Nikolay Erdman

Birth : 1900-11-03, Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Death : 1970-08-10

History

Russian and Soviet playwright and screenwriter.

Movies

The Suicide
Writer
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.
Suicide
Writer
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 ...
The Bat
Writer
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.
The Snow Maiden
Writer
Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes
Writer
Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.
The Cat Who Walked by Himself
Screenplay
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.
Djuimowotschka
Story
The City of Masters
Writer
After their town is occupied the citizens are trying to fight the enemy. Based on Tamara Gabbe fairy tale.
Лягушка-путешественница
Writer
Father Frost
Writer
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.
Thumbelina
Writer
A story based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "Thumbelina".
The Bicycle Tamers
Script
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.
Cain the XVIII-th
Writer
A fairytale about homeless musician and his love for the princess.
Необыкновенный город
Writer
Lyubushka
Screenplay
It Was I Who Drew the Little Man
Writer
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.
The Adventures of Buratino
Writer
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.
Clumsy friend
Writer
Story of animal trainers at a circus.
The Secret of the Far Away Island
Writer
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.
The Cat's House
Screenplay
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.
Stories About Lenin
Writer
A few stories about Vladimir Lenin.
В некотором царстве
Writer
The Snow Queen
Writer
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.
Once Upon a Time
Writer
The tale about a magic fish and resentful lover whose fiancee went to a lazy fool.
Adventures of Murzilka
Screenplay
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.
Behind the Footlights
Writer
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.
A Magic Saving Stick
Writer
The Twelve Months
Writer
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.
Island of Mistakes
Writer
The Orange Neck
Screenplay
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.
Post in the mountains
Screenplay
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 ...
Flight to the Moon
Writer
A boy is by an accident a member of a crew that is going to travel to the moon.
Brothers Liu
Scenario Writer
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.
Sportivnaya Chest
Screenplay
The Horsemen
Writer
A boy breeds horses on the plains between Belorussia and the Caucasus. When the German invasion comes he joins the partisans as a horseman.
The Miraculous Bell
Writer
Soviet animation film based on the Russian folk tale " Daughter and stepmother".
Fedia Zaitsev
Screenplay
A short russian animation subject.
Hello, Moscow!
Writer
Actress
Writer
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.
The Prince and the Pauper
Writer
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.
The Old Jockey
Writer
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
Volga - Volga
Writer
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.
Jolly Fellows
Writer
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.
The House on Trubnaya
Writer
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.