A mysterious radio message is beamed around the world, and among the engineers who receive it are Los, the hero, and his colleague Spiridonov. Los is an individualist dreamer. Aelita is the daughter of Tuskub, the ruler of a totalitarian state on Mars in which the working class are put into cold storage when they are not needed. With a telescope, Aelita is able to watch Los. As if by telepathy, Los obsesses about being watched by her. After some hugger-mugger involving the murder of his wife and a pursuing detective, Los takes the identity of Spiridonov and builds a spaceship. With the revolutionary Gusev, he travels to Mars, but the Earthlings and Aelita are thrown into prison by the dictator. Gusev and Los begin a proletarian uprising, and Aelita offers to lead the revolution, but she then establishes her own totalitarian regime. Los is shocked by this development and attempts to stop Aelita, and then reality and fantasy become confused, and Los discovers what has really happened.

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“This Russian-made picture (distributed in the U.S. by Pathe) is typically gloomy. Prima donna Mary Mar (N.A. Lesienko) is surrounded by admirers. But a poet, Sergius (Ivan Mozukin) wants to be more to her and he proposes. So they marry, and she becomes involved in charity activities. On one of her rounds, she contracts smallpox and is quarantined. Even Sergius cannot enter the house. During her illness another opera star becomes the favorite in her stead. Mary’s face becomes horribly disfigured as a result of the smallpox and she has to auction off her belongings to pay her creditors. Finally Sergius returns. Mary is wearing a veil, and when he lifts it, he is disgusted by the sight of her. So she leaves him and becomes a beggar in the streets, while he goes to his studio and kills himself by drug overdose”
by ~ Janiss Garza, Rovi

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Nasreddin, the Robin Hood of the East! Those who read the Leonid Solovyov’s brilliant book “Povest’ of Hodzhe Nasreddine” (The Tale of Nasreddin the Hajji) will surely value this treasure of Jakob Protazanov for it is the only faithful screen version that has approached the mischievous spirit of the book that close. Also it’s hard to imagine a better Nasreddin than Leo Sverdlin with his ever-glittering cunning eyes and radiant smile.
The famous hero of the eastern tales Nasreddin arrives in Bukhara on his donkey. It was on the day the Emir of Bukhara was to render a fair trial. The potter Niyaz owes 400 tanga to a loan shark Jaffar, and the court orders him to return the money within one hour. As a poor potter with no money, he will have to sell his beautiful daughter Guljan into slavery. Nasreddin will try to save the girl…
Essentially a swashbuckler, the story concerns Nasreddin (Lev Sverdlin), a Slavic Robin Hood who does battle with the despotic Emir of Bokhara. Not only does he make the wicked ruler look stupid at every opportunity, but he also makes off with the Emir’s prize harem girl.

It was believed that Nasreddin lived and died during the 13th century in Akshehir, near Konya, a capital of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, in today’s Turkey. He is considered a populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes.
Nasreddin stories are told in a wide variety of regions, especially across the Muslim world and have been translated into many languages.
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Lash of the Czar was one of several English-language titles for the Russian film Belyi Orel. The film was 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 people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Czar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life — at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy. Anna Sten, who in 1934 was brought to the U.S. as Sam Goldwyn’s “answer” to Greta Garbo, appears as the governor’s wife. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as is the case with “Chiny I Lyudi” ( Ranks And People ) (1929) in which three short stories by Chekhov, “Anna On The Neck”, “Death Of A Petty Official” and “Chameleon” were assembled for the silent screen.
“Anna On The Neck” tells the story the young and beautiful Anna (Mariya Strelkova ) who has just married an old but rich civil servant. Anna thinks her marriage will rescue her father and her two brothers from a miserable life of poverty. Anna becomes disenchanted fast when her rich husband turns out to be an avaricious and severe man. Anna’s sad life changes when she attends a posh ball and every man there, including the mayor, is charmed by her. Anna’s husband hopes to get business advantages through this but Anna is thinking of revenge.

The second episode, “Death Of A Petty Official” depicts the story of Herr Cherviakov (Ivan Moskvin ) who together with his wife attends a ballet; during the performance, the civil servant sneezes on a functionary of high rank and offers apology after apology all during and at the end of the spectacle. The general pays no mind to the incident but is harassed by this minor official who won’t let the matter drop and, time after time, keeps on apologizing, writing letters asking for forgiveness or visiting the functionary at home.
In the third film episode,” Chameleon”, a small dog bites the finger of a passer-by. The furious man seizes it and asks two policemen to charge the owner of the dog. Both agents begin to draft the report but a change of attitude occurs at once when a man comes to tell them that this dog belongs to the mayor.

