Acting
Pyotr Podvalniy
Born April 28, 1899
Died May 6, 1957 · aged 58
No biography available.
Known For
Flag of the Nation · 1929Flag of the Nation
1929
MovieDrama
In the United States, oil magnate Johnston backs Roberts, a ruthless political candidate who has his main rival murdered and rises to the governorship. When journalist Jack Lawrence exposes Roberts’s corruption, the authorities crush a workers’ strike and silence the newspaper, ultimately framing Lawrence for murder and executing him.
Mutiny · 1929Mutiny
★ 10.01929
MovieWarDrama
Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go to the Fergana region to fight the Basmachi. A group of kulaks, with the support of local merchants and beys, incites the unconscious, wavering mass of the Red Army to revolt. The anti-Soviet agitation of counter-revolutionaries, demagogically exploiting the mood of war weariness, provokes an open mutiny in the battalion.
Baltic Deputy · 1937Baltic Deputy
★ 4.61937
MovieDrama
A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.
Stepan Khalturin · 1925Stepan Khalturin
1925
MovieHistoryDrama
The film depicts the life of Stepan Khalturin, a 19th-century Russian worker and revolutionary terrorist belonging to the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) organization.
Napoleon Gas · 1925Napoleon Gas
★ 6.51925
MovieDramaWar
A squadron of American warplanes, armed with gas developed by Corsican chemist Gannimer (dubbed "Napoleon Gas") flies to Leningrad. American workers inform soviet comrades about the impending catastrophe. But the air attack on the city has already begun, and the assault troops of the enemy capture one suburb of the city after the other. The Red Army is organizing the defense and reflects the attack of the enemy with gas-armed drones
Purga · 1927Purga
★ 1.01927
MovieDrama
Siberia. 1919 The retreating intervention detachments and the English expedition leave the mines. A snowstorm begins. English engineer Henry and his fiancee Ollan, the daughter of the company director, are lagging behind. After much wandering, the heroes come across the winter quarters of the Russian partisan Vladimir. While waiting out the bad weather, the heroes will be forced to live together for some time. Ollan will be convinced of the worthlessness of his chosen one and the courageous, energetic Vladimir will become her husband. And ahead is spring and painful thoughts: to stay with your loved one in this country or return to your homeland?
Miss Mend · 1926Miss Mend
★ 5.91926
MovieComedyAdventure
Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.
The Village · 1928The Village
1928
MovieDrama
The struggle of the Chuvash peasants against the large landowners for the implementation of the Land Law. Partially lost.
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Arinka · 1939Arinka
★ 8.01939
MovieComedyDrama
Arinka, a young girl who lives near the railroad, discovers a ring of spies who are preparing the terror act.
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