Nikolai Mordvinov
Acting
Biography
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Born: February 15, 1901
Place of Birth: Yadrin, Yadrinskiy uyezd, Kazanskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Known For
Kotovsky
Kotovsky, who went a long revolutionary way and became the recognized military commander of the cavalry troops: commander, brigade commander, commander. Six times he escaped from prison, was sentenced to death, and again escaped to become one of the most ardent warriors of the revolution. His famous equestrian brigade fought with the enemy near Kiev and the Belaya Tserkov, at Nikolaev and Odessa, and did not know defeat anywhere.
The Fires of Baku
Dedicated to the development of the oil industry of Soviet Azerbaijan in the background of the first half of the twentieth century, including their selfless work in strengthening the economic and military might of the USSR.
Masquerade
Taken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov's Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing whose bracelet it belongs to, she gives it to an ardent Calvary officer admirer at the ball. This leads to deeper and deeper incisions upon the urbane social body of Tsarist Russia. A drama of pride, marital distrust, gambling, infidelity and humiliation twirls around the decaying corpse of a perverted social class.
In the Mountains of Yugoslavia
Yugoslav farmer-turned-partisan Slavko Babić starts an uprising against the fascist Germans and their allies.
Lad from Our Town
In the summer of 1932, Sergei Lukonin, a young man from Saratov, leaves his hometown for the distant city of Omsk to attend tank school. His fiancée, Varenka, who soon became an actress, remained in Saratov. In 1936, Sergei went to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He was wounded, taken prisoner, escaped, and returned to training battles, with June 1941 looming ahead.
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
648. Ukraine under the oppression of Poland. Polish nobility committing outrage, burning villages one after another. Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Bohdan Khmelnytskyi gathers the army of defenders of the motherland.
Gypsies
A Soviet agent tries to win over a band of gypsies to a happy life on a farm co-op.
When the Storks Fly Away
Christian Luka, an old wine grower, lives alone in the village of Redu Mare. Upon learning that it was decided to demolish the old vineyard in order to plant new vines in its place, Christian loses heart and decides that it's time for him to give way to the young ones. The chairman of the collective farm, understanding the mood of the old man, preserves his vineyard. And again the old man prunes the vine. The work rejuvenated him, filled him with new vitality. He no longer shuns people, but takes an active part in their lives and affairs. He realized that a person should not live in isolation from people, that his immortality lies in the good deeds that remain after him.
Filmography
as Lavrentiy Beriya
as Slavko Babić
as Kotovsky (as N. Mordvinov)
as Васнецов
as Arbenin
as Hetman Zynovii-Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
as Yudko, poor gypsy