Aleksandr Melnikov
Know for: Acting
Born: 1906-05-25
Place of birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also know as:
The Club of the Big Deed (1927)
The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides...
Sasha (1930)
A Russian woman tells the tragic story of her life.
The Republic of ShKID (1966)
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St....
Song of Happiness (1934)
A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is...
Beethoven Concerto (1936)
Two young boys are learning to play violin and getting ready to participate in a great music competition.
Baltic Deputy (1937)
A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his...
Defeat of Yudenich (1941)
About the struggle of the red Army and the revolutionary workers of Petrograd against the white guards in 1919....
Wagtail's Army (1964)
The civil war in Russia, guerrillas fighting with Kolchak formations. As a result of sabotage, accident with white Russian train takes place. In...
On Wild Brega (1967)
The story of the confrontation between chief engineer Petin, a careerist and a fraudster, and Litvinov, an experienced construction supervisor, a...
The Lonely White Sail (1937)
Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic
Fragment of an Empire (1929)
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who...
Street Is Full of Surprises (1958)
Chief accountant Porfiry Petrovich Smirnov-Alyansky, who took a good walk on the anniversary of his colleague cashier Ivan Zakharovich Vodnev, climbs...
Hectic Days (1935)
A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.
Way of the Ship (1935)
The Soviet motor ship "Albanov", running into a submarine rock, crashes in North sea. Passengers and command on boats head for off-shore rocks and...
Помни, Каспар! (1965)
In January 1945 during WWII, German corporal Kaspar and a Russian fugitive become partners in survival.
Shyol soldat s fronta (1939)
The film takes place during the German occupation of Ukraine in 1919, the main characters are folk characters - the brave soldier Semon Kotko and the...
At the Breaking Point (1957)
After his father's death, teenager Viktor Tsaplin was sent by his stepmother, who suspected the boy of stealing watches, to an Odessa orphanage. The...
The Enchanted Chemist (1935)
The hero of the picture is a young eccentric engineer who comes to work in the provinces and invents "shatterproof glass" there. The work on the...