Grigori Aleksandrov
Nascimento : 1903-01-22, Yekaterinburg, Russian Empire
Morte : 1983-12-16
História
Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (original family name was Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 - 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973. He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950.
Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed Jolly Fellows and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova.
Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films. They rival Ivan Pyryev's films as the most effective and light-hearted showcase ever designed for Stalin-era USSR.
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Himself
Eisenstein shot 50 hours of footage on location in Mexico in 1931 and 32 for what would have become ¡Que viva México!, but was not able to finish the film. Following two wildly different reconstruction attempts in 1939 (Marie Seton's 'Time in the Sun') and 1979 (Grigori Alexandrov's '¡Que viva México!') Kovalov has here compiled another hypothetical version of what Eisenstein's film might have been.
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A documentary on the life of the famous actress, deceased wife of the director Grigoriy Aleksandrov.
Director
A documentary on the life of the famous actress, deceased wife of the director Grigoriy Aleksandrov.
Editor
Que viva México! foi um projeto de filme realizado em 1931-32 pelo cineasta soviético Sergei Eisenstein para o autor socialista americano Upton Sinclair e vários investidores, que Eisenstein acabou concebendo como um retrato episódico da cultura e política mexicanas desde a civilização pré-conquista até a revolução mexicana. Mais de 200.000 pés de filme mudo foram filmados antes que a produção tivesse que ser interrompida devido ao esgotamento das finanças e às exigências de Stalin de que Eisenstein retornasse à URSS. Esta é uma das várias tentativas de fazer um longa-metragem a partir das imagens existentes, aqui de acordo com o esboço esquelético de Eisenstein e sob a supervisão de Gregori Alexandrov, colaborador de longa data de Eisenstein, inclusive neste projeto.
Screenplay
Que viva México! foi um projeto de filme realizado em 1931-32 pelo cineasta soviético Sergei Eisenstein para o autor socialista americano Upton Sinclair e vários investidores, que Eisenstein acabou concebendo como um retrato episódico da cultura e política mexicanas desde a civilização pré-conquista até a revolução mexicana. Mais de 200.000 pés de filme mudo foram filmados antes que a produção tivesse que ser interrompida devido ao esgotamento das finanças e às exigências de Stalin de que Eisenstein retornasse à URSS. Esta é uma das várias tentativas de fazer um longa-metragem a partir das imagens existentes, aqui de acordo com o esboço esquelético de Eisenstein e sob a supervisão de Gregori Alexandrov, colaborador de longa data de Eisenstein, inclusive neste projeto.
Co-Director
Que viva México! foi um projeto de filme realizado em 1931-32 pelo cineasta soviético Sergei Eisenstein para o autor socialista americano Upton Sinclair e vários investidores, que Eisenstein acabou concebendo como um retrato episódico da cultura e política mexicanas desde a civilização pré-conquista até a revolução mexicana. Mais de 200.000 pés de filme mudo foram filmados antes que a produção tivesse que ser interrompida devido ao esgotamento das finanças e às exigências de Stalin de que Eisenstein retornasse à URSS. Esta é uma das várias tentativas de fazer um longa-metragem a partir das imagens existentes, aqui de acordo com o esboço esquelético de Eisenstein e sob a supervisão de Gregori Alexandrov, colaborador de longa data de Eisenstein, inclusive neste projeto.
Que viva México! foi um projeto de filme realizado em 1931-32 pelo cineasta soviético Sergei Eisenstein para o autor socialista americano Upton Sinclair e vários investidores, que Eisenstein acabou concebendo como um retrato episódico da cultura e política mexicanas desde a civilização pré-conquista até a revolução mexicana. Mais de 200.000 pés de filme mudo foram filmados antes que a produção tivesse que ser interrompida devido ao esgotamento das finanças e às exigências de Stalin de que Eisenstein retornasse à URSS. Esta é uma das várias tentativas de fazer um longa-metragem a partir das imagens existentes, aqui de acordo com o esboço esquelético de Eisenstein e sob a supervisão de Gregori Alexandrov, colaborador de longa data de Eisenstein, inclusive neste projeto.
General (uncredited)
Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.
Writer
Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.
Director
Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.
Script
An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary makes use of rare footage and little-known information, stirringly narrated by Orson Welles.
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The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thunderstorm and makes an emergency landing in the Baikal region. In addition to the Soviet citizen Varvara Komarova, all other passengers are foreigners. Using a stop, they explore new cities and get acquainted with the life, work and rest of Soviet people.
