Anna Meshcherskaya
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Movie - 1930, 2h 15m • as Old mother
A Soviet propaganda film based on material from the Bolshevik coup. During the Russian civil war, the Whites, that anti-Communist force that fought against the Bolsheviks during that period, capture a Jewish Ukranian village; the gang commander threatens a pogrom, and will kill everyone in the village unless the inhabitants agree to give to the White Officers five virgin girls in wedding dresses. Under such terrible pressure, the Jewish council of the town decides, full of sorrow and despair, to sacrifice their daughters to the drunken officers but fortunately and just in time, a detachment of partisans that belong to the Red Army, comes and frees the village.
Movie - 1929, 2h 15m • as Horodynskyi's wife
The film is about the life of a White emigrant returning to Soviet Russia.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An adaptation of the short story of the same name by Lev Kassil. One of the capital’s kindergartens is attended by the children of a German specialist, Mart and August, and the children of a Soviet shock-worker engine driver, Yulik and Maika. On the eve of May 1, Yulik and Maika tell Mart and August that they will be going to the parade with their father. Mart and August want to go as well. The teacher then promises to organize a parade at the kindergarten and to invite Semyon Budyonny. The film is considered lost.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Pani Khlopitska
About the struggle of serfs and soldiers of the Right-Bank Ukraine, led by the folk hero Karmelyuk (Ustim Karmalyuk, 1787-1835), against the haidukas of Podillya and the Pan's yoke.