Sofya Garrel
Actor · 1904 – 1991 · Moscow, Russian Empire
Movies15
Movie7.6ComedyDramaLocal Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.
Movie6.6RomanceDramaKatusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Movie7.0DramaHistoryImaginary story of the first Soviet woman diplomat loosely based on real story of Alexandra Kollontai. In the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, Elena Koltsova, Soviet ambassador to a neutral Scandinavian country, works hard to expose the provocations of Hitler's Germany.
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.
Movie5.0DramaHistoryThis SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with historical materialist commentary on the dialectical collision of scientific progress and patriarchal religious tyranny under Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It follows a self-taught inventor from the serf class Nikishka, whose efforts to build a flying machine incite accusations of witchcraft. Nikishka and his beloved Fima are persecuted by the feudal lord Kurlyatev, who took their village in a petty land squabble. They’re rescued when Kurlyatev’s lands are taken by the Tsar in his autocratic campaign against the feudal system. Ivan puts Nikishka to work in his linen mill, where the young serf is coveted by Tsarina Maria Temryukovna, who the Tsar’s been ignoring in favor of his cupbearer Feodor. A series of harrowing intrigues wind a bloody dance through bedchamber, feast hall, cathedral and dungeon.
Movie7.5RomanceDramaA respected history teacher, Ilya Semenovich Melnikov, decides to quit his job due to distressing rumors about a colleague who is in love with him. His final week is disrupted when a student's controversial essay on happiness sparks a classroom conflict. Melnikov's intervention in the situation ultimately causes him to reconsider his decision to resign.
MovieDramaThe play based on the play of the same name by T. Williams at the Moscow Academic Art Theater.
Movie4.4Science FictionA man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?
Movie5.7ComedySatirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".
Movie6.6DramaThe famous actress Kruchinina graciously agrees to tour in a town with which she has heavy memories, and finds there a son, left by her due to circumstances many years ago. He has become embittered from his hard childhood, youth and young adulthood an insignificant and drinking like everyone else, an actor in the local provincial theater.
Movie8.3RomanceDoctor Nechayev lives by the concerns of his patients. This is a man of remarkable mental qualities and a highly qualified specialist in cardiology, but he is completely unadapted to life in everyday life and imperceptibly lost himself, did not do much of what he dreamed of and did not understand the selfless love of a young student Alya. The doctor gradually puts an end to his hopes and dreams – they fade into the background, supplanted by work in the hospital.
Movie7.0DramaIn Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation. The performance of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky based on the novel of the same name by L. N. Tolstoy, staged for the stage by one of the founders of the theater V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.
MovieComedyBased on the story of the same name by F. M. Dostoevsky, and staged by Moscow Art Theater named after. Gorky.
Movie6.5DramaHistorySwept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.
Movie10.0DramaTV MoviePerformance of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater based on the play by N. Pogodin.