Viktor Shklovskiy

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Viktor Shklovskiy

Born January 24, 1893 · St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Died December 6, 1984 · aged 91

No biography available.

Known For

Bed and SofaBed and Sofa · 1927
Bed and Sofa
★ 6.41927
MovieComedyDrama
Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.
ProstituteProstitute · 1927
Prostitute
★ 4.31927
MovieDrama
A bold study on the dangers of prostitution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. It's sort of dramatic fiction that tells the story of Lyuba, which after irremediable events, loses his honor, being obliged to exercise the oldest profession in the world to survive. She hopes for better days and a new opportunity. The film also shows us the story of two other women who also need hope.
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 Tale of the Golden RoosterThe Tale of the Golden Rooster · 1967
The Tale of the Golden Rooster
★ 6.41967
MovieAnimationFamily
A satirical fairy tale about an old tsar Dadon and a golden cockerel who guarded the borders of his kingdom.
The CossacksThe Cossacks · 1961
The Cossacks
★ 5.21961
MovieDrama
Junker Olenin, a representative of St. Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master.
CossacksCossacks · 1928
Cossacks
★ 7.31928
MovieWarDrama
Yunker Olenin, a representative of St. Petersburg's "golden youth," travels to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in a Cossack village. There he falls in love with the beautiful Marina and even decides to marry her, not yet knowing that she loves the Cossack Lukashka and would never trade him for a lord.
The Ballad of Bering and His FriendsThe Ballad of Bering and His Friends · 1970
The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
★ 5.81970
MovieAdventureHistory
The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering.
The Steel RoadThe Steel Road · 1929
The Steel Road
★ 6.01929
MovieDocumentary
Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.

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Wings of a SerfWings of a Serf · 1926
Wings of a Serf
★ 5.01926
MovieDramaHistory
This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with historical materialist commentary on the dialectical collision of scientific progress and patriarchal religious tyranny under Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It follows a self-taught inventor from the serf class Nikishka, whose efforts to build a flying machine incite accusations of witchcraft. Nikishka and his beloved Fima are persecuted by the feudal lord Kurlyatev, who took their village in a petty land squabble. They’re rescued when Kurlyatev’s lands are taken by the Tsar in his autocratic campaign against the feudal system. Ivan puts Nikishka to work in his linen mill, where the young serf is coveted by Tsarina Maria Temryukovna, who the Tsar’s been ignoring in favor of his cupbearer Feodor. A series of harrowing intrigues wind a bloody dance through bedchamber, feast hall, cathedral and dungeon.

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