Nikolai Cherkasov

Acting

Nikolai Cherkasov

Born July 27, 1903 · St Petersburg, Russian Empire

Died September 14, 1966 · aged 63

An outstanding Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1937). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the USSR (02.26.1947). He graduated from the Institute of Performing Arts (1926). Since 1919 - a mimic artist of the Petrograd Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater, the Bolshoi Drama Theater and other theaters. In the years 1926-1929 - actor of the Leningrad…

Known For

Ivan the Terrible, Part IIvan the Terrible, Part I · 1944
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
★ 7.31944
MovieDramaHistory
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Don QuixoteDon Quixote · 1957
Don Quixote
★ 6.71957
MovieAdventureDrama
Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.
Alexander NevskyAlexander Nevsky · 1938
Alexander Nevsky
★ 7.11938
MovieDramaHistory
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' PlotIvan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot · 1958
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
★ 7.31958
MovieHistoryDrama
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Why We Fight: The Battle of RussiaWhy We Fight: The Battle of Russia · 1943
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
★ 6.81943
MovieDocumentaryWar
The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Nights of FarewellNights of Farewell · 1965
Nights of Farewell
★ 4.81965
MovieHistoryDrama
Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersburg, where he is invited to become the first dancer. He doesn't know that his life will develop both happily and dramatically, and his work will be the glory and pride of Russian ballet.
His Name Is Sukhe-BatorHis Name Is Sukhe-Bator · 1942
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
★ 7.01942
MovieHistoryWar
The film tells about the founder of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the leader of the Mongolian People's Revolution - Damdin Sukhe-Bator.
My SonMy Son · 1928
My Son
★ 8.51928
MovieDrama
A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.

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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' PlotIvan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot · 1958
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
★ 7.31958
MovieHistoryDrama
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.

Czar Ivan IV