Preface to the catalogue
IKH PUTI RAZOSHLIS (THEY DRIFTED APART)
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209 IKH PUTI RAZOSHLIS (THEY DRIFTED APART) 1931, 57 min., silent, b/w Drama Director: Boris Fyodorov, screenplay: Leonid Zalkind, Alexander Lazebnikov, Andrei Mikhailovsky, camera: Sergei Ivanov (Alliluyev), production designer: Yevgeny Yeney Cast: Vladimir Gardin, Georgy Friken, Ya. Rykov, Pyotr Kirillov, T. Martirosov Under the influence of successes achieved in building socialism foreign experts working in the USSR begin to stratify according to their class affiliations
Based on “Oil”, a play by Tur brothers (pen-name of Pyotr Ryzhey and Leonid Tubelsky), Yakov Gorev and Alexander Shtein. 211 KINOMETLA NOMER TRI (CINEMA-BROOM No. 3) 1931, 38 min., silent, b/w Satirical story Director: Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: Dmitry Tolmachev, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, F. Zandberg Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, Alexander Melnikov The film features struggle against production of defective consumer goods. 212 KONETS NAKHALOVKI (THE END OF NAKHALOVKA) 1931, 56 min., b/w Director: Manuel Bolshintsov, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Manuel Bolshintsov, camera: Alexander Azhogin, production designer: Pavel Betaki The story and the cast not established. 213 KROV ZEMLI (THE BLOOD OF EARTH) 1931, 96 min., silent, b/w Drama Director: Mikhail Averbakh, screenplay: Dmitry Tolmachev, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, production designer: Semyon Meinkin Cast: Ermil Gal, Yevgeny Chervyakov, M. Gipsi, Konstantin Mukhutdinov, Alexander Beniaminov, Roza Sverdlova, Vladimir Gardin, Tatyana Bulakh, Boris Shlikhting The film features the struggle of poor peasants against clergy and rich landowners who hampered the use of oil resources for need of the national economy. 214 LETUN (A ROLLING STONE) 1931, 14 min., b/w Sound Cartoon Director of the sound version: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Vladimir Solovyov, director of cartoons: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), cartoons: P. Porioshkov, misic: Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov At first the film was released as a silent film, 10 min Worker Ivan Letalov (a drawn character) concerned only with making money is changing jobs, “flying” from one factory to another. The person frequently changing jobs does not allow factories to catch up with their plans. A front-rank worker demands that Ivan Letalov’s wings “should be clipped”. Ministry of Labor rules that self-seekers should be expelled from the labor exchange. Ivan Letalov’s wings fall off. Now he is not “flying” but running in search of job. But doors of all plants are closing in front of the “rolling stone”. 215 NA ETOM SVETE (IN THIS LIFE) 1931, 65 min., silent, b/w Drama Director: Boris Kazachkov, screenplay: Dmitry Tolmachev, camera: Anatoly Pogorely, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova Cast: Yevgeniya Pyryalova, A. Galatova, Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Fyodor Slavsky, Fyodor Bogdanov, Leonid Kmit Under the influence of socialist forms of labor great changes take place in the mentality of a backward working woman. 216 ODNA (ALONE) 1931, 80 min., sound, b/w Drama Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Dmitry Shostrakovich, sound: Ilya Volk Cast: Yelena Kuzmina, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Sergei Gerasimov, Maria Babanova, Yanina Zheimo, Boris Chirkov A young teacher makes her first steps in life. She takes up the job at school in a remote Altai area and comes into conflict with local kulaks (rich peasants). 217 ONI I MY (THEY AND US) 1931, 11 min., silent, b/w Propaganda Cartoon Written and directed by: Boris Antonovsky, production designer: Boris Antonovsky This film is an advertisement for an all-Union lottery organized by Osoaviakhim (Society Assisting Army and Air Force). 218 OSTROV CHUDES (A WONDER ISLAND) 1931, 65 min., silent, b/w Film novel Director: Naum Ugryumov, Abram Naroditsky, screenplay: Naum Ugryumov, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Konstantin Bondarenko Based on children’s novel “Corns Seekers” by P. Gryaznov The story contrasts romance of useful activities to useless daydreaming.
