Solomon Mikhoels
Actor · 1890 – 1948 · Daugavpils, Latvia
Movies9
Movie7.0DocumentaryHistoryThe convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.
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.
Movie8.0DocumentaryHistoryJanuary 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.
Movie8.7DramaBased on Lyon Feuchtwanger's novel about the tragedy of society, through a look at the tragedy of one single family.
Movie8.0DramaA bricklayer of Jewish ancestry leaves capitalist America during the Depression for the promise of Soviet Russia.
Movie5.6RomanceComedyThe story of a Jewish entrepreneur ins Tsarist Russia always look for a get rich quick scheme.
Movie5.5AdventureGeological expedition is looking for a rare element in Pamir mountains.
Movie8.0DocumentaryA film about the destruction of the Jewish intelligentsia - from the defeat of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to the “Doctors’ Plot.”
The Great Concert of Nations, or The Breath of Cheyne-Stokes
Большой концерт народов, или Дыхание чейн-стокса
1991 · 1 votes
- MovieDocumentary
In 1941, a group of the Soviet Union's most prominent Jewish writers and artists, including Solomon Mikhoels, Peretz Markish, and Sergei Eisenstein, signed an appeal to Jews throughout the world, asking them to join the Soviet people in fighting against fascism.