292 VOLOCHAYEVSKIYE DNI (THE DAYS IN VOLOCHAYEVSK)
1937, 112 min., b/w
Historical-Revolutionary
Written and directed by: Georgy and Sergei Vasilyev, camera: Alexander Sigayev, production designer: Yakov Rivosh, Ivan Zabolotsky, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Varvara Myasnikova, Nikolai Dorokhin, Lev Sverdlin, Yuri Lavrov, Boris Chirkov, Boris Blinov
The film features utter defeat of Japanese invaders and White Army troops by Soviet people in the Far East during the years of the Civil War.
293 ZHENITBA (MARRIAGE)
1937, 68 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Erast Garin and Khesya Lokshina, camera: Anatoly Pogorely, production designer: Isaak Makhlis, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Erast Garin, Stepan Kayukov, A. Chekayevsky, N. Latonina, Zoya Fyodorova, O. Tomilina
Based on Nikolai Gogol’s comedy of the same title.
294 ZA SOVYETSKUYU RODINU (FOR THE SOVIET MOTHERLAND)
1937, 88 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Rafail and Yuri Muzykant, screenplay: Gennady Fish, Yuri and Rafail Muzykant, camera: Yevgeny Velichko, production designer: Pavel Zaltsman, Mikhail Tsibasov, misic: Alexei Zhivotov, sound: Pyotr and Gleb Vitsinsky
Cast: Oleg Zhakov, Ivan Chuvelev, Ivan Selyanin, Pyotr Kirillov, Pyotr Aleinikov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Nikolai Cherkasov
Based on Gennady Fish’s novel “The Fall of Kimas-Lake”, featuring the struggle of Red Army against White Finns in the days of the Civil War.
295 PERVAYA OKHOTA (THE FIRST HUNTING)
1937, 8 min., b/w
Cartoon
Director: Pavel Shmidt, screenplay: Vitaly Bianki, production designer: Pavel Shmidt, misic: V. Vitlin, sound: V. Urbenin
Unsuccessful attempts of a puppy to chase a butterfly, a bittern and a hoopoe.
296 PYOTR PERVY (PETER THE FIRST)
1937, 1st series, 103 min., b/w
Historical
Director: Vladimir Petrov, screenplay: Alexei Tolstoy, Vladimir Petrov, camera: Vyachslav Gordanov, Vladimir Yakovlev, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Vladimir Shcherbachev, sound: Zakhar Zalkind
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Mikhail Zharov, Alla Tarasova, Mikhail Tarkhanov, Vladimir Gardin, Irina Zarubina
The film features life and activities of tsar Peter I, the reformer of the 18th century Russia.
297 PUGACHEV (PUGACHEV)
1937, 105 min., b/w
Historical
Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, screenplay: Olga Forsh, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Yefim Khiger, misic: Vissarion Shebalin, sound: Viktor Muravyov
Cast: Konstantin Skorobogatov, Yelena Karyakina, Konstantin Mukhitdinov, Mikhail Pavlikov, N. Latonina
Set in the 18th century Russia the film features peasant rebellion led by Yemelyan Pugachev.
298 TAIGA ZOLOTAYA (THE GOLDEN TAIGA)
1937, 78 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Gennady Kazansky, Maxim Ruf, screenplay: Nikolai Pogodin, camera: Veniamin Levitin, Anatoly Pogorely, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Nikolai Butakov, Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Boris Tenin, Alexander Vinogradov, N. Latonina, Pavel Volkov, Nina Shaternikova, Yuri Tolubeyev, Vasily Merkuryev, Nikolai Kryuchkov
The film deals with life of gold-diggers.
299 TYERYEMOK (A LITTLE HOUSE)
1937, 7 min., b/w
Cartoon
Written and directed by: Alexander Sinitsyn, Vitaly Syumkin, camera: V. Vilchevskaya, misic: Isaak Dunayevsky, lyrics: Vladimir Volzhenin
Based on Russian folk fairy-tale.
Three-color print made by the color-film sector laboratory according to the method developed by the State Institute of Optics.
