Ninel Myshkova Movies
- 1961
In this drama, set in the 19th-century, a painter of landscapes sees a young woman on a nearby estate and immediately falls in love. Unfortunately his revolutionary opinions meet with disapproval from her older sister and she sends her sister away. This breaks the heart of the painter who did not know of this until he went to her house to ask for her hand. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sergei S. Yakovlev, Ninel Myshkova, (more)
- 1960
In this fantasy, a kindly soldier finally gets to return home after spending many years at war. En route to his home he makes friends with many animals. He then meets up with a sad young boy whose mother has been stolen by the wicked czar of water because she is a talented weaver. He holds her captive in his underwater kingdom. Fortunately, the soldier and the child are helped on their quest by the czar's good hearted granddaughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Mikhail A. Kuznetsov, Ninel Myshkova, (more)
- 1957
Many critics pointed out resemblances between Dom, V Kotorom Ya Zhivu (The House I Live In) and the better-known Soviet film The Cranes are Flying. Set in the years prior to and during WWII, the story centers on the various residents of a co-op house. Though the directors never show the war itself, its tragic impact is felt throughout the film. And despite the potential for Soviet propaganda, what sticks in the mind is the universality of the experiences endured by the leading characters. Dom, V Kotorom Ya Zhivu was one of Russian's entries in the 1958 Brussels Film Festival. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Valentina Telegina, Nikolai Yelizarov, (more)
The original Russian title of The Sword and the Dragon was Ilya Muromets. Boris Andreyev plays the title character, a legendary Russian hero of the Middle Ages. Fact and fantasy meld copacetically as Muromets does battle not only with human adversaries but with three-headed, fire-breathing dragons and other such obstacles. Special effects in Soviet films of the 1950s generally seem to be of the "Howdy Doody" school; not so the effects in Sword and the Dragon, which retain their razzle and dazzle even after 40 years' worth of Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg and the like. Sword and the Dragon was released in the U.S. in 1960, shorn of several minutes' running time. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Boris Andreyev, Andrei Abrikosov, (more)
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad is the American release title for Sadko, an outsized 1952 Russian fantasy film. Based on the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov opera of the same name, the film details the efforts of seafaring Sadko (Sergei Stolyarov) to rescue the citizens of Covason from their despotic rulers. To do this, he must seek and capture the fabled Bluebird of Happiness (aka The Phoenix). The most fanciful sequence takes place in the undersea domain of King Neptune, which though elaborately staged looks a bit like a special exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Though the film is not a musical, the strains of Rimsky-Korsakov are heard throughout, sometimes taken from sources other than Sadko. Alexander Ptushko is credited with the direction on Sadko, though James Landis is cited in some sources as director; in fact, Landis oversaw the recutting and redubbing of the American version, which was distributed in 1962. The scripter for the revamped Magic Voyage of Sinbad was Francis Ford Coppola, but you'd never know it. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sergei Stolyarov, Alla Larionova, (more)
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