Vasiliy Kovrigin
Actor · 1892 – 1958 · Krasnoyarsk, Russian Empire
Movies16
Movie5.0DramaActionA Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government. Work on the new outpost is complicated when tensions develop between workers and a religious sect. Relations between the two countries are further strained in the days before World War II, dating back to the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
Movie4.2DramaWarDocu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint.
Movie6.4Science FictionScientist Pavel Sedykh grows impatient with the restrictions of the conservative Soviet space institute in Moscow. Sedikh builds his own spacecraft, and accompanied by a female astronaut and a boy, he embarks on a the first human trip to the moon.
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Movie5.1DramaHistoryThe first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War.
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On liberation from prison of a group arrested after the defeat of the 1905 Russian revolution and workers sentenced to death. Lost movie.
Movie5.3WarDramaA biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.
Movie5.2DramaThe Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.
Movie5.0DramaSoviet film based on Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel of his prison experiences in Tsarist days.
Movie5.0DramaA wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own country.
Movie6.8WarDramaThe story of a British POW who converts to communism.
Movie3.0DramaAn American engineer, consulting on a Soviet construction project, inspires a backward and timid new foreman to learn better about his job, assert himself, solve problems and inspire his own men to bring the job in ahead of schedule.
Movie9.0DramaUkrainian Soviet film about the fate of a young Ukrainian peasant who became a participant in the revolutionary struggle.
MovieComedyThe film takes place somewhere abroad. One of the characters in the film, novice Morne, rescues a fisherman girl, Armela, who loses her mind from terror and seriously begins to believe that she is the "goddess of the winds". The monks of the monastery use this not without benefit. Armela's father finds his daughter and takes her home. Morne, in love with the girl, leaves the monastery and returns to his former profession of an artist. Soon Armela recovers and marries Morne.
Movie7.3Science FictionHorrorSet in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been banished here due to his confrontational activities. The two fall in love but meet a violent end when the revolutionaries, led by Elka's father, destroy the palace.