Tamara Adelheim
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Tamara Adelheim.
Born: April 26, 1904
Place of Birth: Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Known For
His Excellency
This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally.
Jewish Luck
The story of a Jewish entrepreneur ins Tsarist Russia always look for a get rich quick scheme.
The Golden Key
A film combining live action and stop-motion animation about the adventures of the wooden boy Pinocchio and his friends - Pierrot, Malvina and Artemon the Poodle, about the mysterious golden key that opens the cherished door, about the good Papa Carlo and the evil Karabas-Barabas, Duremar, Basilio the Cat and Alice the Fox.
The Traitor
An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolchevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution. Partially lost.
Five Brides
A Soviet propaganda film based on material from the Bolshevik coup. During the Russian civil war, the Whites, that anti-Communist force that fought against the Bolsheviks during that period, capture a Jewish Ukranian village; the gang commander threatens a pogrom, and will kill everyone in the village unless the inhabitants agree to give to the White Officers five virgin girls in wedding dresses. Under such terrible pressure, the Jewish council of the town decides, full of sorrow and despair, to sacrifice their daughters to the drunken officers but fortunately and just in time, a detachment of partisans that belong to the Red Army, comes and frees the village.
Wandering Stars
Directed by Grigori Gritscher-Tscherikower.
The Lame Girl
A girl with an alcoholic father struggles to fit in.
Mitya
Exposing the customs of provincial philistinism in the years of NEP. Small town. Mitya, going to the party of his bride Shurochka, finds a dying woman with infants. When he comes to visit the child, everyone decides that he was the father - and kicks him out. Mitya decides to drown himself. Unknown saves him and helps to stage his own funeral. During the mourning ceremony, Mitya rise from the grave, thanks the inhabitants petrified by horror, and leaves the city forever.
For Your Health
About the fight against alcoholism in the workplace.
Filmography
as Malvina
as Ilka
as Mirra, bride #1
as Rivile, Hirsch's wife
as Ward of the baroness
as Sofochka
as Little girl Lilya
as Belya Kimbach