A group of Americans who came to the USSR organises a commune. 220 PASIFIK (PACIFIC) 1931, 7 min., sound, b/w Experimental film Written and directed by: Mikhail Tsekhanovsky The film attempts to illustrate an instrumental musical composition. Musical poem by French composer Arthur Onegger was recorded and various visual images like steam engine and its parts, musical instruments, hands of musicians etc. were added to illustrate the music.
The story is based on the real life event that took place in 1925 on Soviet-Romanian border when Romania attempted to seize an island using the fact that the border river had changed its course. 222 POLDEN (MIDDAY) 1931, 76 min., silent, b/w Drama Directors: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, screenplay: A. Kolbanovsky, Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, camera: Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Yelena Aladzhalova Cast: Fyodor Bogdanov, Pyotr Vitsinsky, Oleg Zhakov, Fyodor Slavsky, Alexander Melnikov, Tamara Makarova The story is set in a remote village. A small group of Young Communist Leaguers and a factory worker sent to help them are fighting against kulaks (peasant proprietors). 223 RAZGROM (THE RIOT) 1931, 76 min., silent, b/w Drama Director: Nikolai Beresnev, screenplay: Yuri Laptev, Nikolai Beresnev, camera: Alexander Sigayev, production designer: Fyodor Berenshtam Cast: Viktor Yablonsky, Ivan Yudin, Pyotr Savin, Konstantin Mukhutdinov, Nikolai Khryashchikov, Ludmila Semyonova Based on Alexander Fadeyev’s novel of the same title. 224 SEKRET (SECRET) 1931, 43 min., silent, b/w Drama Director: Oskar Gallai, screenplay: Vladimir Solovyov, camera: Leopold Verigo-Dorovsky, production designer: Yefim Khiger Cast: Pavel Kurzner, A. Temnov, Vladimir Gardin, Yevgeniya Pyryalova, N. Petrov Young factory workers are anxious to rationalize the process of production. 225 SNAIPER (SNIPER) 1931, 83 min., sound, b/w Drama Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Vladimir Danashevsky, production designer: Yvegeny Yeney, misic: Nikolai Malakhovsky, sound: Mikhail Mukhachev Cast: Pyotr Sobolevsky, Pyotr Shlikhting, Pyotr Kirillov, Vladimir Gardin The film tells about development of class consciousness of a Russian worker — participant of 1914 -1918 war. 226 TOVARNY SEMSOT SEMNADTSATIY (FREIGHT TRAIN 717) 1931, 62 min., silent, b/w Film novel Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: V. Petrov, B. Shwarts, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, production designer: Abram Veksler Cast: G. Bogdanov, V. Zabelina Young pioneers are taking part in the production process and in everyday life of a plant. 227 FOMA-RABOTYAGA (FOMA — THE HARD WORKER) 1931, 55 min., silent, b/w Comedy Director: Sergei Glagolin, screenplay: Yakov Yaluner, camera: Vladimir Vergiles, production designer: Vladimir Boriskovich Cast: I. Fomichev, S. Spirov, Maria Bagildz, Antonina Bryantseva The film satirises a lazy collective farmer. 228 CHELOVEK ZA BORTOM (MAN OVERBOARD) 1931, 65 min., silent, b/w Drama Director: Iosif Berkhin, screenplay: Pavel Stelmakh, Yan Larri, camera: Alexander Bratukha, production designer: Abram Veksler Cast: Leonid Kmit, Pavel Kurzner, Sergei Ponachevny, Nina Shaternikova The film unmasks counter-revolutionary activities of a Baptist sect. 229 CHELOVEK IZ TYURMY (A MAN FROM PRISON) 1931, 71 min., silent, b/w Drama Director: Sergei Bartenev, screenplay: Iosif Prut, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Yevgeniya Solovtsova Cast: Ivan Chuvelev, O. Lebedeva, P. Samsonov, Andrei Kostrichkin, Yanina Zheimo The film tells about reforming a man who had committed a crime. 230 BEGLETS (RUNAWAY) 1932, 37 min., sound, b/w Film novel Director: Vladimir Petrov, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Vladimir Petrov, dialogues by: Veniamin Kaverin, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Valery Zhelobinsky, sound: Mikhail Mukhachev Cast: Gennady Michurin, Bruno Riderer, Vyacheslav Viskovsky, Andrei Kostrichkin Loosely based on the play of the same title by Karl August Wietfogel. The film features a heroic episode of the struggle of German communists at the beginning of the 30-s.
