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An Optimistic Tragedy (film)
''Optimistic Tragedy'' (, Transliteration, translit. ''Optimisticheskaya tragediya'') is a 1963 cinema of the Soviet Union, Soviet film directed by Samson Samsonov. It is based on the play ''An Optimistic Tragedy'' by Vsevolod Vishnevsky. During Russian Revolution (1917), Russian Revolution of 1917, the Marine squad, led by Anarchism, anarchist leader Vozhak starts the revolt. The Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party sends a woman Commissar to form Red Army battalion from the marines to take part in the Russian Civil War. Plot In 1918, aboard the warship ''Gromoboy'', anarchist sailors hold control until a woman commissar is sent by the Bolshevik Central Committee to impose order. The anarchist leader, Vozhak, dominates the crew, while the commissar is tasked with reorganizing the naval unit into the First Sailors' Regiment to fight on the Black Sea front. Among the few remaining officers is Lieutenant Bering, a former tsarist navy officer from the battleship ''Imperator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson Samsonov
Samson Iosifovich Samsonov (; 23 February 1921 – 31 August 2002) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1991. Samson Samsonov graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1951, where he studied under Sergei Gerasimov (film director), Sergei Gerasimov. Filmography *''Poprygunya (Попрыгунья) / The Grasshopper (1955 film), The Grasshopper'' (1955) *''Za vitrinnoy univermaga (За витриной универмага) / Behind Show Windows'' (1956) *''Ognennye versty (Огненные вёрсты) / Miles of Fire'' (1957) *''Rovesnik veka (Ровесник века) /Contemporary of the Century'' (1960) *''Optimisticheskaya tragediya (Оптимистическая трагедия) / Optimistic Tragedy (film), Optimistic Tragedy'' (1963) *''Tri sestry (Три сестры) / The Three Sisters'' (1964) *''Arena (Арена) / Arena'' (1967) *''Kazhdyy vecher v odinnadtsat ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War () was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the 1917 overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. It resulted in the formation of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and later the Soviet Union in most of its territory. Its finale marked the end of the Russian Revolution, which was one of the key events of the 20th century. The List of Russian monarchs, Russian monarchy ended with the abdication of Nicholas II, Tsar Nicholas II during the February Revolution, and Russia was in a state of political flux. A tense summer culminated in the October Revolution, where the Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian Provisional Government, provisional government of the new Russian Republic. Bolshevik seizure of power was not universally accepted, and the country descended into a conflict which beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz
The ''Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz'' ("German Foundation for Monument Protection") is a German private initiative founded in 1985 that works for the preservation of cultural heritage in Germany and to promote the idea of cultural heritage management. Background Since 1900, when Georg Dehio published his ''Handbook of German Art Heritage'', Germany has not had a central list of National Heritage Sites. Each of the sixteen states keeps its own set of lists and many towns and cities keep their own lists, all based on varying criteria for inclusion. Monument protection Denkmalschutz works to coordinate efforts, promote public awareness, and also to act as a central contact for worldwide organizations such as UNESCO World Heritage. They also organize and fund the European Heritage Days in Germany, which are called Tag des offenen Denkmals. This "open monument day" has been held yearly with a different theme since 1993 on the second Sunday of September. For example, in 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Berlin
East Berlin (; ) was the partially recognised capital city, capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. From 1945, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet occupation sector of Berlin. The American, British, and French sectors were known as West Berlin. From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989, East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall. The Western Allied powers did not recognize East Berlin as the GDR's capital, nor the GDR's authority to govern East Berlin. For most of its administrative existence, East Berlin was officially known as Berlin, capital of the GDR () by the GDR government. On 3 October 1990, the day Germany was officially German reunification, reunified, East and West Berlin formally reunited as the city of Berlin. Overview With the London Protocol (1944), London Protocol of 1944 signed on 12 September 1944, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union decided to divide Nazi Germany, Germany into three occ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kino International
The Kino International is a film theater in Berlin, built from 1961 to 1963. It is located on Karl-Marx-Allee in former East Berlin. It hosted premieres of the DEFA film studios until the Berlin Wall#The Fall, fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Today it is a protected historic building and one of the venues of the annual Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). Karl-Marx-Allee construction After the completion of Karl-Marx-Allee from Strausberger Platz to Proskauer Straße, the next phase (1959–1965) was to extend the street to Alexanderplatz. After the plans of Hermann Henselmann were rejected, a competition was held in which seven architectural firms participated. In contrast to the first phase of construction of the Allee, dominated by the construction of elaborate Stalinist Architecture, Socialist Classicist buildings, the second phase included a mixture of Plattenbau, retail stores, restaurants, and cultural facilities according to plans of Edmund Collein, Werner Dut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Cannes Film Festival
