471 VEDMA (THE WITCH)
1958, 31 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Alexander Abramov, camera: Yevgeny Kirpichev, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Boris Klyuzner, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Erast Garin, Alla Larionova, Nikolai Rybnikov
Based on a short story of the same title by Anton Chekhov.
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The film was awarded the “Grand Prix Eurovision” of the 1st International Television Film Festival in Cannes, France (1961) and the Premium for the Best Short Film at the V International Film Festival in San Francisco, USA (1961).
472 GOROD ZAZHIGAYET OGNI (THE CITY LIGHTS GO ON)
1958, 97 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Vladimir Vengerov, camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Victor Volin, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Nikolai Pogodin, Yelena Dobronravova, Oleg Borisov, Lilia Alyoshnikova, Yuri Lyubimov, Alexander Sokolov, Alisa Freindlich
Based on “In His Native City”, a story by Victor Nekrasov.
The ex-scout Captain Nikolai Mityasov returns to his native city which has been destroyed by the fascists. His heavy wound is keeping him from his favorite sports. Nikolai's confusion and embarrassment have been further enhanced by his wife's unfaithfulness. The new friends helped the man back from the front enroll in the Engineering and Construction Institute and take an active part in the peaceful working life.
473 DEN PERVUY (DAY ONE)
1958, 91 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Konstantin Isayev, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Oleg Kravaychuk, sound: Alexander Becker
Cast: Edward Bredun, Oksana Petrenko, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Konstantin Skorobogatov, Alexander Larikov, Yuri Tolubeyev
The Petrograd worker Nikolai Timofeyev is always in the thick of events. We see him in the Smolny, which is housing the headquarters of the Revolution; in the Peter and Paul Fortress, obtaining arms for the workers; in the Winter Palace, delivering the ultimatum to the ministers of the Provisional Government. Always at his side is his wife Katya, an expectant mother.
At the very time when Nikolai is storming the Winter Palace with the armed workers, on the marble staircase of the Headquarters in the Palace Square a son is born to Katya.
Day one of the Soviet Republic dawns, being also the first day in the life of Nikolai Timofeyev's son.
474 DOM NAPROTIV (THE BUILDING ACROSS THE STREET)
1958, 31 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Sergey Voronin, camera: Vitaly Chulkov, production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: extracts from pieces by Sergey Rakhmaninov, sound: Alexander Becker
Cast: Galina Dunayeva, Lyudmila Kasyanova, Gleb Selyanin, Stepan Krylov, Alexander Orlov
The driver Vasya, in hospital with bad bone fractures, doesn't believe in getting well. He gloom is further enhanced by the building across the street that is falling apart.
But one day workers arrive to tear down the ruins and begin new construction. Chatting to the builders and watching them at work, Vasya gradually comes alive, further helped by the jokes of the young stonemason Tasya.
Time passes. Vasya gets well, the building is ready, the workers have left, but Vasya's friendship with Tasya perseveres.
475 DOROGOY MOY CHELOVEK (MY DEAR MAN)
1958, 108 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Joseph Heifitz, screenplay: Yuri Herman, Joseph Heifitz, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, production designers: Bella Manevich, Isaac Kaplan, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Alexei Batalov, Inna Makarova, Leonid Bykov, Boris Chirkov, Ivan Pereverzev, Yuri Medvedev, Bella Vinogradova, Lydia Shtykan
The screenplay became the basis for the novel “The Cause You Serve” by Yuri Herman.
The main character, Vladimir Ustimenko, is a doctor. Life has not been kind to him. His father perished in Spain in the 1930-s. Invariably, no matter where his destiny took him, Vladimir stuck to the ideals and principles he developed back in his youth: as a student of the medical institute, in the capacity of army surgeon during the war, and in the post-war years when he became Head Physician in charge of a municipal hospital. Justice and selflessness have always been parts of Ustimenko's approach both to the cause he serves and the people he meets at different stages of his life.
This includes his girlfriend Varya, their friendship going back to well before the war and supporting both of them throughout their long lives.
476 YEVGENY ONEGIN (EUGENE ONEGIN)
1958, 108 min., color
Drama
Director: Roman Tikhomirov, screenplay: Alexander Ivanovsky, Roman Tikhomirov, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Ariadna Shengelaya, Svetlana Nemolyayeva, Vadim Medvedev, Igor Ozerov, Ivan Petrov. Singing: Galina Vishnevskaya, Larisa Avdeyeva, Yevgeny Kibalko, Anton Grigoryev, Ivan Petrov
A screen version of the opera of the same title by Pyotr Chaikovsky based on the versed novel by Alexander Pushkin; musical manager and conductor: Boris Khaykin.
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The film was awarded the Diploma of the XIII International Film Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland (1959).
