Sergei Gerasimov
Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov (21 May 1906 – 26 November 1985) was one of the most reputable Soviet film directors and screenwriters. The oldest film school in the world, the VGIK, bears his name. Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. At first he appeared in Kozintsev and Trauberg films, such as The Overcoat and The New Babylon. Later, he was commissioned to produce screen versions of the literary classics of Socialist realism. His epic screenings of Alexander Fadeyev's The Young Guard (1948) and Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don (1957–58) were extolled by the authorities as exemplary. During several decades of their teaching in the VGIK Gerasimov and his wife Tamara Makarova prepared many generations of Russian actors. In his last movie Gerasimov played Leo Tolstoy, while Makarova was cast as Tolstoy's wife. Gerasimov is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery of Moscow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sergei Gerasimov (film director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The New Babylon
as Lutro, the journalistIn the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard...
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The Club of the Big Deed
as MedoksThe film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the...
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Fragment of an Empire
as uncreditedDirector Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor...
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Men and Beasts
as Lvov-ShcherbatskyThe plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov....
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Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as HimselfA semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov....
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The Overcoat
as Ярыжка (шулер-шантажист)Soviet film based on Nikolai Gogol stories "Nevsky Prospekt" and "The Overcoat".
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The Journalist
as Alexei KolesnikovA successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written...
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VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
as uncreditedThe story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.
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Stars Meet in Moscow
as uncreditedDocumentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about...
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Daughters-Mothers
as Pyotr Nikanorovich VorobyevThe young girl Olga Vasilyeva grew up in an orphanage. She never knew her mother and wants to...
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Lev Tolstoy
as Lev TolstoiThe film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the...
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The Devil's Wheel
as Man The QuestionTypically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast,...
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Masquerade
as uncreditedTaken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov's Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina...
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Just Life...
as (archive footage)About the creative path and pedagogical activity of the Soviet film director and actor S.A....
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Wake Lena Up
as uncreditedLenochka dreams about cowboys and indians while her brother plays tricks on her while she...
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