Acting
Semyon Mezhinsky
Born September 24, 1889 · Kupyansk, Khar'kovskaya guberniya, Rossiyskaya imperiya
Died October 16, 1978 · aged 89
No biography available.
Known For
1812 · 19431812
★ 5.91943
MovieWarDrama
A biopic about Prince Kutuzov, the defeater of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Eugénie Grandet · 1960Eugénie Grandet
★ 5.51960
MovieDrama
Eugénie Grandet is set in the town of Saumur. Eugénie's father Felix is a former cooper who has become wealthy through both business ventures and inheritance (having inherited the estates of his mother-in-law, grandfather-in-law, and grandmother all in one year). However, he is very miserly, and he, his wife, daughter, and their servant Nanon live in a run-down old house which he is too miserly to repair. His banker des Grassins wants Eugénie to marry his son Adolphe, and his lawyer Cruchot wants Eugénie to marry his nephew President Cruchot des Bonfons, both parties eyeing the inheritance from Felix. The two families constantly visit the Grandets to get Felix's favour, and Felix in turn plays them off against each other for his own advantage.
Wings of Victory · 1941Wings of Victory
★ 4.71941
MovieDramaWar
Based on the true story of Russian pilot Valeri Chkalov (1904 - 1938), who set several long-distance flight records. Chkalov and co-pilots Baidukov and Belyakov altogether had accomplished several nonstop long-distance flights. In June 1937, Chkalov set the world record, covering 12,000 kilometers in 63 hours of nonstop flight from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, flying over the North Pole.
Peat-Bog Soldiers · 1938Peat-Bog Soldiers
★ 4.21938
MovieDramaWar
This story of the Nazi prison camps in the 1930s deals with the attempts of the Nazi guards to break the spirit of the Communists in concentration camps.
Professor Mamlock · 1938Professor Mamlock
★ 6.01938
MovieDrama
Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappaport, the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politically-aware, fascism-resisting son, an intern, as their lives become entangled with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany, where they live and practice. Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital, and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff.
Court of Honor · 1949Court of Honor
★ 7.51949
MovieDramaHistory
The movie tells about the life of Soviet scientists. Professor Dobrotvorsky, together with his colleague Losev, is on his way to completing a scientific work of great importance in medicine. Professor Dobrotvorsky's friend Academician Vereisky learns from a foreign journal that important data about this work has fallen into the hands of American businessmen.