121 MOI SYN (MY SON)
1928, 69 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Yevgeny Chervyakov, screenplay: Yuri Gromov, Nikolai Dirin, A. Turin, Yevgeny Chervyakov, camera: Svyatoslav Belyaev, production designer: Semyon Meinkin
Cast: Gennady Michurin, Anna Sten, Pavel Beryozov, Lyudmila Semyonova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Boris Chirkov
A lyrical study on how a Soviet man is getting rid of old concepts of love and jealousy.
122 MYATEZH (REVOLT)
1928, 76 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Leonid Patlis, production designers: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, Semyon Meinkin
Cast: Pyotr Podvalny, A. Alexeyev, Tatyana Guretskaya, I. Razveyev, Valery Solovtsov, Boris Babochkin, Pyotr Kirillov
Loosely based on Dmitry Furmanov’s novel of the same title.
The story is based on real events: a revolt in the city of Verny (later renamed Frunze, now — Bishkek) in 1920.
123 NE TAK STRASHEN CHYORT (THE DEVIL IS NOT AS BLACK)
1928, 18 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Alexander Bogdanov, screenplay: Zinovy Drapkin, Robert Maiman, camera: Feliks Shtertser, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: A; Goldman, N. Fausek, V. Soboleva
Peasants are getting rid of superstitious beliefs.
124 NORD-OST (NORTH-EAST)
1928, 69 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Cheslav Sabinsky, screenplay: Dmitry Shcheglov, camera: Friedrih Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Isaak Makhlis
Cast: Zoya Valevskaya, Sergei Troitsky, Ivan Khudoleyev, Gennady Michurin, Lyudmila Semyonova
Loosely based on Dmitry Shcheglov’s play of the same title.
125 NOTA NA KOLYOSAKH (A NOTE ON WHEELS)
1928, 20 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Yevgeny Maikhailov, Fyodor Nikitin, screenplay: Sergei Bartenev, camera: Yevgeny Mikhailov
Cast: V. Yablonsky, N. Vasilyeva-Opel, Gerda Slatanakh
The film tells about the formation of the new relations style in family life.
126 OBIZHENNIYE BUKVY (OFFENDED LETTERS)
1928, 17 min., b/w
Feature/Cartoon
Directors: Alexander Presnyakov, Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: Nikolai Agnivtsev, camera: Leonid Drankov, Nikolai Yefremov, cartoons: Vladislav Tvardovsky
Offended by school children’s negligent attitude to books and studies, letters rose in revolt. The alphabet sent its delegates to Ministry of Education to lodge a complaint against children. Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Minister of Education, received the delegates and promised the letters to bring children to reason.
127 PESN O METALE (SONG OF METAL)
1928, 7 min., b/w
Film study
Directors-editors: Mikhail Shapiro, Iosif Heifits, Alexander Zarkhi, Vladimir Granatman, camera: Alexander Ginzburg
Shot without a screenplay the film is an edited combination of newsreels. Lines from Alexander Zharov’s poem of the same title were used as captions.
128 PIONER VANYA (PIONEER VANYA)
1928, 12 min., b/w
Cartoon
Written and directed by: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), camera: Nikolai Yefremov, production designer: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri)
Pioneer Vanya, an enthusiast of aircraft modelling, longed to go round the world. His wish comes true in his dream. He wins a single combat with a shark and an octopus. He finds himself in the jungle, meets a lion and helps monkeys who rose in rebellion against the hippopotamus.
129 PRAVO NA ZHIZN (A RIGHT TO LIVE)
1928, 69 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, screenplay: S. Daurov, Pavel Petrov-Bytov, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Tatyana Guretskaya, Fyodor Mikhailov, Roza Sverdlova, N. Sharap
The film tells about struggle against favouritism at factories in the years of the NEP (New Economic Policy).
