Mikhail Kalatozov
Date of Birth: 28 Dec 1903
Country: Soviet Union
Total Credits at Criticker: 12 (Director)
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Four vignettes in Batista's Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long, mobile shots tell almost wordless stories... (imdb)
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Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter. (imdb)
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documents the life of the Svan people in the isolated mountain village of Ushguli in Svanetia, in the northwestern part of the Georgian Soviet Republic. Containing some propaganda, the climax of the film shows how a Soviet built road connects the previously isolated mountain village to Soviet civilisation. (Wikipedia)
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As the leader of a 1928 Arctic airship expedition watches a television program about the disastrous undertaking, the ghosts of those involved in the voyage and subsequent rescue attempts gather to determine his guilt in the affair. Most of the film is a flash-back to the voyage and the international efforts to rescue the crew of the airship from an ice flow. (imdb)
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Story about 3 childhood friends who found each other later in life and decided to rafting on one of the Moscovian rivers. (imdb)
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The film is based on the eponymous book by Valery Osipov. Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.
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A group of Soviet youngsters arrives in Kazakhstan and builds a sovkhoz in the steppes from the ground up.
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The Nail in the Boot was to be the last film made in Georgia by the future author of The Cranes are Flying and I Am Cuba: it was to be eight years before he was able to direct another film.
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The story of Valery Chkalov, a Russian pilot, who set several long distance flight records.
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Chronicling the first years of Soviet government, the film follows Felix Dzerzhinsky from 1918 to 1921.
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The supporters of pro-American policy in one of East European countries create a plot to overthrow the Communist government.
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