Weyland Rodd Sr.
Actor · 1900 – 1952 · Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Wayland Rodd, born in the United States, was the first African-American performer of the role of Othello in a white company (New York). In the early 1930s, he came to the USSR with his white American pianist wife. The Soviet Union became his second home. In 1938, he graduated from the State Institute of Theatre Arts (directing department), worked at the Meyerhold Theatre, and appeared in many Soviet films. He was a regular actor in Soviet cinema at a time when communication with foreign countries was virtually nonexistent, and a black man on the street would draw a crowd of onlookers.
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Movie6.3MusicComedyAn American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.
Movie7.7DramaHistoryThe film was made on the basis of the literary version of events in the life of the famous Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, biologist and traveler who studied the indigenous population of South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania.
Movie5.7AdventureFamilyA classic movie based on a famous "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen" novel by Jules Verne.
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.
Movie7.0DramaNot being able to implement his invention in his home country, engineer Arrowsmith, the author of the patent for ore flotation, goes to the USSR to work at one of the flotation plants, where he soon learns that a group of Soviet engineers is conducting similar work.