Mikhail Zharov
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1899-10-27
Locus Natus: Moscow, Russia
Et ut: Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov, M.I. Jaroff, M. Zharov, Михаил Иванович Жаров, Michail Iwanowitsch Scharow, Mihail Žarov, M. I. Jaroff
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
This 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...
release : 1958.10.10popularis : 8.407
Chess Fever
A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.
release : 1925.12.21popularis : 2.763
Engineer Kochin's Error
Engineer-designer of the Moscow aviation plant Cochin took the secret blueprints home. He didn't know that foreign intelligence had long been hunting...
release : 1939.10.05popularis : 1.512
Peter the First, Part I
This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs....
release : 1937.08.30popularis : 2.478
Peter the First, Part II
Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him.
release : 1938.08.22popularis : 1.194
Tsar Ivan Vasilevich Groznyy
This film was a true peculiarity, a filmed version of the great Feodor Chaliapin in one of his most famous roles; the fact that it was a silent film,...
release : 1915.10.20popularis : 0.944
Bogdan Khmelnitskiy
Year 1648. Ukraine under the oppression of Poland. Polish nobility committing outrage, burning villages one after another. Hetman of Zaporozhian...
release : 1941.04.07popularis : 1.206
Miss Mend
Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.
release : 1926.10.01popularis : 1.765
Two-Buldi-Two
Naturally, the circus milieu of 2 Buldy 2 (1929) encourages stunts. A father and son, both clowns, are to perform together for the first time, but...
release : 1929.01.01popularis : 2.111
Thunderstorm
The cinematic adaptation of "The Storm" play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive Katerina...
release : 1934.03.25popularis : 1.685
The Village Detective
Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is...
release : 1969.03.15popularis : 2.49
Aniskin Again
Third and final part of the comedies about the funny adventures of countryside cop named Aniskin.
release : 1978.06.14popularis : 1.394
Aniskin and Fantomas
A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.
release : 1974.05.08popularis : 4.096
The White Eagle
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the...
release : 1928.10.09popularis : 0.729
The Man from the Restaurant
During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy...
release : 1927.08.11popularis : 1.313
Don Diego and Pelagia
The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local...
release : 1928.04.29popularis : 0.503
The Return of Maxim
The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of...
release : 1937.04.01popularis : 0.808
Marionettes
The Soviet Union wants more influence in Europe and decides to get more power by giving the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle...
release : 1934.02.02popularis : 3.207
Love and Hate
A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and...
release : 1935.03.03popularis : 2.488
26 Commissioners
Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint.
release : 1932.12.25popularis : 0.818
Elder Sister
A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career.
release : 1967.03.06popularis : 1.922
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Set 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...
release : 1944.11.11popularis : 8.092
Defense of Tsaritsyn
Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red...
release : 1942.03.29popularis : 1.028
Air Taxi
A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.
release : 1943.08.26popularis : 2.515
Outskirts
In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire,...
release : 1933.03.25popularis : 3.784
A Noisy Household
A comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII.
release : 1946.05.15popularis : 1.274
Twins
A funny comedy about a lost twins and a lot of good people who are involved in a search for twins' parents.
release : 1945.12.21popularis : 1.68
Road to Life
Young hobos are taken to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards, and it works well. But crooks kill one of the...
release : 1931.03.12popularis : 1.889
Cain the XVIII-th
A fairytale about homeless musician and his love for the princess.
release : 1963.08.05popularis : 1.743
The Very Last Day
A former front-line soldier, who worked at his post for a quarter of a century, local commissioner Lieutenant Semyon Mitrofanovich Kovalev, going to...
release : 1973.03.28popularis : 0.937
A Girl with Guitar
A romantic story about the girl working in the musical instruments store.
release : 1958.09.01popularis : 3.304
Life in Bloom
About the life of the Russian biologist Ivan Michurin. 1912 year. Having rejected American offers to work abroad, Michurin continues his research in...
release : 1949.01.01popularis : 6.35
The Anna Cross
Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After...
release : 1954.05.13popularis : 3.23
Actress
Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded...
release : 1943.04.22popularis : 2.006
The Bear
A romantic comedy based on an Anton Chekhov play of the same name. A young man comes to collect a debt owed to him by the widow Popova's late...
release : 1938.06.11popularis : 2.353
Man in a Shell
The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a...
release : 1939.05.25popularis : 1.929
Our Friend Maxim
The film Our Friend Maxim is devoted to the life and work of actor and National Artist of the USSR Boris Petrovich Chirkov. This film includes...
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 0.588
The District Secretary
A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.
release : 1942.11.30popularis : 0.828
Stepan Razin
Don Cossack Stepan Razin boyars vowed revenge for his friends tortured torture. As head of the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of the...
release : 1939.02.09popularis : 2.296
In the Name of the Motherland
The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
release : 1943.07.19popularis : 2.077
The Vyborg Side
The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in...
release : 1939.04.01popularis : 0.665
For Those Who Are at Sea
The film is about the sailors who fought on torpedo boats in the Great Patriotic war.
release : 1948.03.09popularis : 2.583
Young Fritz
War-time satire about the inhumanity of the nazis.
release : 1943.11.23popularis : 0.734
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
The story is about three sisters. The youngest is chosen by Tsar Saltan to be his wife. He orders the other two sisters to be his royal cook and...
release : 1943.01.23popularis : 2.343
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin...
release : 1924.12.02popularis : 2.101
Aelita: Queen of Mars
A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has...
release : 1924.09.24popularis : 6.337
His Call
The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the...
release : 1925.01.02popularis : 0.507
Vassa Zheleznova
The tragedy of a talented and strong woman who built the well-being of her family on blood and blood. And well-being turned out to be just as false...
release : 1953.11.18popularis : 0.812
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective...
release : 2021.04.27popularis : 2.817