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Alexander Kaidanovsky
Alexander Leonidovich Kaidanovsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Леони́дович Кайдано́вский; 23 July 1946 — 3 December 1995) was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director. His best known roles are in films such as ''At Home Among Strangers'' (1974), '' The Bodyguard'' (1979) and '' Stalker'' (1979). Prior to pursuing an acting career, Kaidanovsky attended technical college where he was training to become a welder. In 1965 he started studying acting at The Rostov Theatre School and the Schukin Institute in Moscow. Before completing the course he took his first part in the film ''The Mysterious Wall'' (1967) and upon graduation in 1969, he worked as stage actor. In 1985 he directed ''A Simple Death'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Kaidanovsky made his theatre debut at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1969. In 1971 he was invited to join the Moscow Arts Theatre, the best classical theatre in Russia, a ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River (Russia), Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of the North Caucasus. The southwestern suburbs of the city lie above the Don river delta. Rostov-on-Don has a population of over one million people, and is an important cultural centre of Southern Russia. History Early history From ancient times, the area around the mouth of the Don River has held cultural and commercial importance. Ancient indigenous inhabitants included the Scythians, Scythian and Sarmatians, Sarmatian tribes. It was the site of Tanais, colonies in antiquity, an ancient Greek colony, Gazaria (Genoese colonies), Fort Tana under the Genoa, Genoese, and Azov#Fortress of Azov, Fort Azak in the time of the Ottoman Empire. In 1749, a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Arts Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; russian: Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ)) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in 1898 by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time. The theatre, the first to regularly put on shows implementing Stanislavski's system, proved hugely influential in the acting world and in the development of modern American theatre and drama. It was officially renamed the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre in 1932. In 1987, the theatre split into two troupes, the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre and the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. Beginnings At the end of the 19th-century, Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faktas
''Faktas'' (russian: Gruppa krovi nol) is a 1981 Soviet Lithuanian-language war film directed by Almantas Grikevicius. It was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, where Yelena Solovey won the award for Best Supporting Actress. Cast * Regimantas Adomaitis * Donatas Banionis * Juozas Budraitis * Uldis Dumpis * Aleksandr Kaidanovsky * Irena-Marija Leonaviciute * Arnis Licitis * Algimantas Masiulis * Laimonas Noreika * Yelena Solovey * Leonid Obolensky Leonid Leonidovich Obolensky (russian: Леонид Леонидович Оболенский; 21 January 1902 — 17 November 1991) was a Russian and Soviet actor. Born into the family of a Soviet diplomat, he studied at the Gerasimov Institut ... * Eugenija Pleskyte References External links * * 1981 films 1980s war films Lithuanian-language films Soviet-era Lithuanian films {{Lithuania-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafferty (1980 TV Series)
''Rafferty'' or (russian: Рафферти, Rafferty) is a Soviet 1980 drama film, drama television film directed by Semyon Aranovich and based on the novel by American writer Lionel White. Plot The film takes place in the US during the 1960s and 1970s. Jack Rafferty, deputy head of the trade union of transport workers gives testimony before the senate committee on suspicion of corruption. Rafferty has the right to refuse to testify citing the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, but then he will never be elected as chairman of the trade union. Therefore Rafferty decides to take a chance and starts to answer questions of the commission... Climbing the corporate ladder was a very difficult task for Rafferty; full of "dark" deeds. These included the creation of false trade union committees with the help of his close friend gangster Farichetti, and illegal use of union pension funds for personal enrichment, and using his wife as a shill. Rafferty even exploited his mistr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lifeguard (1980 Film)
, image =The Lifeguard 1980.jpg , caption = , director = Sergey Solovyov , producer = , writer = Sergey Solovyov , starring = , music = Isaac Schwartz , cinematography = Pavel Lebeshev , editing = A. Abramova , released = 1980 , studio= Mosfilm , runtime = 101 minutes , country = Soviet Union , language = Russian , budget = ''The Lifeguard'' (russian: Спасатель, Spasatel) is a 1980 Soviet drama film directed by Sergey Solovyev. Plot The film takes place in a provincial city, where the filming of a documentary about the school takes place. A talented literature teacher Larikov works at this school, and his student’s attitude to the world was built on the basis of his lessons, but gradually she began to become disappointed in him. Cast * Tatyana Drubich as Asya Vedeneyeva * Vasily Mishchenko as Vilya * Sergey Shakurov as Larikov * Olga Belyavskaya as Olya * Vyacheslav Kononenko as Ganin * Alexander Kaidanovsky as Varaksin (voice by Anatoli Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telokhranitel
''The Bodyguard'' (russian: Телохранитель, ''Telokhranitel'') is a 1979 Soviet action film released by Tadjikfilm. It is one of the best known of the Red Westerns and directed by the veteran feature and documentary maker, Ali Khamraev. Plot The setting is Central Asia during the Russian Civil War. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "fully in the hands of the workers and peasants", but the fight against the Basmachi rebels was in full swing. When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Nazar (Anatoly Solonitsyn), the brains behind the Basmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolutionary Mirzo. His expertise is essential to traverse the precarious paths and steep mountain ridges along the way, impossible terrain for the inexperienced. A group consisting of Mirzo (Alexander Kaidan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inquest Of Pilot Pirx
