Aleksandr Vertinsky
Acting
Known For
A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.
The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.
The Anna Cross
In an Eastern European country, a strong political struggle breaks out over the possibility of accepting aid from the Marshall Plan or signing a cooperation treaty with the Soviet Union.
Conspiracy of the Doomed
Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Goncharov. Raisky falls in love with his second cousin Vera, but she coldly rejects his advances. He soon learns that Vera is having an affair with exiled official Mark Volokhov, with whom She is secretly dating. One day, Vera, in a fit of passion, gives herself to Volokhov, which she immediately regrets doing. Raisky and Tatyana Markovna suffer along with her having learned about Vera’s situation. Volokhov invites Vera to marry him but she refuses his proposal. After all these passions, calm comes and in the final frames of the picture, Raisky draws a portrait of Vera, and then sits down to write a long-planned novel.
The Precipice
A cobbler dreams that he is a prince, in this takeoff on an Arabian Nights style romance.
Secrets of the Orient
A chronicle of the beginning of the century, images and people, are shown while B. Grebenshchikov performs Vertinsky's romances.
Calm Me Down
Musical theme by Alexander Vertinsky, piano part by Maksim Kravchenko. A story inspired by the famous romance.
Nevermore
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Your Fingers Smell Like Incense
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The Golden Twist
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