Valeri Solovtsov
1904 - 1977Мятеж
Semyon Timoshenko
Anatoly Alekseev, Tatyana Guretskaya
Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go to the Fergana region to fight the Basmachi. A group of kulaks, with the support of local merchants and beys, incites the unconscious, wavering mass of the Red Army to revolt. The anti-Soviet agitation of counter-revolutionaries, demagogically exploiting the mood of war weariness, provokes an open mutiny in the battalion.
Mutiny
Обломок империи
Fridrikh Ermler
Fyodor Nikitin, Lyudmila Semyonova
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a decade after the Great War as a shell-shocked amnesiac, until a glimpse of a woman through a train window sparks the return of his memory. He makes his way back to St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, a man out of time who struggles to make sense of the new society brought about by the revolution.
Fragment of an Empire
Катька - Бумажный ранет
Eduard Ioganson, Fridrikh Ermler
Veronika Buzhinskaya, Bella Chernova
A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest work in a factory.
Katka's Reinette Apples
Вратарь
Semyon Timoshenko, Igor Chernyak
Gregory Pluzhnik, Tatyana Guretskaya
The film tells the story of an ordinary guy Anton Kandidov. First he works on agricultural work — transports on boat on Volga watermelons. Noticing how deftly Anton catches and loads watermelons, he is told that he could become a goalkeeper and play football. And he decides to follow the advice. On the way to the glory of the goalkeeper and waiting for his victory and disappointment.
The Goalkeeper
Liniya Mannergeyma
Vasiliy Belyayev, Valeri Solovtsov
Produced by the Soviet Union to justify its 1939-40 Winter War campaign in Finland, this outstanding documentary---more than any other such cinematic record---visually depicts the much vaunted Mannerheim Line in all its actual emplacements, as seen but two weeks after their capture, and as filmed by Red Army combat photographers onsite, directed by Vasili Belayev.
The Mannerheim Line
Parizhskiy sapozhnik
Fridrikh Ermler
Veronika Boujinskaïa , Valeri Solovtsov
This little known Russian movie, from the director of the following year's Oblomok imperii/ A Fragment of Empire is both surprising and accomplished. The mute cobbler is interested in the local girl but she is already pregnant by one of the gang of sailor suit toughs. The Soviet Youth League secretary's only assistance to her is a book about sex in Russian literature and things turn nasty.
The Parisian Cobbler
