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Along The Main Street With Orchestra
Through Main Street with an Orchestra (russian: По главной улице с оркестром, Po glavnoy ulitse s orkestrom) is a 1987 Soviet musical film directed by Pyotr Todorovsky. Plot 50-year-old teacher Vasily Muravin is experiencing a middle-age crisis. He is replaced at work from his post as head of the department by a more pragmatic, but limited Valentin Romanovsky and his wife Lida earns more than him and habitually complains about his indecisiveness. Muravin finds it difficult to reconcile with peoples attitude towards him, but what makes him the most upset is his wife's disrespect towards his main hobby – guitar playing. One day unable to bear any more mockery he leaves his home. He plays for the public at the River Station and then decides not to return home or to work. During one of his speeches to an idle public Muravin sees his daughter Ksenia. A new level of communication begins between them when they learn things about each other that they did noti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Todorovsky
Pyotr Yefimovich Todorovsky (russian: Пётр Ефи́мович Тодоро́вский, uk, Петро Юхимович Тодоровський, 26 August 1925 – 24 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer of Jewish origin. His son Valery Todorovsky is also a film director. Career Todorovsky joined the Red Army during World War II and drew on his war experiences for a number of films, including ''Rio-Rita'' (2008). In the 1950s, he worked as a cinematographer for Marlen Khutsiev. He liked to play guitar and composed songs for some of his films. Todorovsky's early 1980s melodramas gained him wide popularity in the Soviet Union. They have been described as "delightfully unpretentious comedies, homourous and touching at the same time". Todorovsky's ''Intergirl'' (1989) was the first Soviet film about prostitution and caused quite a stir. His next film ''Encore, Once More Encore!'' (1992) presents a grim picture of moral prostitution in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Borisov
Oleg Ivanovich Borisov (russian: Оле́г Ива́нович Бори́сов; 8 November 1929 – 28 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1978). Biography Childhood and youth Oleg Borisov was born Albert Ivanovich Borisov on 8 November 1929 in Privolzhsk, Ivanovo Oblast. His given name was Albert, which was chosen by his mother in honor of the Belgian prince Albert, who visited Moscow in 1929. His parents were agricultural professionals. His mother, Nadezhda Andreyevna, was an agricultural engineer, and also played as an amateur actress at a local drama. His father, Ivan Borisov, was a wounded World War II veteran, who worked as director of Privolzhsk Agricultural Technical School. Becoming an actor Young Oleg Borisov was fond of acting and theatre, he was known as a good impersonator and comedian among his classmates at school. However, during the Second World War young Oleg Borisov was a tractor driver at a collective farm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Lidiya Nikolayevna Fedoseyeva-Shukshina (russian: Лидия Николаевна Федосеева-Шукшина; born 25 September 1938, in St. Petersburg, Leningrad) is a Russian actress and widow of writer, actor and director Vasily Shukshin. She is the mother of actress and TV presenter Maria Shukshina. Biography Lidiya Fedoseyeva was born in St. Petersburg, Leningrad on September 25, 1938. From 1946 to 1956 she studied in school № 217 (formerly known as Saint Peter's School (Saint Petersburg), Saint Peter's School). Was engaged in the drama club of the House of Cinema under the leadership of Matvey Dubrovin. In 1964 she graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, VGIK workshop of Sergei Gerasimov (film director), Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova. She acted in cinema since 1955, her cinematic debut was an uncredited role of a laboratory assistant in the film directed by Anatoly Granik ''Maksim Perepelitsa''. The first major role was played by Lidiya Fedosey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Zudina
Marina Vyacheslavovna Zudina (russian: Марина Вячеславовна Зудина; born 3 September 1965) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theatre and cinema. Biography Early life and education Marina Vyacheslavovna Zudina was born on 3 September 1965 in Moscow. Her father was a journalist and her mother was a music teacher. As a child, Marina took dancing, singing and ballet lessons. In 1986, she graduated from GITIS (course of Oleg Tabakov and Avangard Leontiev). Career Immediately after GITIS, she was admitted to the Theater studio of Oleg Tabakov. Some of the plays she performed were "Ordinary Story" (Elizaveta Alexandrovna), "Nord Ost" (Olga), "Overstuffed Bochotara" (Sylvia), "Matrosskaya Tishina" (Tanya), "The Myth of Don Juan" (Elmira), "Mechanical piano" (Sofya Egorovna), "Last" (Love) and "Farewell ... and applaud!" (Madalena). Zudina began to act in cinema as a student. One of her first roles - Valentina in Georgy Natanson's melodrama ''Valentin and Valent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentin Gaft
Valentin Iosifovich Gaft (russian: Валенти́н Ио́сифович Гафт; 2 September 1935 – 12 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was People's Artist of the RSFSR (1984). Biography Early life and education Gaft was born in Moscow to Jewish parents and sister, Iosif Ruvimovich Gaft (1907–1969), a lawyer, and Gita Davydovna Gaft (1908–1993). Rima Iosifovna Gaft-Shtrom (1930-2021). The family moved to Moscow from Poltava, Ukraine. During World War II Iosif Gaft served in the Red Army finishing with the rank of Major. Gaft took a great interest in theater while in school and took part in the school theater amateur performance. He graduated from the School-Studio at the Moscow Art Theatre (1953–1957). Among the students of the same course were future popular actors Oleg Tabakov and Maya Menglet. Theatre After graduating Gaft worked for a number of theaters including the Mossovet Theatre, Lenkom Theatre (under famous director Anatoly Efros) and Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Kostolevsky