477 KOLOVRASCHENIYE ZHIZNI (THE LIFE'S TURMOIL)
1958, 30 min., b/w
Comedy
Written and directed by: Joseph Shapiro, camera: Konstantin Sobol, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Arkady Trusov, Lyubov Malinovskaya, Victor Chekmaryev
Based on a short story of the same title by O'Henry.
478 KOCHUBEY (KOCHUBEY)
1958, 108 min., b/w, wide screen
Screen version
Director: Yuri Ozerov, screenplay: Arkady Perventsev, camera: Sergey Ivanov, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Yuri Levitin, sound: Nikolai Kosarev, Ilya Volk
Cast: Nikolai Rybnikov, Pavel Usovnichenko, Lyudmila Khityayeva, Julian Panich, Konstantin Sorokin, Fyodor Shmakov, Oleg Zhakov, Vladimir Tatosov
Loosely based on a novel of the same title by Arkady Perventsev.
The world was into the year 1918. Word of the brigade led by the brave and reckless Kochubey was all over the Kuban. Many a time did he drive the White troops out of villages with his unexpected maneuvers. Many a time his attack, delivered out of the blue, defeated the armed enemy units. But by and by, the fearless Kochubey came to understand that it takes also military discipline and mastery of military science to achieve a complete victory...
479 MISTER IKS (MISTER X)
1958, 95 min., color
Musical
Director: Yuzef Khmelnitsky, screenplay: Nora Rubunstein, Yuzef Khmelnitsky, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designers: Abram Veksler, Yevgeny Yeney, sound: Rostislav Lapinsky
Cast: Georg Ots, Marina Yurasova, Anatoly Korolkevich, Zoya Vinogradova, Nikolai Kashirsky, Glikeria Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Grigory Yaron, Yephim Kopelyan
Based on “The Circus Princess”, a musical comedy by the Hungarian composer Imre Kalman.
480 NASH KORRESPONDENT (OUR REPORTER)
1958, 101 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Granik, screenplay: Sergey Antonov, camera: Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Victor Volin, misic: Isaac Schwarz, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: Nelly Podgornaya, Inna Makarova, Felix Razdyakonov, Rolan Bykov, Vitaly Konyayev
The meetings on Moscow construction sites and in the faraway virgin lands, the regular stories and essays focused on specific problems help the young reporter Tanya Nikitina gain professional skill.
Tanya's essay about the people developing virgin lands is a success, but unexpectedly she finds out that in her haste she has slandered a famous woman working there. Striving to reinstate the truth, the reporter writes a book about the heroine.
481 NOCHNOY GOST (THE NIGHT GUEST)
1958, 58 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Shredel, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Abram Veksler, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky
Cast: Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Alexandra Panova, Lyubov Sokolova, Valentina Pugacheva, Georgy Zhzhenov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Igor Yefimov
Based on a short story of the same title by Yuri Nagibin.
Late on a summer night, a new tenant, Pal Palych, appears in a cottage sitting on the shore of a beautiful lake where fishermen use to stay. Soon both the landlady and the other tenants get the feeling that behind the outward charm and the nice empty words is an indifferent and intensely self-loving person.
482 OTTSY I DETI (THE FATHERS AND THE CHILDREN)
1958, 103 min., color
Drama
Directors: Adolph Bergunker, Natalya Rashevskaya, screenplay: Alexander Vitov (Alexander Vitenzon), Natalya Rashevskaya, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Victor Avdyushko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Yekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Edward Martsevich, Alexei Konsovsky, Bruno Freindlich, Alla Larionova, Izolda Izvitskaya
Based on a novel of the same title by Ivan Turgenev.
483 PAKHITA (PAKHITA)
1958, 32 min., b/w
Screened ballet
Director: Mikhail Shapiro, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
A screen version of a ballet performance to the music by Ludwig Minkus staged by the Leningrad Academic Small Opera Theatre; producer: Marius Petitpas, revival: Konstantin Boyarsky.
484 POD STUK KOLYOS (TO THE RUMBLE OF WHEELS)
1958, 71 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Yuri Nagibin, camera: Dmitry Meskhiyev, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Iya Arepina, Alla Firsova, Pavel Kashlakov, Victor Adeyev, Ivan Selyanin, Igor Dmitriyev, Herman Khovanov
Based on “To School” and “Love”, short stories by Yuri Nagibin.
Sitting in a compartment of a train car, Yegor is reminiscing about his childhood and his friendship with the merriest and naughtiest of the village girls, Nastenka. Yegor left to get an education, while Nastenka became a charming young lady, gave up school and started work at the local Leisure Home.
The guests pronounced her to be heading towards a brilliant acting career, and Nastya forgot her childhood friend. In her turn, she was also forgotten by the departed guests from the capital, who promised to summon her to Moscow.
Coming home for his vacation, Yegor was at a loss for words needed to support the young girl.