The film tells about the patriotism of a young Soviet engineer sent on business trip abroad. 232 VSTRECHNY (COUNTER-PLAN) 1932, 118 min., sound, b/w Drama Directors: Friedrich Ermler, Sergei Yutkevich, screenplay: Lev Arnstam, Daniil Del, Friedrich Ermler, Sergei Yutkevich, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, Joseph Martov, Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk, Ivan Dmitriyev Cast: Vladimir Gardin, Maria Blumental-Tamarina, Tatyana Guretskaya, Andrei Abrikosov, Boris Tenin, Boris Poslavsky Story of the Leningrad turbine plant workers who designed and manufactured the first Soviet turbine. 233 GAIL MOSKAU (HAIL MOSCOW) 1932, 88 min., sound, b/w Drama Director: Vladimir Shmidtgof, screenplay: Alexander Ustinovich, camera: Andrei Moskvin. Pavel Posypkin, production designer: Konstantin Bondarenko, misic: Nikolai Timofeyev, sound: Alexander Bekker Cast: I. Martin, A. Afinogenov, Malik Kayumov, K. Dmitriyev, Sofia Magarill This film is about the solidarity of Soviet seamen with foreign workers. 234 GOROD V STEPI (A TOWN IN STEPPE) 1932, 57 min., silent, b/w Drama Directors: Cheslav Sabinsky, Vladimir Yakolev, screenplay: Cheslav Sabinsky, I. Kotlerman, camera: Svyatoslav Belyayev, Ivan Akmen, production designer: Yefim Khiger Cast: Alexander Mazayev, Irina Volodko, Pyotr Podvalny, Andrei Lavrentyev, K. Denisova Loosely based on Alexander Serafimovich’s novel of the same title. 235 DLYA VAS NAIDYETSYA RABOTA (THERE IS A JOB FOR YOU) 1932, 106 min., sound, b/w Drama Director: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Iosif Prut, Ilya Trauberg, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov, Vladimir Yakovlev, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev, Ilya Volk Cast: Sofya Magarill, Maksim Shtraukh, Fyodor Nikitin Awakening of class consciousness in a German worker under the influence of crisis and unemployment. 236 DOROGOY DLINNOYU (ON A LONG JOURNEY) 1932, 14 min., b/w Cartoon Director: Ivan Druzhinin, screenplay: L. Glyuzman, A. Red, production designer: Ivan Druzhinin, captions: Vladimir Solovyov Satirical denunciation of poor management and slipshod operation of transport. 237 ZOLOTIYE RUKI (GOLDEN HANDS) 1932, 66 min., silent, b/w Drama Director: Sergei Glagolin, screenplay: Yakov Yaluner, camera: Vladimir Vergiles, production designer: Vladimir Boriskovich Cast: L. Ladogina, G. Borovkov, Zinaida Zanoni, Yekaterina Aleksandrovskaya Women are offered jobs at factories. 238 ISHCHU PROTEKTSII (I AM LOOKING FOR A PATRON) 1932, 66 min., silent, b/w Comedy Director: Boris Kazachkov, screenplay: L.Glyuzman, Boris Kazachkov, camera: Anatoly Pogorely, production designer: Konstantin Bondarenko Cast: D. Zaitsev, Andrei Kostrichkin, Yevgeniya Pyryalova An enterprising young man gets all sorts of benefits pretending that he is a relative of influential people. 239 LES (FOREST) 1932, 80 min., silent, b/w Drama Written and directed by: Sergei Gerasimov, idea: Iosif Prut, camera: Yuri Utekhin, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, Alexander Melnikov, Pyotr Pirogov, Yevgeniya Pyryalova The film dealt with complicated issues of political education of peasants. It showed the difficult process of changing mentality of people who were working in remote timber exploitation areas and were separated from the majority of their fellow workers. The film was never released.
A respected old worker is getting rid of his religious prejudices. The film did not survive. Using negative stills of the film and screenplay kept by assistant director Varvara Myasnikova “ Lenfilm” made a photo-film giving detailed reproduction of the film made in 1932.
