoronAbout the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil...
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The Ural Front
as uncreditedAugust 1941. Residents of the Ural town escorted to the front of men. Left alone, women take on...
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Land and People
as Ignat UshkinA progressive agronomist fights with a conservative collective farm chairman.
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The Miners of Donetsk
as uncreditedA miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.
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The Precious Seed
as uncreditedA young journalist is sent to the region to prepare her thesis. Here the heroine will have to...
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Poet
as uncreditedSoviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local...
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Make Noise, Town
as uncreditedA cheerful comedy about the life of the peripheral town of the late 30s. Despite its remoteness...
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The Unusual Voyage of Mishka Strekachyov
as policemanA funny story about Mishka Strekachyov and his remarkable journey across the Soviet Union.
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A Great Life
as uncreditedThe film tells about the struggle of the Donbas miners in Ukrainian SSR with saboteurs.
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Moscow Skies
as lieutenant Ilya StreltsovBased on the play of the same name by Georgi Mdivani. In September 1941, lieutenant Ilya...
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A Great Life, Part 2
as Vanya KurskiyThis is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from...
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Golden Horn
as uncreditedHigh in the mountains of the Trans-Ili Alatau there is an experimental station of the Kazakh...
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