Mikhail Zharov
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1899-10-27
Place of Birth:Moscow, Russia
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Also Known As:Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov, M.I. Jaroff, M. Zharov, Михаил Иванович Жаров, Michail Iwanowitsch Scharow, Mihail Žarov, M. I. Jaroff, М. Жаров

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
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...

Chess Fever (1925)
A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.

Engineer Kochin's Error (1939)
Engineer-designer of the Moscow aviation plant Cochin took the secret blueprints home. He didn't know that foreign intelligence had long been hunting...

Peter the First, Part I (1937)
This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs....

Peter the First, Part II (1938)
Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him.

Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible (1915)
This film was a true peculiarity, a filmed version of the great Feodor Chaliapin in one of his most famous roles; the fact that it was a silent film,...

Bogdan Khmelnitskiy (1941)
Year 1648. Ukraine under the oppression of Poland. Polish nobility committing outrage, burning villages one after another. Hetman of Zaporozhian...

Miss Mend (1926)
Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

Two-Buldi-Two (1929)
Naturally, the circus milieu of 2 Buldy 2 (1929) encourages stunts. A father and son, both clowns, are to perform together for the first time, but...

Thunderstorm (1934)
The cinematic adaptation of "The Storm" play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive Katerina...

The Village Detective (1969)
Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is...

Aniskin Again (1977)
Third and final part of the comedies about the funny adventures of countryside cop named Aniskin.

Aniskin and Fantomas (1973)
A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.

The White Eagle (1928)
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the...

The Man from the Restaurant (1927)
During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy...

Don Diego and Pelagia (1928)
The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local...

The Return of Maxim (1937)
The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of...

Marionettes (1934)
The Soviet Union wants more influence in Europe and decides to get more power by giving the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle...

Love and Hate (1935)
A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and...

26 Commissioners (1932)
Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint.

Elder Sister (1967)
A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career.

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
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...

Defense of Tsaritsyn (1942)
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...

Air Taxi (1943)
A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.

Outskirts (1933)
In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire,...

A Noisy Household (1946)
A comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII.

Twins (1945)
A funny comedy about a lost twins and a lot of good people who are involved in a search for twins' parents.

Road to Life (1931)
Young hobos are taken to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards, and it works well. But crooks kill one of the...

Attention! The Magician Is in the City! (1963)

Cain the XVIII-th (1963)
A fairytale about homeless musician and his love for the princess.

Red Leaves (1958)
A story is taking place in West Belarus where local rebels are fighting for the unification with Soviet Union during 1930-ies.

The Very Last Day (1973)
A former front-line soldier, who worked at his post for a quarter of a century, local commissioner Lieutenant Semyon Mitrofanovich Kovalev, going to...

A Girl with Guitar (1958)
A romantic story about the girl working in the musical instruments store.

Life in Bloom (1949)
About the life of the Russian biologist Ivan Michurin. 1912 year. Having rejected American offers to work abroad, Michurin continues his research in...

The Anna Cross (1954)
Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After...

Actress (1943)
Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded...

The Bear (1938)
A romantic comedy based on an Anton Chekhov play of the same name. A young man comes to collect a debt owed to him by the widow Popova's late...

Man in a Shell (1939)
The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a...

Our Friend Maxim (1973)
The film Our Friend Maxim is devoted to the life and work of actor and National Artist of the USSR Boris Petrovich Chirkov. This film includes...

The District Secretary (1942)
A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.

Stepan Razin (1939)
Don Cossack Stepan Razin boyars vowed revenge for his friends tortured torture. As head of the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of the...

In the Name of the Motherland (1943)
The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.

The Vyborg Side (1939)
The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in...

For Those Who Are at Sea (1948)
The film is about the sailors who fought on torpedo boats in the Great Patriotic war.

Young Fritz (1943)
War-time satire about the inhumanity of the nazis.

The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1943)
The story is about three sisters. The youngest is chosen by Tsar Saltan to be his wife. He orders the other two sisters to be his royal cook and...

The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924)
As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin...

Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)
A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has...

His Call (1925)
The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the...

Vassa Zheleznova (1953)
The tragedy of a talented and strong woman who built the well-being of her family on blood and blood. And well-being turned out to be just as false...

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective...