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80 VODOVOROT (VORTEX) 1927, 73 min., b/w Drama Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, screenplay: Olga Vishnevskaya, Pavel Petrov-Bytov, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Boris Almendingen Cast: F. Mikhailov, Tatyana Guretskaya, N. Sharap, Sergei Langovoy, Shura Savelyev The film tells about the struggle of peasants with the miller-kulak (peasant proprietor) in the first years after the end of the Civil war. 81 “GLAVDYNYA” NA OTDYKHE (“GLAVDYNYA” ON VACATION) 1927, 15 min., b/w Comedy Director Vladimir Shmidthof, screenplay: Alexander Bogdanov, Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: V. Bluvshtein, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov Cast: Alexander Bogdanov, E. Mashkevich, V. Yablonsky, Ya. Golts The film mocks the vicious practice of staffing an organization with too many employees. 82 DVA RIKSHI (TWO RICKSHAWS) 1927, 6 min., b/w Cartoon Director: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), screenplay: Nikolai Agnivtsev, camera: N. Yefremov, production designer: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri) Mid 20-es. A Chinese fieldmarshal as a rickshaw is carrying British General John Bull and his bulldog along Chinese roads. They come across a Chinese worker who grabs both the general and the fieldmarshal and throws them away to the garbage pile.
The years of NEP (New Economic Policy) A girl working at a telegraph in a remote place was longing to go to Moscow. Reading bare dots and dashes she was learning about exciting events happening in the country and was getting more and more dissatisfied with her life. Finally she realized her dream, came to Moscow and was happy to share enthusiasm of the young people rebuilding the city. When the girl returned home she saw that a large-scale construction was started in her native region, on the bank of a remote river. And again she is transmitting dots and dashes but now she feels that her work is part of the great work going in her country.
The film was released in connection with the criminal trial over a gang of hooligans which held in these years. 85 DOM V SUGROBAKH (HOUSE IN SNOW-DRIFTS) 1927, 63 min., b/w Drama Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Boris Leonidov, camera: Yevgeny Mikhailov, Gleb Bushtuyev, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney Cast: Fyodor Nikitin, Tatyana Okova, Valery Solovtsov, Yakov Gudkin, Galina Shaposhnikova Loosely based on Yevgeny Zamyatin’s short story “The Cave” The film tells about a musician who went through some serious hesitations before he realized that revolutionary Russia needed his art.
Loosely based on Pavel Zhurba’s story “A Trollop”. Set in the years when the first collective farms were organized, the film tells about the attempts of working peasants to unmask false cooperatives and about their struggle for the organization of a cattle breeding farm.
Based on Nikolai Nikitin’s short story of the same title. The film tells about the disintegration of a landowner’s family.
Fishermen living in a village in the Far North struggle against a kulak (peasant proprietor). 89 NA RELSAKH (ON RAIL-TRACK) 1927, 72 min., b/w Drama Director: Ivan Khudoleyev, screenplay: Mikhail Borisoglebsky, camera: Grigory Lemberg, production designer: Pavel Betaki Cast: N. Sharap, Sergei Glagolin, Veronika Buzhinskaya, Alexei Goryushin An honest Soviet man is fighting against go-getters, bribe-takers and profiteers. 90 OKTYABR (OCTOBER) 1927, 101 min., b/w Historical-Revolutionary Written and directed by: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigory Aleksandrov, camera: Eduard Tisse, production designer: Vasily Kovrigin Cast: Vasily Nikandrov, N. Popov, Boris Livanov, Eduard Tisse The film was restored and dubbed at “Mosfilm” in 1967, 104 min., misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Valentina Ladygina, Viktor Babushkin Epic drama dealing with the bolshevik revolution of October 1917. The film was commissioned by the Soviet governmental October Anniversary Committee to mark the 10th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
A class enemy turns to his own advantage low moral standards and unstable political views of some Soviet workers.
