Preface to the catalogue

252 ANNENKOVSHCHINA (ANNENKOV’S BANDS)

1933, 115 min., sound, b/w

Drama

Written and directed by: Nikolai Bersenev, camera: Alexander Sigayev, Alexander Ksenofontov, production designer: Anatoly Arapov, Pavel Zaltsman, misic: Dmitry Astradantsev, sound: Alexander Bekker, V. Yuditsky

Cast: Boris Livanov, Vladimir Gardin, Vladimir Taskin, Andrei Kostrichkin, N. Pozdnyakov, V. Bokarev

The film features struggle of Soviet partisans and Red Army troops against White Army bands commanded by Annenkov.

New version made in 1936, 73 min.

253 ZHIT (TO LIVE)

1933, 69 min., sound, b/w

Adventure story

Written and directed by: Semyon Timoshenko, camera: Yurti Utekhin, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, Fyodor Bernstam, misic: Gavriil Popov, sound: Mikhail Mukhachev

Cast: Galina Kravchenko, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Vladimir Kryuger

A Soviet seamen discharges his duty in the last years of the Civil War.

254 IUDUSHKA GOLOVLYOV (IUDUSHKA GOLOVLYOV)

1933, 94 min., sound, b/w

Drama

Director: Alexander Ivanovsky, screenplay: Konstantin Derzhavin, Alexander Ivanovsky, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, production designer: Vladimir Yegorov, misic: Andrei Pashchenko, sound: Pyotr Vitsinsky

Cast: Vladimir Gardin, Tatyana Bulakh, Nina Latonina, Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya, Mikhail Tarkhanov, Irina Zarubina

Based on Mikhail Satlykov-Shchedrin’s novel “The Golovlyov Family”.

255 MOYA RODINA (MY MOTHERLAND)

1933, 77 min., sound, b/w

Drama

Director: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif

Heifits, camera: Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Gavriil Popov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky

Cast: Boris Khaidarov, Gennady Michurin, Alexander Melnikov, Yanina Zheimo, Konstantin Nazarenko, Lyudmila Semyonova, Oleg Zhakov

The film features acts of provocation committed by imperialists and White Army bandits on Soviet-Chinese border in 1929.

256 OTCHAYANNIY BATALYON (THE BOLD BATTALION)

1933, 66 min., silent, b/w

Film-Novel

Written and directed by: Avraam Naroditsky, Naum Ugryumov, camera: Emmanuil Ratner, production designer: Konstantin Bondarenko

Cast: Roza Sverdlova, Gennady Michurin

Children’s film featuring life of Soviet schoolchildren.

257 OCHIR (OCHIR)

1933, 80 min., silent, b/w

Drama

Written and directed by: Darya Shpirkan, camera: Vladimir Yakovlev, Mikhail Rotinov, production designer: Pyotr Yakimov

Cast: Zula Nakhashkiyev, S. Musov, B. Kushlykov, Nikolai Khryashchikov

Story of a Kalmyk nomad who under Soviet power became a front rank worker at a stud farm.

258 CHASTNY SLUCHAI (A PARTICULAR CASE)

1933, 75 min., silent, b/w

Drama

Director: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Ilya Trauberg, Nikolai Chukovsky, camera: Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Pavel Zaltsman

Cast: Nikolai Michurin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Alexander Melnikov, Sergei Ponachevny, Yevgeniya Pyryalova, Alexander Bryantsev, Sofia Magarill, Oleg Zhakov

The film tells about f struggle against saboteurs who managed to mix with Soviet intellectuals.

259 GROZA (THE THUNDERSTORM)

1934, 85 min., sound, b/w

Drama

Written and directed by: Vladimir Petrov, camera: Vyacheslav Gordanov, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Vladimir Shcherbachyov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev

Cast: Alla Tarasova, Ivan Chuvelev, Varvara Mnassalitinova, Irina Zarubina, Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail Tsaryov, Mikhail Tarkhanov, Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya

Based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s play of the same title.

260 ZHENITBA YANA KNUKKE (MARRIAGE OF YAN KNUKKE)

1934, 66 min., silent, b/w

Comedy

Director: Alexander Ivanov, screenplay: Vsevolod Voyevodin, Yevgeny Ryss, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, Arkady Koltsaty, production designer: Isaak Makhlis

Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin, Anna Zarzhitskaya, Yevgeny Chervyakov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Yakov Gudkin, Boris Shlikhting

Satirical discrediting of pacifistic illusions of an “humble man” living in a capitalist country.

