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MEDOVY MESYATS (THE HONEYMOON)
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445 MEDOVY MESYATS (THE HONEYMOON) 1956, 93 min., color Melodrama Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Klementy Minz, Yevgeny Pomeschikov, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designers: Abram Veksler, Semyon Mandel, misic: Mikhail Weinberg, sound: Alexander Bekker Cast: Lyudmila Kasatkina, Pavel Kadochnikov, Tatyana Pankova, Pavel Sukhanov, Zoya Fyodorova, Sergey Filippov, Tatyana Peltser The Leningrad-born Tatyana Odintsova, graduate of a medical institute, dreams of working nowhere but in her native city. This is her reason for marrying the engineer Alexei Rybalchenko. But Alexei consents to go to a bridge construction site in Siberia and demands that his wife come with him. The unsettled rural life is beyond any expectations Lyudmila might have had. Shortly the construction site gets its first patients, and there is a need to arrange medical care. Gradually, helping people, Lyudmila is drawn into her work. Also her relationship with Alexei, all but severed due to the uncompromising personalities of the newlyweds, straightens out. 446 NEVESTA (THE BRIDE) 1956, 87 min., b/w Melodrama Directors: Grigory Nikulin, Vladimir Shredel, screenplay by: Irina Kokoreva based on Anton Chekhov’s story of the same title, camera: Vladimir Korotkov, Georgy Kalatozov, production designers: Semyon Malkin, Alexei Fedotov, misic: Alexander Manevich, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev Cast: Tatyana Piletskaya, Yuri Puzyriov, Oleg Basilashvili, Olga Kaziko, Roza Sverdlova, Fyodor Nikitin 447 ODNA NOCH (A SINGLE NIGHT) 1956, 102 min., b/w Drama Directors: Maxim Ruf, Alexander Muzil, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Mikhail Krotkin, misic: Boris Kluzner, sound: Alexander Bekker Cast: Konstantin Skorobogatov, Olga Lebzak, Alexander Borisov, Tamara Alyoshina, Anna Yefimova, Alexander Sokolov, Anna Lisyanskaya, Yelena Karyakina A screen version of the play by Boris Gorbatov staged by the Leningrad Pushkin Drama Theatre. 1942. Fighting is in progress in the outskirts of a small town. Trying to escape from the fascist invaders besieging the town, its residents are hastily leaving. Only the inhabitants of the old worker Bogatyriov's house are in no hurry to get out. His younger daughter is staying on assignment of the partisans. His daughter-in-law has a sick child. The man of the house cannot abandon his family, nor does he believe that the town will surrender. One of his tenants is willing to serve the fascists and is expecting them; the other is using the havoc to rob a store. Thus, over a single night, the personalities and the true natures of the characters are revealed... The fascists failed to seize the town, after all. 448 ONA VAS LYUBIT (SHE LOVES YOU) 1956, 85 min., color Comedy Directors: Semyon Derevyansky, Raphail Suslovich, screenplay: Vladimir Polyakov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vasily Solovyev-Sedoy, sound: Anna Volokhova Cast: Georgy Vitsin, Inna Kmit, Lydia Sukharevskaya, Tamara Nosova, Alexander Shirvindt, Igor Dmitriyev, Yevgeny Lebedev, Konstantin Sorokin The shy, nice Kostya Kanareykin who works in a Zoo saw the portrait of the sportswoman Olya Tsvetkova on the cover of the “Ogonyok” magazine and fell in love with her. They begin exchanging letters. Instead of the picture of his friend Kanareykin, the photographer sends Olya one of the handsome actor Ukhov. Olya comes to Kostya's city, and misunderstandings start to occur right away. Towards the end everything is sorted out, and Kostya makes his declaration to Olya. 449 PRIKLYUCHENYA ARTYOMKI (ARTYOMKA'S ADVENTURES) 1956, 80 min., color Melodrama Director: Andrei Apsolon, screenplay: Leonid Solovyev (based on “Artyomka in the Circus”, a story by Ivan Vasilenko), camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Lev Valter Cast: Borya Alexandrov, Tito Romalio, Sergey Plotnikov, Pyotr Savin, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Leonid Gallis, Vitaly Polizeimako, Oleg Zhakov, Tamara Alyoshina A seaside southern town. The fatherless and motherless thirteen-year-old Artyomka was crazy about the circus. He used to spend all the time there; it was the place of work of his friends: the clown Kubyshka, his daughter, the circus equestrienne Lyasya, and the Negro wrestler Peps. Artyomka happened to help the revolutionaries hide some print in the circus, but the gendarmes traced the boy. Learning about this, the circus owner fired his friends, and they leave the town.
A short experimental picture, the shooting of which served to put to the test the possibilities of anamorphed optics, i.e. those of the wide screen. The picture is comprised of fragments of a pentathlon competition incorporated into a plot. The picture casts both Masters of Sports and actors.