The 16th Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 to 23 May 1963. French writer Armand Salacrou served as jury president for the main competition. The Palme d'Or was awarded to '' The Leopard'' by Luchino Visconti. The festival opened with '' The Birds'' by Alfred Hitchcock. Juries Mainc Competition * Armand Salacrou, French writer - Jury President *Rouben Mamoulian, American filmmaker and theatre director - Jury Vice President *Jacqueline Audry, French filmmaker *Wilfrid Baumgartner, French BDF official * François Chavane, French producer and writer * Jean de Baroncelli, French film critic *Robert Hossein, French actor *Kashiko Kawakita, Japanese producer * Steven Pallos, British producer *Gian Luigi Rondi, Italian writer * Rostislav Yurenev, Soviet film critic Short Films Competition * Henri Alekan, French cinematographer - Jury President *Robert Alla, French *Karl Schedereit, West-German * Ahmed Sefrioui, Moroccan writer *Semih Tugrul, Turkish journalist Official selec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinopanorama 70
Kinopanorama is a three-lens, three-film widescreen film format. Although Kinopanorama was initially known as ''Panorama'' (, ''panoramnyy film'') in the Soviet Union the name was later revised to include its current name prior to the premiere screenings in Moscow in 1958. In some countries, including Cuba, Greece, Norway and Sweden, it was usually marketed as ''Soviet Cinerama''. When '' Great Is My Country'' and ''The Enchanted Mirror'', were exhibited at the Mayfair Theatre in New York City in 1958, it was briefly advertised as Cinepanorama. Kinopanorama is for the most part identical in operation to that of Fred Waller's American-designed Cinerama format. Overview Kinopanorama was developed between 1956 and 1957 by research technicians at the USSR Cinema and Photo Research Institute (also known as NIKFI). The chief designer of the prototype camera was Evsei Mikhailovich Goldovskii (1903–1971), the eminent Soviet inventor and scientist. The mechanical design of the first cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Bondar
Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was the Bulgarian Saint Ivan of Rila. It is very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, North Macedonia, and Montenegro and has also become more popular in Romance-speaking countries since the 20th century. Etymology Ivan is the common Slavic Latin spelling, while Cyrillic spelling is two-fold: in Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian and Montenegrin it is , while in Belarusian and Ukrainian it is . The Old Church Slavonic (or Old Cyrillic) spelling is . It is the Slavic relative of the Latin name , corresponding to English ''John''. This Slavic version of the name originates from New Testament Greek (''Iōánnēs'') rather than from the Latin . The Greek name is in turn deriv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentin Belokhvostik
Valentin Belokhvostik (September 6, 1934 – June 10, 2003) was a Belarusian and Soviet actor, Laureate of the State Prize of the BSSR (1989), and National Artist of the Republic of Belarus (1994). Biography Belokhvostik graduated from the studio of the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theater in 1958, and from the Moscow State Institute of Theater Arts in 1965. He worked at the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theater and acted in films. Films * 1971 - Вчера,сегодня и всегда - Семен Карабанов, директор детского дома * 1972 - Tomorrow will be too late ... - ''Ivan Vasilievich, a commander of a partisan group'' * 1973 - A Thought about Kovpak - ''Commissioner Semyon Rudnev'' * 1977 - The Right to Love - ''Zadornov'' * 1985 - The Drummer's Tale - ''Leonid Schepkin, a midshipman and an orchestra leader'' Personal life *Daughter - Zoya Belokhvostik - actress *Father-in-law - Gleb Glebov - actor References {{DEFAU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gleb Strizhenov
Gleb Aleksandrovich Strizhenov () (July 21, 1925 – October 4, 1985) was a Soviet stage and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974). He was the older brother of Oleg Strizhenov, who was also an actor. Selected filmography *'' The Third Half'' (1963) as Yevgeny Ryazantsev *'' An Optimistic Tragedy'' (1963) as officer *'' The Red and the White'' (1967) as Colonel *'' Earth and Sky Adventures'' (1974) as Stas' Father *'' For the Rest of His Life'' (1975) as Kravtsov *'' Okovani soferi'' (1975) as Kalenic *'' The Days of the Turbins'' (1976, TV Movie) as von Schratt *'' The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya'' (1978) as Gremin *'' The Garage'' (1980) as Yakubov *'' A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov'' (1980) as The Baron *''Per Aspera Ad Astra'' (1981) as Glan *''Teheran 43 ''Teheran 43'' (Russian: ''Тегеран-43''; French: ''Téhéran 43, Nid d'espions'') is a 1981 Soviet-French-Swiss political thriller film made by Mosfilm, ''Mediterraneo Cine'' and ''Pro Dis F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Strizhenov
Oleg Aleksandrovich Strizhenov (; 10 August 1929 – 9 February 2025) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1988. Biography Strizhenov was born in Blagoveshchensk in 1929. His family moved to Moscow in 1935, where he grew up. He completed the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (Shchuka, The Pike, as it is informally known) in 1953 and from 1953 he was actor in the Russian Theater of Drama in Tallinn (in Estonia); from 1954 to 1955, he acted at the Pushkin Theater in Leningrad, and in 1957 he was at the Screen Actors Theater and Studio in Moscow. From 1966 to 1976 he acted at the Moscow Artists' and Actors' Theater. Career Strizhenov became popular after playing the title character, revolutionary Arthur in ''The Gadfly'', based on the novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich. He also starred in films ''The Mexican,'' as Fernandez/Felipe Rivera, '' The Forty-First'', as Lieutenant Nikolaevich Govorukha-Otrok, '' Pardesi'', as Afanasy Nik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