At this time, on the train, Yegor feels that he is also responsible for Nastya's fate. Jumping off the moving train, Yegor returns to the village along the railway track.
485 POSLEDNY DYUYM (THE LAST INCH)
1958, 90 min., color
Drama
Directors: Theodore Wulfovich, Nikita Kurikhin, screenplay: Leonid Belokurov, camera: Samuil Rubashkin, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Mikhail Weinberg, sound: Georgy Salye
Cast: Slava Muratov, Nikolai Kryukov, Mikhail Gluzsky
Based on a short story of the same title by James Aldridge.
An excellent but elderly pilot Ben agrees to do some dangerous underwater filming for the TV. Accompanied by his twelve-year-old son Davy, he flies a light sports plane to Shark Bay. Davy sits on the shore for a long time. At last, a blood-streaked Ben emerges from the ocean. Painfully, the boy drags his heavy father to the plane...
486 PUCHINA (THE DEEP)
1958, 99 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Antonin Dawson, Yuri Muzykant, camera: Muzakir Shurukov, production designer: Victor Savostin, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Alexander Borisov, Natalya Rashevskaya, Adolph Shestakov, Vasily Merkuryev, Anna Lisyanskaya, Mikhail Yekaterininsky, Alexander Sokolov, Nina Mamayeva, Masha Yekaterininskaya
Based on a play of the same title by Alexander Ostrovsky.
487 SHOFYOR PONEVOLE (A RELUCTANT DRIVER)
1958, 93 min., color
Comedy
Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova, screenplay: Sergey Mikhalkov, Klimenty Minz, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Mikhail Weinberg, sound: Ilya Volk
Cast: Antony Khodursky, Maria Mironova, Sergey Filippov, Lilia Gritsenko, Irina Zarubina, Vera Karpova, Yuri Solovyev, Pavel Sukhanov, Pyotr Aleynikov
On an early summer morning Head Office manager Pastukhov and his driver Savrasov set off on vacation by car. At their very first rest stop Savrasov had a severe attack of the gout. Wrapping his driver companion in his blazer, Pastukhov takes him to a hospital, where, due to the documents in the blazer pocket, he is taken for the Head Office manager. At the same time, struggling through recurrent inconvenience and awkwardness resulting from the activities of his employees, Pastukhov painfully reaches the District seat.
488 SHOPENIANA (CHOPINIANA)
1958, 31 min., b/w
Screened ballet
Directors: Isaac Menaker, Boris Fenster, camera: Apollinary Dudko, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Ninel Petrova, Irina Kolpakova, Lyudmila Alekseyeva, Vladlen Semyonov
A screen version of a ballet to the music of Frederic Chopin staged by the Leningrad State Academic Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre.
489 AKTYER NIKOLAI CHERKASOV (THE ACTOR NIKOLAI CHERKASOV)
1959, 66 min., b/w
Feature/publicistic picture
Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Alexei Leontyev, Joseph Wolfson, Nikolai Cherkasov, camera: Victor Maximovich, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, sound: Alexander Bekker
A TV picture featuring the creative activity of the actor Nikolai Cherkasov.
490 V TVOIKH RUKAKH ZHIZN (YOU HOLD LIFE IN YOUR HANDS)
1959, 91 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Rozantsev, screenplay: Leonid Agranovich, Arkady Sakhnin, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Oleg Strizhenov, Joseph Kutyansky, Victor Chekhmarev, Herman Yushko, Clara Luchko, Marina Strizhenova
The picture is about the courage of Soviet sappers, clearing mines from a big ammunition dump left behind by the fascists a the city block and discovered in the course of construction of an apartment building 15 years after the war.
491 GORYACHAYA DUSHA (THE BURNING SOUL)
1959, 88 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Yevgeny Nemchenko, screenplay: Vladimir Popov, Yelena Lenskaya, camera: Semyon Ivanov, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Rostislav Lapinsky
Cast: Vasily Vekshin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Vasily Merkuryev, Nikolai Yemelyanov, Oleg Basilashvili, Alina Nemchenko, Igor Vladimirov
The young steel founder Fyodor Shebalin has developed an ardent wish to implement a new method of mutual training in the best working skills in his factory. The management and the old workers are in no hurry to change the proven old ways. The impatient young people fail the trial melting. The engineer Yasnova is sure that the productivity of the furnaces can be increased without rebuilding them.
What will the factory management decide?
492 DOROGA UKHODIT VDAL (THE ROAD DISAPPEARS INTO THE DISTANCE)
1959, 63 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Anatoly Vekhotko, screenplay: Alexei Leontyev, camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Dmitry Tolstoy, sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Julia Tsoglin, Yuri Solovyev, Mikhail Troyanovsky, G. Osipenko, E. Popov
Graduating from the medical institute, Lena Shatrova was really piqued to wind up in a shabby district hospital. Not before saving a boy sick in a distant village she had difficulties reaching did she come to understand the need for medical care experienced by people independent of where they live.
