Alexandr Gromov
Acting
Biography
Aleksandr Gromov was a russian actor, producer and screenwriter.
Born: August 8, 1889
Known For
Amerikanka
The action of the film takes place during the Russian Revolution of 1905 in Moscow. King Okhranka tries to disrupt the work of the illegal printing press of the Bolsheviks. The small typewriter “Amerikanka” plays the key role in the victory.
Two-Buldi-Two
Naturally, the circus milieu of 2 Buldy 2 (1929) encourages stunts. A father and son, both clowns, are to perform together for the first time, but the civil war separates them, and the elder Buldy, tempted for a moment to acquiesce to the White forces, casts his lot with the revolution. At the climax Buldy Jr. escapes the Whites thanks to flashy trampoline and trapeze acrobatics; the gaping enemy soldiers forget to shoot.
No Entry to the City
Directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky.
The End of St. Petersburg
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
The House on Trubnaya
Life is short and full of oppression, but that doesn't mean Parasha can't find love and laughter when she leaves her country home to take a job as a maid in the overcrowded, overworked, and underpaid world in the big city.
The Doll with Millions
The rich widow Madame Collie leaves the fortune to her lost niece Maria Ivanova. Two cousins of Maria go from Paris to Moscow in order to search her. They have to find a 17 year old girl with the birthmark on her right shoulder. The documents of the heiress are hidden in her doll.
Your Friend
Khokhlova, a girl-reporter on a Moscow newpaper, falls in love with factory manager Petrovsky. To her he's the epitome of manliness--virile, decisive, strong-minded. Conversely, she rejects the sensitive, diffident editor Vasilchikov, who's in love with her, as unmanly. Her infatuation affects her work, and she is fired.
Salamander
The film is based on real events and reveals the tragic episodes from the life of the Austrian biologist scientist-materialist Paul Kammerer (1880-1926), hunted by regressive scientists and Catholic reactionaries who committed suicide.
The Yellow Ticket
Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.
In the Big City
Two country boys move to Moscow. One becomes a construction worker who dreams of being an inventor, the other becomes a decadent poet.
Filmography
as Meeting moderator (uncredited)
as Foma
as Onisim
as Petr Melekhov
as Trubka, cast maker
as Vasiliy Shestipalov, worker and Dimka's father
as Village council chairman
as Revolutionary
as Revolutionary
as Uncle Fedya
as Young man (uncredited)
as Registration and distribution official
as Shtrombakh
as Countryman (uncredited)
as The Bald Revolutionary
as Yemelyan
as Vasiliy Mikhailovich
as Master
as Red arm soldier
as (uncredited)
as Factory worker
as Skvortsov, factory worker
as Peasant
as Chairman
as Worker
as Ivan Gorbov, poor peasant