Ivan Shtraukh
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Ivan Shtraukh.
Known For
The Miracle Worker
Life in a Russian village at harvest time as idealized peasant pastoral, concentrating on the landscapes and folk songs of the region.
Golden Mountains
Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) from poor village comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory, which is in the throes of a strike organized by the Bolsheviks (communists). The Bolshevik strikers are led by Ivan Shtraukh (brother of the more famous Russian actor Maxim Shtraukh). At first, the deceitful industrialist's son (Fedosev) involves the naive Poslavsky in an attempt to murder Shtraukh, but the attempt only wounds the heroic organizer. Will Poslavsky follow through with the planned killing, or will he redeem himself by going over to the side of the strikers?
The Forty-First
A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him, by boat, into captivity across the Aral Sea. A storm strands the two on an island.
Prometey
A young man, Ivan, is forcefully mobilised and sent to fight in the Caucasian War as a soldier of the Russian Empire by his landlord, leaving his wife behind. In the Caucasus, Ivas experiences the fierce local resistance to the Russian military, and returns home to launch an uprising against the Russian government.
Diary of a Revolutionist
The secret police agent finds that factory director wife is counterrevolutionary but dies from the heart attack. The director reads the diary of an agent and turns his wife to police.
A Fist in the Side
Ivan Lopatin, a Red Army soldier who has arrived in the village, convinces the peasants of the need to insure their livestock and buildings. But a kulak, on the advice of the priest, sets fire to Lopatin's yard. The fire destroys half of the village, and the priest, having quarreled with the kulak, tells the peasants the name of the arsonist. The kulak is arrested, and the peasants receive insurance money. The film ends with documentary footage of M.I. Kalinin's speech to the workers.
Black Pillar
The love story of Tevlet, a revolutionary who escaped from prison, with Urkka, the daughter of a rich peasant in the Chuvash village where he settled.
Matros Ivan Galay
How a sailor on leave participated in the struggle of the village poor against the kulaks. Lost movie.
Sunny Masquerade
A young boy learns to be brave after being sent to a pioneer camp.
Heroes of the Furnace
Lost movie.
Filmography
as Captain Nikolay Stepanovich
as Zhukov, the merchant
as Investigator (uncredited)
as Vasili, Bolshevik organizer
as Ivan Galay
as Korotkov, machinist
as Commissar Arsentiy Yevsyukov