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Nickolai Cherkasov
was born in Petersburg (27.07.1903). In 1926 he graduated
from the Leningrad theatre institute. There was work
in the comical group and in the theatre for
children. Since 1933 year Cherkasov entered the
Pushkin theatre collective. The first steps in
cinema were small, comical roles. Almost ten years
he wasn't really noticed by film directors and only
in 1935 "Hot days" and "Captain
Grant’s children" have opened
the dramatic gift of this excellent actor.
Alexander
Nevsky
and
Ivan
the terrible has made N. Cherkasov famous over the
USSR borders. These two images are his visit cards,
but there were many other historical persons, which
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"The
Baltic
deputy", where the actor had role of an old
professor, was filmed the same time
with "Ivan the terrible", but it seems that two different
persons appear at the move screen. After war time comedy
"Spring" showed his brilliant comic gift still alive. The duet
with L. Orlova was unforgetable.
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Directors:
Sergei Eisenstein; Dmitri Vasilyev (ñî-director).
Starring: Nickolai Cherkasov, Nickolai
Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Varvara
Massalitinova, Valentina Ivasheva et al. The
film is about the Great Russian Commander
Prince Alexander Yaroslavovich Nevsky under
whose leadership the Russian warriors gained
a historical victory in the battle against
the Livon knights on Chudskoe Lake in
1242. “Reading simultaneously the
XIII century chronicles and the present day
newspapers one starts losing
the
sense of time difference because the bloody horror
spread by the knight order of conquerors in XIII
century does not differ much from the events
taking place now in some countries of the world.
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That is
why the film describing quite a definite epoch and
definitely concrete
historical
events is perceived (due to the spectators’ opinion) as
an absolutely contemporary one…” S. Eisenstein. In 1978
due to the poll among the world cinematology experts
“Alexander Nevsky” was included in the list of one
hundred best films at all times and of all peoples.
© “Mosfilm”,
1938, 104 min.
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Director:
V. Vainshtok. Starring: Y. Yuriev, O. Bazanova, Y.
Segel, N. Cherkasov et al. The film is created by
the motifs of Jules Verne’s famous novel. It is
distinguished by the spirit of romanticism and
full of danger and adventures. Both a splendid
actors’ ensemble and perfect nation-wide popular
music permitted the given “children’s” film
enter the “golden fund” of the national
cinematography.
©
“Mosfilm”, 1936, 86 min.
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Director:
Vladimir Petrov. Starring: Nickolai
Simonov, Nickolai Cherkasov, Mikhail
Zharov, Alla Tarasova. A historical
film by the script of Alexei Tolstoy
that entered the golden fund of the
Soviet cinematography. The end of XVII
century and the beginning of XVIII
one…It is the period of formation of
the Great Russian Empire, the time of
great changes and secret plots, great
battle victories and palace
revolutions, impetuous assembly
merry-making and cruel bloodshed of
executions. The film narrates about
life, state and military activity of
Peter the First, the first Russian
Emperor.
©
Lenfilm”, 1937-38, 229 min. |
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Director:
S. Eisenstein. Starring: N. Cherkasov, L.
Tselikovskaya, S. Birman, P. Kadochnikov, Ì.
Zharov, Ì. Kuznetsov, Ì. Nazvanov, A. Abrikosov
et al. An epic narration occupying by right a
significant place among the classical works of the
world cinematography. The film tells us about the
epoch of unification of the feudal Russia divided
princedoms into a powerful centralized state.
There is given not only an original interpretation
of the historical role of the first Russian
autocrat Ivan IV in it but the film also displays
the intensity of the personal tragedy of the tsar
who began a mortal struggle against the insidious
and malicious boyars…
©
“Mosfilm”, 1944-45, 179 min.
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Vesna
(Spring)
Director:
G. Alexandrov. Starring: L. Orlova, N.
Cherkasov, F. Ranevskaya, R. Plyatt, R.
Zelyonaya et al. Film spectators have seen
this film for almost a quarter of a century,
from generation to generation. The film
combines the mask comedy elements with those
of the position comedy ones. The perfect
findings of the director and those of the
film actors, beautiful music. The plot
originality was marked by the prize of VIII
Venice film festival (1947).
©
“Mosfilm”, 1947, 100 min.
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Filmography:
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Captain Grant's Children 1936 |
Alexander Nevsky 1938 |
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Lenin in 1918 1939 |
Ivan The Terrible 1944 |
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Spring 1947 |
Alexander Popov 1949 |
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Mussorgskij 1950 |
Rimskij Korsakov 1952 |
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Nikolai Cherkasov entire filmography |
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