261 KOROLYEVSKIYE MATROSY (KING’S SAILORS)

1934, 71 min., silent, b/w

Drama

Director: Vladimir Braun, screenplay: Boris Lipatov, camera: Vladimir Danashevsky, Solomon Byelenky, production designer: Pavel Betaki

Cast: Kurt Arendt, Hans Klering, Isaak Menaker, Pavel Zhuravlenko, L. Nenasheva, Kseniya Moskalenko, Ursula Krug, Fyodor Nikitin

The story is based on the real event: the revolt of British sailors in Invergordon in 1931.

262 KRESTYANE (PEASANTS)

1934, 114 min., sound, b/w

Drama

Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Manuel Bolshintsov, Viktor Portnov, Friedrich Ermler, camera: Alexander Gintsburg, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev

Cast: Yelena Yunger, Boris Poslavsky, Alexei Petrov, Yekaterina Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya, Nikolai Bogolyubov, Vladimir Gardin, Pyotr Aleinikov

The film features struggle of communists and progressive peasants for strengthening the collective-farm system.

263 LYUBLYU LI TEBYA? (DO I LOVE YOU?)

1934, 65 min., silent, b/w

Comedy

Written and directed by: Sergei Gerasimov, camera: Yuri Utekhin, F. Zandberg, production designer: Semyon Meinkin, T. Shishmaryov

Cast: Tamara Makarova, Vladimir Maryev, Konstantin Nazarenko, Oleg Zhakov, Mikhail Rostovtsev, Nina Shaternikova, Yelena Deineko

Story of a young couple of Soviet students.

264 NA LUNU S PERESADKOY (A TRANSFER TO THE MOON)

1934, 60 min., silent, b/w

Film-novel

Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Alexai Panteleyev, camera: Vasily Simbirtsev, production designer: Abram Veksler

Cast: Lenya Glebov, O. Kurnosova, Misha Fadeyev, N. Rostova, Ivan Savelyev

Children’s film tells about schoolchildren — enthusiasts of aircraft modeling.

265 NASLEDNIY PRINTS RESPUBLIKI (THE CROWN PRINCE OF THE REPUBLIC)

1934, 66 min., silent, b/w

Comedy

Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Rafail Muzikant, Boris Chirskov, camera: Georgy Filatov, production designer: Pavel Betaki

Cast: Pyotr Kirillov, Yevgeniya Pyryalova, Andrei Apsolon, Georgy Orlov, Sergei Ponachevny, Georgy Zhzhenov

The film ridicules fathers who prefer to keep away from the troubles of taking care of little babies.

266 RAZBUDITE LENOCHKU (WAKE LENOCHKA UP)

1934, 25 min., silent, b/w

Comedy

Director: Antonina Kudryavtseva, screenplay: Nikolai Oleinikov, Yevgeny Shwarts, camera: Georgy Filatov, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova

Cast: Yanina Zheimo, Sergei Gerasimov

This children’s film tells about a little schoolgirl who was always late to school and about her school friends who found a clever and original method to cure her of the habit to be late.

267 SEKRET FIRMY (SECRET OF THE COMPANY)

1934, 66 min., silent, b/w

Comedy

Director: Vladimir Shmidthof, screenplay: Nikolai Brykin, Savely Ruben, Vladimir Shmidthof, camera: Anatoly Pogorely, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova, Elza Rapoport

Cast: Semyon Svashenko, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Sofia Magarill, Valery Slovtsov, Pavel Volkov, Yakov Gudkin, Yuri Lavrov, Tamara Makarova

A group of enthusiasts from a small town comes across an old deserted small factory located on the edge of a forest and reconstructs it.

268 FLAG STADIONA (FLAG OF THE STADIUM)

1934, 66 min., silent, b/w

Comedy

Director: Boris Kazachkov, screenplay: Bella Zorich, Pavel Lin, camera: Vladimir Yakovlev, production designer: Konstantin Bondarenko

Cast: Boris Tenin, Vera Koroleva, Olga Spirova, Pyotr Kirillov, Alexander Melnikov, Konstantin Nazarenko, Valery Solovtsov

The film ridicules elements of philistinism in a Soviet intellectual.

