Arkady Gaydar

Writing

Arkady Gaydar

Born January 22, 1904 · Lgov, Kursk Region, USSR (Russia)

Died October 26, 1941 · aged 37

No biography available.

Known For

The Drummer's FateThe Drummer's Fate · 1976
The Drummer's Fate
★ 5.51976
MovieFamilyAdventure
A young boy is trying to find his family and fights enemies of the state.
Chuk and GekChuk and Gek · 1953
Chuk and Gek
★ 6.41953
MovieAdventureFamily
Followed by his two sons, Chuk and Gek, an engineer-explorer heads for a geologists'camp lost in the Ural white wilderness. He plans to spend New Year's Eve there with Chuk and Gek, among his fellow-colleagues. However an undetermined incident has caused the occupiers to leave the place. When, to their amazement, the three adventurers discover the empty camp, they realize that they don't have enough food to return immediately and that they will have to join forces to survive for a few days without any outside help...
The Ballad of Cossack GolotaThe Ballad of Cossack Golota · 1937
The Ballad of Cossack Golota
★ 5.71937
MovieAdventureFamily
The story of three young Russsian adventurers against the background of post-revolutionary skirmishes in the Ukraine. The boys get mixed up with a wounded commissar and a marauding White Russian officer. They find themselves in all sorts of predicaments before the Reds arrive to save the day, and become the mascots of a troop of Bolshevik cavalry.
Summer to RememberSummer to Remember · 1988
Summer to Remember
1988
MovieFamily
Based on Arkady Gaidar's stories "The Blue Cup", "The Fourth Dugout", "Hot Stone", diaries and letters of the writer.
BumbarashBumbarash · 1972
Bumbarash
★ 5.81972
MovieComedyAdventure
Private Bumbarash, considered lost in the First World War, suddenly returned to his native village, where no one recognizes, because the money for the memorial service a long time ago employed for other purposes. In a country already in full raging civil war in the tiny village of power is changing every half: red, white, anarchists, gangsters, again red and white for them again, and so on to infinity ... Amid all this chaos Bumbarash tries to arrange his life and personal happiness.
Distant CountriesDistant Countries · 1965
Distant Countries
★ 8.01965
MovieFamily
An aviation colonel comes to the Western Urals, to a large village of industrial importance. He remembers running here as a barefoot boy with his friend in the early 1930s. Then there was only a small crossing and a small village. About how they lived and studied here, how they became active builders of a new life, how they dreamed of seeing different countries, how they bravely fought the Nazis far from their homeland.
Let It Shine!Let It Shine! · 1960
Let It Shine!
★ 7.01960
MovieWarDrama
White troops are approaching the village. A small garrison of Red Army soldiers decides to evacuate civilians and a wounded soldier to safety. This important task is entrusted to the young Komsomol member Efimka. The carts leave the village and travel along forest roads, but lose their way. At night, at a rest stop, Efimka, his mother and Verka talk about the future, about a forty-story house with a tower, a star and a spotlight - let it shine!..
Timur and His TeamTimur and His Team · 1977
Timur and His Team
★ 5.91977
MovieAdventureFamily
A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII.

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