Directing

Maria Zarzhitskaya

Born August 28, 1906 · Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Died April 7, 2002 · aged 95

No biography available.

Known For

Stepan RazinStepan Razin · 1939
Stepan Razin
4.51939
MovieDramaHistory
Don Cossack Stepan Razin vowed to take revenge on the boyars for his tortured friends. Having led the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of an entire army. Humiliated and insulted people flock to him from all over the Russian land.
It Happened at the Police StationIt Happened at the Police Station · 1963
It Happened at the Police Station
7.51963
MovieDramaMystery
A story about police detectives working on reuniting children and parents who got separated by WWII. Based on Izrail Metter stories.
Madmen's TrialMadmen's Trial · 1961
Madmen's Trial
5.51961
MovieDrama
Germany, the 1930s. A young scientist, Professor Johannes Werner discovers rays of life-giving power. The scientist refuses to give up his invention for military use and, breaking the equipment, runs to the USA, where he hides for a long time under the name of Martini. One day, after being invited to a military industrial concern to see a new European invention, Werner meets his former pupil Huber. Huber, a traitor and fascist, has restored the professor's apparatus according to stolen plans and is demonstrating it as his own invention. Werner rejects the proposal for joint cooperation and, at a meeting in the hall of scientific associations, reveals his real name and resolutely reveals the criminal intentions of the revanchists.
The Battle of StalingradThe Battle of Stalingrad · 1949
The Battle of Stalingrad
3.91949
MovieActionDrama
A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad.
The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not MarryThe Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry · 1966
The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry
5.21966
MovieDramaRomance
Asya, a lame collective farmer, is in love with the father of her unborn child. However, he does not reciprocate, forcing her to choose between a loveless marriage to another suitor, or single motherhood.
Capt. Grant's FamilyCapt. Grant's Family · 1936
Capt. Grant's Family
6.41936
MovieAdventureFantasy
The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures in Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand.
Two WomenTwo Women · 1930
Two Women
9.01930
MovieDrama
During the NEP era, the ex-wife of a White officer, now married to a dedicated Soviet worker and lover to several bourgeois “specialists”, is expelled by her husband’s party for her affairs. Meanwhile, the commissar’s wife, once captured by White Cossacks, helps her husband lead a prisoner revolt and later serves as an exchange inspector on the commodity exchange. When she exposes the director’s fraud and her husband is wrongly implicated, both are reassigned to the provinces and depart together. Considered lost.
Year as Long as LifeYear as Long as Life · 1965
Year as Long as Life
7.01965
MovieHistory
The film takes place in Europe in the 19th century. The film shows the popular uprisings that took place there, as well as the search for truth and the confrontation of Karl Marx and opponents of the revolution.

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Madmen's TrialMadmen's Trial · 1961
Madmen's Trial
5.51961
MovieDrama
Germany, the 1930s. A young scientist, Professor Johannes Werner discovers rays of life-giving power. The scientist refuses to give up his invention for military use and, breaking the equipment, runs to the USA, where he hides for a long time under the name of Martini. One day, after being invited to a military industrial concern to see a new European invention, Werner meets his former pupil Huber. Huber, a traitor and fascist, has restored the professor's apparatus according to stolen plans and is demonstrating it as his own invention. Werner rejects the proposal for joint cooperation and, at a meeting in the hall of scientific associations, reveals his real name and resolutely reveals the criminal intentions of the revanchists.

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