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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
The Battle of Stalingrad · 1949The Battle of Stalingrad
★ 4.01949
MovieActionDrama
A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad.
The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry · 1966The 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.
Two Women · 1930Two 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.
Capt. Grant's Family · 1936Capt. 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.
Year as Long as Life · 1965Year 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.
Gloomy Morning · 1959Gloomy Morning
★ 7.51959
MovieDramaHistory
The third film in the trilogy ("The Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", "The Gloomy Morning") based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy "The Road to Calvary". About the fate of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the collapse of the Russian Empire and the civil war, which turned the lives of all the heroes of the film narration. Defending Tsaritsyn, the red commander Telegin was seriously wounded. At the hospital, he meets Dasha. After his recovery, the young spouses go together to the Red Army.
Madmen's Trial · 1961Madmen'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.
Hostile Whirlwinds · 1956Hostile Whirlwinds
★ 5.51956
MovieDramaHistory
Observing the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky from 1918-1925; in July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, German ambassador Mirbach is killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky alone goes to the headquarters of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Anarchists, he manages to persuade ordinary soldiers and sailors, participants in the rebellion, who are now cracking down on their leaders.
Filmography
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The Battle of Stalingrad · 1949The Battle of Stalingrad
★ 4.01949
MovieActionDrama
A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad.
Assistant Director
The Sisters · 1957The Sisters
★ 6.51957
MovieDramaHistory
Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.
First Assistant Director
Flames on the Volga · 1956Flames on the Volga
★ 6.71956
MovieDrama
Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries.
First Assistant Director