300 SHAKHTYORY (MINERS)
1937, 110 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Sergei Yutkevich, screenplay: Alexei Kapler, camera: Joseph Martov, production designer: Abidin-Dino, Olga Pchelnikova, misic: Boris Golts, sound: M. Sher
Cast: Boris Poslavsky, Yuri Tolubeyev, Vladimir Lukin, Nina Rusinova, Zoya Fyodorova, Stepan Kayukov, Mark Bernes
The film features life of Donbas miners who are trying to increase the coal output.
301 AMANGELDY (AMANGELDY)
1938, 84 min., b/w
Biopic
Director: Moisei Levin, screenplay: Vsevolod Ivanov, Gabit Musrepov, camera: Hecho Nazaryantz, production designers: Moisei Levin, Natalya Fateyeva, misic: Mikhail Gnesin, Akhmet Zhubanov, sound: Afanasi Simonovski, Alexander Ostrovski
Cast: Yeleubai Umurzakov, Shara Zhiyenkulova, Serke Kozhankulov, Kurmanbek Dzhandarbekov, Kanabek Bayseitov, Kalibek Kuanyshpayev
The picture is focused on Amangeldy Imanov, a son of the Kazakh people who became a conscientious fighter for the revolutionary cause.
302 VRAGI (THE ENEMIES)
1938, 78 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Ivanovski, camera: Solomon Belenki, production designers: Semyon Meinkin, Dmitri Rudoi, misic: Yuri Kochurov, sound: Pyotr and Gleb Vitsinski
Cast: Valentin Kiselyev, Tamara Glebova, Boris Poslavski, Sophya Magarill, Boris Zhukovski, Irina Zarubina, Vladimir Gardin, Zoya Fyodorova, Yanina Zheimo
Loosely based on a play of the same title by Maxim Gorki.
303 VYBORGSKAYA STORONA (THE VYBORG MUNICIPAL DISTRICT)
1938, 121 min., b/w
Revolutionary history
Written and directed by: Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei Moskvin, Georgi Filatov, production designer: Vasili Vlasov, misic: Dmitri Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk, Boris Khutoryanski
Cast: Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Nataliya Uzhviy, Yuri Tolubeyev, Maxim Schtrauh, Mikhail Zharov
Part 3 of the trilogy (the first two parts titled “Maxim's Youth” and “Return of Maxim”) telling about the first months of Petrograd life following the revolution of 1917.
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The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
304 GOD DEVYATNADTSATY (THE YEAR 1919)
1938, 85 min., b/w
Revolutionary history
Director: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Joseph Prut, Ilya Trauberg, camera: Anatoli Nazarov, Lev Sokolski, Vladimir Danashevski, Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Pyotr Yakimov, misic: Lev Knipper, sound: Nikolai Dabolin
Cast: G. Gorbunov, Vitali Polizeimako, Andrei Apsolon, Vladimir Gardin, Hans Klering
Based on a play of the same title by Joseph Prut focused on the heroic defence of Astrakhan during the Civil War.
305 DETSTVO MARSHALA (THE MARSHAL'S CHILDHOOD)
1938, 87 min., b/w
Biography
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Igor Vsevolozhski, Leo Moor, Nikolai Lebedev, camera: Vitali Chulkov, production designers: Olga Pchelnikova, Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Victor Tomilin, sound: Alexander Ostrovski, Afanasi Simonovski
Cast: A. Polibin, Vasya Baukov, I. Melnikov, K. Freidkina, G. Yeremeyev
Loosely based on “The Farmstead Team”, a story by Igor Vsevolozhski.
The picture features the childhood of Semyon Budyenny, Marshal of the USSR and a Civil War hero.
306 DZHYABZHA (DZHYABZHA)
1938, 12 min., b/w
Graphic Cartoon
Written and directed by: Mstislav Paschenko, production designers: N. Vereschagina, V. Sokolov (backgrounds), misic: Nikolai Strelnikov, sound: Pavel Kramorov
Based on a Nanaian fairy-tale.
An evil old woman Dzhyabzha lived in a hut in the woods. Her servants, Girl, Little Dog and Baby Frog, worked from morning till night, which didn't spare them the old hag's beatings. It so happened that a bear got into the hut and put away all of the dinner prepared for Dzhyabzha. Infuriated, the old hag went after her servants, wielding a thick stick. But Girl, Little Dog and Baby Frog quickly climbed a very high tree, jumping over to the Moon. Dzhyabzha went after them, but failed and was suspended on a bough.