130 PRYZHOK (A JUMP)
1928, 54 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: K. Gavrilyuk, Andrei Mikhailovsky, camera: Feliks Shtertser, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Yakov Gudkin, Yelena Leonova, G. Meyerovich, A. Shats
The film promoting mass physical culture and sports among young people.
131 RODNOY BRAT (BROTHER)
1928, 61 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Nikolai Krol, screenplay: Nikolai Molodtsov, camera: V. Bluvstein, Yevgeny Mikhailov, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, V. Soshalskaya, Pyotr Kuznetsov, Boris Chirkov
Loosely based on “Kinsfolk”, a novel by Mikhail Chumandrin.
New morale comes into collision with the old private-ownership mentality.
132 SINIYE VOROTNIKI (BLUE COLLARS)
1928, 56 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Boris Shpis, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, camera: Vladimir Danashevsky, production designer: Boris Shpis
Cast: Semyon Antonov, Valery Solovtsov, N. Krasolenko
On the importance of physical culture and sports for Soviet youth.
133 SNEZHNIYE REBYATA (SNOW BOYS)
1928, 45 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Boris Shpis, screenplay: Ilya Trauberg, camera: I. Tikhomirov, production designer: Boris Spis
Cast: Semyon Antonov, Valery Solovtsov, N. Krasolenko, Yevgeny Kumeiko
The film was made to promote mass physical culture movement in the Soviet Union.
134 SYN RYBAKA (THE FISHERMAN’S SON)
1928, 75 min., b/w
Biopic
Director: Alexander Ivankovsky, screenplay: Nikolai Katkov, camera: Yuli Stilianudis, production designer: Moisei Levin
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Olga Rozevskaya, Kondrat Yakovlev, Irina Volodko, Ivan Khudoleyev, Pyotr Podvalny, Yelena Deineko
The film focuses on life of the great Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov
135 TANYA (TANYA)
1928, 12 min., b/w
Revolutionary propaganda
Written and directed by: Sergei Glagolin, camera: Emmanual Ratner, production designer: Boris Almendingen
Cast: K. Lazarev, D. Volge, V. Pevtsova, D. Ignatyev
Based on “Tanya, a Revolutionary”, a short story by Yelena Vereiskaya
The film tells about the participation of children in underground activities of Bolsheviks in the years of the Civil War.
136 TRETYA ZHENA MULLY (THE THIRD WIFE OF A MULLAKH)
1928, 72 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vyachslav Viskovsky, screenplay: Alexander Balagin, Vyachslav Viskovsky, camera: Feliks Shtertser, libretto: Lusil Skvair
Cast: V. Baranova, A. Shats, Boris Novikov, Sergei Shishko, Ivan Khudoleyev
The film tells about struggle for women emancipation in the East in the first years of the Soviet power.
137 TRETYA MOLODOST (THE THIRD YOUTH)
1928, 71 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Shmidthof, screenplay: Andrei Aravsky, Ivan Pyryev, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, production designer: Nikolai Akimov
Cast: Andrei Lavrentyev, Kseniya Denisova, Yuri Lavrov, Yu. Gurin, Nikolai Lebedev
The film tells about the introduction of new machinery in agricultural cooperatives.
138 KHABU (KHABU)
1928, 68 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vyachslav Viskovsky, screenplay: Yuri Tarich, Vyacheslav Viskovsky, camera: Feliks Shtertser, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Cast: Alexander Mgebrov, Pavel Kursner, A. Nikolayeva, Nikolai Simonov, Yevgeny Kumeiko, Emil Gal
Based on Vsevolod Ivanov’s novel of the same title.
139 KHVASTUNISHKA (LITTLE BOASTER)
1928, 5 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Ivan Druzhinin, screenplay: M. Timens, camera: Nikolai Yefremov, production designer: Ivan Druzhinin
A cowardly boy Nikolka loved to boast of his exploits. One day he took a rifle and went to the forest to trace a wolf and came across a little rabbit. The frightened boy took the rabbit for some dangerous wild beast and rushed home, forgetting about his rifle.
