Valentin Kataev

Valentin Kataev

Birth : 1897-01-16, Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Death : 1986-04-12

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Valentin Kataev

Movies

Отче наш
Story
Я, сын трудового народа
Story
The Last Petal
Screenplay
Zhenya is a young girl who find a old beautiful house in the city when she followed a dog that he stole her donuts. At the old house, a old woman lives. The old woman offers to Zhenya a magic flower. When Zhenya pull up a petal of the flower, she can make a wish. In this moment, Zhenya should decide correctly her wishes.
Хуторок в степи
Writer
Happy Kukushkin
Writer
Je veux voir Mioussov
Author
Time, Forward!
Novel
The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...
Time, Forward!
Writer
The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...
Женихи и Ножи
Writer
Poet
Writer
Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.
За власть Советов
Screenplay
За власть Советов
Writer
Crazy Day
Writer
A funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year.
Karikák
Novel
Pages of Life
Writer
The story of a young woman who, after her years at university in the city, returns to her hometown an engineer and begins work on a huge new power plant. She continues to supervise work on the plant throughout the war.
The Flower with Seven Colours
Writer
Son of the Regiment
Writer
During the war years, russian soldiers pick up an orphaned boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the artillery battery. When the calculation of the battery dies in battle with the German tanks that have broken through, Vanya is sent to the Suvorov School, whose students participate in a military parade on Red Square.
The Lonely White Sail
Novel
Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic
The Lonely White Sail
Writer
Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic
Call to Arms
Writer
The Upright Sinner
Novel
Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urgently needs on a trip to Vienna. Due to some circumstances, getting the money takes a little longer than expected and the director leaves for Vienna without it. But Pichler sees himself as a reliable man, and so he and his assistant Wittek follow the director to Vienna with the money kept in a bag. In Vienna, the two provincials however are mistaken for guests of the director and spend an evening at a posh night club. But when it transpires that the director actually won't come to the night club that evening, Pichler and Wittek have to pay the bill with the money from the bank. And their subsequent attempts at reimbursing the money lead to situations of ever-increasing hilariousness...