269 CHAPAYEV (CHAPAYEV)

1934, 95 min., sound, b/w

War drama

Written and directed by: Sergei and Georgy Vasilyev, camera: Alexander Sigayev, Alexander Ksenofontov, production designer: Isaak Makhlis, misic: Gavriil Popov, sound: Alexander Bekker

Cast: Boris Babochkin, Boris Blinov, Varvara Myasnikova, Leonid Kmit, Illarion Pevtsov, Stepan Shkurat, Vyacheslav Volkov, Nikolai Simonov, Boris Chirkov, Georgy Vasilyev

Based on material collected by Dmitry and Anna Furmanov about Vasily Chapayev, a Civil War hero.

270 CHUDO (A MIRACLE)

1934, 61 min., silent, b/w

Drama

Written and directed by: Pavel Petrov-Bytov, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Yefim Khiger

Cast: Vladimir Gardin, Nikolai Simonov, Tatyana Guretskaaya, Illarion Pevtsov, Sergei Ponachevny, Alexander Mazayev

Under the influence of revolutionary events of 1905 — 1906 an old backward worker develops his class consciousness.

271 YUNOST MAKSIMA (YOUTH OF MAXIM)

1934, 98 min., sound, b/w

Historical-Revolutionary

Written and directed by: Grigory Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk

Cast: Boris Chirkov, Stepan Kayukov, Alexander Kulakov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov, Pavel Volkov, Boris Blinov

Story of young worker Maxim who becomes a professional revolutionary.

272 GORYACHIYE DENYOCHKI (BUSY DAYS)

1935, 90 min., b/w

Comedy

Written and directed by: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, camera: Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Anatoly Bosulayev, misic: Valery Zhelobinsky, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky

Cast: Nikolai Simonov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Yanina Zheimo, Anatoly Gribov

The film features life of Soviet youth. Love story of Byelokon, a young tank-officer, and Tanya, an agricultural college student.

273 GRANITSA (THE BORDER)

1935, 87 min., b/w

Drama

Written and directed by: Mikhail Dubson, camera: Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Yefim Khiger, Issak Makhlis, misic: Lev Pulver, sound: Lev Valter

Cast: Boris Poslavsky, Yelena Granovskaya, Vasily Toporkov, Veniamin Zuskin, Nikolai Cherkasov

The film features life of Jewish residents of an area that borders on the USSR.

274 DUBROVSKY (DUBROVSKY)

1935, 70 min., b/w

Drama

Written and directed by: Alexander Ivanovsky, camera: Alexander Sigayev, production designer: Vladimir Yegorov, misic: Andrei Pashchenko, sound: Pyotr and Gleb Vitsinsky

Cast: Boris Livanov, Nikolai Monakhov, Galina Grigoryeva, Vladimir Gardin, Mikhail Tarkhanov

Based on Alexander Pushkin’s novel of the same title.

275 LUNNIY KAMEN (THE MOON STONE)

1935, 65 min., b/w

Adventure story

Director: Adolf Minkin, Igor Sorokhtin, screenplay: Vladimir Nedobrovo, camera: F. Zandberg, Veniamin Levitin, production designer: Pavel Zaltsman, Naum Fishman, misic: Boris Arapov, sound: Nikolai Dabolin

Cast: Yuri Tolubeyev, Gennady Michurin, Solomon Mikhoels, Konstantin Adashevsky, Yakov Malyutkin

The film features the selfless work of Russian geologists at the beginning of the century.

276 PODRUGI (FRIENDS)

1935, 95 min., b/w

Historical-Revolutionary

Director: Lev Arnstam, screenplay: Lev Arnstam, Raisa Vasilyeva, camera: Vladimir Rappoport, Arkady Shafran, production designer: Moisei Levin, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev, Ilya Volk

Cast: Zoya Fyodorova, Yanina Zheimo, Irina Zarubina, Boris Babochkin, Maria Blumental-Tanarina, Boris Chirkov

Story of three girls from Petrograd working class neighborhood, of their friendship and participation in the defense of Petrograd from foreign intervention in 1919.

277 SOKROVISHCHA POGIBSHEGO KORABLYA (TREASURES OF THE LOST SHIP)

1935, 83 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Vladimir Braun, screenplay: Boris Lipatov, camera: Solomon Byelenky, production designer: Pyotr Yakimov, misic: Yuri Kochurov, sound: Pyotr and Gleb Vitsinsky

Cast: Nikolai Batalov, Yelena Pyryalova, Andrei Kostrichkin, Pavel Kurzner

The film features work of divers, raising the sunk ship from the sea ground.

