Direction: Mark Donskoy
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Mark Donskoy. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Horse That Cried
1957 · Movie · 98 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Vera Donskaya · Ivan Tverdokhleb · Pavel Shpringfeld · Paladi Belokon
7.7
30 votes
7.7
30 votes
My Apprenticeship
1939 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Aleksei Lyarsky · Irina Zarubina · Varvara Massalitinova · Mikhail Troyanovsky
Plot My Apprenticeship (V lyudyakh) was the second entry in Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in...
7.6
69 votes
7.6
69 votes
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
1938 · Movie · 98 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Aleksei Lyarsky · Varvara Massalitinova · Mikhail Troyanovsky · Elizaveta Alekseeva
Plot The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Detstvo Gorkovo) was the first of Russian director Mark Donski's trilogy based upon Gorky's memoirs. Alexei Lyarsky plays the young Maxim, who grows up under...
7.4
170 votes
7.4
170 votes
My Universities
1940 · Movie · 120 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Nikolai Valbert · Stepan Kayukov · Nikolai Dorokhin · Nikolai Plotnikov
Plot My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood (1938) and a torturous sojourn as...
7.4
55 votes
7.4
55 votes
The Village Teacher
1947 · Movie · 98 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Vera Maretskaya · Pavel Olenev · Daniil Sagal · Vladimir Lepeshinsky
7.0
86 votes
7.0
86 votes
The Rainbow
1944 · Movie · 93 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Nina Alisova · Natalya Uzhviy · Yelena Tyapkina · Hans Klering
6.6
39 votes
6.6
39 votes
The Orlovs
1978 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Anatoliy Semyonov · Nina Ruslanova · Yuri Kamornyj · Pyotr Merkurev
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Gordeyev Family
1959 · Movie · 94 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Sergei Lukyanov · Georgi Yepifantsev · Pavel Tarasov · Alla Labetskaya
Plot Gordeev Thomas is the son of a wealthy bourgeois tsarist. He enjoys all the privileges of his condition but can not bear the sight of social misery. He falls in...
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Kak zakalyalas stal
1942 · Movie · 90 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Daniil Sagal · Irina Fedotova · Nikolai Bubnov · Boris Runge
Plot The story is a fictionalized autobiography. In real life, Ostrovsky's father died, and his mother worked as a kitchen chef. As he joined the war with the Red Army, he...
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The Romantics
1941 · Movie · 65 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Daniil Sagal · Irina Fedotova · Vladimir Vladislavskiy · Lev Sverdlin
Plot Set in the high North, this tale of a Russian teacher who begins to educate the children of the Chukchi tribe reinforces the director’s firm belief in the power of...
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Hope
1974 · Movie · min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Natalya Belokhvostikova · Oleg Golubitsky · Nikolay Merzlikin · Andrey Myagkov
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Mother
1956 · Movie · 104 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Vera Maretskaya · Aleksey Batalov · Tatyana Piletskaya · Andrei Petrov
Plot Timid old woman Pelageya Nilovna observes the revolutionary activities of her son Pavel Vlasov and gradually comes to realize that his cause is a great and noble one. She involves...
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In the Big City
1927 · Movie · 73 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mikhail Averbakh · Mark Donskoy
Cast Sofya Yakovleva · Galina Malinovskaya · Georgi Bobynin · Aleksandr Timontayev
Plot The story of a peasant poet.
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A Mother's Devotion (Devotion to Mother)
1966 · Movie · 89 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Nina Menshikova · Rodion Nahapetov · Gennadi Chertov · Yuriy Solomin
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The Taras Family
1945 · Movie · 94 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Amvrosi Buchma · Lidiya Kartashyova · Venyamin Zuskin · Daniil Sagal
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Hello, Children
1962 · Movie · 88 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Heinz Braun · Ervin Knausmyuller · Tito Romalio
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Alitet Leaves for the Hills
1949 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Andrei Abrikosov · Lev Sverdlin · Boris Tenin · Yuri Leonidov
Plot Mark Donskoy went to the wilds of Siberia to film this Soviet movie about a community that resists the temptations of a wicked American capitalist who wants to exploit their...
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A Mother's Heart (Heart of a Mother) (Sons and Mothers)
1965 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy
Cast Yelena Fadeyeva · Daniil Sagal · Nina Menshikova · Gennadi Chertov
Plot The formative years of Bolshevist leader Vladimir Ulyanov (aka Lenin) provides the basis of this Russian biopic that begins the a provincial town of Simbirsk in the late 19th-century (1884-1890)...
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Song of Happiness
1934 · Movie · 85 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Mark Donskoy · Vladimir Legoshin
Cast Mikhail Viktorov · Vladimir Gardin
Plot A young flautist who lives in the forest crosses paths with a petty crook who wonders why he lives there. In flashback, we learn that the flautist worked for a...
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