''Inquest of Pilot Pirx'' ( pl, Test pilota Pirxa, russian: Дознание пилота Пиркса, Doznaniye pilota Pirksa, et, Navigaator Pirx) is a joint Polish-Soviet 1979 film directed by . It is based on the short story "The Inquest" by Stanisław Lem from his 1968 short story collection ''Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie'' (''Tales of Pirx the Pilot''; the story was translated into English in the second part, ''More Tales of Pirx the Pilot'').Marek Piestrak: widzowie nie zawiedli interview by DAREK KUŹMA It was adapted for film by . It is a joint production by [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamonds For The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat ( et, Briljandid proletariaadi diktatuurile) is a 1975 Soviet Estonian action film directed by Grigori Kromanov and based on the novel of the same name by Yulian Semyonov. Plot 1921. Chekist Gleb Bokii received an encrypted message from Tallinn that there is an organization in Russia that is engaged in the theft of jewels from Gokhran and illegally smuggling them through the Baltic states to London and Paris. The investigation of the case is entrusted to a young employee of the Cheka Vsevolod Vladimirov. Cast * Vladimir Ivashov as Isayev * Alexander Kaidanovsky as Vorontsov * Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Anna Viktorovna * Tatyana Samoylova as Maria Olenetskaya * Margarita Terekhova as Vera, Vorontsov's ex-wife * Edita Piekha as Lida Bosse (voiced by Svetlana Svetlichnaya) * Alexander Porokhovshchikov as Osip Shelehes * Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Roman (Fyodor Shelehes) * Lev Durov as Nikolay Pozhamchi * Vladimir Osenev as Stopansky * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Expedition
''The Lost Expedition'' (russian: Пропавшая экспедиция, Propavshaya ekspeditsiya) is a 1975 Soviet drama film directed by Venyamin Dorman. Plot The film takes place in 1918. The expedition, consisting of two people engaged in the search for gold deposits, goes to Siberia. Soon local residents join them. Some really want to help them, others pursue selfish goals. Cast * Viktor Sergachyov as Yefim Subbota * Yevgeniya Simonova as Tasya Smelkova * Nikolay Gorlov as Usaty * Nikolai Grinko as the professor, Tasya's father * Anatoly Kalabulin as Proshka * Alexander Kaidanovsky as Zimin * Yuriy Kayurov as Volzhin * Lev Prygunov as Alexey Kazankov * Vakhtang Kikabidze as Arsen Georgievich Kabakhidze * Georgy Martirosyan as episode * Nikolay Olyalin as gold digger Silantiy * Radner Muratov as Akhmetka * Vadim Zakharchenko Vadim Viktorovich Zakharchenko (russian: Вадим Викторович Захарченко; 19 February 1929 — 2 January 2007) was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Failure Of Engineer Garin
''Failure of Engineer Garin'' (russian: Крах инженера Гарина, translit. Krakh inzhenera Garina) is a 1973 Soviet television film in four parts loosely based on a novel '' Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin'' by Alexei Tolstoy. Produced by Lenfilm by the order of Gosteleradio of USSR Plot summary A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target on practically any distance. Staging his death he emigrates from Russia as a French merchant and tries to find contacts with the head of one of the largest financial trusts in Europe, Mr. Rolling. The final goal of Garin is to rule the world. Cast * Oleg Borisov as Pyotr Garin * Aleksandr Belyavskiy as Vasili Shelga * Vasili Korzun as Rolling * Nonna Terentyeva as Zoe Montrose * Vladimir Tatosov as Tyklinski * Mikhail Volkov as Sсhefer * Alexander Kaidanovsky as Dr. Wolf * Grigori Gaj as Reicher * Anatoli Shvedersky as Ditz * Algimantas Masiulis as Sсhtufen * Igo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fourth (1972 Film)
, image = The Fourth Russian poster.jpg , caption = Russian poster , director = Aleksandr Stolper , producer = , writer = , starring = , music = Yan Frenkel , cinematography = Valentin Zheleznyakov , editing = , released = , studio= Mosfilm , runtime = 71 min. , country = Soviet Union , language = Russian , budget = ''The Fourth'' (russian: Четвёртый, Chetvyortyy) is a 1972 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Stolper. Plot The film tells about an American journalist who has to make a difficult choice: to publicize the plans of supporters of the war, having lost all his life's benefits or to retreat. Cast * Vladimir Vysotsky * Margarita Terekhova * Sergey Shakurov * Alexander Kaidanovsky * Sergey Sazontev * Yury Solomin * Tatyana Vasileva * Maris Liepa * Armen Dzhigarkhanyan * Juozas Budraitis * Mihai Volontir * Lev Durov * Leonid Kulagin Leonid Nikolaevich Kulagin (russian: Леони́д Никола́евич Кула́гин; born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Investigation Held By ZnaToKi
''Investigation Led by ZnaToKi'', or ''Investigation Led by Experts'' (russian: Следствие ведут ЗнаТоКи, translit. ''Sledstvie vedut ZnaToKi'') was a popular 1971-1989 Soviet detective TV-series with two Russian series (2002 and 2003). Total episodes released - 24. Main characters - investigator Pavel Znamenski, detective Alexandr Tomin and laboratory analyst Zinaida Kibrit were acting together under a group name ''ZnaToKi'' (translated as "Experts"). Song by Mark Minkov based on the lyrics ''Invisible Battle'' (Nezrimiy Boi - ''Our mission is both dangerous and difficult, and most invisible at first glance...'') by Anatoly Gorokhov features in almost all series. It became an unofficial hymn of the Soviet Militia. Original Cast Members * Georgy Martyniuk as Pavel Znamenski, Senior investigator * Leonid Kanevsky as Aleksandr Tomin, Senior Inspector-detective * Elza Lezhdey as Zinaida Kibrit, laboratory analyst * Lidia Velezheva as Kitaeva, laboratory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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