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A Man From The Boulevard Des Capuchines
''A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines'' (russian: Человек с бульвара Капуцинов, Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov) is a Red Western comedy film of 1987 ( Mosfilm production), with nods to silent film and the transforming power of celluloid. This film is particularly unusual in Soviet cinema for two reasons: first, it was directed by one of the few female Soviet directors of any stature, Alla Surikova, and second it was a rare post-modernist Soviet outing. The film had the highest ratings in the Soviet Union in 1987, with 60 million viewers. Plot Mr. John First (Johnny) is a cinematographer traveling to Santa Carolina when he is stopped by a band of robbers, headed by Black Jack. Johnny is the only one who does not pull out a gun and fight during the midst of the action and is thus questioned by Black Jack as to why. He then takes the book which Johnny is so fervently looking through and ends up mistaking it for a Bible, until he notices that it conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Surikova
Alla Ilinichna Surikova ( ru , А́лла Ильи́нична Су́рикова; born November 6, 1940, in Kyiv) is a Soviet and Russian film director, writer, and teacher. She is a People's Artist of Russia (2000), winner of the Award of the Government of the Russian Federation (2009), and a member of the Russian Union of Cinematographers. She is best known as the director of the Red Western comedy film ''A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines'' which starred famous Soviet actors including Andrei Mironov, Aleksandra Yakovleva, Nikolai Karachentsov, Oleg Tabakov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Mikhail Boyarsky and Igor Kvasha. Selected filmography * ''Fuss of the Fusses'' (Суета сует, 1979) * ''Be my husband'' (Будьте моим мужем, 1982) * ''Look for a Woman'' (Ищите женщину, 1983) * '' Sincerely Yours...'' (Искренне Ваш..., 1985) * ''A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines'' (1987) * ''Two arrows. Stone Age Detective'' (Две стрелы. Д ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Svetin , posthumously designated for Svetin.
Svetin's room 1.JPG,
Mikhail Semyonovich Svetin (russian: Михаил Семёнович Светин; born Michail Solomonovitch Goltsman; 11 December 1929 – 30 August 2015) was a Soviet, Russian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films. Svetin's room 2.JPG, Makeup room at the Comedy Theatre The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011, Biography Born in Kyiv, he was the first child in the family. His father, Solomon Mykhailovych Holtsman, worked as a laborer at the Kyiv Film Factory, and his mother, Hanna Petrivna, was a housewife. He graduated from the Kyiv Music College.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Filozov
Albert Leonidovich Filozov (russian: Альбepт Лeoнидoвич Филозoв; 25 June 1937 – 11 April 2016) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia. He was born on June 25, 1937, in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). He received the profession of turner, worked at the State Bearing Plant. He graduated from (1959). In 1991 before 1995 he was a master (to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalya Fateyeva
Natalya Nikolayevna Fateyeva (russian: Наталья Николаевна Фатеева; born 23 December 1934) is a Soviet and Russian film actress and television presenter. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 1956. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980). Biography Natalya was born and brought up in Kharkiv. Her father was a Soviet military officer, and her mother was manager of a local fashion shop. She studied acting at Kharkiv Acting College during the 1950s and was briefly married to a student classmate, but soon she divorced the student and moved to Moscow. There, after meeting Sergei Gerasimov, Fateyeva was admitted to the graduate year at VGIK acting school. She was voted "the most beautiful Soviet actress" in the early 60s by readers of the Soviet film magazine "Ekran" and other publications. Natalya Fateyeva was married and divorced three times. She has two children. She is living in Moscow, Russia. In 2014 and 2022, she condemned both the annexation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comanche
The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ( com, Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") are a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma. The Comanche language is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family. Originally, it was a Shoshoni dialect, but diverged and became a separate language. The Comanche were once part of the Shoshone people of the Great Basin. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Comanche lived in most of present-day northwestern Texas and adjacent areas in eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and western Oklahoma. Spanish colonists and later Mexicans called their historical territory ''Comanchería''. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Comanche practiced a nomadic horse culture and hunted, particularly bison. They traded with neighboring Native American peoples, and Spanish, French, and American colonists and set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spartak Mishulin
