Daniil Sagal
1909 - 2002Блокада: Операция "Искра"
Mikhail Yershov
Yuriy Solomin, Yevgeni Lebedev
"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of Leningrad. In January 1943, the blockade of Leningrad was broken. A corridor 8-11 km wide was formed between Lake Ladoga and the front line.
Blokada: Operatsiya Iskra
Детство Горького
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova
Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse.
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Блокада: Лужский рубеж
Mikhail Yershov
Yuriy Solomin, Yevgeni Lebedev
In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced units of the front to withdraw, and on July 9, Pskov was also abandoned. The battles in the Luga direction held back the enemy. The first attacks of the Germans, intending to cross the Luga line on the move, were repulsed with heavy losses for them.
Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh
Два друга
Viktor Eisymont
Yanina Zhejmo, Vera Orlova
Много огорчений причиняют пионерскому звену два неразлучных дружка, Витя Малеев и Костя Шишкин: в дневниках у них то и дело появляются двойки. Друзья слишком увлекаются футболом. Только сумерки заставляют их покинуть спортивную площадку. Мать Вити Малеева отбирает у сына футбольный мяч, но друзья изобретают новые развлечения, и количество двоек в их дневниках угрожающе растёт. Костя Шишкин под предлогом «болезни» вовсе перестает посещать школу… (По повести Николая Носова Витя Малеев В школе и дома)
Два друга
Непокоренные
Mark Donskoy
Mikhail Vysotsky, Amvrosi Buchma
Russian filmmaker Mark Donskoi, of "The Gorky Trilogy" fame, was responsible for the postwar Soviet drama The Taras Family (originally Nepokorenniye, and also released as Unvanquished and Unconquered). A semi-sequel to Donskoi's Raduga (1944), the story is set in Nazi-occupied Kiev. The drama focusses on the travails of a typical Soviet family and on the efforts by the Germans to force the reopening of a local munitions factory. The film is at its most grimly effective in a long sequence wherein the Nazis conduct a search for Jewish escapees, culminating in a horribly graphic re-creation of the slaughter of the Jews at Babi Yar. While Donskoi was critically lambasted for his cinematic "sloppyiness" during this sequence (hand-held camera, rapid cuts etc.), it can now be seen that he was attempting a realistic, documentarylike interpretation of this infamous Nazi atrocity.
The Taras Family
Как закалялась сталь
Mark Donskoy
Daniil Sagal, Aleksandr Khvylya
This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
How the Steel Was Tempered
Nadezhda
Mark Donskoy
Natalya Belokhvostikova, Andrey Myagkov
The film tells about the childhood and youth of the wife, friend and military ally of the founder of the country of the Soviets Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya. The main attention in the film is paid to the participation of a young revolutionary in the organization of the struggle of the workers of St. Petersburg for their rights, against the autocracy.
Nadezhda
Мои университеты
Mark Donskoy
Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov
My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. The "university" of the title is actual the school of Hard Knocks, as Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.
My Universities
Сельская учительница
Mark Donskoy
Vera Maretskaya, Pavel Olenev
A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people and examples by 1880s revolutionary "People's Will" member teachers, a young woman spent her life in a village and evidenced the changes a Russian village has undergone from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to late 1940s.
The Village Teacher
Мексиканец
Vladimir Kaplunovskiy
Oleg Strizhenov, Boris Andreyev
Based on the short story by Jack London. 1910 year. Mexican patriots are preparing an uprising against the dictatorship of Diaz. Young Felipe Rivera joins the revolutionary junta, whose father and mother were shot by dictators. The hour of rebellion is near, but the heroes lack weapons. To get the necessary amount of money, Rivera decides to perform in the ring against Ward, America’s strongest boxer...
The Mexican
