385 SCHASTLIVOGO PLAVANIYA (HAVE A GOOD VOYAGE)
1949, 85 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexander Popov, camera: Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Viktor Savostin, misic: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, Leon Khodzha-Einatov, sound: Alexander Ostrovsky
Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Stepan Krylov, Pavel Volkov, Misha Boitsov, Igor Klimenkov, Seryozha Uspensky, Yura Zhestovsky, Vitya Tsoi, Pyotr Andriyevsky
Captain Levashov, new commander of the 5th company of Nakhimov Naval College is training his students to show initiative and often turns his classes in “fullfilement of a battle task “.
His advice and encouragement, his demands to observe the military discipline and his personal example help naval cadets to get prepared to their future careers of naval officers.
The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
386 MUSORGSKY (MUSSORGSKY)
1950, 122 min., color
Biopic
Director: Grigory Roshal, screenplay: Anna Abramova, Grigory Roshal, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Abram Veksler, music and musical editing: Dmitry Kabalevsky, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Alexander Borisov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Vladimir Balashov, Andrei Popov, Fyodor Nikitin, Lubov Orlova, Lidiya Shtykan
Working on the first opera in his father’s country estate Modest Mussorgsky sees poverty and sufferings of peasants, tyranny of landowners. The things he witnessed leave the deep trace in his soul and greatly influence the general tendency of his art.
His association with “The Mighty Five” group of composers, passionate speeches of musical critic Vladimir Stasov, meetings with artist Ilya Repin, work on operas “Boris Godunov” and “Khovanshchina” — all these episodes reveal the exceptional talent and strong personality of the composer, author of brilliant musical compositions.
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The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
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The film was awarded the Premium for the best scenery design at the IY International Film Festival in Cannes, France (1951).
387 OGNI BAKU (LIGHTS OF BAKU)
1950, 93 min., b/w. Released in 1958
Drama
Directors: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Kheifits, Rza Abbas-Kuli Takhmasib, screenplay: Grigory Koltunov, Yevgeny Pomeshchikov, camera: Georgy Yegiazarov, production designer: Mikhail Yuferov, misic: Kara Karayev, sound: Aga Gussein Kerimov
Cast: Mirza-Aga Aliyev, Marziya Davudava, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Rza Abbas-Kuli Takhmasib, Nikolai Kryuchkov
Soviet oil industry workers are working hard to make Baku the foremost area of oil output.
388 SADY I PARKI LENINGRADA (PARKS AND GARDENS OF LENINGRAD)
1950, 27 min., color
Topical and landscape film
Director: Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Vissarion Sayanov, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, sound: Alexander Ostrovsky, voice over: Ruvim Vygodsky
389 SOVETSKAYA BASHKIRIYA (SOVIET BASHKIRIYA)
1950, 45 min., color
Documentary
Directors: N. Solovyov, Iosif Gindin, screenplay: Anver Bikchentayev, text by: Mark Lanskoy, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, Konstantin Sobol, misic: Husain Akhmetov, Rauf Murtazin, sound: Lev Valter
390 SOVETSKAYA TATARIYA (SOVIET TATARIYA)
1950, 39 min., color
Documentary
