Screenplay: Grigori Aleksandrov
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Grigori Aleksandrov. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1927 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov
Cast Vassilli Nikandrov · Boris Livanov · Eduard Tissé · Nikolai Podvoisky
Plot In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace...
7.8
5K votes
7.8
5K votes
Strike
1925 · Movie · 82 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein
Cast Maksim Shtraukh · Grigori Aleksandrov · Mikhail Gomorov · Ivan Klyukvin
Plot In Russia's factory region during Czarist rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents. When a worker hangs himself after being falsely accused...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
The General Line
1929 · Movie · 121 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov
Cast Marfa Lapkina · Konstantin Vasilyev · Vasili Buzenkov · M. Ivanin
7.3
578 votes
7.3
578 votes
Ten Days That Shook the World (TV)
1967 · Documentary · 80 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Norman Swallow
Plot This documentary relates on the basis of the John Reed's book, the development of the Russian Revolution of 1917, mixing real archve footage and films by Eisenstein and Pudovkin.
7.2
166 votes
7.2
166 votes
Que viva México!
1932 · Movie · 84 min. · Mexico
Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov
Cast Félix Balderas · Martín Hernández · David Liceága · Julio Saldívar
Plot A legendary production plagued by problems almost from the outset, the making of QUE VIVA MEXICO cured Sergei Eisenstein of the desire ever to work in North America again. On...
7.2
825 votes
7.2
825 votes
Misery and Fortune of Women (S)
1930 · Movie · 21 min. · Switzerland
Direction Eduard Tissé · Sergei M. Eisenstein
Cast Johannes Steiner
Plot This short film shows the contrast between the good conditions in which a rich woman makes a abortion and the miserable and dangerous condition in which a poor woman has...
6.5
107 votes
6.5
107 votes
Sentimental Romance (S)
1930 · Movie · 20 min. · France
Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov
Cast Mara Griy
6.4
156 votes
6.4
156 votes
El desastre en Oaxaca (La destrucción de Oaxaca) (S)
1931 · Documentary · 11 min. · Mexico
Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein
Cast Félix Balderas · Martín Hernández · David Liceága · Julio Saldívar
Plot Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 Earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.
6.3
233 votes
6.3
233 votes
The Circus
1936 · Movie · 94 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Grigori Aleksandrov
Cast Lyubov Orlova · Yevgeniya Melnikova · Vladimir Volodin · Sergei Stolyarov
6.1
24 votes
6.1
24 votes
Jolly Fellows
1934 · Movie · 96 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Grigori Aleksandrov
Cast Leonid Utyosov · Lyubov Orlova · Mariya Strelkova · Yelena Tyapkina
Plot An ambitious but untalented singer Yelena mistakes Kostya, a simple shepherd for a famous jazz band leader. They attend a swank get-together, but instead of a saxophone, he brings his...
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Spring
1947 · Movie · 104 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Grigori Aleksandrov
Cast Lyubov Orlova · Nikolai Cherkasov · Nikolai Konovalov · Faina Ranevskaya
Plot A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal...
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Odna semya
1943 · Movie · 84 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Grigori Aleksandrov · Mikayil Mikayilov · Rza Tahmasib
Cast Lyubov Orlova · Oleg Zhakov · Hokuma Gurbanova · Mirza Babayev
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Man of Music
1953 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Grigori Aleksandrov
Cast Boris Smirnov · Lev Durasov · Mikhail Nazvanov · Sviatoslav Richter
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Russkiy suvenir
1960 · Movie · 100 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Grigori Aleksandrov
Cast Lyubov Orlova · Andrei Popov · Pavel Kadochnikov · Erast Garin
Plot 58-year-old actress Orlova plays a beauty who makes visitors from the capitalist states change their, western media influenced, opinion of the Soviet Union when their plane makes a stop in...
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Lenin v Shveytsarii
1965 · Movie · 95 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Grigori Aleksandrov · Dmitri Vasilyev
Cast Ervin Knausmyuller · Yelena Sitko · G. Sukharnikov · Mikhail Ulyanov
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Lyubov Orlova
1985 · Documentary · 87 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Grigori Aleksandrov · Yelena Mikhajlova
Cast Lyubov Orlova
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