Leonid Kmit Movies
- 1977
This film, by Byelorussian director Valeri Rubinchik, won the Grand Prize of the All Union Film Festival in 1977. It humorously recounts the story of two teenaged buddies who try to get to the frontlines during World War II, mostly on a lark. They are intercepted and put in an air force band. Despite the war, they have a number of adventures and romantic liaisons. Finally escaping their musical captivity, they eventually resume their journey to the front. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Igor Merkulov, Sasha Zhukovsky, (more)
- 1961
In this touching tale, a deaf-mute is forced to leave his country home to work on the urban estate of a wealthy woman. He finds his new home quite depressing until he falls in love with a pretty washerwoman. Unfortunately, their manipulative employer forces the woman to marry another. The quiet keeper's heartache is eased when he finds a sickly puppy, whom he names Mumu (one of the only sounds he can utter). Soon Mumu is healthy and full of life, but one day it snaps at the lady and she orders it removed. The fellow then drowns the pup in a river and begins walking towards his home village. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Afanasiy Kochetkov, Nina Grebeshkova, (more)
- 1950
The storyline of the Russian The Horsemen spans the whole of WW II, from the beginning of hostilities in 1939 to VJ day in 1945. The main character is a farmer-jockey named Vasya (Sergei Gurzo), more concerned with horseracing than the affairs of the world. Vasya's personal travails don't amount to a hill of beans when the Nazis invade his homeland. Through a series of incredible plot convolutions, both Vasya and his prize horse become involved in the Resistance movement. Despite its wartime trappings, The Horsemen borrows heavily from Hollywood westerns during many of its action highlights. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sergey Gurzo, Alexei Gribov, (more)
- 1950
Far From Moscow is one of a battalion of Soviet films set during the Nazi invasion of the early 1940s. This time, the plot centers around the construction of an oil pipeline. The engineers must work under appalling conditions, including incessant attacks from the Germans. But the pipeline is completed -- and as a result, it is inferred, the course of the war was radically altered. A very slight romantic angle is provided when one of the workers falls in love with his female counterpart. Far From Moscow was filmed in a Soviet color process called Magicolor, which wasn't entirely stable but did provide some eye-pleasing exterior shots of the Russian wilderness. The film was directed by former journalist Alexander Stolper, here billed merely as "A. Stolper." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nikolai Okhlopkov, Lev Sverdlin, (more)
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