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Encounter At The Elbe
''Encounter at the Elbe'' (in ) is a Soviet war film released in 1949 from Mosfilm, describing the conflict, spying, and collaboration between the Soviet Army advancing from the east and the United States Army, U.S. Army advancing from the west. The two allied forces met each other for the first time on the Elbe, River Elbe near the end of the World War II. This meeting occurred on April 25, 1945, which was usually remembered as “Elbe Day” in Western Bloc nations and as the "Encounter at the Elbe” in Eastern Bloc nations. The film was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, which included “Yearning for the Homeland” (in , the words by Yevgeny Dolmatovsky), that became popular at that time in the Eastern Bloc nations and among the Left-wing politics, leftists in the Western Bloc nations, including Japan. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigori Aleksandrov
Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov (23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983, known by artist name Mormonenko) was a Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1973. He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950. Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed '' Jolly Fellows'' and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova. Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films. They rival Ivan Pyryev's films as the most effective and light-hearted showcase ever designed for the Stalin-era USSR. Early life and collaboration with Eisenstein Aleksandrov was born in Yekaterinburg, Russia in 1903. Starting at age nine, Aleksandrov worked odd jobs at the Ekaterinbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rina Zelyonaya
Ekaterina Vasilyevna Zelyonaya (); ( — 1 April 1991, Moscow), better known by her stage name Rina Zelyonaya, was a Soviet actress, singer and comedian. She was named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1970. Biography Ekaterina Zelyonaya was born in Tashkent (modern-day Uzbekistan) into a Russian family of modest means, the third of four children. Her rare surname which translates from Russian as ''Green'' had been often taken for a pseudonym by people, just like her stage name Rina (short for Ekaterina). Her paternal grandfather Ivan Kuzmich Zelyoniy was a member of the Tashkent City Duma. According to the actress, her parents didn't fit each other at all.''Rina Zelyonaya (2018)''. Scattered Pages. Moscow: AST (Memoirs) Her mother Nadezhda Fyodorovna Zelyonaya was given away to marriage at the age 16. She was absolutely careless and couldn't plan family budget which led to grand scandals involving her husband – Vasily Ivanovich Zelyoniy, a low-ranking official, a stingy and g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidiya Sukharevskaya
Lidiya Petrovna Sukharevskaya (; 30 August 1909 – 11 October 1991) was a Soviet stage actress and playwright renowned for her work with Nikolay Akimov and Andrey Goncharov. Her frequent stage partner was Boris Tenin, her husband. She also appeared in 14 films between 1939 and 1981. Sukharevskaya was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990. Selected filmography * '' We from the Urals'' (1943) * ''Encounter at the Elbe'' (1949) * '' Girl No. 217'' (1945) * ''Mussorgsky'' (1950) * '' Rimsky-Korsakov'' (1952) * '' The Star'' (1953) * '' Kain XVIII'' (1963) * ''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. Tolstoy called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial in ...'' (1967) References External links * 1909 births 1991 deaths Actresses from Saint Petersburg People from Petergof Soviet film actresses Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Kulakov
The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French short film * ''Victor'' (2008 film), a TV film about Canadian swimmer Victor Davis * ''Victor'' (2009 film), a French comedy * ''Victor'', a 2017 film about Victor Torres by Brandon Dickerson * ''Viktor'' (2014 film), a Franco/Russian film * ''Viktor'' (2024 film), a documentary of a deaf person's perspective during Russian invasion of Ukraine Music * ''Victor'' (Alex Lifeson album), a 1996 album by Alex Lifeson * ''Victor'' (Vic Mensa album), 2023 album by Vic Mensa * "Victor", a song from the 1979 album ''Eat to the Beat'' by Blondie Businesses * Victor Talking Machine Company, early 20th century American recording company, forerunner of RCA Records * Victor Company of Japan, usually known as JVC, a Japanese electronics corporation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Tsenin
Sergei Sergeyevich Tsenin () was a Soviet and Russian actor and director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1935). Selected filmography * 1930 — '' St. Jorgen's Day'' *1936 — '' Party Membership Card'' *1937 — '' Lenin in October'' *1939 — '' Squadron No. 5'' * 1945 — '' Fifteen-Year-Old Captain'' * 1946 — '' Cruiser 'Varyag''' *1947 — ''Light over Russia'' * 1948 — '' Michurin'' *1949 — ''Encounter at the Elbe'' *1951 — '' Przhevalsky'' *1951 — ''Sporting Honour'' *1957 — ''A Lesson in History ''A Lesson in History'' (, ) is a 1957 joint Soviet– Bulgarian historical drama film directed by Lev Arnshtam and Hristo Piskov about Georgi Dimitrov and the Leipzig Trial. Plot The year is 1933. Georgi Dimitrov (Stefan Savov) comes to Berlin ...'' References External links Сергей Ценинon kino-teatr.ru * 1884 births 1964 deaths 20th-century Russian male actors Honored Artists of the RSFSR Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erast Garin