June, 1942. New army units are being formed in Stalingrad to defend the city. The characters of the picture, who have retreated to the Volga with the Red Army, join them. The battle for Stalingrad begins. The battle scenes and those of the brief respites reveal the personalities of the skilled Battalion Commander Kerzhentsev, the outwardly clumsy “civilian” Lieutenant Farber, the smart short-spoken Valega, the heartless career-conscious captain Abrosimov, the valiant Platoon Leader Karnaukhov, the dashing sailor scout Chumak, the Army doctor Lyusya...
A screen version of the performance of the same title staged by the Leningrad State Comedy Theatre based on a the play by the Tur brothers (pen-name adopted by the playwrights Pyotr Ryzhey and Leonid Tubelsky) featuring the life story of the remarkable Russian scientist Sophia Kovalevskaya, the world first female professor of mathematics. 453 STARIK KHOTTABYCH (THE OLD MAN KHOTTABYCH) 1956, 86 min., color Adventure Director: Gennady Kazansky, screenplay: Lazar Lagin (based on his novel of the same title), camera: Muzakir Shurukov, production designers: Isaac Kaplan, Bella Manevich, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Grigory Elbert Cast: Nikolai Volkov Sr., Alyosha Litvinov, Gena Khudyakov, Lyova Kovalchuk, Maya Blinova, Yephim Kopelyan, Alexander Larikov Taking a swim in the Moskva River, the schoolboy Volka Kostylkov finds an ancient clay vessel on its bottom. Opened by Volka, the vessel released the Jinn Gassan Abdurakhman ibn Khottab. In appreciation of his newly found freedom the Jinn, to whom Volka attributes the name of Khottabych, grants his rescuer his wishes. Strange happenings begin to occur in Moscow...
454 BALTIYSKAYA SLAVA (THE BALTIC GLORY) 1957, 94 min., color Revolutionary history Director: Jan Fried, screenplay: Alexei Zinovyev, camera: Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Gavriil Popov, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev Cast: Joseph Kutyansky, Pavel Kadochnikov, Alexander Borisov, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Yephim Kopelyan, Leonid Kmit The picture features the fight of the Baltic Fleet sailors for the revolutionary Petrograd in the fall of 1917 and is focused on the life stories of a seaman and a marine officer joining the ranks of the fighters for the revolution. 455 BESSMERTNAYA PESNYA (THE IMMORTAL SONG) 1957, 76 min., b/w Drama Director: Matvey Volodarsky, screenplay: Andrei Leontyev (based on a short story by Victor Avdeyev), camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Jan Frenkel, sound: Lev Valter Cast: Fyodor Shmakov, Galina Karelina, Arkady Trusov, Nina Drobysheva 1920. The Red Army units drive the Whites out of a Kuban village. The wounded Red Army soldier Yusalov opens a music school in the village. The sound of the revolutionary songs carries far beyond the structure housing the school, firing the hate of the rich villagers. Luring Yusalov to the boggy riverside, they kill the soldier... After many years, the village gets a new music school bearing Yusalov's name.
The young Collective Farm Chairman Roman Baklanov, an honest man of principle, erred. Giving in to the persistent badgering of his favorite wife and her parents, Roman agreed to rescue his father-in-law, a driver who squandered in drink some hay belonging to the Collective Farm. Having once stumbled, Roman either voluntarily or involuntarily becomes responsible for more crimes. Realizing that his indecisiveness is being used by dishonest persons, Roman keenly takes the situation to heart. Not before the swindlers demand his immediate participation in their obscure doings does Roman summon the effort to confess his faults.
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Miguel de Cervantes.
458 DON CEZAR DE BAZAN (DON CEZAR DE BAZAN) 1957, 96 min., b/w Comedy Director: Joseph Shapiro, screenplay: Vladimir Chestnokov, Joseph Shapiro, camera: Apollinary Dudko, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Yuri Sviridov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky Cast: Vladimir Chestnokov, Olga Zabotkina, Fyodor Nikitin, Nikolai Boyarsky, Natalya Dudinskaya Based on a play by the French playwrights Philip Dumanoire and Adolph Philip Dennery staged by Vladimir Kozhich at the Leningrad Pushkin Academic Drama Theatre. The street dancer Maritana has captured the heart of Carl II, King of Spain. Minister Jose, enamored of the Queen, wants to make use of this. But Maritana loves the brave and charming Don Cezar of the impoverished ancient family of de Bazans. Following a chain of artfully stringed critical situations vice is punished, and virtue triumphs. 459 YEGO VREMYA PRIDYET (HIS TIME WILL COME) 1957, 99 min., b/w Biopic Director: Mazhit Begalin, screenplay: Sergey Yermolinsky, Mikhail Bleiman, camera: Solomon Rubashkin, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Yevgeny Brusilovsky, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky Cast: Nurmukhan Zhanturin, Yeleubay Umurzakov, Kalibek Kuanyshpayev, Kurmanbek Dzhandarbekov, Gennady Michurin, Pyotr Chernov The picture features the life story of the famous 19th century enlightener, the son of the Kazakh people Chokan Valikhanov, an ethnographer and a famous traveller. 460 NA OSTROVE DALNEM... (ON A FARAWAY ISLAND...) 