The film popularized physical culture and sports. The leading Soviet swimmers of mid-20-es were shown in the film. 93 PARIZHSKIY SAPOZHNIK (PARIS SHOEMAKER) 1927, 75 min., b/w Drama Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Nikolai Nikitin, Boris Leonidov, camera: Yevgeny Mikhailov, Gleb Bushtuyev, production designers: Yevgeny Mikhailov, Gleb Bushtuyev Cast: Bella Chernova, Yakov Gudkin, Varvara Myasnikova It is impossible to hide from inquisitive looks and gossips in a small provincial town. However, paper-mill worker, Young Communist Leaguer Katya and Andrei are not hiding their love. All of a sudden Katya’s radiant hopes break to pieces: Andrei is indignant to hear the news that Katya is expecting a baby. He does not want “to change diapers”, this “trivial life” will interfere with his plans to “build bright future”. 94 POET I TSAR (THE POET AND THE TSAR) 1927, 72 min., b/w Biopic Director: Vladimir Gardin, screenplay: Vladimir Gardin, Yevgeny Chervyakov, camera: Svyatoslav Belyaev, Naum Aptekman, production designer: Anatoly Arapov Cast: Yevgeny Chervyakpov, Irina Volodko, K. Karenin, Boris Tamarin, Alexei Feona, Ivan Lersky, Alexander Larikov, Zoya Valevskaya The film tells about the last yars of Alexander Pushkin. The film was restored and music was incerted at Gorky Studio in 1968., 75 min. Director of restoration: L. Gitsburg, music editor: Yu. Matskevich, sound: K. Amirov 95 PRUZHINKA (THE SPRING) 1927, 23 min., b/w Comic story Written and directed by: Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: V. Bluvstein, Vladimir Danashevsky, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov Cast: Alexander Bogdanov, Maria Taut The film condemns bureaucratic “red tape” on factories. 96 PURGA (SNOW-STORM) 1927, 80 min., b/w Drama Director: Cheslav Sabinsky, screenplay: Dmitry Shcheglov, camera: Naum Aptekman, production designer: Boris Almendigen Cast: Gennady Michurin, Fyodor Bogdanov, Maria Putyata, Zoya Valevskaya, Yevgeny Boronikhin, Pyotr Podvalny Based on Dmitry Shcheglov’s play of the same title. Wholehearted and pure character of a Bolshevik is set off against moral meanness of a representative of petty bourgeoisie.
Loosely based on Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel “North” The film tells about the life of fishermen in the north of Russia.
The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. 99 STORONA LESNAYA (FOREST LAND) 1927, 70 min., b/w Drama Director: Georgy Krol, screenplay: F. Malov, Georgy Krol, camera: Pyotr Chupyatov, Yuliy Stilianudis, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, I. Brif Cast: Georgy Kolosov, V. Vadimov, Pavel Kurzner, Nadezhda Lezhen, A. Chekayevsky, Nikolai Lebedev The film tells about struggle of Young Communist Leaguers — members of timber-cutting cooperative — with a proprietor. 100 SCHASTLIVIYE CHEREPKI (HAPPY CROCKS) 1927, 65 min., b/w Drama Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Konstantin Derzhavin, camera: Pyotr Chupyatov, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova Cast: Kseniya Denisova, N. Yablokov, Boris Novikov, V. Belousov, Pavel Kurzner Linking of town and village in period of reconstruction. 101 TURBINA NOMER TRI (TURBINE NO. 3) 1927, 50 min., b/w Drama Director: Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Adrian Piotrovsky, Nikolai Erdman, camera: Svyatoslav Belyaev, Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke Cast: Pyotr Kuznetsov, Mark Gall, Nikolai Lebedev, Tatyana Guretskaya Loosely based on “Cement”, a novel by Fyodor Gladkov The film tells about the construction of a hydro-electric power station. The film includes scenes shot on location on the Volkhov Hydro-Electric Power station. 102 CHUZHOY PIDZHAK (SOMEBODY ELSE’S JACKET) 1927, 63 min., b/w Satirical comedy Director: Boris Shpis, screenplay: Veniamin Kaverin, camera: Andrei Moskvin, I. Tikhomirov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, Sergei Gerasimov, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Arnold Arnold, Yanina Zheimo, Tamara Makarova Loosely based on “Inspector”, a short story by Veniamin Kaverin The film satirizes negative elements in the work of economic executives in the first years of New Economic Policy.
