Aleksandr Chistyakov
Date of birth: 1880-01-01
Place of birth: Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Aleksandr Petrovich Chistyakov, A. Chistyakov, A. Tsistyakov, Александр Петрович Чистяков, А. Чистяков, Олександр Чистяков, A. P. Chistyakov, Aleksandr Čistǎkov
Biography
Aleksandr Chistyakov was born in 1880, he never graduated from high school, he worked as an accountant. From 1921 he studied at the First State Film School (Leo Kuleshov's workshop). Since 1925, he actively acted in films. The first role - a worker in the film "Arsenals" became a characteristic role for the subsequent work of the actor. He also was the champion of the Russian Empire in hammer throwing. Self-taught, he began to master hammer throwing at the end of the 19th century and in 1912 became the first record holder in Russia. He was a very good cyclist and an able wrestler too.
Movie Credits
Beautiful Garden
1935-10-07
To help out his friend Lenya, Yura steals a Stradivarius violin belonging to the professor from his
Возвращение
1940-11-29
Little Nikita, the son of polar scientist Sergei Ivanov, runs away from home with the intention of r
A Personal Affair
1932-04-24
The best bell-ringer of the church Fedor Kuzmich Shtukov becomes the foreman of production at the sh
The Miners
1937-08-22
Semyon Primak, in the direction of the regional committee, arrives in one of the small towns of Donb
Mother
1926-10-11
A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the R
The Thirteen
1937-05-08
The film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Middle Asian d
Storm Over Asia
1928-11-10
In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a Eur
No One is Funnier than Us
1940-01-01
A young man, Russian by nationality, goes to a Turkmen bride in a remote border village, not knowing
Outskirts
1933-03-25
In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided
Эх, яблочко, куды котишься
1926-12-26
1918 Odessa. German occupiers plunder the city. Sailor Petrus, who has lagged behind the Red Army de
A Simple Case
1930-12-31
As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER
Misunderstood
1931-12-31
The film tells about the class struggle in the countryside during the creation of the first collecti
The End of St. Petersburg
1927-12-13
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find wo
A Severe Young Man
1935-12-04
The film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the 1930s.
The Pilots
1935-04-24
The daredevil pilot Sergei Belyaev takes a risk flying a plane which is not properly maintained and
The Vyborg Side
1939-04-01
The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Re
Love and Hate
1935-03-03
A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldi
Salamander
1928-04-11
The film is based on real events and reveals the tragic episodes from the life of the Austrian biolo
The Return of Maxim
1937-04-01
The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolshe
Deserter
1933-09-18
A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international
Seaman's Daughter
1941-02-03
Together with other graduates of the Maritime Institute, Irina Zakharova returns to her native Odess
Daughter of the Motherland
1937-01-01
On the detention of fascist saboteurs and border violators by the collective farmers of Soviet Byelo
I Love
1936-05-09
Once upon a time, the father of Ostap left a village and came to earn in Donbas. They lined up a sha
Stepan Razin
1939-02-09
Don Cossack Stepan Razin boyars vowed revenge for his friends tortured torture. As head of the rebel
The Drive of Death
1929-08-13
The fate of a simple railroad machinist Gavrilov, who under the influence of the events of the Civil
For Your Health
1929-03-26
About the fight against alcoholism in the workplace.
The Happy Canary
1929-03-05
Actress Brio working in a cafe "The Happy Canary", does not suspect that her new acquaintances Brian
Diary of a Revolutionist
1932-02-29
The secret police agent finds that factory director wife is counterrevolutionary but dies from the h
Who Are You?
1927-12-06
Adaptation of Jack Londos's short story "The South of the Slot". Partially lost.
The White Eagle
1928-10-09
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a
Nastenka Ustinova
1934-01-01
About the fate of a former prisoner of war, who returns to his homeland, to the Soviet Union.
Heroes of the Furnace
1929-02-05
Lost movie.
Yakov Sverdlov
1940-12-12
A Great Life
1939-11-11
The film tells about the struggle of the Donbas miners in Ukrainian SSR with saboteurs.
A Great Life, Part 2
1946-08-09
This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Na
Minin and Pozharsky
1939-11-03
Historical film about the invasion of the Poles in the Moscow Empire (1611), the creation of Minin a
Professor Mamlock
1938-09-04
Made in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Professor Mamlock was one of the first films worldwide to tackle Nazi
The Last Night
1933-12-10
Historical-revolutionary film about the struggle of the Bolshevik underground against the interventi
Conveyor of Death
1933-11-06
The movie is set in the early 30s in a fictional capitalist country. The economic crisis throws thre
Bread
1929-10-01
An ideologically committed Red Army soldier returns home from the war and takes up a new struggle wi