Mariya Strelkova
1908 - 1962Праздник святого Йоргена
Yakov Protazanov, Porfiri Podobed
Igor Ilyinsky, Anatoli Ktorov
The priests, stock market officials, and police conspire to squeeze income out of pilgrims come to see relics of a Christ like figure. A pair of con men try to pass of a resurrected saint.
St. Jorgen's Day
Чины и люди
Yakov Protazanov, Mikhail Doller
Mikhail Tarkhanov, Mariya Strelkova
From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as is the case with "Chiny I Lyudi" ( Ranks And People ) (1929) in which three short stories by Chekhov, "Anna On The Neck", "Death Of A Petty Official" and "Chameleon" were assembled for the silent screen.
Ranks and People
Весёлые ребята
Grigori Aleksandrov
Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Jolly Fellows
Deti Kapitana Granta
David Gutman, Vladimir Vaynshtok
Nikolai Vitovtov, Mariya Strelkova
The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures in Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand... Based on Jules Verne novel.
Capt. Grant's Family