278 TRI TOVARISHCHA (THREE FRIENDS)

1935, 95 min., b/w

Comedy

Director: Semyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Alexei Kapler, Tatyana Zlatogorova, camera: Vladimir Danashevsky, Boris Kulikovich, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Isaak Dunayevsky, sound: Pyotr Vitsinsky

Cast: Nikolai Batalov, Veronika Polonskaya, Anatoly Goryunov, Tatyana Guretskaya, Mikhail Zharov

Story of three comrades who became friends in the years of the Civil War and met again in mid 30-s.

279 VRATAR (GOALKEEPER)

1936, 75 min., b/w

Valery Solovtsov

Director: Seyon Timoshenko, screenplay: Lev Kassil, M. Yudin, camera: Vladimir Danashevsky, production designer: Pyotr Yakimov, Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Isaak Dunayevsky, sound: Viktor Muravyov

Cast: Grigory Pluzhnik, Tatyana Guretskaya, Lyudmila Glazova, Anatoly Goryunov,

The film tells about rivalry of two football teams and about a young stevedore from Volga region who was a born goalkeeper.

280 DEPUTAT BALTIKI (DEPUTY FOR THE BALTIC FLEET)

1936, 96 in., b/w

Director: Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, screenplay: Leonid Rakhmanov, Daniil Historical-Revolutionary

Del, Alexander Zarkhi, Iosif Heifits, camera: Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Nikolai Suvorov, Vladimir Kalyagin, misic: Nikolai Timofeyev, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky, Yevgeny Nesterov

Cast: Nikolai Cherkasov, Maria Domasheva, Oleg Zhakov, Boris Livanov

Set in 1917 the film focuses on life of a Russian botanist in the days of October Revolution. The prototype of the lead character was the noted Russian naturalist Klimenty Timiryazev (1843 — 1920).

281 LENOCHKA I VINOGRAD (LENOCHKA AND GRAPES)

1936, 50 min., b/w

Comedy

Director: Antonina Kudryavtseva, screenplay: Yevgeny Shwarts, Nikolai Oleinikov, camera: Pavel Posypkin, Mikhail Rotinov, production designer: Yevgeniya Slovtsova, misic: Nikolai Strelnikov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev, Yevgeny Nesterov

Cast: Yanina Zheimo, Boris Chirkov

Adventures of a schoolgirl during the summer vacation which she spends in a vine-growing

collective farm in the Crimea.

282 NA OTDYKHE (ON HOLIDAY)

1936, 61 min., b/w

Comedy

Director: Eduard Ioganson, screenplay: Yevgeny Shwarts, Nikolai Oleinikov, camera: Georgy Filatov, production designer: Pavel Zaltsman, misic: Ivan Dzerzhinsky, sound: V. Muravyov

Cast: N. Zvereva, Yuri Tolubeyev, Vladimir Sladkopevtesev, Tatyana Guretskaya, Yefim Altus, Sergei Ponachevny

Funny story of two friends — a famous polar researcher and an aviator — who are spending their holiday at a summer resort and are concealing their true occupations.

283 PUTESHESTVIYE V ARZRUM (THE JOURNEY TO ARZRUM)

1936, 77 min., b/w

Film-novel

Director: Moisei Levin, screenplay: Mikhail Bleinman, Ilya Zilberstein, camera: Nikolai Ushakov, production designer: Moisei levin, misic: Nikolai Strelnikov, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev

Cast: Dmitry Zhuravlyov, Konstantin Khokhlov, Nikolai Ryzhov, Lev Kolesov

Loosely based on Alexander Pushkin’s memories of his journey to the Caucasus in 1829.

284 SEMERO SMELYKH (SEVEN BRAVE SPIRITS)

1936, 92 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Sergei Gerasimov, screenplay: Yuri German, Sergei Gerasimov, camera: Yevgeny Velichko, production designer: Vladimir Semyonov, misic: Venedikt Pushkov, sound: Arnold Shargiorodsky, Leonid Shapiro

Cast: Nikolai Bogolyubov, Tamara Makarova, Ivan Novoseltsev, AnDrei Apsolon, Oleg Zhakov, Pyotr Aleinikov, Ivan Kuznetsov

Story of seven friends — young polar researchers, who went to work in the Arctic region, of determination and courage they displayed under tough conditions of life and work on territory located beyond the Polar circle.