307 DRUZYA (THE FRIENDS)
1938, 113 min., b/w
Revolutionary history
Director: Lev Arnstam, screenplay: Nikolai Tikhonov, Lev Arnstam, camera: Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Dmitri Shostakovich, sound: Nikolai Butakov
Cast: Boris Babochkin, Irina Zarubina, Nikolai Cherkasov, Stepan Kayukov, Kote Daushvili, Seraphima Bierman
The picture features the life of the North Caucasian peoples shortly after the revolution of 1917 as they unite to fight the oppressors.
308 KOMSOMOLSK (KOMSOMOLSK)
1938, 109 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Sergei Gerasimov, screenplay: Zinoviya Markina, Mikhail Vitukhnovski, Sergei Gerasimov, camera: Alexander Ginzburg, production designer: Vladimir Semyonov, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Yevgeni Nesterov, Arnold Shargorodski
Cast: Tamara Makarova, Ivan Novoseltsev, Pavel Volkov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Stepan Krylov, Valentina Telegina, Pyotr Aleinikov
The picture features the life of the young Soviet people who build a new city, Komsomolsk, in the Far Eastern taiga in the 1930-es.
309 NA GRANITSE (AT THE BORDER)
1938, 104 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Ivanov, camera: Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Pavel Zalzman, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Andrei Gavryushev
Cast: Nikolai Kryuchkov, Yelena Tyapkina, Zoya Fyodorova, Stepan Krylov, Erast Garin, Yuri Lavrov
The picture features the fight of the border guards and residents of the Far East against trespassers.
310 PYOTR PERVY (PETER THE FIRST)
1938, Part 2, 126 min., b/w
Historical epic
Director: Vladimir Petrov, screenplay: Alexei Tolstoi, Vladimir Yakovlev, Nikolai Leschenko, camera: Vladimir Yakovlev, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Vladimir Scherbachyev, sound: Zakhar Zalkind, Yuri Kurzner
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Alla Tarasova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail Tarkhanov, Vladimir Dobrovolski, Irina Zarubina, Mikhail Gardin
The picture features the statesmanship and the military actions of Peter I and the victory of the Russian arms in the Poltava and Baltic Sea battles.
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The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
311 PROFESSOR MAMLYUK (PROFESSOR MAMLYUK)
1938, 105 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Herbert Rappaport, Adolph Minkin, screenplay: Friedrich Wolfe, Adolph Minkin, Herbert Rappaport, camera: Georgi Filatov, production designer: Pavel Betaki, misic: Yuri Kochurov, Nikolai Timofeyev, sound: Lev Valter, Boris Lytkin
Cast: Semyon Mezhinski, Oleg Zhakov, Nina Shaternikova, Vasili Merkuryev, Vladimir Chestnokov, Yuri Tolubeyev
Loosely based on a play by Friedrich Wolfe.
The picture features the social insight of a German doctor and scientist far removed from politics under the impact of the German political events of the early 1930-s.
312 UTYENOK (THE DUCKLING)
1938, 10 min., b/w
Graphic Cartoon
Director: Ivan Druzhinin, screenplay: M. Solovyev, Ivan Druzhinin, production designer: Ivan Druzhinin, misic: V. Vitlin, sound: Pavel Kramarov
Out on a stroll, the naughty Duckling runs off from his Mother Duck and little brothers. Meeting a Butterfly, the Duckling rushes after her and plays with the Hedgehog until he hurts his nose on the prickly needles. The Duckling's pranks get him into trouble: he almost ends up as the Fox's breakfast. Thanks to the Puppy, the Duckling has a narrow escape.
313 CHELOVEK S RUZHYEM (A MAN WITH A GUN)
1938, 103 min., b/w
Revolutionary history
Director: Sergei Yutkevich, screenplay: Nikolai Pogodin, camera: Joseph Martov, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Dmitri Shostakovich, sound: Konstantin Nesterov
Cast: Boris Tenin, Vladimir Lukin, Zoya Fyodorova, Boris Chirkov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Seraphima Bierman, Mark Bernes, Maxim Schtrauh
The picture features the first days of the Soviet Republic. It is focused on the soldier Ivan Shadrin, a former peasant, who gets actively involved in the revolutionary struggle.
