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Nikolay Erdman

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Russian and Soviet playwright and screenwriter.

16-11-1900

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Scorpio

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Nikolay Robertovich Erdman, N. R. Erdman, N. Erdman, N. Yerdman

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Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

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The Suicide

The Suicide

As Soviet Russia enters the era of the New Economic Policy, Semyon Podsekalnikov decides to stop looking for a job. However, the prospect of living at the expense of his wife and mother-in-law seems unbearable. Having reached the end of his tether, Semyon is resolved to take his own life. Based on Nikolai Erdman's controversial play.
6.0

Year:

1990

Suicide

Suicide

Podsekalnikov is a narrow-minded person, never working anywhere and constantly scandalizing with his wife and mother-in-law, is considering suicide. His neighbor Kalabushkin decides to make money on it ...
0.0

Year:

1989

The Bat

The Bat

Eisenstein gets in trouble for shooting a grouse. He is told that he must go to prison for his crime. However, his friend has invited him to an aristocratic ball. Eisenstein, despite being married, wants to go to the ball to meet women. Eisenstein lies to his wife. He tells her that he is going to prison but actually he goes to the ball. His story arises the suspicion of his wife. His wife devises a plot to catch her womanizing husband.
6.1

Year:

1979

Zharov Tells...

Zharov Tells...

0.0

Year:

1970

The Most Important

The Most Important

0.0

Year:

1970

The Snow Maiden

The Snow Maiden

Lonely old people make themselves a snowy granddaughter. Cartoon based on a Russian fairy tale in the style of illustrations by Ivan Bilibin.
10.0

Year:

1969

The Snow Maiden

The Snow Maiden

Lonely old people make themselves a snowy granddaughter. Cartoon based on a Russian fairy tale in the style of illustrations by Ivan Bilibin.
10.0

Year:

1969

Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes

Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes

Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.
6.4

Year:

1968

The Cat Who Walked by Himself

The Cat Who Walked by Himself

The story about the wild creatures of the wild forest and one impudent Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
8.3

Year:

1968

The City of Masters

The City of Masters

After their town is occupied the citizens are trying to fight the enemy. Based on Tamara Gabbe fairy tale.
5.8

Year:

1965

Father Frost

Father Frost

A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.
6.3

Year:

1965

Frog the Traveller

Frog the Traveller

Tired of boring life frog decides to travel by hitchhiking.
7.2

Year:

1965

The Bicycle Tamers

The Bicycle Tamers

A comedy about a young inventor girl, a brave veterinarian, his athletic friend and funny cycling races, where not strongest wins, but true friendship and love.
0.0

Year:

1964

Thumbelina

Thumbelina

A story based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "Thumbelina".
6.9

Year:

1964

Cain the XVIII-th

Cain the XVIII-th

A fairytale about homeless musician and his love for the princess.
4.5

Year:

1963

Unusual Town

Unusual Town

Mayhem breaks out when newcomer Oblaposhkin is put temporarily in charge as deputy of the weird City of Durov, inhabited by animals that work in the city as firefighters, barbers, secretaries, teachers, hotel managers and everything else.
0.0

Year:

1963

Lyubushka

Lyubushka

7.5

Year:

1961

Three Penguins

Three Penguins

Penguins Peak, Pak and Pok built a monument in honor of their friendship. But, having fought because of the fish, they destroyed it and missed the fish.
0.0

Year:

1961

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man

On September 1, the first day of school, a happy young boy named Fedya draws a picture of a little man on a white wall using coal.
6.3

Year:

1960

The Adventures of Buratino

The Adventures of Buratino

A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.
6.7

Year:

1959

Clumsy Friend

Clumsy Friend

Story of animal trainers at a circus.
0.0

Year:

1959

The Secret of the Far Away Island

The Secret of the Far Away Island

The adventures of the pioneer Petya, the islander Doom and the scientific Soviet submarine in the southern seas. The boy Doom lived on the island, he was looking for pearls in the sea. Grandfather showed him the knife of their ancestor, Chief Batuallo. On the handle was scraped an island, and on it a mountain with two peaks. The grandfather said that there are many pearls around this island, and Doom sailed for a search. A thunderstorm began, and the boat dumped once to this island, but there a large shark attacked him.
0.0

