Aleksandr Chistyakov
Birthday: 1880-01-01
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Biography: Aleksandr Chistyakov was born in 1880, he never graduated from high school, he worked as an accountant. From 1921 he studied at the First State Film School (Leo Kuleshov's workshop). Since 1925, he actively acted in films. The first role - a worker in the film "Arsenals" became a characteristic role for the subsequent work of the actor. He also was the champion of the Russian Empire in hammer throwing. Self-taught, he began to master hammer throwing at the end of the 19th century and in 1912 became the first record holder in Russia. He was a very good cyclist and an able wrestler too.
Movies
Beautiful Garden
To help out his friend Lenya, Yura steals a Stradivarius violin belonging to the professor from his ...
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Возвращение
Little Nikita, the son of polar scientist Sergei Ivanov, runs away from home with the intention of r...
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A Personal Affair
The best bell-ringer of the church Fedor Kuzmich Shtukov becomes the foreman of production at the sh...
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The Miners
Semyon Primak, in the direction of the regional committee, arrives in one of the small towns of Donb...
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Mother
A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the R...
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The Thirteen
The film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Middle Asian d...
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Storm Over Asia
In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a Eur...
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No One is Funnier than Us
A young man, Russian by nationality, goes to a Turkmen bride in a remote border village, not knowing...
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Outskirts
In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided ...
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Эх, яблочко, куды котишься
1918 Odessa. German occupiers plunder the city. Sailor Petrus, who has lagged behind the Red Army de...
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A Simple Case
As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER...
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Misunderstood
The film tells about the class struggle in the countryside during the creation of the first collecti...
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The End of St. Petersburg
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find wo...
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A Severe Young Man
The film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the 1930s. ...
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The Pilots
The daredevil pilot Sergei Belyaev takes a risk flying a plane which is not properly maintained and ...
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The Vyborg Side
The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Re...
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Love and Hate
A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldi...
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Salamander
The film is based on real events and reveals the tragic episodes from the life of the Austrian biolo...
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The Return of Maxim
The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolshe...
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Deserter
A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international...
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Seaman's Daughter
Together with other graduates of the Maritime Institute, Irina Zakharova returns to her native Odess...
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Daughter of the Motherland
On the detention of fascist saboteurs and border violators by the collective farmers of Soviet Byelo...
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I Love
Once upon a time, the father of Ostap left a village and came to earn in Donbas. They lined up a sha...
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Stepan Razin
Don Cossack Stepan Razin boyars vowed revenge for his friends tortured torture. As head of the rebel...
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The Drive of Death
The fate of a simple railroad machinist Gavrilov, who under the influence of the events of the Civil...
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The Happy Canary
Actress Brio working in a cafe "The Happy Canary", does not suspect that her new acquaintances Brian...
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Diary of a Revolutionist
The secret police agent finds that factory director wife is counterrevolutionary but dies from the h...
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Who Are You?
Adaptation of Jack Londos's short story "The South of the Slot". Partially lost....
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The White Eagle
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a ...
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Nastenka Ustinova
About the fate of a former prisoner of war, who returns to his homeland, to the Soviet Union....
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A Great Life
The film tells about the struggle of the Donbas miners in Ukrainian SSR with saboteurs....
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A Great Life, Part 2
This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Na...
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Minin and Pozharsky
Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin a...
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Professor Mamlock
Made in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Professor Mamlock was one of the first films worldwide to tackle Nazi...
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The Last Night
Historical-revolutionary film about the struggle of the Bolshevik underground against the interventi...
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Conveyor of Death
The movie is set in the early 30s in a fictional capitalist country. The economic crisis throws thre...
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Bread
An ideologically committed Red Army soldier returns home from the war and takes up a new struggle wi...
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