Spartak Vasilyevich Mishulin (russian: Спартак Васильевич Мишулин; Moscow, October 22, 1926 – Moscow, July 17, 2005) was a Soviet actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR. He was best known for his roles as Sayid in ''White Sun of the Desert'' (1969) and the title character in the Soviet stage adaptation of the Swedish children's book series Karlsson-on-the-Roof (1971) at Moscow's famed Satire Theatre. Biography Spartak Mishulin was born on October 22 in 1926 in Moscow. His mother, Anna Vasilievna Mishulina, was deputy to the People's Commissar of Industry and was a member of the party nomenklatura. The name Spartak was given at the insistence of his maternal uncle, a well-known historian, Professor Alexander Vasilyevich Mishulin, who specialized in the War of Spartacus. The Mishulins' family lived in the center of Moscow on Nastasinsky Lane. Spartak from an early age was fascinated by the theater and dreamed of becoming an actor. In 1937, Anna Mishulina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalya Krachkovskaya
Natalia Leonidovna Krachkovskaya (russian: Ната́лья Леони́довна Крачковская, née Belogortseva; 24 November 1938 – 3 March 2016) was a Soviet and Russian actress, Meritorious Artist (1998). Belogortseva was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. After graduation, she submitted documents to VGIK on the course of Vladimir Belokurov In 1958, Natalia Belogortseva was married to sound engineer, Vladimir Krachkovskii. In marriage, their son Vasily was born (June 8, 1963). For more than 50 years of film career, Krachkovskaya starred in about 90 films. Usually she played minor, but characteristic roles. She became famous during the 1970s with roles in the movies ''The Twelve Chairs'' and '' Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future''. Natalia Krachkovskaya died on 3 March 2016 at the age of 77. Selected filmography During her career Krachkovskaya had appeared in more than 90 movies and TV series. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galina Polskikh
Galina Polskikh (Гали́на Алекса́ндровна По́льских, born 27 November 1939) is a Soviet film actress. She has appeared in more than 100 films since 1962. In 1979 she was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia, and in 1999 - Order of Honour (fourth degree). Polskikh became famous after playing lead roles in such Soviet films as ''Walking the Streets of Moscow'' (1962), '' The Journalist'' (1967) and ''Expectations'' (1966). Acting career Polskikh was born in Moscow in a poor family. Her father was killed during World War II, and her mother died of typhoid fever several years later. The 8-year-old girl was taken to an orphan asylum where she spent several months before her grandmother, who worked as a janitor, took her to her place. They lived in abject poverty in a small room in a basement floor of a many-storied building. To become a film actress was a cherished dream of a young girl since it was the only chance to tear herself away from desti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semyon Farada
Semyon Lyvovich Ferdman PAR, better known by his stage name Semyon Farada (russian: Семён Львович Фердман, Семён Фарада, born December 31, 1933, Nikolskoye village of Moscow Oblast, USSR — died August 20, 2009 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. Early life Ferdman was born into the Jewish family of Army officer Lev Ferdman and pharmacist Ida Shuman. His father died when Semyon was 14. Later he tried to pursue a military career but failed the physical test at the Tank Forces School. He applied to Bauman Moscow State Technical University (then MVTU) and barely passed the exams; after three years in the classes he was drafted into the Baltic Fleet where he served for four years. The navy noticed Ferdman's artistic talent and assigned him to the Garrison Theatre in Baltiysk. There, while playing the part of a long-haired anarchist on stage, he was the only Baltic Fleet sailor allowed to wear long hair. Career The navy prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Durov
Lev Konstantinovich Durov ( rus, Лев Константинович Дуров, p=ˈlʲef kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪdʑ ˈdurəf; 23 December 1931 – 20 August 2015) was a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor who appeared in more than 200 films and numerous stage productions between 1955 and 2008. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990. Durov came from the illustrious Durov family whose members included memoirist Nadezhda Durova and animal trainer Anatoly Durov. His aunt's husband ran the Maly Theatre in 1944–1947. Lev Durov married actress Irina Kirichenko (1931–2001) in 1954. Their daughter Ekaterina is also an actress. Durov attended the Moscow Art Theatre School, where his teachers included Sergey Gerasimov and . He joined the troupe of Anatoly Efros in 1954 and was a mainstay of Efros's productions until 1984. For some 30 years, he worked at the both as an actor and as a director. He was the theatre's principal director from 2003 to 2006. Durov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larisa Dolina
Larisa Aleksandrovna Dolina (russian: link=no, Лариса Александровна Долина, , née Kudelman, Кудельман, formerly Mionchinskaya, Миончинская; born 10 September 1955) is an Azerbaijani-born prominent Russian (former Soviet) jazz and pop singer and actress. She was awarded the Order of Honour in 2005. In January 2023, Ukraine imposed sanctions on Larisa for her support of 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Biography Dolina was born on 10 September 1955, in Baku to an Azerbaijani Jewish family. Her father, Aleksandr Markovich Kudelman, was a construction worker, her mother, Galina Izrailevna Kudelman (née Dolina), a seamstress. When Dolina was three, the family moved to Odesa. At six, she began attending a music school where she studied the cello. Dolina's musical career began in 1971 in the performance group "My Odessity" (We are Odessa Natives). She then worked as lead singer for the "State Performing Orchestra of Armenia", the "Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
