Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 16, 1893
Place of Birth: Kharkiv, Ukraine
Known For
Gutta-Percha Boy
The end of the XIX century. Petya, an eight-year orphan who has been cast in training German acrobat Karl Becker, who curses and beatings would incorporate the new assistant to the circus profession and ruthlessly exploited child in their speeches. The only consolation, brightens the harsh life gutta-percha boy, as referred to Petya on the posters, is the concern of the carpet clown Edwards, who regretted the fatherless and secretly taught him this circus arts...
Mother
A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
Bookkeeper Kremke
In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of only a few women directors of the time and was also the head of the German Social Democratic Film Office. She made only two known films before her accidental death in exile in Mexico in 1936.
The Alteration Is Correct
After release from jail Andrey tries to start a new honest life but not everything is going as planned.
Melody of the World
An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over the world. The film is constructed like a symphony.
Chess Fever
With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.
The Girl with the Hat Box
A Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for university and takes pity on him.
One Summer
Ilf and Petrov's only work in cinema is a comedy about the adventures of two passionate car enthusiasts during a road trip. On their way to Moscow in a car assembled from scrap materials, they meet a charlatan—a "professor" with a pretty niece. Convinced that the "professor" is a common swindler, the friends turn him in to the police, while they themselves continue on their way with the girl and are the first to reach one of Moscow's squares—the finish line of the road trip.
Explodigger 1010
The engineer Karl Hartmann invents a new, gigantic brown coal excavator. He discovers that there are large deposits below his home country and decides to use the excavator there.
Hunters in Siberia
Egorov, a young hunter, dreams of catching a tiger. Traveling through the remote corners of the Soviet Union, Egorov comprehends the difficult profession of a trapper.
Filmography
as doctor
as episode
as bearded worker
as Bogomolov
as Circus Director
as Colonel Selivanov
as agent ugolovnogo rozyska
as sailor
as Student Commander Sergei Belyaev
as Boris
as Marco
as Fredo
as Erwin, junger Arbeiter
as Walther Binder
as Juveler Sterzl
as Raspe
as Ingenieur Karl Hartmann
as Bénito
as Der Matrose
as Janos
as Jacob
as Sokolin
as Ilya Snegiryov
as Lieutenant Govorukha-Otrok
as Vessovchtchnikov
as Arthur Storn / Engineer Johnson
as Policeman
as Andrey, factory worker