Director: Anatoly Granik, K. Posdnyakov, screenplay: Boris Yampolsky, camera: Alexander Ksenofontov, misic: Nazib Zhiganov, sound: Lev Valter, voice over: Ruvim Vygodsky
391 SOVETSKAYA UDMURTIYA (SOVIET UDMURTIYA)
1950, 39 min., color
Documentary
Director: Yan Frid, screenplay: Nikolai Rozhkov, text by: Semyon Nagorny, poems by: Yelena Ryvina, camera: Veniamin Levitin, misic: Orest Yevlakhov, sound: Pyotr Vitsinsky, voice over: Ruvim Vygodsky
392 ADYGEISKAYA AVTONOMNAYA OBLAST (ADYGEI AUTONOMOUS REGION)
1951, 39 min., color
Documentary
Directors: Vladimir Vengerov, Iosif Gindin, screenplay: Dmitry Kostanov, Mark Lanskoy, text by: Mark Lanskoy, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, Ilya Goldberg, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Alexander Ostrovsky
393 AUL KUBACHI (KUBACHI VILLAGE)
1951, 17 min., color
Documentary
Directors: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Nadezhda Kosheverova, Nikolai Lebedev, camera: Georgy Shurkin, misic: Gotfrid Gasanov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
394 BELINSKY (BELINSKY)
1951, 102 min., b/w
Biopic
Director: Grigory Kozintsev, screenplay: Yuri German, Yelena Serebrovskaya, Grigory Kozintsev, camera: Andrei Moskvin, Mark Magidson, Serrgei Ivanov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Sergei Kurilov, Alexander Borisov, Georgy Vitsin, Yuri Tolubeyev, Nina Mamayeva, Mikhail Nazvanov, Boris Dmokhovsky, Vladimir Belokurov, Igor Gorbachev
The film is focused on life and creative activities of Vissarion Belinsky, a Russian author and literary critic. Episodes of his work in the “Notes of Fatherland” magazine, meetings with progressive-minded Russian writers Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai Nekrasov, his presence at the premiere of “Inspector General” at Maly Theatre and his trip to Novgorod to the exiled writer Alexander Gertsen demonstrate the strong personality of the lead character of the film, an outstanding
figure in Russian culture.
395 KARELO-FINSKAYA SSR (KARELIAN-FINNISH SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC)
1951, 62 min., color
Documentary
Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Alexander Sadovsky, Alexander Ivanov, text by: Semyon Nagorny, camera: Viktor Chulkov, Alexander Ksenofontov, Vyacheslav Gordanov, Viktor Maksimovich, sound: Lev Valter, Ivan Dmitriyev, voice over: Leonid Khmara
396 KEMERI (KEMERI)
1951, 16 min., color
Landscape film
Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, text by: Inna Filimonova, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov, misic: Adolf Skulte, sound: Lev Valter, Pyotr Vitsinsky
397 MORDOVSKAYA ASSR (MORDOVIAN AUTONOMOUS SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC)
1951, 49 min., color
Documentary
Directors: Iosif Heifits, Semyon Derevensky, screenplay: Iosif Heifits, Ivan Voronin, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, Alexei Sysoyev, misic: Galina Ustvolskaya, sound: Alexander Bekker, voice over: Leonid Khmara
398 SVET V KOORDI (LIGHT IN KOORDI)
1951, 98 min., color
Drama
Director: Gerbert Rappaport, screenplay: Hans Leberekht, Yuri German, camera: Sergei Ivanov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Eugen Kapp, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Georg Ots, Alexander Randviyr, Valentina Tern, Ilmar Tammur, Rudolf Nuude, Evi Rayer, Hugo Laur, Lembit Rayala, Ants Eskola
Loosely based on the novel of the same title by Hans Leberekht dealing with the struggle for establishing the collective farm system in a post-war Estonian village.
