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Дезертир (1933)
Character: N/A
A 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.
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Мёртвый дом (1932)
Character: Uspensky
Soviet film based on Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel of his prison experiences in Tsarist days.
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Остап Бандура (1924)
Character: Savko
Ukrainian Soviet film about the fate of a young Ukrainian peasant who became a participant in the revolutionary struggle.
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Хозяин черных скал (1924)
Character: Monk
The 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.
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Тихий Дон (1931)
Character: Prokofij Melekhov
The 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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Завтра ночью (1930)
Character: Kuznetsov, machinist
On liberation from prison of a group arrested after the defeat of the 1905 Russian revolution and workers sentenced to death. Lost movie.
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Призрак бродит по Европе (1923)
Character: Elka's father, old fisherman
Set 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.
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Укразія (1925)
Character: Lisevitskiy, aviation officer
The first Ukrainian adventure detective story. The action takes place in Odesa in 1920, occupied by Denikin's troops. The White Guard counterintelligence conducts a fruitless search for the Bolshevik agent "7+2". The search is led by officer Enger. Dizzying races, disasters, and murders further confuse the agent's trail. It is only with the arrival of the Bolsheviks that the case is solved.
Incompletely preserved
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Томми (1931)
Character: Vershinin, partisan commander
The story of a British POW who converts to communism.
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Двадцать шесть комиссаров (1933)
Character: Vaska - sailor
Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint.
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Адмирал Нахимов (1947)
Character: Baranovsky
A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.
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Железная бригада (1931)
Character: N/A
About the fight against bureaucrats and saboteurs at a foundry under construction during the first five-year plan. Lost movie.
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Космический рейс (1936)
Character: Prof. Karin
Soviet cinematographers created a progressively realistic image of a journey to the moon in these early days of special effects. Scientist Pavel Sedikh 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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Дела и люди (1932)
Character: Chief of the constitution site
An 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.
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Великий утешитель (1933)
Character: Warden
The 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.
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