Russian Basis II
Naum Kleiman's list of second generation director's basic russian/soviet/russian movies
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- DirectorLev KuleshovStarsBoris KuleshovLeonid PolevoyEduard KulganekA young and dynamic engineer, Mack Prite, whose talents have helped him rise above humble origins, struggles against an old entrenched capitalist whose oil company's profits are threatened when Prite develops a plan to turn peat into usable energy.low priority
- 19241h 34mNot Rated6.4 (1.1K)DirectorLev KuleshovStarsPorfiri PodobedBoris BarnetAleksandra KhokhlovaExperience the chronicle adventures of Mr. West and his faithful bodyguard and servant Jeddie, as they visit the land of the horrible and evil Bolsheviks.high priority
- DirectorLev KuleshovStarsPorfiri PodobedVsevolod PudovkinSergey KomarovIn a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)low priority
- DirectorLev KuleshovStarsAleksandra KhokhlovaSergey KomarovVladimir FogelA five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success when one of the members snaps, and suddenly kills two of the others. The two survivors, a husband and wife, subdue the killer but are then faced with an agonizing dilemma. With no chance of turning him over to the authorities for many weeks, they must decide whether to exact justice themselves or to risk trying to keep him restrained until they can return to civilization.high priority
- DirectorLev KuleshovStarsAleksandra KhokhlovaPyotr GaladzhevYuri Vasilchikovhigh priority
- DirectorLev KuleshovStarsGalina KravchenkoAndrey FaytAda VoytsikActress Brio working in a cafe "The Happy Canary", does not suspect that her new acquaintances Brianski and Lugovec are Communists sent by an underground committee to fight the enemy's counter-intelligence.low priority
- DirectorNina AgadzhanovaLev KuleshovStarsSergey KomarovVladimir KochetovAnel SudakevichA story of circus performers during World War II.mid priority
- DirectorLev KuleshovStarsNikolay BatalovDmitriy Kara-DmitrievE. Sheremetyevamid priority
- DirectorLev KuleshovStarsKonstantin KhokhlovIvan NovoseltsevVasili KovriginIn basis of film are facts from biography of the American writer O. Henry and two his short stories.high priority
- DirectorLev KuleshovStarsAleksandra KharitonovaAleksandr KuznetsovAleksandr PutkoOn a New Year's Eve, an old hunter tells 2 boys a story of how Stalin escaped from exile with the help of a hunter and how, in memory of this, Stalin gave him his pipe.low priority
- DirectorAleksandra KhokhlovaLev KuleshovStarsAleksey KonsovskiyYanina ZheymoSergey Filippovlow priority
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsVera BaranovskayaNikolay BatalovAleksandr ChistyakovA story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.high priority
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinMikhail DollerStarsAleksandr ChistyakovVera BaranovskayaIvan ChuvelyovA peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.high priority
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsI. InkizhinovValéry InkijinoffA. DedintsevAfter a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.high priority
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinMikhail DollerStarsAleksandr BaturinYevgeniya RogulinaMariya Belousovamid priority
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsBoris LivanovVasili KovriginAleksandr ChistyakovA wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own country.mid priority
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsAleksandr KhanovBoris LivanovBoris Chirkovmid priority
- DirectorMikhail DollerVsevolod PudovkinStarsNikolay P. CherkasovApollon YachnitskiyMikhail AstangovPrimarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Rissia and Austria against Napoleon.mid priority
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinYuri TarichStarsAda VoytsikOlga ZhiznevaSofiya MagarillConsists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, including "the Physicist", "Judicial Process", and "the Jewish Wife".mid priority
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsAleksei DikijEvgeniy SamoylovVladimir VladislavskiyAdmiral Pavel Nakhimov, one of the most acclaimed admirals in Russian history, fights the Turkish fleet during the Crimean War of 1853.mid priority
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsSergei LukyanovNatalya MedvedevaNikolai TimofeyevA man comes home from World War II and tries to readjust to civil life.mid priority
- DirectorMikhail DollerLeonid ObolenskyStarsVladimir UralskiyPyotr BaksheyevVarvara Popovamid priority
- DirectorMikhail DollerLeonid ObolenskyStarsVladimir UralskiyVarvara PopovaPyotr Repninmid priority
- DirectorAleksandra KhokhlovaStarsGalina IvanovskayaA. BavrinPyotr Galadzhevmid priority
- DirectorSergey KomarovStarsIgor IlyinskyAnel SudakevichMary PickfordGoga is a Russian man who has no luck with women. He has a chance meeting with Mary Pickford. She kisses him in full view of several and he instantly becomes attractive to them. They chase him through streets, a la Buster Keaton in _Seven Chances_ (1925).high priority