Mikhail Zharov — Actor (21)
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The Vyborg Side (1939)
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Grigori Kozintsev / Leonid Trauberg actor: Boris Chirkov / Valentina Kibardina …
other title: Выборгская сторона / 革命摇篮维堡区 …
The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins to fight off sabotaging underlings. Dymba, now a violent enemy of the Republic, tries to rob a wine store but is arrested with Maksim's help. Maksim also exposes a conspiracy of a group of tsarist officers who prepare an attempt against Lenin. He then joins the Red Army in its fight against the German occupation.
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The Return of Maxim (1937)
Возвращение Максима WikiData IMDb TMDB
Grigori Kozintsev / Leonid Trauberg actor: Boris Chirkov / Valentina Kibardina …
other title: 马克辛的归来 / Возвращение Максима …
The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of the working-class in the Duma. Maksim, who just returned from exile, calls the workers to strike as a protest against the firing of six of their colleagues. The traitor Platon Dymba assaults Maksim, wounding him severely. When the strike unfolds the workers demonstrate by the thousands, the news of the outbreak of World War I suddenly arrives. Maksim gets drafted.
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The Man from the Restaurant (1927)
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Yakov Protazanov actor: Michael Chekhov / Vera Malinovskaya …
other title: Человек из ресторана / Man from the Restaurant …
During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy restaurant which catered to the appetites and egos of the rich. In one such establishment works a middle-aged waiter who is devoted to serving his bourgeoisie clients correctly. However, his life outside his job is very different: His son was killed during the Russian civil war and the waiter's wife died of grief as a result....
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Thunderstorm (1934)
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Vladimir Petrov actor: Alla Tarasova / Ivan Chuvelyov …
other title: Гроза / 雷雨 …
In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive Katerina marries Tikhon, a violent drunkard, and thus enters the crude milieu of greedy salesmen, the "dark kingdom". Her mother-in-law, Kabanikha, rules the family with an iron fist and endlessly harasses Katerina. One day, when Tikhon is away, she meets Boris, a man who embodies everything Katerina is longing for.
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Bohdan Khmelnytskyi (1941)
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Ihor Savchenko actor: Nikolai Mordvinov / Borys Bezhin …
other title: Богдан Хмельницкий / Bogdan Jmelnitski …
648. Ukraine under the oppression of Poland. Polish nobility committing outrage, burning villages one after another. Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Bohdan Khmelnytskyi gathers the army of defenders of the motherland.
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Peter the First, Part I (1937)
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Vladimir Petrov actor: Nikolai Simonov / Mikhail Zharov …
other title: Pierre le Grand, Partie 1 / Пётр Первый …
This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs. Rulers like Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great were widely admired for their dedication to Russia and their absolute determination to enhance her position in the world. But praise for the hated later Romanovs conflicted too heavily with the very beliefs that had brought about the Revolution in 1917.
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Stepan Razin (1939)
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Иван Правов / Ольга Преображенская actor: 安德烈·利沃维奇·阿布里科索夫 / Владимир Гардин …
other title: 斯捷潘·拉辛 / Степан Разин …
Don Cossack Stepan Razin vowed to take revenge on the boyars for his tortured friends. Having led the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of an entire army. Humiliated and insulted people flock to him from all over the Russian land.
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)
The Village Detective: a song cycle TMDB Douban
比尔·莫里森 actor: Gísli Fannar Gylfason / Erlendur Sveinsson …
other title: 乡村侦探 / The Village Detective: a song cycle
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.
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Czar Ivan the Terrible (1915)
Царь Иван Васильевич Грозный Douban
Александр Иванов-Гай actor: Федор Шаляпин / Волк-Крачковская …
other title: 伊凡雷帝 / Царь Иван Васильевич Грозный …