493 DOSTIGAYEV I DRUGIYE (DOSTIGAYEV AND OTHERS)
1959, 101 min., b/w
Drama
Written and directed by: Yuri Muzykant, Natalya Rashevskaya, camera: Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Yakov Rivosh, misic: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Vitaly Polizeimako, Nina Olkhina, Inna Yefremova, Mikhail Ivanov, Vasily Sofronov, Sergey Yursky, Yelena Granovskaya, Olga Kaziko, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Yephim Kopelyan, Yevgeny Lebedev
Based on a play of the same title by Maxim Gorky staged by the Leningrad Gorky Drama Theatre; producer: Natalya Rashevskaya.
494 ZHEREBYENOK (THE COLT)
1959, 42 min., b/w
Drama
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, camera: Yevgeny Kirpichev, production designer: Alexei Rudyakov, misic: Vasily Solovyev-Sedoy, sound: Anna Volokhova
Cast: Iya Arepina, Alla Firsova, Pavel Kashlakov, Victor Adeyev, Ivan Selyanin, Igor Dmitriyev, Herman Khovanov
Based on a short story of the same title by Mikhail Sholokhov.
The mare belonging to Trofim, who is part of a Red Army squadron, has a colt. In a battle occurring shortly the colt lost his mother and didn't catch up with the Read Army unit until the next day, and then with the White Kazakhs. Hearing his mother's call from across the river, the colt rushes into the water, but is no match for the swift current. Trofim hurries to his rescue. When the Red Army soldier and the colt scramble on shore, a bullet fired by an officer of the Whites kills Trofim.
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The film was awarded the Premium of the YII International Film Festival in Oberhausen, the German Federal Republic (1961).
495 ZAGADKA N.F.I. (THE ENIGMA OF N.F.I.)
1959, 61 min., b/w, TV
Feature/publicistic picture
Director: Mikhail Shapiro, screenplay: Irakly Andronikov, Sergey Vladimirsky, camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich, production designer: Vsevolod Ulitko, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Irakly Andronikov, Seraphima Bierman, I. Vardadze, M. Gvetadze, I. Imereli, Yelizaveta Uvarova
The picture deals with literary and artistic research methods. In the TV picture the prominent researcher and scientist Irakly Andronikov tells about the research he did in the Caucasus trying to identify locations bearing ties to Lermontov and the name of the woman who inspired the numerous poems dedicated by Lermontov to N.F.I.
496 LIBERAL (THE LIBERAL)
1959, 18 min., b/w
Melodrama
Written and directed by: Mikhail Yershov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Oleg Karavaychuk, sound: Lev Valter
Cast: Lev Stepanov, Svetlana Mazovetskaya, Yevgeny Grigoryev, Roza Sverdlova, Tamara Timofeyeva, Pavel Pervushin, Fyodor Fedorovsky
Based on a short story of the same title by Anton Chekhov.
497 LYUDI GOLUBYKH REK (THE PEOPLE OF THE BLUE RIVERS)
1959, 86 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Andrei Apsolon, screenplay: Oleg Sagan-ool, Stepan Saryg-ool, Leonid Solovyev, camera: Muzakir Shurukov, production designer: Alexei Fedotov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, Alexei Chyrgal-ool, sound: Vladimir Yakovlev
Cast: P. Nikolaiev, N. Olzey-ool, Maxim Munzuk, Zh. Tursunov, Vera Karpova, Yeleubay Umurzakov
Mergen returns to his native Tuva. He is an engineer fresh from the institute, set on making his native land even more beautiful. Soon enough, he gets a chance to apply himself. A flood has destroyed an old bridge across a turbulent river, and Maxim begins the construction of a new and solid modern bridge.
498 NE IMEY STO RUBLEY... (RATHER THAN A HUNDRED ROUBLES...)
1959, 87 min., color
Comedy
Director: Gennady Kazansky, screenplay: Boris Laskin, Vladimir Polyakov, camera: Muzakir Shurukov, production designers: Abram Veskler, Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Rostislav Lapinsky
Cast: Alexander Nikitin, Pavel Rudakov, Lyudmila Shagalova, Alina Nemchenko, Yevgeny Leonov, Stepan Krylov, V. Kharitonov
All vocations have champions in ardent love with them. One such was Ivan Andreievich Bazanov, Director of the Museum of Local Lore. Setting out in search of a hidden treasure, he lured along the people he chanced to meet. Nadya, the daughter of a railway guard, Nina Platonovna, the botanist who missed her bus, the students of the conservatoire with nowhere to spend the night, and Gulyayev, Bazanov's neighbor — all of them succumb to the lore researcher's bountiful and vivid imagination and join in his search for the country's riches. True friendship and true love proved to be their most valuable finds.
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