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The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
399 SOVETSKAYA KABARDA (SOVIET KABARDA)
1951, 41 min., color
Documentary
Directors: Anatoly Granik, Tamara Rodionova, screenplay: Khachim Teunov, V. Vasilenko, text by: Boris Yampolsky, camera: Sergei Ivanov, Muzakir Shurukov, misic: Leon Khodzha-Einatov, sound: Grigory Elbert, voice over: Leonid Khmara
400 SOVETSKAYA BURYAT-MONGOLIYA (SOVIET BURYAT-MONGOLIA)
1951, 59 min., color
Documentary
Director: Yan Frid, screenplay: Ts. Galsanov, Yefim Uchitel, text by: Semyon Nagorny, Boris Savransky, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, Alexander Zavyalov, Viktor Maksimovich, misic: Andrei Pashchenko, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky, voice over: Leonid Khmara
401 U SEVERNYKH MOREI (NEAR THE NORTHERN SEAS)
1951, 39 min., color
Documentary-landscape film
Director: Alexander Faintsimmer, screenplay: David Dar, camera: A. Dubkov, Veniamin Levitin, Solomon Belenky, Viktor Chulkov, misic: Vladimir Deshevov, Sergey Shatiryan, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev
402 V ZAILIYSKOM ALATAU (IN ZAILIYSKY ALATAU)
1952, 21 min., color
Documentary-landscape picture
Director: Mikhail Korotkevich, screenplay: Dmitry Snegin, Mark Lanskoy, camera: Alexander Xenofontov, text: Mark Lanskoy, sound: Grigory Elbert
403 ZHIVOY TRUP (A LIVING CORPSE)
1952, 181 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Vengerov, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Semyon Malkin, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Galina Inyutina, Yelizaveta Time, Alexander Dubensky, Elizaveta Zhikhareva, Yakov Malyutin, Oleg Lebzak, Bruno Freindlich, Mikhail Yekaterininsky, Konstantin Adashevsky
A screen version of the performance staged by the Leningrad State Academic Pushkin Drama Theatre, produced by Vladimir Kozhich and Antonin Dawson (based on a novel of the same title by Lev Tolstoy).
404 KONTSERT MASTEROV ISKUSSTV (A CONCERT GIVEN BY MASTERS OF ART)
1952, 90 min., color
Filmed concert
Directors: Alexander Ivanovsky, Herbert Rappoport, camera: Sergey Ivanov, sound: Grigory Elbert
The Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonic Society, the State Folk Dance Company under the direction of Igor Moiseyev; Cast: Maxim Mikhailov, Nina Guselnikova, Galina Ulanova, Vladimir Preobrazhensky, Leokadia Maslennikova, Sergey Lemeshev, Sophia Preobrazhenskaya, Natalya Dudinskaya, Konstantin Sergeyev, Veronika Borisenko, Alla Shelest, Semyon Kaplan, Tatyana Vecheslova, Igor Belsky; producer: Kirill Kondrashin
The picture comprising individual concert items involves prominent Moscow and Leningrad companies and masters of art.
405 NAVSTRECHU ZHIZNI (MEETING LIFE HALF-WAY)
1952, 82 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Katerina Vinogradskaya, camera: Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Vasily Solovyev-Sedoy, sound: Alexander Ostrovsky, Lev Valter
Cast: Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Victor Sokolov, Georgy Semyonov, Vasily Merkuryev, Sergey Gurzo
Loosely based on “Little Star”, a story by Ivan Vasilenko.
406 RAZLOM (THE SPLIT)
1952, 153 min., b/w
Drama
Directors: Pavel Bogolyubov, Yuri Muzykant, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Ivan Ivanov, misic: Victor Voloshinov, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Vitaly Polizeimako, Vasily Sofronov, Yelena Granovskaya, Valentina Kibardina, Nina Olkhina, Nikolai Korn, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Alexander Larikov
Based on the performance staged by the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre; producers: Alexander Sokolov, Ivan Zonne; playwright: Boris Lavrenev.
The tempestuous events of the spring and summer of 1917 in Petrograd have caused a split in the family of Bersenev, commanding officer of “Zarya” cruiser. In spite of being of noble birth, he sympathizes with the “Zarya” seamen who refuse to carry out the order of the Provisional Government to disarm the ship. Bersenev's elder daughter sides with her father...
407 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (RIMSKY-KORSAKOV)
1952, 114 min., color
Drama
Directors: Grigory Roshal, Gennady Kazansky, screenplay: Anna Abramova, Grigory Roshal, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designers: Nikolai Suvorov, Abram Veksler, misic: Yuri Sviridov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Grigory Belov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Alexander Borisov, Lilia Gritsenko, Victor Khokhryakov, Lilia Sukharevskaya, Alexander Ognivtsev, Yevgeny Lebedev, Sergey Kurillov, Bruno Freindlich
Petersburg. Late 19th century. Composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is in the prime of his creative ability. His new opera “Sadko”, turned down by the Imperial Theatre, is being staged by a private opera house owned by the renown patron of arts Savva Mamontov. The audience is greatly impressed by “Sadko”.