1957, 96 min., b/w Drama Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Vladimir Sutyrin (based on Alexander Borschagovsky’s story “Missing”), camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Grigory Elbert Cast: Nikolai Timofeyev, Lev Frichinsky, Raisa Kurkina, Pyotr Savin, K. Polyakov, Alexander Sokolov, Georgy Zhzhenov Pursued by ships and aircraft, the search for the sailors swept out into the ocean by the storm lasted close to three months. For close to three months the “Baklan” crew put up a courageous fight with the elements. Finally, when those on land lost all hope of ever seeing their family and friends again, the small tugboat slowly approached the pear. 461 NA PERELOME (ON THE BREAK) 1957, 80 min., b/w Melodrama Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Yevgeny Mitko, camera: Vitaly Chulkov, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Vladimir Maklakov, sound: Boris Khutoryansky Cast: V. Zharikov, Nina Drobysheva, Mikhail Yekaterininsky, Yuri Sorokin, V. Geraskin, Andrei Kostrichkin After the death of his father the stepmother of the teenage boy Victor Tsaplin, suspecting him of stealing a watch, sent him to an Odessa orphanage. The kids gave the newcomer an unfriendly welcome, and when one of the staff announced that his ancient watch was missing, the blame was laid on Victor. Entering a marine school and sailing with tipsy fishermen, Victor smashes the motorboat. He is dismissed from the school. Deciding to start anew in a different place, Victor leaves for the Kamchatka to work as a stoker.
The picture is based on the short story of the same title by Sergey Antonov staged by the Drama Studio of the Leningrad Kirov Palace of Culture; producers: Oscar Remez, Lev Shostak. The village of Poddubki in the vicinity of Moscow is populated by merry, vivacious young people who work there. The village is widely famous for its limericks: mischievous and lyrical, thoughtful and melancholy, provocative and sharp, they can be heard everywhere from early morning well into the night. Whoever is the author?
Having familiarized himself with the situation at the factory, the new factory newspaper editor Andrei recognizes that the image of handsome Milovidov, a famous turner, is being upheld by the special working environment custom-made for him. Thus, as soon as the new important order calls for a switch from his accustomed technology, Milovidov is quick to turn it down. Self-loving and career-conscious, he also breaks with the girl who fell in love with him. How will the lives of the characters proceed?
Based on a play by Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin staged by the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre; producer: Grigory Nikulin. The rich merchant Ivan Pazukhin dies. Waiting for him to die, his family and hangers-on start a primitive struggle over the inheritance...
The picture features the adventures of two kids looking for the person who left his notebook in a telephone booth. 467 ULITSA POLNA NEOZHIDANNOSTEY (THE STREETS ARE FULL OF SURPRISES) 1957, 73 min., color Comedy Director: Sergey Sidelev, screenplay: Leonid Karasyev, camera: Sergey Ivanov, production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya Cast: Leonid Kharitonov, Vsevolod Larionov, Georgy Chernovolenko, Yakov Rodos, Jemma Osmolovskaya, Vera Karpova, Yevgeny Leonov, Lyudmila Makarova Through a misunderstanding, the young militiaman Vasya Shaneshkin detains and brings to the precinct Vodnev, employed as cashier at a construction trust. His daughter Katya, a University co-student of Shaneshkin's, doesn't dare tell her father that she favours Vasya. At the same time, the swindler Zaitsev, winning Vodnev's confidence, relieves him of a significant amount of money. Displaying resourcefulness and courage, Shaneshkin seizes the criminal. 468 SHTORM (THE STORM) 1957, 90 min., b/w Drama Director: Mikhail Dubson, screenplay: Vladimir Bill-Belotserkovsky (based on his play of the same title), camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Nikolai Chervinsky, sound: Lev Valter Cast: Vsevolod Safonov, David Volosov, Emma Popova, Yevgeny Lebedev, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Sergey Filippov, Georgy Yumatov, Lydia Sukharevskaya 469 ANDREIKA (ANDREIKA) 1958, 90 min., color Melodrama Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexander Popov, camera: Semyon Ivanov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vladimir Maklakov, sound: Lev Valter Cast: Nikolai Timofeyev, Lilia Gritsenko, Alexander Larikov, Borya Vasilyev, Kolya Melnikov, Kirill Lavrov Petrograd. Summer of 1917. A worker's son Andreika and a friend of his decide to help the grown-ups hide Lenin who is being sought by agents of the Provisional Government. One of the agents, Ensign Zvonkov, posing as a soldier released from the army and working as a janitor, evokes the boys' trust. Yet, quite soon they see their mistake. Meeting “Uncle Vitya” in the street and following him, Andreika and his chum help the grown-ups arrest Zvonkov.
A historical picture featuring the revolutionary events of October, 1917. The screenplay is based on “Ten Days That Shook the World”, a documentary publicistic book by the famous American journalist John Reed.
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