Albert Gendelshtein

Albert Gendelshtein

1906-04-03
74 (1981-03-25)
Kiev, Ukraine

Albert Aleksandrovich Gendelshtein (1906 - 1981) was a Soviet director and screenwriter of feature and documentary films.

Kiev, Ukraine

Albert Aleksandrovich Gendelshtein (1906 - 1981) was a Soviet director and screenwriter of feature and documentary films.

Most Known for...

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The End of St. Petersburg 1927 (6.639)

Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
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The Yellow Ticket 1928 (5.2)

Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.
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Lermontov 1943 (6.125)

Chronicle of the life of Russian poet Michail Lermontov, from the final days of Alexandr Pushkin to the fatal destiny of the poet himself.