Cinematography: Anatoli Golovnya

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Anatoli Golovnya. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.

Mother

1926 · Movie · 88 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Drama Historical Silent Film Russian Revolution

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast Vera Baranovskaya · Nikolai Batalov · Aleksandr Chistyakov · Ivan Koval-Samborsky

Plot This is one of the classic Soviet silent films. A young revolutionary dies fighting against the misery and poverty of Tsarist Russia in the pre-war revolution of 1905, and, in...

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7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

The End of St. Petersburg

1927 · Movie · 74 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Drama Historical Politics Silent Film

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast Vera Baranovskaya · Aleksandr Chistyakov · Ivan Chuvelyov · Sergei Komarov

Plot A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed peasant is...

7.3

427 votes

7.3

427 votes

Storm Over Asia

1928 · Movie · 120 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Adventure War 1910s 1920s Propaganda

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast Valery Inkijinoff · Aleksandr Chistyakov · Viktor Tsoppi · Karl Gurnyak

Plot In 1918 a simple Mongol herdsman escapes to the hills after brawling with a western capitalist fur trader who cheats him. In 1920 he helps the partisans fight for the...

7.0

334 votes

7.0

334 votes

Chess Fever (S)

1925 · Movie · 20 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Comedy Chess Silent Film Short Film

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin · Nikolai Shpikovsky

Cast Boris Barnet · José Raúl Capablanca · Zakhar Darevsky · Konstantin Eggert

Plot The hero's (Vladimir Fogel) preoccupation with chess leads to him missing his own wedding ceremony, but the marital peace is restored with the help of the World Chess Champion, José...

6.6

250 votes

6.6

250 votes

Man from the Restaurant

1927 · Movie · 62 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Drama Silent Film

Direction Yakov Protazanov

Cast Michael Chekhov · Vera Malinovskaya · Ivan Koval-Samborsky · Mikhail Narokov

6.4

33 votes

6.4

33 votes

Deserter

1933 · Movie · 105 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Drama

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast Boris Livanov · Vasili Kovrigin · Aleksandr Chistyakov · Tamara Makarova

Plot A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn (Boris Livanov), as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a...

6.4

41 votes

6.4

41 votes

Zhukovsky

1950 · Movie · 90 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Drama Biography Planes 19th Century

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin · Dmitri Vasilyev

Cast Yuri Yurovsky · Ilya Sudakov · Vladimir Belokurov · Vladimir Druzhnikov

Plot Based on the life of Russian scientist Nikolai Zhukovsky (1847–1921), founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics.

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Victory

1938 · Movie · 78 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Drama War Planes

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin · Mikhail Doller

Cast Vladimir Solovyov · Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya · Nikoloz Sanishvili · Aleksandr Grechanyy

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General Suvorov

1941 · Movie · 104 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Drama War Historical Biography 18th Century

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin · Mikhail Doller

Cast Nikolai P. Cherkasov · Aleksandr Khanov · Mikhail Astangov · Apollon Yachnitskiy

Plot Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military...

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