Grigoriy Roshal
1899 - 1983
Хмурое утро
Meri Andzhaparidze, Grigoriy Roshal
Pavel Vinnikov, Rufina Nifontova
The third film in the trilogy ("The Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", "The Gloomy Morning") based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy "The Road to Calvary". About the fate of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the collapse of the Russian Empire and the civil war, which turned the lives of all the heroes of the film narration. Defending Tsaritsyn, the red commander Telegin was seriously wounded. At the hospital, he meets Dasha. After his recovery, the young spouses go together to the Red Army.
Gloomy Morning
Господа Скотинины
Grigoriy Roshal
Nadezhda Borskaya, Igor Doronin
A comedy starring Nina Shaternikova, The Skotinins is loosely based on the 18th century play The Minor by Denis Fonvizin. In it, the upper class is shown as both depraved and stupid, engaging a variety of absurd, over-the-top follies.
The Gentlefolks of Skotinin
Мусоргский
Grigoriy Roshal
Aleksandr Borisov, Nikolai Cherkasov
Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.
Mussorgsky
Его превосходительство
Grigoriy Roshal
Leonid Leonidov, Mariya Sinelnikova
This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally.
His Excellency
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
Римский-Корсаков
Gennadi Kazansky, Grigoriy Roshal
Grigori Belov, Nikolai Cherkasov
Biographical film about the composer Rimskiy-Korsakov. Belongs to the gallery of costume historical and biographical films of the postwar cinema of the Soviet Union. The film tells about the last two decades in the life of Russian composer.
Rimsky-Korsakov
Год как жизнь
Grigoriy Roshal
Igor Kvasha, Andrey Mironov
О народных восстаниях, прокатившихся по Европе в середине XIX века, о поисках истины и борьбе молодого Маркса с врагами революции (1848-1849). Париж — ссылка в Брюссель — работа в "Новой рейнской газете" в Германии — поражение революции — переезд в Лондон… Знаете ли Вы, что... : Фильм снят по мотивам романа Галины Серебряковой "Похищение огня" (1961).
Год как жизнь
Они живут рядом
Grigoriy Roshal
Aleksandr Borisov, Evgeniy Evstigneev
Когда-то молодые ученые Калитин и Данилов были друзьями, но ссора развела их. Обстоятельства ссоры так и остались для каждого невыясненными до конца. Но каждый считал себя правым. Прошли годы. Сын профессора Калитина, работающий под его руководством, переходит в институт, возглавляемый Даниловым. Об этом решении Игоря Калитин узнает в день приезда своего друга и коллеги Васина. По этому поводу в доме профессора собираются старые друзья, среди которых Лузгин, начальник Калитина. Размышления о прожитом помогают профессору понять выбор сына, выступить против беспринципного карьериста Лузгина и помириться с Даниловым.
Они живут рядом
Дело Артамоновых
Grigoriy Roshal
Sergei Romodanov, Vera Maretskaya
Fabrikant, Ilya Artamonov of the former serfs. His desire to strengthen and develop the business knows no obstacles. He is still associated with the peasants and craftsmen, but with his death, this relationship ends. Between Peter Artamonov, his son, who became the owner of the factory, and the workers grows a wall of enmity. The first political speeches are brewing. On the side of the proletariat becomes the heir artemovskogo case Ilya Artamonov, Jr.
The Artamonov Case
