Serafima Birman
Actor · 1890 – 1976 · Kishinyov, Russian Empire [now Chisinau, Moldova]
Movies19
Movie7.3DramaHistorySet 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.
Movie7.4HistoryDramaThis 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.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Иван Грозный. Сказ второй: Боярский заговор
1958 · 180 votes
Movie6.7AdventureDramaSenor 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.
Movie6.1ComedyA funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year.
Movie6.7DramaShortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
MovieDocumentaryHistoryThe outstanding researcher and scholar Irakly Andronikov speaks in the television film about his search for places connected with Lermontov in the Caucasus and about the identity of the woman to whom Lermontov dedicated many poems under the initials N.F.I.
Загадка Н.Ф.И.
1959
Movie7.8AnimationA short animated film about poor student Kolya Sorokin, who is dragged by two swans to the island of errors. On the island, incorrect solutions cause a lot of problems for Kolya. These trials force the hero to approach his responsibilities in a different way.
Movie5.2HistoryThe story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.
Movie6.8AnimationA valiant mongoose enters into an unequal battle with two snakes while tries to protect a human family.
Movie6.1ComedyAdventureHistory of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a religious community.
Movie4.7DramaWarBased 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.
Movie4.2ComedyA 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky), bought a lottery ticket and handed it to his landlord, widow Shirinkina (Deykun) who wants to marry him. Petya is a hard-working tailor trying to start his own business. He is also in love with Katya (Maretskaya), whom he wants to marry. He has to survive a cascade of funny situations in the unstable Soviet reality, before his romance with Katya comes to a happy ending.
Movie7.0ComedyMusicThe fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert. A police captain investigates the kidnapping and listens to complaints from the “unkidnapped” artists.
Movie6.7WarDramaGirlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.
Movie6.4ComedyA Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for university and takes pity on him.
Movie6.0HistoryDramaThe Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov.
Movie7.2ComedyRomanceThe famous singer Ladygin, who has won success and fame, lives in a spacious apartment furnished with paintings and luxury goods. Suddenly, an old front-line friend, a prominent scientist Svekolkin, comes to Ladygin. Realizing that for Ladygin, ranks and titles are more valuable than human qualities, Svekolkin tells his friend that he works as a simple cashier. This leads to a number of misunderstandings and comic situations.
Movie7.2AnimationFamilyOn September 1, the first day of school, a happy young boy named Fedya draws a picture of a little man on a white wall using coal.
Movie10.0RomanceAbout life and customs in the boyar environment during the reign of Peter I.