Director
The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thunderstorm and makes an emergency landing in the Baikal region. In addition to the Soviet citizen Varvara Komarova, all other passengers are foreigners. Using a stop, they explore new cities and get acquainted with the life, work and rest of Soviet people.
Himself (archive footage)
A USSR documentary about the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein
Director
March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze in solemn grief. The country escorts its father and leader, Joseph Stalin.
Cinematography
The main film character, an ordinary peasant Martyn Borylya, decided to get a noble order. Having chosen a little and primitive aim, in the chase of the artificial values, he loses everything.
Screenplay
The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.
Director
The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.
Director
Soviet and American soldiers are meeting on the shores of the Elbe river in Germany in 1945.
Screenplay
A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.
Director
A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.
Director
The film is about the Soviet People's patriotism and friendship.
('Potemkin' sequence) (archive footage)
Archive footage from Potemkin (1925), with English dialogue dubbed in by American actors, is combined with new footage to tie together the brave stand of Odessa Russian guerrilla bands of the 1940's against German forces with the similar situation of 1905 when Odessa citizens aided in the revolt against the Czar as depicted in Eisenstein's classic Potemkin (1925).
Director
Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
Director
Second attempt to create a feature film out of the 200,000-plus feet of film which Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein shot during 1931-32 in Mexico for American socialist author Upton Sinclair, his wife and a small company of investors. The projected film, to be called "Que Viva Mexico", was never completed due to exhaustion of funds and Stalin's demand that Eisenstein return to the USSR (he had been absent since 1929). The first attempt at editing the footage, in the USA, resulted in "Thunder Over Mexico", released in 1934. In 1940, Marie Seton, from the UK, acquired some of the footage from the Sinclairs in an attempt to make a better cutting according to Eisenstein's skeletal outline for the proposed film. This film has apparently been lost.
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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.
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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.
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An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.
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An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.
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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.
Director
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.
Co-Director
Durante sua aventura no México, Sergei Eisenstein fez filmagens de uma celebração mexicana do "Dia da Morte" para inclusão em seu "Que Viva México!" projeto de filme. Quando os mais de 200.000 pés de filme que ele eventualmente expôs no México foram tentados pela primeira vez a serem transformados em um longa-metragem, "Thunder Over Mexico", os produtores excluíram o material do Death Day para posterior compilação como um curta independente. Silencioso com faixa de música e intertítulos explicativos em inglês.
Co-Director
As was common in Diaz's Mexico, a young hacienda worker finds his betrothed imprisoned and his life threatened by his master for confronting a hacienda guest for raping the girl. This film is the first of several attempts to make a feature-length motion picture out of the 200,000-plus feet of film shot by Sergei Eisenstein, on photographic expedition in Mexico during 1931-32 for Upton Sinclair and a cadre of private American producer-investors. Silent with music and English intertitles.
Director
Unedited film that Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Eduard Tisse shot in Mexico 1931-32. This record only represents the 200,000-plus feet of unedited film that Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Eduard Tisse shot in Mexico 1931/32 for Mary and Upton Sinclair and three American co-financiers. It was Eisenstein's vision to end up with movie about Mexico in six parts called "Calavera", "Sandunga", "Maguey", "Fiesta", "Soldadera", and "Epilogue". The project was canceled before it was completed due to cost overruns and months-delayed completion, and the producers refused to let Eisenstein attempt to edit anything from the material he had finished after Iosif Stalin called him back to the USSR. From this footage the following pictures were subsequently edited by other hands: Thunder Over Mexico (1933), Eisenstein in Mexico (1933), Death Day (1934), Time in the Sun (1940), and Que Viva Mexico (1979).
Editor
Romance sentimentale is a 1930 French film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein. A short, experimental, slightly poetic montage of city and abstract images.
Screenplay
Romance sentimentale is a 1930 French film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein. A short, experimental, slightly poetic montage of city and abstract images.
Director
Romance sentimentale is a 1930 French film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein. A short, experimental, slightly poetic montage of city and abstract images.
Writer
This film shows contrasting views of women with problematic pregnancies and the outcomes resulting when they seek out a back-alley abortionist, a trained and licensed abortion provider in a clinic, or an obstetrician capable of performing a Caesarian Section. The full film appears to be lost, but shortened versions, including one with dialogue scenes added in Germany in 1935, can be found on the internet. Additionally, Eisenstein's role in making the picture remains unclear: did he direct some or all of it, just edit it, or merely leave it to Alexandrov and Tisse to make? Released in the USA 1930 in a 65 minute (5800 ft.) version with English intertitles and a music track under the title BIRTH.