140 TSENA CHELOVYEKA (VALUE OF A MAN)
1928, 68 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Mikhail Averbakh, Mark Donskoi, screenplay: Veniamin Yadin, Leonid Zalkind, camera: Nikolai Ushakov, production designers: Semyon Meinkin, Mikhail Litvak
Cast: D. Maloletnov, Igor Doronin, Roza Sverdlova
This film is about the necessity of the careful attitute to a friend.
141 A POCHEMU TAK? (AND WHY IS IT SO?)
1929, 50 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Nikolai Dirin, A. Larionov, screenplay: A. Larionov, camera: Boris Khrennikov, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: L. Ivanov-Rayev, Vladimir Romashkov, Olga Rozevskaya, Fyodor Bogdanov, N. Mikhailov
The film is about the close association of young people with the elder generation of workers.
142 ADRES LENINA (LENIN’S ADDRESS)
1929, 61 min., b/w
Film-novel
Director: Vladimir Petrov, screenplay: Boris Brodyansky, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Fatima Gilyazova, Borya Lytkin, Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya, Veronika Buzhinskaya, Shura Zavyalov
The film features the life of Leningrad pioneers.
143 BOLNIYE NERVY (BAD NERVES)
1929, 59 min., b/w
Educational film
Director: Noi Galkin, screenplay: Noi Galkin, Lazar Sukharebsky, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, production designer: Nikolai Akimov
Cast: Fatima Gilyazova, Borya Lytkin, Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya, Veronika Buzhinskaya, Shura Zavyalov
Cast: Sergei Minin, Yelena Yegorova, Gerda Slatanakh
This film is about neurasthenia and the methods of its treatment.
144 BUZILKA PROTIV BRAKA (BUZILKA STRUGGLES AGAINST DEFECTIVE GOODS)
1929, 18 min., b/w
Feature/Cartoon
Director: Alexander Presnyakov, screenplay: A. Maslov-Minikh, camera: Nikolai Yefremov, production designer: Viktor Tvardovsky, cartoons, production design by: S. Zhukov, captions by: Dmitry Tolmachev
Buzilka, a drawn personage, purchased in a store a primus-stove, a knife and some sausage. All the goods turned out to be of low quality. Buzilka goes to companies manufacturing these goods. He finds out why the companies are producing defective products and takes the necessary steps to improve the situation.
145 BUNT BABUSHEK (GRANDMOTHERS’ REVOLT)
1919, 50 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Oskar Gallai, screenplay: Iosif Berhin, Yuri Musykant, camera: M. Galper, production designer: Fyodor Berenshtam
Cast: Pavel Kurzner, B. Manukhin, D. Zhiryakov, R. Kamskaya, Yuri Laptev
People overcome the feeling of chauvinism.
146 GENERAL TOPTYGIN (GENERAL TOPTYGIN)
1929, 23 min., b/w
Director: Sergei Glagolin, screenplay: N. Ignatovich, Sergei Glagolin, camera: Ya. Leibov, Pavel Pallei, production designer: Boris Almendingen
Cast: K. Karenin, Sergei Glagolin, Fyodor Slavsky
Based on Nikolai Nekrasov’s poem of the same title.
147 GOLUBOI EKSPRESS (BLUE EXPRESS)
1929, 61 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Leonid Ierikhonov, Ilya Trauberg, camera: Boris Khrennikov, Yuli Stilianudis, production designers: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, Moisei Levin
The film was sound-tracked in Paris in 1931
Cast: Sergei Minin, Igor Chernyak, I. Arbenin, Yakov Gudkin, Ivan Savelyev, San Bo-yan
The film features the struggle of Chinese people for freedom and national independence.