The story includes some episodes from the biography of a Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. 104 BUZILKA (BUZILKA) 1928, 21 min., b/w Feature/Cartoon Director: Alexander Presnyakov, Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: M. Timens, camera: Leonid Patlis, Nikolai Yefremov, cartoonist and production designer: Vladislav Tvardovsky Cast: N. Litvinov, Kirill Gun Khudyshkin, the Assistant Deputy Chief of Tsentropokryshki and Tolstushkin, his drinking companion, were spreading rumors about imminent war and earthquake. Once Khudyshkin had a dream that he was taken prisoner by Chamberlain. Cartoon personage Buzilka denounces the two panic-mongers and ridicules dead scared Tolstushkin and Khudyshkin. 105 VESYOLIYE STROITELI (MERRY BUILDERS) 1928, 61 min., b/w Comedy Written and directed by: Mikhail Bystritsky, D. Yeremich, camera: Ya. Barru Cast: A. Zimin, N. Bashkirov, V. Savitsky, N. Lash, P. Khodakov The film tells about the construction of summer workmen’s settlement. 106 GAFIR I MARIAM (GAFIR AND MARIAM) 1928, 56 min., b/w Drama Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, camera: Pyotr Chupyatov, production designers: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, Nikolai Suvorov Cast: Nikolai Michurin, N. Urvantsev, Tamara Adelgeim, P. Vasilyev, Vladimir Vikulin Loosely based on Vsevolod Ivanov’s short story “Shaitan Arba” dealing with the clash of new and old in period of the New Economic Policy.
In the days of 1917 revolution Russian army soldiers are taking the side of proletariat. 108 DZHOI I DRUZHOK (DZHOI AND DRUZHOK) 1928, 59 min., b/w Adventure Written and directed by: Vladimir Petrov, Mary Khukhunashvili, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, Svyatoslav Belyaev, production designers: Yevgeniya Slovtsova, Semyon Meinkin Cast: Shura Zavyalova, Fatima Gilyazova, Borya Lytkin, Fyodor Bodganov, Pyotr Kuznetsov The film tells about the education of children. 109 DOM VVERKH DNOM (HOUSE UPSIDE DOWN) 1928, 9 min., b/w Cartoon Written and directed by: Dmitry Tolmachev, camera: Nikolai Yefremov, cartoons: Viktor Griogoryev (Gri) Avoskin, a stupid bungler working for a housing cooperative starts building a house without a drawing. He chooses the place for the construction site on a bog. When the construction is about to be finished the house falls apart. 110 ZHELEZNAYA LOSHAD (AN IRON HORSE) 1928, 22 min., b/w Propaganda film Director: Oscar Gallai, screenplay: Zinovy Drapkin, Robert Maiman, camera: Mikhail Galper Cast: Pyotr Kuznetsov, P. Yermakov, Gerorgy Uvarov The film tells about the mechanization of peasants’ labor in a village. 111 ZAPASETS (A STOCK) 1928, 20 min., b/w Comedy Director: Vladimir Shmidthof, screenplay: Viktor Ardov, Alexander Bogdanov, Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: Yuli Stilianudis, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov Cast: Alexander Bogdanov, E. Mashkevich The film satirizes panic-mongers spreading rumors about war. 112 ZNOINY PRINTS (HOT PRINCE) 1928, 68 min., b/w Comedy Director: Vladimir Shmidthof, screenplay: Boris Lipatov, camera: Yuli Stilianudis, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov Cast: Alexander Bogdanov, N. Nikolayev, A. Yeremeyeva, V. Yablonsky, Varvara Myasnikova The film tells about the life of young people working at a plant. 