Nikolay Khmelyov
1901 - 1945Человек в футляре
Isidor Annensky
Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Khmelyov
The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a case, on the principle: “no matter what happens”. By this principle, he literally "terrorized" the gymnasium and the villagers. Hope appeared when Varenka arrived in the village - “not a girl, but marmalade”, although she was already aged, and “did not mind being married, even if only to a teacher of the Greek language”.
Man in a Shell
Саламандра
Grigoriy Roshal
Bernhard Goetzke, Natalya Rozenel
A Socialist Realist distortion of Dr. Paul Kammerer's experiments in the inheritance of acquired character(istic)s -- the (not entirely anti-Darwinian) conjecture that certain changes the environment produces in an individual may spontaneously appear in the next generation. As recounted in Arthur Koestler's The Case of the Midwife Toad (1971), Kammerer (1880-1926) claimed that darkened footpads he had artificially induced in a toad had been passed on to its offspring. When it was discovered that his critical specimen had been injected with ink (though why and by whom is still unknown), his credibility was destroyed and he apparently suicided. Richard Goldschmidt's synopsis of the film in "Research and Politics," Nature (1949), mocks it as Soviet propaganda in support of the inheritance of acquired characters: The importance attached to the subject is revealed by the facts that none other than the then all-powerful [People's] Commissar for [Public] Education, the highly ...
Salamander
Жёлтый дракон
Eduard Parri
Vladimir Yepifantsev, Elena Polyakova
В 1945 году из китайского монастыря исчезла уникальная, бесценная реликвия из чистого золота — так называемый «желтый дракон». В наши дни раритет обнаруживают в России. Чтобы заполучить ценный артефакт и вернуть его на родину, в Москву отправляются китайский монах и мастер ушу Ван и представительница якудзы красавица Кумико. В чужой стране они сталкиваются с чемпионом мира по карате Федором Прохоровым и московской братвой, болельщиком московского «Динамо» Филом, фанатами «Спартака», одним увлеченным своим делом антикваром и многими другими. Каждая встреча с россиянами, такими разными, будет удивлять иноземных «делегатов», но удастся ли им в итоге возвратить то, за чем они прибыли в наш город?
Жёлтый дракон
