Vasiliy Rakhals

Vasiliy Rakhals

Birth : 1890-01-01,

Death : 1942-06-15

History

Vasiliy Rakhals was born in 1890. He was an art director and production designer, known for Luch smerti (1925), Tanya (1940) and Demon of the Steppes (1926). He died on 15 June 1942.

Profile

Vasiliy Rakhals

Movies

Call to Arms
Art Direction
Anna
Production Design
Yasha, who likes Anna, accomodates siberian Pavel Kuganov, which later becomes a class-conscious worker in a factory. Anna refuses Yasha's offer of marriage and he therefore runs off to Siberia. After Pavel is hailed as a hero because he survives a fire accident in factory (which is in fact effect of his sabotage), Anna marries him. Pavel then becomes a reckless communist careerist, but only on surface. In fact, he is a traitor of the country and a spy, and gives Anna's party ID card to anti-communist movement. In spite of that, Anna is expelled from the communist party. Yasha returns from Siberia, only to find her love Anna desperate. They reveal the truth about Pavel (that he is a kulak who killed a kolchoz co-op leader), which means an end for Pavel.
Wings
Art Direction
During the Russian Civil War, pilot Sergey Sedov engages in battle with the Black Cat enemy fighter, controlled by the famous pilot Baru. In the battle, Sedov wounded Baru, but Sedov's plane fell apart in the air. Sedov was only miraculously saved. A few years later, Sedov and Baru meet in international competitions in Tehran. Baru are to defend the honor of a French company, Sedov and his student Ivanov - the honor of their country. In the end, the defeated Baru can only express hope of a rematch during a new meeting with Sedov in a future war. The film has not survived.
Misunderstood
Production Design
The film tells about the class struggle in the countryside during the creation of the first collective farms. Only the first part has survived. Director Ivan Pyryev began work on the film. It has not been preserved in its entirety.
Tokar Alekseyev
Art Direction
Tomorrow Night
Art Direction
On liberation from prison of a group arrested after the defeat of the 1905 Russian revolution and workers sentenced to death.
The General Line
Art Direction
Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to industrial culture in an epic ode to farm-collectivization progress.
Когда зацветут поля
Art Direction
The village youth organize a collective farm in the place of the monastery garden.
Her Way
Production Design
When Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he’s called away to fight in World War I not long after, she tends to their farm on her own, determined to make the best of a bad situation.
Your Friend
Art Direction
Khokhlova, a girl-reporter on a Moscow newpaper, falls in love with factory manager Petrovsky. To her he's the epitome of manliness--virile, decisive, strong-minded. Conversely, she rejects the sensitive, diffident editor Vasilchikov, who's in love with her, as unmanly. Her infatuation affects her work, and she is fired.
Bed and Sofa
Art Direction
A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.
Veter
Art Direction
During the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, a Red cavalry officer is warned by a staffer from headquarters about his dangerous attraction to the female leader of a band of Cossacks, a violent woman who is aroused by killing.
The Traitor
Art Direction
An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolchevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution.
Battleship Potemkin
Art Direction
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.
Strike
Art Direction
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
The Death Ray
Art Direction
In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)