Starling and Lyre
Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.
Grigori Aleksandrov
Grigori Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Lapshin
Nikolay Pekelnik
Casts & Crew
Lyubov Orlova
Pyotr Velyaminov
Nikolay Grinko
Boris Kordunov
Boris Ivanov
Boris Zajdenberg
Yuri Leonidov
Viktor Burkhart
Varvara Soshalskaya
Yuri Volkov
Rina Zelyonaya
Galiks Kolchitskiy
Rimma Markova
Yuri Stromov
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Pavel Makhotin
Jānis Grantiņš
Viktor Shulgin
Vladimir Gorelov
Zoya Vasilkova
Georgi Tusuzov
Zoya Stepanova
Vyacheslav Gostinsky
Alla Budnitskaya
Konstantin Tyrtov
Aleksandr Shmelyov
Grigoriy Shpigel
Yakov Lents
Emilia Milton
Yevgeni Gurov
Natalya Gitserot
Zoya Isayeva
Nina Agapova
Galina Mikeladze
Yuri Gusev
Nikolai Nikitskiy
Leonid Obolensky
Ella Nekrasova
Zana Zanoni
Lyubov Polishchuk
Grigori Aleksandrov
Inga Budkevich
Stanislav Korenev
Georgiy Petrovskiy
Arkadi Tsinman
Viktor Filippov
Viktor Markin
Also Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad.
Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to industrial culture in an epic ode to farm-collectivization progress.
Second attempt to create a feature film out of the 200,000-plus feet of film which Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein shot during 1931-32 in Mexico for American socialist author Upton Sinclair, his wife and a small company of investors. The projected film, to be called "Que Viva Mexico", was never completed due to exhaustion of funds and Stalin's demand that Eisenstein return to the USSR (he had been absent since 1929). The first attempt at editing the footage, in the USA, resulted in "Thunder Over Mexico", released in 1934. In 1940, Marie Seton, from the UK, acquired some of the footage from the Sinclairs in an attempt to make a better cutting according to Eisenstein's skeletal outline for the proposed film. This film has apparently been lost.
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Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze in solemn grief. The country escorts its father and leader, Joseph Stalin.
A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.
Circus tells the story of an American named Marion who is banished from the US because a black man impregnates her. Marion escapes to Russia to start a new life in the circus and joins up with lustful, anti-Russian ringmaster who happens to be in love with her. The ringmaster knows her secret about the black baby and threatens to reveal it unless she marries him. The problem is that Marion has fallen in love with a Russian acrobat and later out of sheer jealousy, the ringmaster reveals the identity of the woman's child in front of the circus audience.
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930's. 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.
Romance sentimentale is a 1930 French film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein.