Directing

Dmitriy Vasilev

Born October 21, 1900 · Yeysk, Kuban Oblast, Russian Empire [now Krasnodar Krai, Russia]

Died January 5, 1984 · aged 83

No biography available.

Known For

MashenkaMashenka · 1942
Mashenka
5.71942
MovieDramaRomance
Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.
The Last NightThe Last Night · 1937
The Last Night
5.01937
MovieHistory
On one of the October nights at the ball, gymnasium pupils and officers scoff at the love of Kuzma Zakharkin, the “cook's son”, to Lena, the daughter of the manufacturer. Cannon volley interrupts the fun. In the city begins the Moscow armed uprising of workers. At the center of the fate of two families is the capitalist Leontyev and the worker Zakharkin, whose sons became the organizers and participants of this uprising.
Lenin in OctoberLenin in October · 1937
Lenin in October
6.01937
MovieDramaHistory
Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917.
Over TissaOver Tissa · 1958
Over Tissa
4.71958
MovieDramaAction
According to the story of the same name by Aleksandr Avdeenko. The end of the 50s. Transcarpathia. Two saboteurs cross the border near Tissa. One dies during detention, and the second, under the guise of a front-line soldier Ivan Belograi, appears at the state farm and begins to look after Theresa, whom he met by correspondence. Frontier guard Andrei Smolyarchuk, in love with Theresa, is the first to suspect a spy and is trying to find out what his purpose is...
Attack and RetreatAttack and Retreat · 1964
Attack and Retreat
6.71964
MovieDramaHistory
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Alexander NevskyAlexander Nevsky · 1938
Alexander Nevsky
7.01938
MovieDramaHistory
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.
Iron BrigadeIron Brigade · 1931
Iron Brigade
1931
MovieDramaAction
About the fight against bureaucrats and saboteurs at a foundry under construction during the first five-year plan. Lost movie.
Lenin in SwitzerlandLenin in Switzerland · 1966
Lenin in Switzerland
9.01966
MovieDramaHistory
Art-documentary narrative of the stay of Lenin in exile, in Switzerland.

Filmography

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MashenkaMashenka · 1942
Mashenka
5.71942
MovieDramaRomance
Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.

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