Directing
Nikolai Aleksandrovich
Born March 22, 1920 · Moscow, USSR
Died November 10, 2008 · aged 88
No biography available.
Known For
The Headless Rider · 1973The Headless Rider
★ 6.01973
MovieRomanceAdventure
The film takes place in 1850, Texas, United States. Louise, daughter of the wealthy plantation owner Poindexter, master of the hacienda Casa del Corvo, falls in love with a poor mustanger Maurice Gerald. The night their secret rendezvous happens, her brother Henry disappears. Suspicion in murder falls on Gerald, who was found covered in blood, with signs of struggle on the body and on Henry's cloak. One more minute, and an angry crowd would have Gerald lynched, but then the mysterious Headless Horseman appears...
It's Up to You · 1983It's Up to You
★ 9.01983
MovieAdventureFamily
A young girl visits her family in a village and mistakenly identified by local children as a swimming champion.
The Prince and the Pauper · 1985The Prince and the Pauper
1985
MovieAdventureComedy
A play by Sergei Mikhalkov based on the story by Mark Twain, staged by the Moscow Art Academic Theatre named after M. Gorky. London, mid-16th century. Two boys are born on the same day — Tom, the son of a thief, John Canty, living in a foul alley called the Court of Filth, and Edward, the heir to King Henry VIII. All of England awaits Edward's birth. Tom, on the other hand, is barely wanted even by his own family.