148 DOROGA V MIR (ROAD TO THE WORLD)
1929, 84 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Director: Boris Shpis, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Boris Shpis, camera: Yevgeny Mikhailov, production designer: Semyon Meinkin
Cast: Valery Solovtsov, Kira Semyonova, Mikhail Speransky, Yanina Zheimo, Anna Zarzhitskaya, Shura Zavyalov
History of Russian proletariat is illustrated by the life story of a worker — member of the Bolshevik party.
149 ZOLOTOI KLYUV (GOLDEN BEAK)
1929, 67 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Yevgeny Chervyakov, screenplay: Nikolai Molodtsov, Yevgeny Chervyakov, camera: Svyatoslav Belyayev, Alexander Sigayev, production designer: Semyon Meinkin
Cast: L. Yefimov, Gennady Michurin, Sergei Minin, M. Gipsi, Boris Dmokhovsky, Boris Livanov, Anna Sten, Konstantin Gibshman
Based on Anna Karavayeva’s novel of the same title.
The film tells about the slavish forced labor of serfs working in mines in the times of tsar Paul I and about their struggle against the tyranny of tsarist administration.
150 KAAN-KEREDE (KAAN-KEREDE)
1929, 62 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Feinberg, camera: Friedrich Verigo-Dorovsky, V. Kamensky, production designers: Isaak Makhlis, Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Cast: M. Gipsi, I. Arbenin, Lev Butarinsky, Pavel Kurzner, Bela Chernova, K. Karenin, Varvara Myasnikova
The film tells about the penetration of new culture and struggle against backward views in remote regions of the country.
151 KAIN I ARTYOM (CAIN AND ARTYOM)
1929, 80 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, camera: Nikolai Ushakov, Mikhail Kaplan, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Isaak Makhlis
The film was sound-tracked in 1932 in France by director Abel Hans
Cast: Yelena Yegorova, Georgy Uvarov, Emil Gal, Nikolai Simonov
Loosely based on Maxim Gorky’s short story of the same title.
152 KONNITSA SKACHET (CAVALRY GALLOPS)
1929, 56 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Nikolai Beresnev, camera: Naum Aptekman, production designer: Ivan Zablotsky
Cast: Kolya Simanovich, Ursula Krug, N. Kutuzov, Yuri Laptev, Nikolai Michurin
Loosely based on Nikolai Tikhonov’s novel “War Horses”
Red Army guards are fighting against White Army security service.
153 LEDYANAYA SUDBA (ICE FORTUNE)
1929, 71 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Yevgeny Petrov, screenplay: Boris Brodyansky, Vladimir Petrov, camera: Vasily Belyayev, production designer: Isaak Makhlis
Cast: Nikolai Prozorovsky, Vladimir Vikulin, D. Zaitsev, Oleg Zhakov, F. Khokhlov, Veronika Buzhinskaya, Pyotr Kuznetsov
The film features the high moral qualities of a team of researchers working at a polar station.
154 NEULOVIMY RABKOR (ELUSIVE CORRESPONDENT)
1929, 18 min., b/w
Feature/Cartoon
Director: Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: A. Maslov-Minikh, camera: Nikolai Yefremov, production designers: Vladislav Tvardovsky, P. Sokolov
Cast: Fyodor Kamensky, M. Kolokolov, N. Galkov
The film tells about the adventures of an “elusive correspondent” Buzilka at one of factories. Buzilka is a drawn personage of a series of cartoons.
155 NOVY VAVILON (NEW BABYLON)
1929, 80 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
Cast: Yelena Kuzmina, Pyotr Sobolevsky, David Gutman, Sofia Magarill, Sergei Gerasimov, Yanina Zheimo, Yevgeny Chervyakov, Andrei Kostrichkin, Oleg Zhakov, Vsevolod Pudovkin
The film is set in the days of Paris Commune.