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One of the few pre-Revolution Russian feature films to survive, Father Sergius is an elaborate picturization of a Tolstoy novel. Ivan Mozzhukin plays a young, libertine officer who thinks nothing of committing casual sins while in the service of the Czar. He comes to regret his misdeeds as he grows older, his past debaucheries manifesting themselves in his wizened face and desiccated body. He wanders up and down the countryside, searching for redemption. Director Feodor Protazanov emphasized the high and low points of Mozhukin’s life by filming in the actual palaces and private clubs described by Tolstoy in his novel. The overall theme of corruption in high places automatically resulted in Father Sergius being banned by the Czarist censors, though the film found a more receptive audience once the government passed into the hands of the revolutionaries. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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From allmovie: Filmed in 1937 (in fact: 1936), the Russian film “Without Dowry” was released in America in 1946, one year after the death of its director, Yakov Protazanov. Produced on a far-less epic scale than most Protazanov films, this is a merciless satire of the Russian dowry system in particular and the Czarist regime in general. The heroine (Nina Alisova) is promised in marriage to a bureaucrat (Victor Balikhin), who is interested only in receiving the girl’s dowry. Maintaining a gently comic tone throughout most of the proceedings, the story dovetails almost imperceptibly into tragedy. The musical score is based upon Tchaikovsky’s 5th, with a few Russian folk songs woven in.

The film is by Jacob Protazanov of the play with the same title by Alexander N. Ostrovsky.

cast: Mikhail Klimov (Процесс о трех миллионах – The process of the three million 1926), Olga Pyzhova (Белеет парус одинокий – the long and winding road), Boris Tenin (Пржевальский – Przhevalski), Ernst Romanov (Без видимых причин – No apparent reason”)

The story of a poor Beauty – toys in the hands of the rich bridegroom, on the betrayal of sincere love for the despicable money. Chosen Larissa Ogudalovoy – Sergey Paraty – promenyal sincere feeling for the maiden in marriage a rich bride. A poor Larissa-bespridannitsa perishes from the hand of love with her Karandysheva.

Upon screening “the pearl of the Russian drama” Jacob Protazanov, who has been reproached for excessive histrionics, writes in the factory “Rot-film: “It is clear that in constructing “Bespridannitsy” as the movie, before all, must have been collapse theater backstage and the whole general form of the speech of theater. So much of the dialogue speech material applied to the plastic material. So not only were the new location, but also several new scenes, effects, parts, etc. The action remained in line with the general idea Ostrovsky, went new course – cinematic …”.

With a focus Protazanov began to form the film crew. As a collaborator on the script was made by an old friend and an experienced cinematographer Vladimir Shveytsep. The operator became Mark Magidson, a former provincial retoucher and photographer, inexperience you are more than recovered the talent and enthusiasm. He was a worthy partner of the celebrated master. Magidson suggested the unexpected artistic decisions and to insist on them – for example, to shoot entire scenes from a low angle, and this increase has already been built scenery for one and a half meters above the floor.

Protazanov with extraordinary closely monitor the atmosphere of confidence. Get up, not only artists, but “get up” and the steamer, and a garden, and the whole city. To do so, his assistant, Valentin Kadochnikov, diplomnik whoop, the favorite disciple of Eisenstein, spent a few months in museums and libraries, talked with the old, bringing to office a thick book of unique iconographic material.

Another young assistant, Alexander Rou, collected the ensemble cast. For various reasons, refused to shoot Ilyinsky I. and S. Martinson. However, the final choice was perfect Protazanova: A. Ktorov, M. Klimov, O. Pyzhova, B. Tenin, V. Balihin. But the main choices – Galatea, received his Pygmalion – hoot graduate Nina Alisova, charming and direct, girl-boy, which was already filmed in the movie master, not left on the screen.

To the actress put teachers on the way, dancing, singing. But the number has always been very Protazanov, literally followed her every step, demanding that Alisova all the time, was able to close the image. They did not shy from comparisons of the great predecessors Savino, and Yermolova Komissarzhevskaya. It has been a year. The audience learned a new Larisa Ogudalovu and fully accepted it.

Gold medal at the International Exhibition in Paris (1937)

Note: The film was restored by the Central Children’s and Youth Film Studio named after M. Gorky Film in 1970

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When you look at Protazanov’s “Bespridannitsu” it is impossible not to remember Ryazanovsky’s “Cruel romance – Zhestokiy romans 1984”, and vice versa. No matter what opponents say the movie, but Ryazanovsky “cruel romance” I was ready to revise endlessly. And now, looking Protazanovskuyu, you know. how much Ryazanov took away from Prtazanovskogo reading. Image Knurova issued nearly identical, Paraty, almost like two drops like a protazanovskogo Paratova, Larissa, though losing the vitality and charm, but the image still the same, and even Robinson Ryazanov, made nearly identical protazanovskomu. Even the tone of some of the important, key replicas same. And even the image of pergolas over the Volga is taken away from prtazanovskogo movie. But I do not want to detract from the dignity ryazanovskogo movie, because he delivered his film from the excessive theatricality of sin movie Protazanova, leaving all the emphasis at the same location, he softened, closer to reality, deepened the psychological veracity. And much merit in this Alice Freindlikh, which in the film Ryazanova plays a key role in understanding the whole story, it is devoid of caricature inherent in the mother of Larissa in protazanovskom film. In “Father Sergius” in Protazanova we also see signs of theatricality, but if nemom film they are very relevant and only enrich the expressiveness paintings, the “Bespridannitse, on the contrary, far from reality, reduce the force of the impact of words Ostrovsky at the viewer. While the images selected Protazanovym are so accurate that even the followers to face Ryazanova did not dare to deviate in the treatment of “Bespridannitsy” namely protazanovskih images.

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