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Uma mulher em uma cidade rural lida com as novas formas de comunismo
Director
Uma mulher em uma cidade rural lida com as novas formas de comunismo
Director
Em tom de documentário, o filme recria acontecimentos em Petrogrado, na Rússia, desde o fim da monarquia, em fevereiro de 1917, até o fim do governo provisório em novembro do mesmo ano.
Screenplay
Em tom de documentário, o filme recria acontecimentos em Petrogrado, na Rússia, desde o fim da monarquia, em fevereiro de 1917, até o fim do governo provisório em novembro do mesmo ano.
First Assistant Director
Em 1905, na Rússia czarista, aconteceu um levante que pressagiou a Revolução de 1917. Tudo começou no navio de guerra Potemkin quando os marinheiros estavam cansados de serem maltratados, sendo que até carne estragada lhes era dada com o médico de bordo insistindo que ela era perfeitamente comestível. Alguns marinheiros se recusam em comer esta carne, então os oficiais do navio ordenam a execução deles. A tensão aumenta e, gradativamente, a situação sai cada vez mais do controle. Logo depois dos gatilhos serem apertados Vakulinchuk (Aleksandr Antonov), um marinheiro, grita para os soldados e pede para eles pensarem e decidirem se estão com os oficiais ou com os marinheiros. Os soldados hesitam e então abaixam suas armas. Louco de ódio, um oficial tenta agarrar um dos rifles e provoca uma revolta no navio, na qual o marinheiro é morto. Mas isto seria apenas o início de uma grande tragédia.
Chief Officer Giliarovsky
Em 1905, na Rússia czarista, aconteceu um levante que pressagiou a Revolução de 1917. Tudo começou no navio de guerra Potemkin quando os marinheiros estavam cansados de serem maltratados, sendo que até carne estragada lhes era dada com o médico de bordo insistindo que ela era perfeitamente comestível. Alguns marinheiros se recusam em comer esta carne, então os oficiais do navio ordenam a execução deles. A tensão aumenta e, gradativamente, a situação sai cada vez mais do controle. Logo depois dos gatilhos serem apertados Vakulinchuk (Aleksandr Antonov), um marinheiro, grita para os soldados e pede para eles pensarem e decidirem se estão com os oficiais ou com os marinheiros. Os soldados hesitam e então abaixam suas armas. Louco de ódio, um oficial tenta agarrar um dos rifles e provoca uma revolta no navio, na qual o marinheiro é morto. Mas isto seria apenas o início de uma grande tragédia.
Editor
Em 1905, na Rússia czarista, aconteceu um levante que pressagiou a Revolução de 1917. Tudo começou no navio de guerra Potemkin quando os marinheiros estavam cansados de serem maltratados, sendo que até carne estragada lhes era dada com o médico de bordo insistindo que ela era perfeitamente comestível. Alguns marinheiros se recusam em comer esta carne, então os oficiais do navio ordenam a execução deles. A tensão aumenta e, gradativamente, a situação sai cada vez mais do controle. Logo depois dos gatilhos serem apertados Vakulinchuk (Aleksandr Antonov), um marinheiro, grita para os soldados e pede para eles pensarem e decidirem se estão com os oficiais ou com os marinheiros. Os soldados hesitam e então abaixam suas armas. Louco de ódio, um oficial tenta agarrar um dos rifles e provoca uma revolta no navio, na qual o marinheiro é morto. Mas isto seria apenas o início de uma grande tragédia.
Assistant Director
O suicídio de um operário injustamente acusado de roubo é o estopim para o início de uma greve numa fábrica russa, em 1912. O lento processo de negociação expõe uma série de ações e contra-ações entre grevistas e polícia.
Factory Foreman
O suicídio de um operário injustamente acusado de roubo é o estopim para o início de uma greve numa fábrica russa, em 1912. O lento processo de negociação expõe uma série de ações e contra-ações entre grevistas e polícia.
Screenplay
O suicídio de um operário injustamente acusado de roubo é o estopim para o início de uma greve numa fábrica russa, em 1912. O lento processo de negociação expõe uma série de ações e contra-ações entre grevistas e polícia.
Glumov 2, Golutvin
Inserção fílmica para a adaptação livre e modernizada de Eisenstein da peça de teatro russa do século XIX de Ostrovskiy, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). O anti-herói Glumov tenta escapar da exposição em meio a acrobacias, ousadia e palhaçadas farsas. Vários membros da trupe de Eisenstein no lendário teatro "Proletkult" em Moscou aparecem brevemente neste pequeno filme.