285 SYN MONGOLII (SON OF MONGOLIA)

1936, 89 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Ilya Trauberg, screenplay: Lev Slavin, Boris Lapin, Zakhar Khatsrevin, camera: Mikhail Kaplan, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Nikolai Rubinovich, Eduard Grikurov, sound: Nikolai Dabolin

Cast: Tseven, Sosor-Barma, Gombo, Bato-Ochir, Igin Khorlo

The first film made by the Lenfilm Studio in collaboration with Mongolian cinematographers. The story of this feature film is focused on life of a Mongolian herdsman.

286 FEDKA (FEDKA)

1936, 62 min., b/w

Adventure story

Director: Nikolai Lebedev, screenplay: Doivber Levin, camera: Viutaly Chulkov, production designer: Abram Veksler, misic: Viktor Tomilin, sound: Sergei Zhigachev

Cast: Kolya Kat-Oglu, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Ivan Savelyev, A. Zasorin

The film features participation of children in the Civil War.

287 CHUDESNY KORABL (THE WONDERFUL BOAT)

1936, 42 min., b/w

Comedy

Director: Boris Kazachkov, screenplay: L. Varkovitskaya, camera: N. Sokolov, misic: Nikolai Strelnikov, sound: Andrei Gavryushev

Cast: N. Aslanov, Maria Domasheva, Viktor Tolubyev

Children’s film tells about a schoolboy who constructs a radio-operated model of a boat.

288 YUNOST POETA (YOUTH OF THE POET)

1936, 88 min., b/w

Historical Biography

Director: Abram Narodnitsky, screenplay: Yuri Slonimsky, camera: Alexander Sigayev, Apollinary Dudko, production designer: Pyotr Yakimov, Semyon Meinkin, misic: Yuri Kochurov, sound: Andrei Gavryushev

Cast: Valentin Litovsky, Vladimir Gardin, V. Ivasheva, Nina Shaternikova, Alexander Mgebrov, Vladimir Taskin

The film focuses on Alexander Pushkin’s youth and the years he spent in Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo.

289 BOLSHIYE KRYLYA (BIG WINGS)

1937, 75 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Mikhail Dubson, screenplay: Alexei Garri, Mikhail Dubson, camera: Vladimir Rapoport, production designer: Eduard Krimmer, Pavel Betaki, misic: Valery Zhelobinsky, sound: Lev Valter, Vyacheslav Bugrov

Cast: Boris Babochkin, O. Glazunov, Boris Blinov, Mikhail Astangov, Khilda Yenings, yelena Yunger, Zoya Fyodorova

Story of an aircraft designer who constructed a super-powerful passenger airplane that crashed during a test flight.

290 VELIKIY GRAZHDANIN (THE GREAT CITIZEN)

1937, 1st series, 118 min., b/w

Drama

Director: Friedrich Ermler, screenplay: Mikhail Bleiman, Manuel Bolshintsov, Friedrich Ermler, camera: Arkady Koltsaty, production designer: Abram Veksler, Semyon Meinkin, Nikolai Suvorov, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ivan Dmitriyev

Cast: Nikolai Bogolyubov, Ivan Bersenev, Oleg Zhakov, Zoya Fyodorova, Boris Poslavsky, Alexander Zrazhevsky, Boris Chirkov

The film features life of Soviet country in the 20-s. The story is focused on the character of a major party leader. The film was inspired by life and activities of Bolshevik leader Sergei Kirov (1886 — 1934).

291 VOZVRASHCHENIYE MAKSIMA (RETURN OF MAXIM)

1937, 112 min., b/w

Historical-Revolutionary

Director: Grigory Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, screenplay: Grigory Kozintsev, Lev Slavin, Leonid Trauberg, camera: Andrei Moskvin, production designer: Yevgeny Yeney, misic: Dmitry Shostakovich, sound: Ilya Volk, Boris Khutoryansky

Cast: Boris Chirkov, Vaklentina Kibardina, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Mikhail Zharov, Alexander Zrazhevsky, Alexander Chistyakov, Vasily Vanin

The second series of historical-revolutionary trilogy of worker Maxim, featuring activities of Bolsheviks on the eve of World War I.