“Sadko” is followed by the composer's masterpieces: “Mozart and Salieri”, “The Tsar's Bride”, “The Fairy Tale of Saltan the Tsar”, the fairy tale opera titled “The Golden Cockerel”.
408 ALEKO (ALEKO)
1953, 60 min., color, stereo
Filmed opera
Director: Sergey Sidelev, screenplay: Anna Abramova, Grigory Roshal, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designers: Abram Veksler, Victor Volin, misic: Vasily Solovyev-Sedoy, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Alexander Ognivtsev, Mark Reisen, Inna Zubkovskaya, Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, Bronislava Zlatogorova
A screen version of the opera of the same title by Sergey Rakhmaninov based on “The Gipsies”, a romantic poem of the same title by Alexander Pushkin.
409 ALYOSHA PTITSYN VYRABATYVAYET KHARAKTER (ALYOSHA PTITSYN CULTIVATES WILLPOWER)
1953, 73 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Granik, screenplay: Agnia Barto, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Nikolai Kosarev
Cast: Vitya Kargopoltsev, Olga Pyzhova, Valentina Sperantova, Yuri Bublikov, Tamara Alyoshina, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Lydia Sukharevskaya
At the railway terminal the grandmother of the Moscow boy Alyosha, who is in his third year at school, happened to miss her friend and her granddaughter coming to visit her. The hospitable Alyosha meets them and it takes him all day to show them the beautiful and clean Moscow, the capital's high buildings, the new metro stations, the wide avenues...
410 VESNA V MOSKVE (A SPRING IN MOSCOW)
1953, 108 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Joseph Heifitz, Nadezhda Kosheverova, camera: Vladimir Levitin, Sergey Ivanov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Alexei Zhivotov, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Galina Korotkevich, Vladimir Petrov, Yuri Bublikov, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Vladimir Taskin, Lev Shostak, Lyudmila Ponomaryeva, Anatoly Abramov, Alexandra Trishko
A vivacious, cheerful picture based on a performance featuring the post-war life of young Soviet people staged by the Leningrad New Theatre; producer and production designer: Nikolai Akimov, playwright: Victor Gusev.
411 VRAGI (THE ENEMIES)
1953, 157 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Tamara Rodionova, camera: Yevgeny Kirpichev, Alexei Sysoyev, production designer: Bella Manevich, sound: Alexander Becker
Cast: Vasily Sofronov, Yelena Granovskaya, Nikolai Korn, Valentina Kibardina, Nina Olkhina, Ivan Yefremov, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Alexander Larikov
Based on the performance staged by the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre producer: Alexandra Rashevskaya; playwright: Maxim Gorky.
412 GORYACHEYE SERDTSE (THE BURNING HEART)
1953, 179 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Gennady Kazansky, camera: Alexander Xenofontov, production designers: Victor Volin, Bella Manevich, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Gennady Michurin, Alla Belousova, Tamara Alyoshina, Alexander Borisov, Konstantin Kalinis, Konstantin Skorobogatov, Konstantin Adashevsky
Based on the production of the Leningrad Pushkin State Academic Drama Theatre of the play by Alexander Ostrovsky directed by Vladimir Kozhich, Antonin Dawson.
413 ZVANY UZHIN (RAZBITYYE MECHTY) (THE DINNER PARTY (THE SHATTERED DREAMS)
1953, 31 min., color
Satirical comedy
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Vladimir Mass, Mikhail Chervinsky, Friedrich Ermler, camera: Apollinary Dudko, production designer: Isaac Makhlis, misic: Gavriil Popov, sound: Alexander Bekker
Cast: Igor Ilyinsky, Anna Lisyanskaya, Nina Mamayeva, Boris Zhukovsky
What is the best and quickest way to get one's career in motion? Sure enough, by licking the bosses' boots. Thus the insignificant Pyotr Petrovich invented a birthday and invited all the management to his party.
When everything is ready for the distinguished guests, the door leading from the room to the corridor happens to slam. Pyotr Petrovich is rushing about the locked room. He has no key. What's to be done?