314 ARINKA (ARINKA)
1939, 82 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Yuri Muzykant, screenplay: Semyon Polotski, Matvey Tevelyev, camera: Apollinari Dudko, production designer: Alexander Black, misic: Nikita Bogoslovski, sound: Afanasi Simonovski
Cast: Larisa Yemelyantseva, Nikolai Konovalov, Alexander Kulakov, Pavel Sukhanov
The picture features the life and work of the Soviet railway workers.
315 VELIKI GRAZHDANIN (THE GREAT CITIZEN)
1939, Part 2, 134 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Manuel Bolshintsov, Friedrich Ermler, camera: Arkadi Koltsaty, production designers: Semyon Meinkin, Mikhail Krotkin, misic: Dmitri Shostakovich, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
Cast: Nikolai Bogolyubov, Alexander Zrazhevski, Yephim Altus, Zoya Fyodorova, Oleg Zhakov, Ivan Bersenev, Yuri Tolubeyev
The picture features the fight of the Communist Party against the followers of Trotski and Bukharin in the 1930-es.
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The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
316 DOKTOR KALYUZHNY (DICTOR KALYUZNY)
1939, 85 min., b/w
Filmed story
Directors: Erast Garin, Khesya Lokshina, screenplay: Yuri Herman, camera: Anatoli Pogorely, Alexander Sigayev, production designer: Fyodor Berenstam, misic: A. Pappe, sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Boris Tolmazov, Maria Barabanova, Yuri Tolubeyev, Yanina Zheimo, Arkadi Raikin, Valentin Kiselyev
Loosely based on “The Son of the People”, a play by Yuri Herman.
The picture is focused on the young and enthusiastic Doctor Kalyuzhny returning to his native village after his graduation. Kalyuzhy's scientific discovery helped to restore the eyesight of his old teacher and of his former bride's little sister.
317 MUZHESTVO (COURAGE)
1939, 74 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov, screenplay: Georgi Kubanski, camera: Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Yephim Khiger, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Oleg Zhakov, Dmitri Dudnikov, Konstantin Sorokin, Alexei Bondi
The picture is focused on the courage of a civilian flier detaining a dangerous saboteur.
318 NAYEZDNIK IZ KABARDY (A HORSEMAN FROM KABARDA)
1939, 74 min., b/w
Filmed story
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexander Popov, camera: Vitali Chulkov, production designer: Vladimir Pokrovski, misic: Victor Tomilin, sound: Alexander Ostrovski
Cast: G. Yeremeyev, Tamara Glebova, Yuri Lakotkin, Timofei Remizov
The picture is about the kids form a Kabarda village helping the adults to breed swift-running horses.
319 PATRIOT (THE PATRIOT)
1939, 81 min., b/w
Adventure
Director: Jan Fried, screenplay: Andrei Apsolon, camera: Khecho Nazaryantz, production designer: M. Semyenenko, misic: Joseph Pustylnik, sound: Grigori Elbert
Cast: Vladimir Lukin, Yura Bychkov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Olga Avericheva, Vova Repkin, Nikolai Simonov
A children's picture featuring the adventures involved in nourishing of the sense of patriotic duty in a Soviet schoolboy.
320 SLUCHAI NA POLUSTANKE (AN INCIDENT IN A SMALL RAILWAY STATION)
1939, 62 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Oleg Sergeyev, Sergei Yakushev, camera: Alexander Tikhonov, production designer: Vera Bakun, misic: Georgi Krasnov, S. Masselius, sound: Boris Lytkin
Cast: Vladimir Gardin, Mikhail Dubrava, Ivan Nazarov, Yevgeni Nemchenko, Andrei Kostrichkin, Alexander Melnikov
Loosely based on “The Unknown Comrade”, a short story by Fyodor Knorre.
The picture is focused on the heroic deed of a Far Eastern young telegraph operator during the Civil War.
