Movies with Actors, of Russian Descent (pre-1991-12)
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- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiCharles BrabinStarsJohn BarrymoreEthel BarrymoreLionel BarrymoreA prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsSean ConneryPeter FinchClaudia CardinaleTorn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his failed 1928 Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsTony CurtisYul BrynnerChristine KaufmannIn the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.
- DirectorHenry S. KeslerFyodor OtsepStarsAnna StenKent SmithMimi ForsytheThe Soviet Union, just after the German invasion in 1941. Natasha is a Red Cross volunteer who is dispatched to a field hospital located in an old pre-revolution mansion. The American test pilot John Hill who'd been in Russia on a goodwill mission, is wounded in a battle and brought to the hospital. As he slowly recovers from his wounds, Hill falls in love with Natasha. One day the crisis develops when the hospital personnel are forced to move immediately to Leningrad as the Germans advance.
- DirectorGustaf GründgensStarsViktor de KowaHilde WeissnerPaul HenckelsSprinkled with music and dances, and dealing with financial and romantic difficulties, a young Grand Duke falls in love with a wealthy Russian princess, without knowing her true identity.
- DirectorJohn BerryStarsSam WaterstonAleksandr PotapovKeir GilesAn American meteorologist spots an aircraft wreckage while flying over the Arctic. When he spots a badly injured Soviet airman, he parachutes down with first aid supplies, but an encroaching storm severely limits their chance of rescue.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsEvelyn BrentWilliam PowellA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsMax von SydowEleonora GiorgiMario AdorfProfessor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a result somebody turns out Doggies. Unfortunately, experience proves that it is better for dog to remain a dog.
- DirectorEdwin CareweStarsJohn BolesLupe VelezNance O'NeilCountry girl Katusha is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov who, years later, finds himself on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime to which he now realizes that his actions drove her. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
- DirectorAlexandre VolkoffStarsIvan MozzhukhinLil DagoverBetty AmannHis son and mother in peril at the hands of his enemies, a banished Caucasian warrior is forced to make an alliance with the Russians.
- DirectorBenjamin GlazerStarsFrank SundströmAudrey LongCedric HardwickeThe portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsNelson EddyIlona MasseyJoseph SchildkrautThe daughter of a Russian general arrives at Fort Ross American outpost with a slightly credible motive, hiding her true reasons which have to do with treason and blackmail. Yet she can not but fall in love with Captain Lawrence, right hand to the governor and an apparently incorruptible man.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsBibi AnderssonRichard BooneNigel GreenDuring the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.
- DirectorViktor TourjanskyStarsAlbert PréjeanValéry InkijinoffDanielle DarrieuxAn adventurer has proclaimed himself Czar of the People and resent the countryside at the head of his horde of bandits.
- DirectorGregory RatoffLaslo BenedekStarsRobert TaylorSusan PetersJohn HodiakPropaganda film from WW2, designed to raise the awareness of the American public regarding USSR's fight against Nazi Germany.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsRosanna SchiaffinoPaul DahlkeJohn ForsytheA Russian Robin Hood ;the story of a young officer whose father was despoiled of his valuable properties by a greedy wealthy neighbor .
- DirectorVladimir StrizhevskyStarsIvan MozzhukhinCarmen BoniEugen BurgThe romance between a Czarist officer and a passport-less girl obliged to share a sleeper compartment on a train in early twentieth century Russia.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsDeborah KerrYul BrynnerJason RobardsA British woman trying to escape Hungary with her freedom fighter lover and a group of Westerners, as the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, finds herself the obsession of an enigmatic Communist officer.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsYul BrynnerMaria SchellClaire BloomDrama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
- DirectorPeter MedakStarsRobert WagnerStefanie PowersLionel StanderThe Harts are in the thick of things when a Russian dancer seeks asylum in their home.
- DirectorCarl FroelichStarsAlfred AbelMaria ConnardLili DoneckerDrama about Prince Myschkin - known as The Idiot. His philandering ways makes him discard his lover Nastasja in favor of a younger girl.
- 1971–197351m6.8 (69)TV EpisodeDirectorJonathan AlwynStarsJohn ThawVirginia StrideCatherine SchellThe dangers of revolutionary Russia come to quiet Copenhagen when a countess from St. Petersburg flees to the Danish capital, claiming her anarchist brother-in-law is trying to kill her. The case falls to local cop Lt. Holst, who struggles to make sense of it all.