Year:

1958

The Cat's House

The Cat's House

A rich and ignorant cat loses her big house in a fire. Only then she realizes that a friend in need is a friend indeed.
5.7

Year:

1958

Stories About Lenin

Stories About Lenin

A few stories about Vladimir Lenin.
6.2

Year:

1957

The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen

When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay, his best friend Gerda must overcome many obstacles on her journey to rescue him.
6.7

Year:

1957

Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time

The tale about a magic fish and resentful lover whose fiancee went to a lazy fool.
8.3

Year:

1957

Verlioka

Verlioka

A one-eyed forest bully kidnaps a girl, but her friends rush to her aid. Based on Slavic fairy tales.
10.0

Year:

1957

Adventures of Murzilka

Adventures of Murzilka

The fabulous journalist Murzilka, while on vacation, receives a telegram from the magazine's editor-in-chief in which Murzilka is instructed to make a photo portrait of a good boy or child inventor for the cover of the new issue.
0.0

Year:

1956

Behind the Footlights

Behind the Footlights

Russian Empire, the middle of the XIX century. Aged, beggar dramatic actor Lev Gurych Sinichkin, in search of work, wanders through the cities with his young daughter Liza. They dream that Lisa someday will succeed on stage and become a famous actress.
7.0

Year:

1956

The Twelve Months

The Twelve Months

A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
6.6

Year:

1956

Island of Mistakes

Island of Mistakes

A short animated film about poor student Kolya Sorokin, who is dragged by two swans to the island of errors. On the island, incorrect solutions cause a lot of problems for Kolya. These trials force the hero to approach his responsibilities in a different way.
7.7

Year:

1955

The Orange Neck

The Orange Neck

Two pairs of partridges, Brovkins and Podkovkins, hatch by twelve chicks. Podkovkins get acquainted with the lark, and both the Brovkins family are killed by a falcon. Podkovkin's wife, the Orange Neck, decides to adopt chicks as their own. In the autumn, she brings twenty-four chicks to a meeting of partridges, and she is chosen as the main chicken.
5.0

Year:

1954

Post in the Mountains

Post in the Mountains

From Moscow senior lieutenant Lunin comes to serve at the border post. The hero is actively involved in the life of the outpost. Meanwhile, on the other side of the border, the Ismail-gang gang is intensifying its actions ...
4.5

Year:

1953

Flight to the Moon

Flight to the Moon

A boy is by an accident a member of a crew that is going to travel to the moon.
6.0

Year:

1953

Brothers Liu

Brothers Liu

Based on the Chinese folk tale. Long ago, three brothers Liu lived in China. They were so similar that even their own mother discerned them on colored ribbons. The first brother could command fire, the second could drink the sea and return it back, and a third knew the language of birds, animals and fish.
6.7

Year:

1953

Sporting Honour

Sporting Honour

5.0

Year:

1951

The Horsemen

The Horsemen

A boy breeds horses on the plains between Belarus and the Caucasus. When the German invasion comes he joins the partisans as a horseman.
4.8

Year:

1950

The Miraculous Bell

The Miraculous Bell

Soviet animation film based on the Russian folk tale " Daughter and stepmother".
5.5

Year:

1949

Fedia Zaitsev

Fedia Zaitsev

9.0

Year:

1948

Hello, Moscow!

Hello, Moscow!

6.2

Year:

1945

Actress

Actress

Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded major Peter Nikolayevich Markov.
5.2

Year:

1943

The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper

Two look-alike boys, one a poor street kid and the other a prince, exchange places to see what the other's life is like.
6.5

Year:

1942

The Old Jockey

The Old Jockey

About Trofimov, a well-known rider who goes on taking part in races in spite of the advanced age, until he realizes his time has gone and passes his experience on to his granddaughter’s fiance
4.2

Year:

1940

Volga - Volga

Volga - Volga

Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad.
6.7

Year:

1938

Jolly Fellows

Jolly Fellows

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
6.4

Year:

1934

The House on Trubnaya

The House on Trubnaya

Life is short and full of oppression, but that doesn't mean Parasha can't find love and laughter when she leaves her country home to take a job as a maid in the overcrowded, overworked, and underpaid world in the big city.
6.5

Year:

1928