113 ZOLOTOI MYOD (GOLDEN HONEY) 1928, 62 min., b/w Drama Directors: Nikolai Bersenev, Vladimir Petrov, screenplay: Nikolai Bersenev, camera: Vladimir Danashevsky, production designers: I. Brif, Yevgeniya Slovtseva Cast: Fyodor Bogdanov, Pyotr Kuznetsov, A. Baskakov, Fatima Gilyazova, Borya Lytkin, Shura Zavyalov Film for children about reforming waifs and strays in children’s labour commune 114 INZHENER YELAGIN (ENGINEER YELAGIN) 1928, 67 min., b/w Drama Director: Vladimir Feinberg, screenplay: Vladimir Braun, A. Morozov, camera: Naum Aptekman, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke Cast: Nikolai Monakhov, Varvara Myasnikova, Fyodor Nikitin, A. Temnov The film tells about the sufferings of a Soviet engineer whose son was recruited by a foreign intelligence service. 115 KASTUS KALINOVSKY (KASTUS KALINOVSKY) 1928, 72 min., b/w Historical drama Written and directed by: Vladimir Gardin, camera: Naum Aptekman, A. Akmolinsky, production designer: Anatoly Arapov Cast: Nikolai Simonov, V. Plotnikov, Alexei Feona, Grigory Ge, Sofia Magarill, Boris Livanov, Tatyana Bulakh, Konstantin Khokhlov, Kondrat Yakovlev The film tells about peasants’ uprising of 1863 headed by popular hero Kastus Kalinovsky 116 KOMNATA S MEBELYU (FURNISHED ROOM) 1928, 20 min., b/w Feature/animation Directors: Alexander Presnyakov, Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: M. Timens, camera: Leonid Patlis, Nikolai Yefremov, cartoons: Vladislav Tvardovsky, V. Kuklin, S. Zhukov Cast: A. Sadovskaya, Kirill Gun, N. Litvinov, Sergei Troitsky A doll named Buzilka finds out that a landlady is going to sell a room in her flat to a nepman (nouveau rich of the 20es). Indignant Buzilka decides to help a young musician get this room and substitutes the documents. The landlady fails to notice the substitution and the musician becomes the owner of the room. 117 KOSAYA LINIYA 1928, 68 min., b/w Drama Director: Alexander Ivanov, Oscar Gallai, screenplay: B. Feldman, Konstantin Derzhavin, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, Mikhail Galper, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova, Ye. Rubinstein Cast: Lev Butarinsky, A. Pasynkova, Kseniya Klyaro, Gennady Michurin, Mikhail Rostovtsev, Alexei Goryushkin The film tells about struggle with workers’ hard drinking and shirking. 118 KUZNYA UT (THE UT FORGE) 1928, 55 min., b/w Drama Director: Yevgeny Petrov, screenplay: Yakov Zadykhin, camera: Pavel Pallei, Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova Cast: Tatyana Guretskaya, Fyodor Slavsky, Yakov Zadykhin, N. Yablokov, F. Mikhailov, Sergei Langovoy Organizers of a cooperative company in a village are struggling against the bureaucrats and bunglers. 119 LUNA SLEVA (MOON ON THE LEFT SIDE) 1928, 63 min., b/w Drama Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, Vladimir Granatman, Mikhail Shapiro, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, production designer: Mikhail Litvak Cast: Vasily Chudakov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Boris Chirkov, Zoya Valevskaya, Mikhail Lomakin, Yelena Yegorova Loosely based on Vladimir Bill-Byelotserkovsky’s play of the same title. 120 MAX I MORITZ (MAX AND MORITZ) 1928, 21 min., b/w Animation Written and directed by: Yevgeny Demmeni, camera: Anatoly Pogorely, production designer: I. Pavlovich, in the production participated “Teatr Petrushki” group of the Leningrad Young Spectators’ Theatre Puppets operated by: N. Goryainov, B. Davydov, B. Lebedev Puppets: Max, Moritz, Widow, Tailor, Beck, Teacher Lempel, Peasant, Miller, Dog Loosely based on a tale by Wilhelm Busch. Max and Moritz were mischievous boys. They were tearing their books and notebooks to pieces and mocking adults. Once they got into a barn, ripped up a sack and spilled grain all over the floor. A peasant who saw this put Max and Moritz into a sack and decided to carry them to the mill. Scared children begged him to let them out. The peasant set the boys free and they improved their behavior. Download 1.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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