Yakov Rykov
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Yakov Rykov.
Known For
The New Land
Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov. About how collectivization was carried out on the Don in sharp contradictions, difficult and tense.
Petersburg Nights
A loose Communist adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel. The serf Egor Efimov, a talented violinist, dreams of true art. Released by his landlord, he goes to the capital. But cold, bureaucratic St. Petersburg quickly destroys his illusions.
Paths of Enemies
In a Kazakh village at the beginning of Soviet power, a wealthy kulak (landowner) voluntarily denounces his opposition to the new regime and hands over his large home to be a new school for the children of the villagers. But three people in the village have difficulty believing that their class enemy is now their friend.
Martin Wagner
The action takes place in the Volga Germans republic in the 1920s. The communist, a native of this village, who returns from the Red Army, Martin Vagner, with the help of the central Soviet power and the party, provides economic support to the poor, and then, with the help of the poor's rebellion, wrests the village council from the hands of the kulaks. Missing 3rd part
Be Like This
Based on the story by Arkady Gaidar "R.V.S." The film is silent and black-and-white. It has not survived completely.
His Call
The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.
Filmography
as Klyushkin’s brother (uncredited)
as Commissary Sergeyev
as Martin Wagner
as Yevstigneich, kulak