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Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.
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Based on the eponymous play by P. Malyarevsky about the Leninsk events of 1912.
An inveterate gambler Mikhail Vasilievich Krechinsky loses a large sum of money. In order to avoid shame and pay debts, Krechinsky decides to marry a rich girl. But in order to receive the blessing of his father and speed up the wedding, he again has to go to deception...
Early 20th century. Two village boys, brothers Semyon and Pavel, work as servants for a Moscow merchant. They face harsh exploitation and hard labor. The brothers' paths diverge. Unable to endure the merchant's abuse, Pavel leaves for a factory, becomes a worker, and later a revolutionary. Semyon remains in service. In the post-revolutionary period, Semyon, having served at the front and returned to the village, joins the kulaks and brutally cracks down on representatives of the Soviet government, becoming the leader of a gang of "badgers" hiding in the forests. A Red Army detachment led by Pavel is sent to fight the bandits.
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
On the heroism and courage of Russian people during the Great Patriotic War.
A television play based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky.
Lipa and Vera had been friends since childhood. Now, having finished their boarding school, each of them faces her own path in life. Tormented by poverty, Lipa is forced to marry the old, dull, and cruel Tolokonnikov. However, she cannot bear the tyranny of the cowardly official for long. Leaving her husband, she departs from Rasteryaeva Street. Vera's life turned out differently. Fleeing with a hussar, she spent several turbulent years, but, exhausted, she returned once again to Rasteryaeva Street. And nothing had changed there.
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #4 was filmed at the Moscow film studio Soyuzdetfilm during the days of the German offensive on Moscow. It consists of three short stories, linked by the emcee performances of Lyubov Orlova as the mail carrier Strelka, the heroine of the comedy "Volga, Volga," who delivers new films along with the letters. It was released on September 9, 1941.
Semyon Frolov returns to his native village of Krutye Gorki, as chairman of the Kolkhoz. The hero will have to sort out the embezzlement, convince and attract to his side the majority of proprietors, reconicle his feelings for Anna, whom he once loved, and give her the right to decide their future, when Anna's husband unexpectedly returns from prison.
In the capital of a European country, two people have gone missing. One of them is Theodore Amsted, a successful official, a family man, and a fairly wealthy person. The other is Michael Moginson, a strange, reclusive oddball living in poverty. Soon, a body is found at a military training ground, the victim of a bomb explosion. The police begin an investigation...
Based on the play of the same name by I. Popov and L. Stepanov, staged by the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR.
The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.
A female commissar is sent to the naval detachment, led by the anarchist Vozhak, on behalf of the Party Central Committee. She is tasked with subordinating the sailors to the cause of the revolution.
The plot is based on the story of the English provincial newspaper "Northern Light", which was able to hold its own in the face of tough competition from large newspaper monopolies...
The monotonous life of a provincial town Verhopoli violates the arrival of the railway builders - engineers Cherkun and Tsyganov.
Faith Vans, an employee of one of the departments of the US State Department, receives a summons to the commission to investigate un-American activities, and her prosperous, calm life begins to collapse. But Faith doesn't give up, and she fights for her rights.
The film is about the sailors who fought on torpedo boats in the Great Patriotic war.
The imperious old woman Mavra Tarasovna, the mother of the Moscow merchant Amos Panfilovich Baraboshev, is looking for a general groom for her granddaughter Polyxena.