The satire turned out so stinging that the picture was not allowed on the screen until 1962, and then under a different name.
414 LES (THE FOREST)
1953, 170 min., b/w
Comedy
Directors: Vladimir Vengerov, Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Solomon Belenky, Muzakir Shurukov, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Yelizaveta Time, Klavdia Trofimova, Vasily Merkuryev, Konstantin Kalinis, Yuri Tolubeyev, Alexander Borisov, Georgy Kulbush, Konstantin Adashevsky
Based on the production of the Leningrad Pushkin State Academic Drama Theatre of the play by Alexander Ostrovsky directed by Vladimir Kozhich, Antonin Dawson.
415 LYUBOV YAROVAYA (LYUBOV YAROVAYA)
1953, 154 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Jan Fried, camera: Apollinary Dudko, Alexei Sysoyev, production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Zoya Karpova, Alexander Mazayev, Valentina Kibardina, Vitaly Polizeimako, Igor Gorbachev, Yelena Granovskaya, Alexander Larikov, Yephim Kopelyan, Yelena Nikitina
Based on the performance staged by the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre, Director: Ivan Yefremov; playwright: Konstantin Trenyev
The Civil War years. A small southern town that keeps changing hands. The teacher Lyubov Yarovaya is helping the underground revolutionary committee. Unexpectedly, she meets her husband, Lieutenant Yarovoy, deemed killed in World War I...
416 MASTERA RUSSKOGO BALETA (THE RUSSIAN BALLET MASTERS)
1953, 83 min., color
Filmed ballet
Director: Herbert Rappaport, screenplay: Konstantin Sergeyev, camera: Sergey Ivanov, production designer: Semyon Mandel, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Galina Ulanova, Natalya Dudinskaya, Konstantin Sergeyev, Maya Plisetskaya, Pyotr Gusev, Yuri Zhdanov, Igor Belsky, Vakhtang Chabukhiani
The picture is a selection of theme extracts from ballets: “The Swan Lake” by Pyotr Chaikovsky, “The Bakhchisaray Fountain” and “The Paris Flames” by Boris Asafyev.
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The film was awarded eight Premiums of the Classical Ballet Section at the III International Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1954) and the Special Grand Prix of the European Films Week in Paraguay (1954).
417 NAD NEMANOM RASSVET (IT'S DAWN OVER THE NEMAN)
1953, 86 min., color, co-production with the Lithuanian Picture Studio
Drama
Director: Alexander Feinzimmer, screenplay: Yuozas Baltushis, Yevgeny Gabrilovich, camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Balis Dvarionas, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Uozas Siparis, I. Lautsus, Algimantas Voschikas, Yuozas Miltinis, A. Jodkayte, Irena Leonavichute
The picture features the post-war strengthening of a Lithuanian Collective Farm and the struggle against the vestiges of the past rooted in the people's minds.
418 TENI (THE SHADOWS)
1953, 111 min., b/w
Dramatic satire
Directors: Nikolai Akimov, Nadezhda Kosheverova, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designers: Nikolai Akimov, Bella Manevich, misic: Dmitry Tolstoy, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Valentin Lebedev, Vladimir Petrov, Galina Korotkevich, Vera Budreyko, Yuri Bublikov, Anatoly Abramov
A screen version of the performance by the Leningrad Lensoveta Theatre. Production and design: Nikolai Akimov, playwright: Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin.
419 SLUGA DVUKH GOSPOD (A SERVANT TO TWO MASTERS)
1953, 108 min., b/w
Comedy
Director: Adolph Bergunker, camera: Alexander Xenofontov, production designers: Alexei Rudyakov, Alexei Fedotov, misic: Vladimir Deshevov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Ivan Palmu, Lyudmila Makarova, Boris Ryzhukhin, Lev Semyonov, Inna Yefremova, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Olga Ovcharenko, Mikhail Ivanov
Based on the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre production. Director: Grigory Nikulin, playwright: Carlo Goldoni
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