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Anna Karenina (1953 Film)
''Anna Karenina'' is a 1953 Soviet historical drama film directed by Tatyana Lukashevich and starring Alla Tarasova, Nikolai Sosnin and Pavel Massalsky. It is based on Leo Tolstoy's 1878 novel ''Anna Karenina''.Goble p.672 Plot summary Cast * Alla Tarasova as Anna Arkadyevna Karenina * Nikolai Sosnin as Aleksei Aleksandrovich Karenin * Pavel Massalsky as Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronsky * Viktor Stanitsyn as Prince Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky * Ye. Aleyeva as Darya Aleksandrovna Oblonskaya (Dolly) * Aleksei Zakalinsky as Seryozha Karenin * Angelina Stepanova Angelina Iosifovna Stepanova ( rus, links=no, Ангели́на Ио́сифовна Степа́нова, , ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ɪˈosʲɪfəvnə sʲtʲɪˈpanəvə; 23 November 1905 – 17 May 2000) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actre ... as Princess Yelizaveta Feodorovna Tverskaya * Mariya Durasova as Countess Lidiya Ivanovna * N. Slastenina as Countess Vronskaya * Grigori Konsky as Count Aleks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Karenina
''Anna Karenina'' ( rus, «Анна Каренина», p=ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written, Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1875 to 1877, all but the last part appearing in the periodical '' The Russian Messenger.'' A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major characters, ''Anna Karenina'' is often published in more than 800 pages. It deals with themes of betrayal, faith, family, marriage, Imperial Russian society, desire, and rural vs. city life. The story centers on an extramarital affair between Anna and dashing cavalry officer Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky that scandalizes the social circles of Saint Petersburg and forces the young lovers to flee to Italy in a search for happiness, but after they return to Russia, their lives furth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-reformed Russian. ; ), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909; the fact that he never won is a major controversy. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy's notable works include the novels ''War and Peace'' (1869) and ''Anna Karenina'' (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, ''Childhood'', '' Boyhood'', and ''Youth'' (1852–1856), and '' Sevastopol Sketches'' (1855), based upon his experiences in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosfilm
Mosfilm (russian: Мосфильм, ''Mosfil’m'' ) is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output includes most of the more widely acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein, to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production '' Dersu Uzala'' () and the epic ''War and Peace'' (). History The Moscow film production company with studio facilities was established in November 1920 by the motion picture mogul Aleksandr Khanzhonkov ("first film factory") and I. Ermolev ("third film factory") as a unit of Goskino, the USSR's film monopoly. The first movie filmed by Mosfilm was ''On the Wings Skyward'' (directed by Boris Mikhin). In 1927, the construction of a new film studio complex began on Potylikha Street (renamed to Mosfilmovskaya Street in 1939) in Sparrow Hills of Moscow. This film st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Film
A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past. Scholarship Films set in historical times have always been some of the most popular works. D. W. Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' and Buster Keaton's '' The General'' are examples of popular early American works set during the U.S. Civil War. In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated North American cinema in the 1950s. The ''costume drama'' is often separated as a genre of historical dramas. Early critics defined them as films focusing on romance and relationships in sumptuous surroundings, con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Tarasova
Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova (russian: А́лла Константи́новна Тара́сова; – 5 April 1973) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress and pedagogue. She was a leading actress of Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre from the late 1920s onward. People's Artist of the USSR (1937) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1973). Career A title role in ''Anna Karenina'' (1937) was her most resounding success. She appeared to mixed reviews as Katerina in the screen version of Alexander Ostrovsky, Ostrovsky's ''The Storm (Ostrovsky), The Storm'' (1934) and as Catherine I of Russia, Catherine I in the movie ''Peter the Great (1937 film), Peter the Great'' (1937). Tarasova toured London and United States with the Moscow Art Theatre in 1922-1924 to much international acclaim. She was a recipient of five USSR State Prize, Stalin Prizes (in 1941, twice in 1946, 1947, and 1949), two Order of Lenin, Orders of Lenin and the title of honor, honorary title of People' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Stanitsyn
Viktor Yakovlevich Stanitsyn (russian: Ви́ктор Я́ковлевич Стани́цын; 1897–1976) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.Riley p.73 He appeared in a number of Soviet era films including portraying Winston Churchill in '' The Lights of Baku'' (1950) as well as several other films. Biography Viktor was born on May 2 in 1897 in Yekaterinoslav (now — Dnipro, Ukraine). He rarely acted in movies. He played in the films: "The Guilty Without Guilt" (1945), "Dead Souls" (1960, the governor), "War and Peace" (1967, Ilya Andreevich Rostov), in the Ukrainian film "The Third Strike" (1948, F. I. Tolbukhin, army general), etc. The actor and director V. Stanytsyn's great contribution to cinema and theater was recognized by state awards. He died on December 23, 1976 in Moscow. He was buried at the Vvedenskoye (German) Cemetery. Selected filmography * ''The Battle of Stalingrad'' (1949) as Winston Churchill / General Fedor Tolbukhin * '' The Fall of Berlin'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelina Stepanova
Angelina Iosifovna Stepanova ( rus, links=no, Ангели́на Ио́сифовна Степа́нова, , ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ɪˈosʲɪfəvnə sʲtʲɪˈpanəvə; 23 November 1905 – 17 May 2000) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, teacher. She was winner of the Stalin Prize of I class (1952) and USSR State Prize (1977). People's Artist of the USSR (1960). Biography Stepanova was born on 23 November 1905 in Nikolayevsk (now Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai) in the family of an insurance agent and a dentist. Studying in a Moscow gymnasium, she was fond of ballet. Since 1921 she studied at the theater school at the Vakhtangov Theatre, which she graduated in 1924, from the same year she worked at the Moscow Art Theatre. She later became a professor at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Stepanova started her film career in 1932. Death She died on 17 May 2000 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery. Selected filmography * ''The House of the Dead'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Svobodin
Nikolai Svobodin (20 May 1898 - 20 September 1965) was a Soviet actor of the Socialist realism genre. He was born in village Uzmore, Novouzensk uyezd, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire (modern-day Engelssky District, Saratov Oblast, Russia) as Nikolay Kapitonovich Pechkin. Svobodin was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and the Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow". He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR and a recipient of the Stalin Prize. He was a faculty member at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He died in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR. He is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery. Filmography *Lenin in October (1937) as Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary *Vysokaya nagrada (25 August 1939) * Lenin in 1918 (7 April 1939) as Rutkovsky, a conspirator *The Great Glinka (1946) as Baron Yegor Rosen *The Court of Honor (1948) as Prof. Sergey Losev *Sud Chesti (1949) *Anna Karenin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Kirillin
Vladimir Alekseyevich Kirillin (russian: Владимир Алексеевич Кириллин; – 29 January 1999) was a Soviet physicist specializing in energetics and thermophysics and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, as well as a Soviet party official. After graduating from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1936, Kirillin worked at the Kashira State Regional Electric Power Plant, at the Unifold Boiler Construction Bureau, and at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, becoming its professor in 1952. During World War II he served in the navy. From 1954 to 1962 he took leading positions at the Soviet ministries of science and higher education. In 1963-1965 he served as vice-president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and in 1965 he was appointed as deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology (GKNT) of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. In 1966 Kirillin became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Films
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's '' Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – '' Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s Historical Drama Films
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