156 OBLOMOK IMPERII (FRAGMENT OF EMPIRE)
1929, 80 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Katherina Vinogradskaya, Friedrich Ermler, camera: Yevgeny Shneider, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney
The film was restored and re-edited at “Lenfilm”(1967, 78 min., b/w). Director of restoration: Fyodor Nikitin, editor: Mikhail Bleinman, sound: Grigory Elbert, misic: Vladimir Deshevov
Cast: Fyodor Nikitin, Lyudmila Semyonova, Valery Solovtsov, Yakov Gudkin, Vyacheslav Viskovsky
The film tells about great changes that took place in the conscience of people as a result of the October revolution.
157 PIZHON (A FOP)
1929, min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Mark Donskoy, screenplay: Yuli Stilianudis, Simova, V. Bogdanovich, camera: F. Zandberg, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: V. Chumachenko, V. Adamova
The film satirizes philistine approach to art as the “refined” style of behavior and dressing according to the latest fashion.
158 POCHTA (POST)
1929, 20 min., b/w
Cartoon
The film was sound-tracked in 1930, 30 min., Director: N. Timofeyev, misic: Vladimir Deshevov, sound: Mikhail Mukhachev, text by: Daniil Harms
Director: Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, screenplay: Samuil Marshak, camera: K. Kirillov, production designer: Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, cartoons: Ivan Druzhinin
Based on Samuil Marshak’s poem of the same title.
159 SMERTNY NOMER (THE FATAL TURN)
1929, 67 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Georgy Krol, camera: Boris Khrennikov, production designer: Moisei Levin
Cast: Illarion Pevtsov, Lyudmila Semyonova, Arnold Arnold, Iona Brodsky, Yevgeny Kumeiko
Loosely based on Boris Zhitkov’s novel “Boa”
160 SOVETSKAYA KOPEIKA (A SOVIET COPECK)
1929, 10 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), screenplay: Avraam Naroditsky, production designers: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), Dmitry Tolmachev, captions by: Dmitry Tolmachev
At the time when “Soviet Copeck” factory employees are working hard to increase the public wealth an idler does nothing but drinks. His machine tool complains that his operator is a sloven. Hardly moving his feet the idler goes first to the medical room and then to the mutual insurance fund. A Soviet copeck urges its friends to repulse the lazy drunkard. Money refuses to go into his pocket.
161 TRANSPORT OGNYA (FIRE TRANSPORT)
1929, 76 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, Alexander Ivanov, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke
Cast: Kseniya Klyaro, Gleb Kuznetsov, Nikolai Michurin, Alexei Goryushin, Lev Butarinsky
The film features the underground activities of armed workers detachments on the eve of the first Russian revolution.
162 UBITY ZHIV (THE KILLED MAN IS ALIVE)
1929, 20 min., b/w
Film-novel
Directors: Yu. Goltsev, Dmitry Tolmachev, screenplay: Dmitry Tolmachev, camera: Vasily Belyayev, Vasily Simbirtsev
Cast: Sergei Minin, Igor Chernyak, V. Shupov
The film features the episodes of revolutionary struggle in the West.
163 FLAG NATSII (THE FLAG OF THE NATION)
1929, 76 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimirm Shmidthof after libretto by Nikolai Akimov, camera: Vladimir Danashevsky, production designers: Yevgeny Yeney, Yevgeniya Slovtsova
Cast: Boris Azarov, P. Naumov, Gennady Michurin, Nina Shaternikova, Sergei Minin, Yuri Lavrov, Igor Chernyak
The film features the struggle of workers against violence and police tyranny in the capitalist society.
164 CHELOVEK S PORTFELEM (A MAN WITH A BRIEFCASE)
1929, 65 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Cheslav Sabinsky, screenplay: A. Kirillov, camera: Naum Aptekman, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov
Cast: Nikolai Monakhov, Irina Volodko, Kolya Simonovich, S. Pronskaya, Andrei Lavrentyev, Pavel Kurzner, Sergei Shishko, Varvara Myasnikova
Based on Alexei Faiko’s play of the same title.
The film unmasks a disguised enemy who fraudulently mixes with Soviet scientists.
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