Erast Pavlovich Garin (September 4, 1980, born Gerasimov) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter. He was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of the Soviet cinema. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1977. __NOTOC__ Garin was born in Ryazan as Erast Gerasimov. He started his acting career in 1919 in an amateur theatre of the Ryazan military district. In 1926 he finished his education in the experimental theatrical workshops of the People's Commissariat for Education. He always looked up upon Meyerhold and Michael Chekhov as his mentors, rejecting naturalistic acting techniques propagated by Konstantin Stanislavski and paying utmost importance to voice and gesture. Garin worked with Meyerhold in his theatre until its dissolution in 1936. Among his triumphs was the part of Khlestakov in the 1926 production of ''The Government Inspector''. The trance-like quality of his "gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennady Yudin
Gennady Petrovich Yudin (; 27 March 1923, Moscow – 13 November 1989, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. Laureate of Stalin Prize (1951). Filmography * ''The Russian Question'' (1947) as Parker * ''Encounter at the Elbe'' (1949) as Kurt Dietrich * '' They Have a Motherland'' (1950) as Kurt Kraus * ''Taras Shevchenko'' (1951) as Agitator * '' The Composer Glinka'' (1951) as Hector Berlioz * '' Admiral Ushakov'' (1953) as Capt. Dmitry Senyavin * '' Attack from the Sea'' (1953) as Capt. Dmitry Senyavin * '' Silvery Dust'' (1953) as Dick Jones * '' Mysterious Discovery'' (1954) as Guriy Gagarka * ''The Frigid Sea'' (1955) as Crewman Stepan Shaparov * '' Murder on Dante Street'' (1956) as actor, partner of Madlen * '' Carnival Night'' (1956) as Jazz band Conductor * ''A Lesson in History'' (1957) as Henrik Lange, worker-communist * ''Vasily Surikov'' (1959) as Lunyov * '' Northern Story'' (1960) as Shchedrin * ''Hussar Ballad'' (1962) as Shura's commanding officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Yurovsky
Yuri Ilyich Yurovsky (; ) was a Soviet actor and director of Armenian origin.Ienācēji no tālienes: Austrumu un Dienvidu tautu pārstāvji Latvijā no 19. gadsimta beigām līdz mūsdienām. Valters Ščerbinskis, Nordik, 1998, ISBN 9984510220, 94 pages, p. 46 People's Artist of the USSR. He worked as an actor and director at Riga Russian Theatre since 1925. Selected filmography * 1924 — ''Die Nibelungen'' * 1949 — ''Encounter at the Elbe ''Encounter at the Elbe'' (in ) is a Soviet war film released in 1949 from Mosfilm, describing the conflict, spying, and collaboration between the Soviet Army advancing from the east and the United States Army, U.S. Army advancing from the west. ...'' * 1950 — '' Zhukovsky'' * 1952 — '' The Composer Glinka'' References External links Юрий Юровскийon kino-teatr.ru * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yurovsky, Yuri Soviet male film actors 1894 births 1959 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Fajt
Andrei Andreyevich Fayt (Feit) (; 29 August 1903 – 17 January 1976) was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in 44 films between 1925 and 1976. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and died in Moscow. Selected filmography * ''The Battleship Potemkin'' (1925) * ''The Bay of Death'' (1926) * '' The Happy Canary'' (1929) * '' The Great Consoler'' (1933) * '' Outskirts'' (1933) * '' Dzhulbars'' (1933) * '' The Thirteen'' (1937) * ''Wish upon a Pike'' (1938) * '' Minin and Pozharsky'' (1939) * ''Siberians'' (1940) * '' Salavat Yulayev'' (1941) * '' The Young Guard'' (1948) * ''Encounter at the Elbe'' (1949) * '' The Battle of Stalingrad'' (1949) * '' The Composer Glinka'' (1952) * '' Admiral Ushakov'' (1953) * '' The Star'' (1953) * ''A Lesson in History'' (1957) * ''The Idiot'' (1958) * '' On Distant Shores'' (1958) * '' The Secret of the Fortress'' (1959) * ''Peace to Him Who Enters'' (1961) * '' Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors'' (1964) * '' Aladdin's Magic Lamp'' (1966) * '' Strong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Petrov (actor)
Andrei Pavlovich Petrov (; 2 September 1930, Leningrad – 15 February 2006, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1980. Andrey Petrov is known for his music for numerous classic Soviet films such as ''Walking the Streets of Moscow'', '' Beware of the Car'', and ''Office Romance''. Life A native of Leningrad, Petrov was the son of a military doctor; his mother was an artist. He had little interest in music until, at fourteen, he saw '' The Great Waltz''; after this he decided to become a composer. He studied composition at the Leningrad Conservatory under Orest Yevlakhov. Petrov is known for his work in various genres; he wrote a number of operas and ballets, as well as symphonic works, incidental and film music, and various songs. He is especially famous for his ballet ''Creation of the World'' (1968), based on drawings by Jean Effel. This was performed around the world, with Mikhail Baryshnikov among its first perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faina Ranevskaya
Faina Georgiyevna Ranevskaya (, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, — 19 July 1984) was a Soviet actress. She is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms. She acted in plays by Anton Chekhov, Alexander Ostrovsky, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Krylov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and others. Biography She was born as Faina Feldman (Фельдман) to a wealthy Jews, Jewish family in the city of Taganrog, Russian Empire. Her father, Girsch Haimovich Feldman, owned a dry-ink factory, several buildings, a shop and the steamboat "Saint Nicolas". He was the head of Taganrog synagogue and a founder of a Jewish asylum for the aged. Faina's mother, Milka Rafailovna (née Zagovaylova), was a great admirer of literature and art. That and her passion for Chekhov influenced Faina's love of art, poetry, music, and theater. There were three other children in the family - two brothers and an older sister named Bella. Faina Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
