One Night

One Night

1960 · 77 min · Drama

Kazakhstan. Day and night, through scorching heat and fierce blizzards, drivers pilot their vehicles. One day, a grain convoy is caught in a snowstorm. A *Pobeda* car—carrying the artist Shaltay, his wife, and their child—accidentally finds itself in the midst of the convoy. It is here that the driver, Kemel, encounters Tana, his ex-wife. Determined to save both the people and the grain, Kemel and other brave men set out for the district center. Tana insists that Shaltay join them. Along the way, Shaltay feigns illness, forcing the drivers to turn back. The people in the convoy battle the elements; they are being searched for and are on everyone's minds.

Directed by Aleksandr Gintsburg · Written by Aleksandr Gintsburg

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

2h 47m together

One Night

They Have a Motherland

Both from Aleksandr Gintsburg.

More from Aleksandr GintsburgSee all →

They Have a Motherland

They Have a Motherland · 1949

They Have a Motherland

The Great Patriotic War is over, but Major Sorokin and Colonel Dobrygin still have a lot to do for their homeland. They must go to West Germany in order to find and return the children who were taken out of the Soviet Union by the Nazis and are now kept in atrocious conditions under the supervision of British intelligence. Former allies want to grow real spies out of their children.

Private Aleksandr Matrosov

Private Aleksandr Matrosov · 1947

Private Aleksandr Matrosov

The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy's bunker with his body.

The Birth of Soviet Cinema

The Birth of Soviet Cinema · 1976

The Birth of Soviet Cinema

MovieDocumentary

The film tells the story of the development of Russian and Soviet cinema from the late 19th century to the late 1920s. It focuses in particular on the landmark silent films of Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Alexander Dovzhenko, which have become classics of world cinema.

Komsomolsk

Komsomolsk · 1938

In 1932, thousands of Komsomol members set off for the Far East to build the "city of youth" — Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Among the builders is a saboteur. Soon, fuel depots explode at the new factories in Komsomolsk.

60 Days

60 Days · 1940

Adventures of the medicine professor during reserve duty.

Konstantin Zaslonov

Konstantin Zaslonov · 1949

Konstantin Zaslonov

Young railroad worker, seemingly accommodating to Nazi overlords at a captured rural depot, secretly spearheads acts of sabotage against the evil occupying forces.

It Happened in the Donbass

It Happened in the Donbass · 1945

It Happened in the Donbass

The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbass and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.

His Name Is Sukhe-Bator

His Name Is Sukhe-Bator · 1942

His Name Is Sukhe-Bator

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.

Bai and Farmhand

Bai and Farmhand · 1954

Bai and Farmhand

Based on the play of the same name by the Uzbek poet, playwright, and composer Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi. Exposing the feudal way of life, the wealthy landowners (bais), the clergy, and Tsarist officials, the film depicts the awakening of class consciousness among working Uzbeks.

Pavlinka

Pavlinka · 1952

About the love of a Belarusian peasant girl Pavlinka and a village teacher Yakim, about the obstacles that stood in their way, about how they fought against them and defended their happiness.

Peasants

Peasants · 1935

The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved.

Two Soldiers

Two Soldiers · 1943

A story about the friendship between two young men, two soldiers - Arkady from Odessa and Sasha from Ural.

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin · 1965

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin

MovieDramaScience Fiction

A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.

Counterplan

Counterplan · 1932

The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s.

Member of the Government

Member of the Government · 1940

Member of the Government

In the 1930s, during Collectivization, we follow Alexandra Sokolova, who having joined a kolkhoz, is promoted by the Party to the management of the farm: she becomes chairman of the kolkhoz, courageously coping with the difficulties of collectivization, the distrust of some fellow villagers, and family conflict.

Wings of Victory

Wings of Victory · 1941

Wings of Victory

Based on the true story of Russian pilot Valeri Chkalov (1904 - 1938), who set several long-distance flight records. Chkalov and co-pilots Baidukov and Belyakov altogether had accomplished several nonstop long-distance flights. In June 1937, Chkalov set the world record, covering 12,000 kilometers in 63 hours of nonstop flight from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, flying over the North Pole.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter