Writing
Valentin Kataev
Born January 16, 1897 · Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Died April 12, 1986 · aged 89
No biography available.
Known For
Crazy Day · 1956Crazy Day
★ 6.11956
MovieComedy
A funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year.
Pages of Life · 1948Pages of Life
★ 8.01948
MovieDrama
The story of a young woman who, after her years at university in the city, returns to her hometown an engineer and begins work on a huge new power plant. She continues to supervise work on the plant throughout the war.
Karikák · 1956Karikák
★ 7.01956
MovieRomanceComedy
The movie is based on a short story by V. Kataev. A young tractor driver Duri loves Dorka, the daughter of the owner of a ring-throwing attraction. The girl's father is against the marriage. Durie makes a cunning plan: he starts practicing ring throwing. At the opening of the attraction, Durie takes part in the ring toss and wins prize after prize, which he immediately hands out to the people around him. Dorka's father allows Dury to marry Dorka to save his business from ruin.
Circus · 1936Circus
★ 6.31936
MovieMusicComedy
An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.
The Husbands and The Knives · 1964The Husbands and The Knives
★ 5.01964
MovieMusicComedy
The Flower with Seven Colors · 1968The Flower with Seven Colors
★ 2.01968
MovieFamilyFantasy
The girl Zhenya receives a wonderful gift from the sorceress - a seven-flower flower. If you tear one petal from it, you can make any wish and it will surely come true. However, there are only seven petals.
The Upright Sinner · 1931The Upright Sinner
★ 8.01931
MovieComedy
Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urgently needs on a trip to Vienna. Due to some circumstances, getting the money takes a little longer than expected and the director leaves for Vienna without it.
Call to Arms · 1936Call to Arms
★ 10.01936
MovieWar
This is a film from the series of so-called "defense" films, which presents a hypothetical "scenario" of a future war. The crew of test pilot Sergei Novikov makes a long non-stop flight on an airplane of a new design. Novikov's son, Yurka, a passionate inventor, manages to contact his father using a transmitter he designed himself. Just before landing Novikov felt bad - an old leg wound, received during the Civil War, had opened. But still the pilot managed to land the plane on the airfield of the aircraft factory. After an editorial article in the newspaper Pravda, the movie was removed from the screens.
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