Larisa Yemelyantseva

Simple People (1945)

A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev b ...

I Am a Black Sea Sailor (1944)

Our Girls (1942)

One of the anthology films about Soviet citizens resisting the Nazi invaders during World War II, the feature consists of two stories, one about a teenage woman telephone operator who sacrifices herself, the other about a farm girl tending a sick pig who d ...

Arinka (1939)

Arinka, a young girl who lives near the railroad, discovers a ring of spies who are preparing the terror act. ...