Boris Zhukovsky
1900 - 1963
Простые люди
Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev
Olga Lebzak, Boris Zhukovsky
A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.
Simple People
Валерий Чкалов
Mikhail Kalatozov
Vladimir Belokurov, Mikhail Gelovani
The film is based on the biography of Valeri Chkalov (1904 - 1938), a Russian pilot, who set several long distance flight records. Chkalov and his co-pilots Baidukov and Belyakov together had accomplished several non-stop long-distance flights. In June of 1937 Chkalov set the world record, covering 12000 kilometers in 63 hours of non-stop flight from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, flying over the North Pole.
Wings of Victory
Выборгская сторона
Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina
The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins to fight off sabotaging underlings. Dymba, now a violent enemy of the Republic, tries to rob a wine store but is arrested with Maksim's help. Maksim also exposes a conspiracy of a group of tsarist officers who prepare an attempt against Lenin. He then joins the Red Army in its fight against the German occupation.
The Vyborg Side
Враги
Aleksandr Ivanovsky
Valentin Kiselyov, Tamara Glebova
The eve of the 1905 Russian revolution was unquiet at the Skrobotova and Bardin factory. In response to the fair demand of the workers to dismiss the cruel and rude master, the masters close the factory and call in the troops. They shoot of one of the workers, who failed to restrain a rush of hatred towards the owners, ending Skrobotov's life. Gendarmes arrive at the factory. They succeed in uncovering the social democratic organization in the factory. The arrested workers oppose hysterical cruelty of gendarmes with calm, confident courage.
Enemies
Капитан первого ранга
Aleksandr Mandrykin
Boris Livanov, Mikhail Orlov
Много мытарств прошёл Захар Псалтырёв в царском флоте, где мордобой и издевательства над человеком вошли в обычай. Только благодаря природному уму и упорству малограмотный крестьянский парень сумел избежать участи многих своих товарищей, спившихся, потерявших человеческое достоинство. Капитан 1-го ранга Лезвин, командир крейсера "Святослав", сам задыхающийся в тяжёлой атмосфере царского самодержавия, по-отечески полюбил своего вестового за его простую русскую душу, сметливый ум, любовь к родине и ненависть к угнетению. Многому научился Захар у Лезвина, но вскоре им пришлось расстаться. Захар становится активным подпольщиком-большевиком. В борьбе и мирном труде прошли годы войн и революций. Настал день, когда матрос Захар Псалтырёв возвращается на свой корабль капитаном 1-го ранга и становится его командиром.
Капитан первого ранга
Иудушка Головлев
Aleksandr Ivanovsky
Vladimir Gardin, Tatyana Bulakh-Gardina
Film adaptation of The Golovlyov Family ("Господа Головлёвы), a classic novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. In the mid-19th century old-fashioned estate based on serfdom laws and traditions, tough and shrewd Arina Petrovna tries her best to make her realm prosper and even expand – despite unwillingness of her husband and three of her four children to lend helping hands... Ten years on, serfdom abolished, and now Porfiry-Yudishka, the epitome of a corrupt, cruel hypocrite, becomes the heir to the estate. Dullness and horrors of life, spent in destroying everybody around him, finally makes him to slowly realize things went somehow wrong. Half-mad, apparently, he goes to the cemetery to "ask for forgiveness" from his mother Arina Petrovna, and dies somewhere along his way, his frozen corpse found the next day.
Yudishka Golovlyov