Igor Matveyevich Kostolevsky (russian: Игорь Матвеевич Костолевский; born 10 September 1948) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He has received the People's Artist of Russia title in 1995. Kostolevsky is best known for starring in the films '' Teheran 43'' and ''The Captivating Star of Happiness''. Biography Early life and career Igor Kostolevsky was born September 10, 1948 in Moscow, the son of Matvey Matveyevich Kostolevsky and Vitta Semyonovna Kostolevskaya. His family is Jewish. After graduation he worked as a tester at the Research Institute of Quartz Industry for two years. In 1967-1968 he studied at the Moscow Construction Institute. In 1973 he graduated from GITIS, the course of Andrei Goncharov. In the same year he entered the troupe of the Mayakovsky Theatre. Igor Kostolevsky played more than 50 roles in the theater, including Misha Rumyantsev ("Relatives" of Emil Braginsky and Eldar Ryazanov), Metchik ("The rout" of Alexander Fade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Telichkina
Valentina Ivanovna Telichkina (russian: Валенти́на Ива́новна Тели́чкина; born January 10, 1945) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2009). Biography Valentina Telichkina was born January 10, 1945 (the day of the forty-year anniversary of his mother). She was the seventh born, the youngest child of her parents. Valentina began to show her artistic talent from early childhood - singing ditties at concerts in the kindergarten. In high school she actively participated in amateur performances: singing, dancing, reading poetry and short stories, playing guitar in a string orchestra. So after graduating from high school she went to Moscow and immediately entered VGIK, the studio Vladimir Belokurov's, where she studied from 1963 to 1967. Since 1967, Valentina Telichkina is an actress of the National Film Actors' Theatre. Valentina Telichkina debuted in cinema after her second year of studies at the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosfilm
Mosfilm (russian: Мосфильм, ''Mosfil’m'' ) is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output includes most of the more widely acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein, to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production ''Dersu Uzala'' () and the epic ''War and Peace'' (). History The Moscow film production company with studio facilities was established in November 1920 by the motion picture mogul Aleksandr Khanzhonkov ("first film factory") and I. Ermolev ("third film factory") as a unit of Goskino, the USSR's film monopoly. The first movie filmed by Mosfilm was ''On the Wings Skyward'' (directed by Boris Mikhin). In 1927, the construction of a new film studio complex began on Potylikha Street (renamed to Mosfilmovskaya Street in 1939) in Sparrow Hills of Moscow. This film st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate "production numbers". The musical film was a natural development of the stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology. Typically, the biggest difference between film and stage musicals is the use of lavish background scenery and locations that would be impractical in a theater. Musical films characteristically contain elements reminiscent of theater; performers often treat their song and dance numbers as if a live audience were watching. In a sense, the viewer becomes the diegetic audience, as the performer looks directly into the camera and performs to it. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s, musicals gained popularity with the public and are exemplified by the films of Busby Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Menshikov
Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, PAR (russian: Оле́г Евге́ньевич Ме́ньшиков, link=no; born 8 November 1960) is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer. He is the current artistic director of the Yermolova Theatre in Moscow. Internationally, Menshikov is the best known for his roles in the films by Nikita Mikhalkov ''Burnt by the Sun'' (1994), ''The Barber of Siberia'' (1998), '' Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus'' (2010) and '' Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel'' (2011), as well as for his performance in Régis Wargnier's ''East/West'' (1999). Menshikov is the winner of a Laurence Olivier Award, a Nika Award and three State Prizes of the Russian Federation, and the recipient of the Order of Honour of the Russian Federation. Early life Menshikov was born in Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast, to father Evgeny (born 1934), a military engineer, and mother Yelena (born 1933), a doctor. In addition to regular school, Menshikov also attended music school, where he p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmila Maksakova
Lyudmila Vasilyevna Maksakova (russian: Людмила Васильевна Максакова; born 26 September 1940) is a Soviet Russian stage and film actress who appeared in 24 films between 1965 and 1998. Honoured with the People's Artist of Russia title in 1980, she is also a laureate of the USSR State Prize (1995) and the Stanislavsky Prize (1996). Her mother was the renowned mezzo-soprano Maria Maksakova Sr.; her daughter Maria is an opera singer and Russian TV Kultura presenter. Biography Lyudmila Maksakova was born in Moscow to the Soviet opera star Maria Petrovna Maksakova and Aleksander Volkov, a theatre entrepreneur. In 1942 the latter defected to the West and later became a United States citizen. For decades Lyudmila remained unaware of her father's identity. By keeping it secret, Maria Petrovna was protecting her daughter from trouble at the times when any relation to a 'traitor' could lead to prosecution. According to another version, though, Lyudmila's fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Lazarev (actor)
Alexander Sergeyevich Lazarev (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ла́зарев; 3 January 1938 – 2 May 2011) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, the People's Artist of Russia and the USSR State Prize laureate (both 1977). A Moscow Mayakovsky Theater veteran (where throughout his fifty years career he played more than fifty parts) Lazarev appeared in more than 100 films, including ''One More Thing About Love'' (1968) which made him famous. Biography Alexander Lazarev was born in Leningrad, to the artist and designer Sergey Nikolayevich Lazarev (1899–1984) and Olympiada Kuzminichna Lazareva (née Tarasova, (1907–1996). The family survived the first month of the Siege, then managed to get out of the city and make it to Orenburg. In 1944 they returned home and the next year Alexander went to school. By the time of graduation he's made a decision to become an actor, citing later Robert Taylor's performance in ''Waterloo Bridge'' as the major influence. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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