321 STANITSA DALNYAYA (DALNYAYA COSSACK VILLAGE)
1939, 87 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Yevgeni Chervyakov, screenplay: Boris Chirskov, camera: Svyatoslav Belyayev, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Mariya Fateyeva, misic: Vladimir Scherbachyev, sound: Yuri Kurzner
Cast: Zoya Fyodorova, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Nina Shaternikova, Andrei Kostrichkin
The picture features the life of the Kuban collective farmers on the brink of the war.
322 TANKISTY (THE TANKERS)
1939, 89 min., b/w
Defence film
Directors: Zinovi Drapkin, Robert Maiman, screenplay: Zinovi Drapkin, Robert Maiman, Georgi Seliverstov, camera: Alexander Sigayev, Mikhail Magid, production designers: Pyotr Yakimov, Dmitri Rudoi, misic: Dmitri and Daniil Pokrass, sound: Arnold Shargorodski, Anna Volokhova
Cast: G. Gorbunov, Alexander Kulakov, Voldemar Chobur, Stepan Krylov, Vasili Merkuryev
The picture features the actions of the Soviet tankers in a probable fighting situation.
323 UCHITEL (THE TEACHER)
1939, 107 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Sergei Gerasimov, camera: Vladimir Yakovlev, production designer: Victor Semyonov, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Yevgeni Nesterov
Cast: Boris Chirkov, Tamara Makarova, Pavel Volkov, Valentina Telegina, Ivan Nazarov, Anna Matveyeva
The picture is set in the 1930-es and focused on a village teacher.
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The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
324 KHIRURGIYA (SURGERY)
1939, 37 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Jan Fried, camera: Solomon Belenki, production designers: Pavel Zalzman, Semyon Malkin, misic: Nikolai Timofeyev, sound: Konstantin Gordon
Cast: Ivan Moskvin, Igor Ilyinski, Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Vasili Merkuryev, Valentina Telegina
Loosely based on “Surgery” and “The Country Medics”, short stories by Anton Chekhov.
325 CHETVYERTY PERISKOP (THE FOURTH PERISCOPE)
1939, 88 min., b/w
Defence film
Director: Victor Eisymont, screenplay: Georgi Blaustein, Georgi Venetsianov, camera: Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Abram Veksler, misic: Venedict Pushkov, Boris Golz, sound: Nikolai Butakov
Cast: Boris Blinov, Vladimir Chestnokov, Mariya Domasheva, K. Nassonov, Vladimir Lukin, Sergei Morschikhin
The picture is focused on Soviet sailors keeping a vigilant watch over the sea borders.
326 CHLEN PRAVITELSTVA (A GOVERNMENT MEMBER)
1939, 107 min., b/w
Directors: Alexander Zarkhi, Joseph Heifitz, screenplay: Katerina Vinogradskaya with input from Alexander Zarkhi and Joseph Heifitz, camera: Alexander Ginzburg, production designers: Olga Pchelnikova, Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Nikolai Timofeyev, sound: Arnold Shargorodski
Cast: Vera Maretskaya, Vasili Vanin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Valentina Telegina, Boris Blinov, Vasili Merkuryev, Alexei Konsovski
Story of a Russian peasant woman who becomes a Soviet Government member.
327 VOZVRASHCHENIYE (THE RETURN)
1940, 75 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Jan Fried, screenplay: Boris Chirskov, Raphail Muzykant, camera: Alexander Ksenofontov, production designer: Olga Pchelnikova, misic: Joseph Pustylnik, sound: Grigori Elbert
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Tatiana Guretskaya, Vova Tumalaryantz, Alexander Chistyakov, Vladimir Lukin, Boris Poslavski
The picture is focused on the family of a polar researcher.
328 GALYA (GALYA)
1940, 37 min., b/w
Filmed short story
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Sergei Glagolin, camera: Apollinari Dudko, misic: Nikita Bogoslovski, sound: Afanasi Somonovski
Cast: Pyotr Kirillov, Yevgeniya Vdovina, Mariya Barabanova, Alexei Bondi
The picture is focused at the gifted Leningrad girl Galya completing her sculptor father's unfinished work.
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