The film is composed of separate musical turns. 242 NA RADIOVOLNE (ON A RADIO WAVE) 1932, 15 min., b/w Cartoon Director: Vladislav Tvardovsky, P. Poroshkov, screenplay: M. Tuberovsky, production designers: Vladislav Tvardovsky, P. Poroshkov The story not established. 243 OSHIBKA GEROYA (MISTAKE OF A HERO) 1932, 74 min., silent, b/w Drama Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Boris Chirskov, camera: Georgy Filatov, production designer: Pavel Betaki Cast: Georgy Zhzhenov, Andrei Apsolon, B. Rakitin, A. Maseyev, V. Belousov, Oleg Zhakov A group of factory workers is trying to reform a conceited young worker. 244 POBEDITELI NOCHI (CONQUERORS OF NIGHT) 1932, 95 min., sound, b/w Film-essay Director: Adolf Minkin, Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: Vladimir Nedobrovo, camera: F. Zantsberg, Pavel Pallei, production designer: Pavel Zaltsman, Elza Rapoport, misic: Boris Arapov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev Cast: Illarion Pevtsov, Vasily Sofronov, Serafim Azanchevsky, Andrei Kostrichkin, Gennady Michurin, Mikhail Tsarev The film tells about Soviet Arctic researches. The story is based on the voyage of the “Malygin” ice breaker to Franz-Joseph Land made in the summer of 1931.
The lead character of the film is a poor peasant’s son who was brought up in the family of a kulak (peasant proprietor) and adopted the kulaks’ ideology. 246 SERDTSE SOLOMONA (SOLOMON’S HEART) 1932, 62 min., silent, b/w Drama Directors: Sergei Gerasimov, Mikhail Kresin, screenplay: Sergei Gerasimov, camera: Yuri Utekhin, production designers: Konstantin Bondarenko, Semyon Meinkin Cast: Anna Zarzhitskaya, Valery Solovtsov, N. Gorodnichev, Pavel Kurzner, Vladimir Gardin, Viktor Portnov Young villagers unmask a kulak (peasant proprietor) who is trying to commit sabotage against an agricultural commune 247 SIMFONIYA MIRA (SYMPHONY OF PEACE) 1932, 14 min., sound/ b/w Cartoon Directors: Vitali Syumkin, S. Tarasov, screenplay: Eduard Ioganson, B. Bankovsky, Alexander Flit, camera: Yevgeny Sholpo, production designer: Viktor Grigoryev (Gri), misic: Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov Tiger, Rabbit, Monkey and Goat arrive as delegates to a peace conference on disarmament. Each of them has a musical instrument. The delegates are expected to perform the “Symphony of Peace”. Suddenly there emerges a figure of Death — the personification of crisis. The “peaceful” orchestra immediately changes — violins turn into rifles, cellos — into guns, a drum — into a machine-gun and the “Symphony of War” begins. The method of the drawn sound developed by Yevgeny Shoplo was used in this experimental film.
The story of unmasking a saboteur in one of the competing collective farms. 249 SOLDATSKY SYN (SON OF A SOLDIER) 1932, 103 min., silent, b/w Drama Written and directed by: Nikolai Lebedev, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, production designer: Abram Veksler Cast: Tolya Afinogenov, Tolya Kurdyavtsev, V. Besedova, M. Bolshakov, Sergei Ponachevny Children’s film featuring participation of workers’ children in the revolutionary struggle at the beginning of the century. 250 TRI SOLDATA (THREE SOLDIERS) 1932, 98 min., silent, b/w Adventure Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Boris Lipatov, Alexander Ivanov, Vladimir Granatman, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, production designer: Semyon Meinkin Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, Pyotr Pirogov, Yevgeny Chervyakov, Sergei Gerasimov, Yelena Kuzmina, Varvara Myasnikova The film features the process of stratification on the basis of class affiliation among foreign soldiers that invaded Odessa in 1919. Story of three soldiers — a worker, a peasant and an office clerk. 251 UTIRAITE SLYOZY (WIPE YOUR TEARS) 1932, 67 min., silent, b/w Drama Director: Pyotr Kirillov, screenplay: Boris Zon, Alexandra Brushtein, camera: Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Pavel Betaki Cast: Vladimir Gardin, L. Kaulik, N. Turunnen, Ye. Kartseva, M. Simakina The film features participation of German workers’ children in the class struggle. Download 1.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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