Screenplay: Boris Leonidov

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Boris Leonidov. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.

The Forty-First

1927 · Movie · 66 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Yakov Protazanov

Cast Ada Vojtsik · Ivan Koval-Samborsky · Ivan Shtraukh

Plot A skillfull markswoman from the Red Army who has already killed 40 soldiers misses her forty-first target and falls in love with him. In 1956 Lavrenyev's novel was adapted again...

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6.5

32 votes

Jewish Luck

1925 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Comedy Romance Silent Film

Direction Alexis Granowsky

Cast Solomon Mikhoels · Moisei Goldblat · Tamara Adelgeym · S. Epstein

Plot Jewish Luck revolves around Menakhem Mendl (one of Sholem Aleichem's characters), a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression in Tsarist Russia, Mendl continues to pursue...

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The House in the Snow-Drifts

1927 · Movie · 49 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Drama Half-length Film Silent Film

Direction Fridrikh Ermler

Cast Fyodor Nikitin · Tatyana Okova · Valeri Solovtsov · A. Bastunova

Plot Petrograd. 1919. An unemployed musician, trying to help his sick wife, steals wood from a neighbor - a speculator. Soon he is exposed and disgraced. But once the revolutionary troops...

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Gold Reserves

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

Adventure Silent Film

Direction Vladimir Gardin

Cast P. Meshcherin · Guzenko · Aleksandra Kartseva · Leonid Yurenyov

Plot About the struggle of the Bolshevik underground and red partisans in the rear of the Kolchak troops, which culminated in an attack on the enemy train, the capture of Kolchak...

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