Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

An outstanding Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1937). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the USSR (02.26.1947). He graduated from the Institute of Performing Arts (1926). Since 1919 - a mimic artist of the Petrograd Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater, the Bolshoi Drama Theater and other theaters. In the years 1926-1929 - actor of the Leningrad Youth Theater. In 1929-1931 - artist of the Leningrad and Moscow music halls. In the years 1931-1933 - artist of the Leningrad Mobile Theater "Comedy". In 1933-1965 - artist of the Leningrad Academic Drama Theater named after Pushkin. Nikolai Cherkasov is the only actor whose face is imprinted on the order. Stalin personally chose and approved the portrait of Cherkasov for one of the highest state awards - the Soviet Order of Alexander Nevsky. Member of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR 1-2 convocations. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 3-4 convocations (1950-1958). Chairman of the Leningrad branch of the WTO (since 1948). Member of the Soviet Peace Committee (since 1949). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940. September 14, Nikolai Konstantinovich died at the 64th year of life. When the great actor passed away, one of his students said that he died not from heart failure, but from insufficient heartiness... The actor was buried in the Necropolis of Artists of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Leningrad. July 27, 1970 the name of Cherkasov was assigned to one of the streets in Leningrad.

  • Title : Nikolai Cherkasov
  • Popularity : 2.886
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1903-07-27
  • Place of Birth : St Petersburg, Russian Empire
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  • Also Known As : Nikolay Cherkasov, Николай Черкасов, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Nikolai Tscherkassow
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Nikolai Cherkasov Movies

  • 1938
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    Alexander Nevsky

    Alexander Nevsky

    7.048 1938 HD

    When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take...

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  • 1935
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    Granitsa

    Granitsa

    1 1935 HD

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  • 1940
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    Концерт на экране

    Концерт на экране

    1 1940 HD

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  • 1959
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    Актёр Николай Черкасов

    Актёр Николай Черкасов

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1963
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    Мелодии Дунаевского

    Мелодии Дунаевского

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1944
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    Ivan the Terrible, Part I

    Ivan the Terrible, Part I

    7.288 1944 HD

    Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian...

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  • 1958
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    Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

    Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

    7.324 1958 HD

    This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the...

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  • 1946
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    In the Name of Life

    In the Name of Life

    6 1946 HD

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  • 1950
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    Mussorgsky

    Mussorgsky

    4.5 1950 HD

    Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has...

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  • 1953
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    Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov

    6 1953 HD

    Biographical film about the composer Rimskiy-Korsakov. Belongs to the gallery of costume historical and biographical films of the postwar cinema of...

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  • 1965
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    Nights of Farewell

    Nights of Farewell

    3 1965 HD

    Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersburg, where he is invited to become the first...

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  • 1957
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    Don Quixote

    Don Quixote

    6.7 1957 HD

    Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his...

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  • 1934
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    Happiness

    Happiness

    5.8 1934 HD

    A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things)...

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  • 1947
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    Spring

    Spring

    6.4 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    All Remains to People

    All Remains to People

    4 1963 HD

    Renowned scientist Dronov works in Novosibirsk on the creation of ultra-modern engine. He has a bad heart, he was afraid not to have time to finish...

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  • 1937
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    Peter the First, Part I

    Peter the First, Part I

    5.1 1937 HD

    This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs....

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  • 1938
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    Peter the First, Part II

    Peter the First, Part II

    4.3 1938 HD

    Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him.

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  • 1949
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    The Battle of Stalingrad

    The Battle of Stalingrad

    3.7 1949 HD

    A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.

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  • 1936
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    Capt. Grant's Family

    Capt. Grant's Family

    6.2 1936 HD

    The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures...

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  • 1928
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    His Excellency

    His Excellency

    7 1928 HD

    This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund...

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  • 1939
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    Friends

    Friends

    5 1939 HD

    The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov.

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  • 1939
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    Lenin in 1918

    Lenin in 1918

    5 1939 HD

    Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in Russia.

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  • 1949
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    Academician Ivan Pavlov

    Academician Ivan Pavlov

    1 1949 HD

    Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov’s ...

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  • 1970
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    Little Tragedies

    Little Tragedies

    1 1970 HD

    Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight, The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri

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  • 1937
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    5.6 1937 HD

    An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" with drastic changes to the plot. A group of English rebels searches for pirate's...

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  • 1955
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    They Knew Mayakovsky

    They Knew Mayakovsky

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1929
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    Brother

    Brother

    1 1929 HD

    The chairman of the factory committee of one of the Leningrad factories, Fyodor Gorbachev, a weak-willed man who was unable to completely overcome...

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  • 1929
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    Moon on the Left

    Moon on the Left

    1 1929 HD

    The main character, the chairman of the district revolutionary tribunal, Comrade Kovalev, believes that a true revolutionary should have only one...

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  • 1943
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    The Invincible

    The Invincible

    4.2 1943 HD

    The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest...

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  • 1940
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    60 Days

    60 Days

    6 1940 HD

    Adventures of the medicine professor during reserve duty.

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  • 1947
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    Pirogov

    Pirogov

    6.8 1947 HD

    A biopic based on the life of Russian scientist and doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881), famous for being the founder of field surgery.

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  • 1949
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    Happy Sailing

    Happy Sailing

    1 1949 HD

    A story about boys in a sailors school.

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  • 1943
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    Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

    Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

    6.7 1943 HD

    The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and...

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  • 1937
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    Baltic Deputy

    Baltic Deputy

    4.2 1937 HD

    A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his...

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  • 1937
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    For the Soviet Motherland

    For the Soviet Motherland

    5 1937 HD

    The film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into Karelia, killed Soviet activists, burned houses ... In...

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  • 1934
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    Crown Prince of the Republic

    Crown Prince of the Republic

    5.3 1934 HD

    After news of the future birth of a child, Sergei split from his wife, Natasha, and settled in the company of young architects, who occupied a room...

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  • 1928
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    My Son

    My Son

    1 1928 HD

    A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.

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  • 1935
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    Hectic Days

    Hectic Days

    5.8 1935 HD

    A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.

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  • 1947
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    New Home

    New Home

    10 1947 HD

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  • 1949
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    Alexander Popov

    Alexander Popov

    5 1949 HD

    A biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer, inventor of radio communications Alexander Semenovich...

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  • 1942
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    His Name Is Sukhe-Bator

    His Name Is Sukhe-Bator

    1 1942 HD

    The film tells about the founder of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the leader of the Mongolian People's Revolution - Damdin Sukhe-Bator.

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  • 1936
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    The Girlfriends

    The Girlfriends

    5 1936 HD

    Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war...

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  • 1942
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    Defense of Tsaritsyn

    Defense of Tsaritsyn

    2.8 1942 HD

    Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red...

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  • 2005
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    Как уходили кумиры

    Как уходили кумиры

    8.5 2005 HD

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