Background
Nikolai Nikolaevich Figurovsky was born on December 7, 1923, in Chukhloma, Kostroma Oblast, Russian Federation.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Figurovsky
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK)
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK)
(The White Guard Army led by General Anton Denikin are lay...)
The White Guard Army led by General Anton Denikin are laying siege to a southern city in order to prevent a rebellion. They are also blocking the railway, but Chekist Zavragin is in a hurry to travel south. In a flash of inspiration, he decides to use tachankas or machine gun carts to reach his destination, and attracts an unusual group of equally desperate fellow travellers. The Burning Miles is influenced by railroad Western films like John Ford's classic Stagecoach, because of the diverse set of characters thrown together in desperate circumstances. Zavragin's companions on his journey include the doctor Shelako, the nurse Katya and a mysterious white guard officer Beklemishev, disguised as a veterinary surgeon. This formula gives the film an extra psychological dimension as the characters' progress towards their destination echoes the resolution of their problems and transitions in relationships.
1957
(After losing his wife during World War II Veteran Kuzma K...)
After losing his wife during World War II Veteran Kuzma Kuzmich Iordanov does not work, drinks alcohol, makes his living by doing odd jobs. From time to time the Police department calls him in to shame him and threaten him with jail time because of his "parasitic" lifestyle, but all this does not bother him much. One day Kuzma agrees to help an old lady to deliver a washing machine to her house, (there used to be different fees for doing do - if the building had an elevator - there would be one price for it, if there was not one - then it would cost you more money to deliver it as it requires more time and effort) and accidentally drops it. While running down the stairs, trying to catch it, he stumbles and gets hurt and sent to the hospital. The same old lady that he was delivering the washing machine for comes and visits him. He gets scared thinking she came to be paid for the broken washing machine, but it turns out, she only wanted to see if he was alright. As they talk she tells him her life story, as well as the story about one poor orphan child Natasha from her village. Kuzma, overcome with loneliness, decides to go out there and try to pretend to be Natasha's father. Natasha indeed believes him to be her father, and takes him in. It turns out she is his exact opposite: independent, dependable, hardworking, but lonely like him. At first they don't get along too well, but soon Kuzma, inspired by her, changes his old ways.
1961
(Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old...)
Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention through normal procedures (he was the victim's client), but his outbursts make him the prime suspect of the clever Porfiry. Meanwhile, life swirls around Raskolnikov: his mother and sister come to the city followed by two older men seeking his sister's hand; he meets a drunken clerk who is then killed in a traffic accident, and he falls in love with the man's daughter, Sonia, a young prostitute. She urges him to confess, promising to follow him to Siberia.
1970
(From the depths of the universe Earth can hear the radio ...)
From the depths of the universe Earth can hear the radio signals of intelligent beings from a planet of the star system Shedar in the Cassiopeia constellation. A project is set up, proposed by the young inventor Vitya Sereda, to send a spaceship to reach the planet - but the flight will last for decades, so the crew of the spaceship "Dawn" (Starship relativistic nuclear annihilation), is to be recruited from teenage students. The project is all carefully thought out but student Fyodor Lobanov stows away aboard the starship and unwittingly causes it to transcend the speed of light and so reaching its target 27 years ahead of schedule...
1973
(The film is set in July 1942 during The Great Patriotic W...)
The film is set in July 1942 during The Great Patriotic War. Part of the Red Army leaves the mining town Krasnodon. After that, the city gets occupied by the German troops. Enemy machines destroy their path and members of the Komsomol group are forced to return home. In response to the atrocities of the invaders, the young Komsomol members, who are former students, create an underground anti-fascist Komsomol organization Young Guard. This organization leads a covert war against the occupation forces; young men spread antifascist leaflets, free a group of Red Army prisoners, burn the German stock exchange, thus saving their countrymen from being sent to work in Germany. On the day of the Red October anniversary, the young guards hang red Soviet flags.
1984
filmmaker interpreter screenwriter writer
Nikolai Nikolaevich Figurovsky was born on December 7, 1923, in Chukhloma, Kostroma Oblast, Russian Federation.
During the 1930s his family moved to the Ternovka village of the Central Black Earth Oblast where Nikolai Nikolaevich finished the secondary school in 1941.
He served in the signal corps during the Great Patriotic War. After the war he entered the director's faculty at VGIK, the course led by Igor Savchenko which he finished in 1951. As a student, he played a small part in The Young Guard movie directed by Sergei Gerasimov.
Between 1953 and 1984 Nikolai Nikolaevich worked at Mosfilm, Belarusfilm, Uzbekfilm, Gorky, and Dovzhenko Film Studios, directing six films and writing 30 screenplays. Among his famous works were two movies directed by Lev Kulidzhanov: the 1961 drama When the Trees Were Tall which entered the 1962 Cannes Film Festival and Crime and Punishment (1970) based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky which was selected for the 31st Venice International Film Festival and awarded the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR in 1971. For the latter Nikolai Nikolaevich also proposed an idea of an extended six- or seven-part TV version to be released simultaneously.
Nikolai Nikolaevich directed another two notable movies at Belarusfilm: the 1954 spy film Children of the Partisan which became the first Belarusian color motion picture and the 1958 war drama The Clock Has Stopped at Midnight (1958) which turned into one of the Soviet box office leaders of 1959.
In 1970 Nikolai Nikolaevich also headed the screenwriting workshop at VGIK. He was the author of two textbooks on screenwriting as well as a novel The Aquarius Sign (1985) about the intelligentsia in prerevolutionary Russia.
Nikolai Nikolaevich died on 14 June 2003 and was buried at the Vostryakovsky Cemetery in Moscow.
Mission
(The film tells about the engineer-designer of agricultura...)
1961Moscow-Cassiopeia
(From the depths of the universe Earth can hear the radio ...)
1973Crime and Punishment
(Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old...)
1970When the Trees Were Tall
(After losing his wife during World War II Veteran Kuzma K...)
1961Miles of Fire
(The White Guard Army led by General Anton Denikin are lay...)
1957Children of the Partisan
(The young suvorovts Mihas, whose father died in the war, ...)
1954The Young Guard
(The film is set in July 1942 during The Great Patriotic W...)
1984Spring on the Oder
(The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War. The ...)
1967Sokolovo
1975
Emma Trifovovna Figurovskaya (nee Pavlikova) was an economist, also a VGIK graduate. They had a son Yuri Figurovsky (1951-2011) and a daughter Elena Kosheleva (born 1956).
(1929-1996)
(born 1930)
Mikhail Ivanovich Figurovsky was a village priest, was arrested and sentenced to death in 1937 during the Great Purge.
Yuri Figurovsky (1925-2005) was a constructor of radiolocation equipment, served as the head of the Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design between 1962 and 1969.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Figurovsky (1901-1986) was a prominent Soviet chemist and a professor at the MSU Faculty of Chemistry.
(1951-2011)
(born 1956)
(born 1966)
