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Erwin Knausmüller
Erwin Knausmüller (1912 — 2000) was a Soviet stage and film actor of Austrian origin. Biography In 1932 he graduated from the Academy of Trade in Graz, Austria. He took part in anti-fascist activities. From 1936 he lived and worked in Moscow. Member of the World War II in the ranks of the Soviet Army. Honored with Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class. He made his film debut in 1959 in the film by Ilya Gurin '' The Golden Eshelon''. Knausmüller starred in 61 feature films in total. Erwin Knausmüller died in Moscow on January 4, 2000. Buried in Moscow at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery. Selected filmography * The Golden Eshelon (1959) as Friedrich * Farewell, Doves (1960) as episode * Peace to Him Who Enters (1961) as german officer * Judgment of the Mad (1961) as episode * At Your Threshold (1962) as episode * Hello, Children! (1962) as Professor Eisenach * The Third Half (1962) as Major Heinz * Attack and Retreat (1964) as German colonel * War and Peace (1965-1967) as Franz ...
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The Saplings
''The Saplings'' (russian: Саженцы, Sazhentsy, ka, ნერგები, Nergebi) is a 1972 Soviet comedy film directed by Rezo Chkheidze. It was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where Ramaz Chkhikvadze won the award for Best Actor. Cast * Ramaz Chkhikvadze as Luka * Kakhi Kavsadze Kakhi Kavsadze ( ''K’akhi K’avsadze''; June 5, 1935 – April 27, 2021) was a Georgian and Soviet film, television and stage actor. Early life He was born in Tbilisi. After his birth, his parents moved to Tkibuli. His father David Kavsadze ... as Daviti * Mishiko Meskhi as Kakha * Meri Qoreli as Elisabed, grandma * Sesilia Takaishvili as Tsitsino * Zeinab Botsvadze as Mother * Zura Qapianidze as Cart driver * Mikheil Vashadze as Dateshidze * Serafim Strelkov as Mr. Fletcher References External links * 1972 films 1972 comedy films Soviet comedy films Soviet-era films from Georgia (country) Georgian-language films Soviet black-and-white films Films ...
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At Your Threshold
''At Your Threshold'' (russian: У твоего порога, U tvoego poroga) is a 1962 Soviet war drama film directed by Vasili Ordynsky. Plot The action of the film takes place in the fall of 1941, when the fascists were approaching Moscow, and the Russians, in their turn, sent zenith batteries against them. Cast * Nadezhda Fedosova as Mother * Pyotr Lyubeshkin as Father * Liliya Dzyuba as Liza (as Liliya Dsyuba) * Boris Yurchenko as Mikhail Prokhorenko * Yuri Gorobets as Perekalin * Nikolay Grabbe as Chauffeur Mikhail Vasilyevich * Roman Khomyatov as Igor Bersenev * Viktor Filippov as Yevsei Vasyuta * Georgy Martyniuk Georgy Yakovlevich Martyniuk ( rus, Георгий Яковлевич Мартынюк, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj ˈjakəvlʲɪvʲɪtɕ mərtɨˈnʲuk; 3 March 1940 – 13 February 2014) was a Russian film and theater actor. Biography Born in Orenbu ... as wounded on the train References External links * * {{youtube, aOXFMdKxyyI, Movie trailer ''A ...
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Tchaikovsky (film)
''Tchaikovsky'' (russian: Чайковский) is a 1970 Soviet biopic film directed by Igor Talankin. It featured Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the role of the famous Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the Academy Award for Original Song Score and Adaptation. Cast * Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky * Antonina Shuranova as Nadezhda von Meck * Kirill Lavrov as Władysław Pachulski * Vladislav Strzhelchik as Nikolai Rubinstein * Yevgeny Leonov as Alyosha * Maya Plisetskaya as Désirée Artôt * Bruno Freindlich as Ivan Turgenev * Alla Demidova as Yulia von Meck *Yevgeny Yevstigneyev as Herman Laroche *Nina Agapova as a guest *Maria Vinogradova as a lady calling for the police *Nikolay Trofimov as chief of police * Laurence Harvey as Narrator (English version) See also * List of submissions to the 44th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film A ''list'' is any set of item ...
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Liberation (film Series)
''Liberation'' (russian: Освобождение, translit. Osvobozhdenie, german: Befreiung, pl, Wyzwolenie) is a film series released in 1970 and 1971, directed by Yuri Ozerov and shot in wide-format NIKFI process (70 mm). The script was written by Yuri Bondarev and Oscar Kurganov. The series was a Soviet-Polish-East German-Italian-Yugoslav co-production. The films are a dramatized account of the liberation of the Soviet Union's territory and the subsequent defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, focusing on five major Eastern Front campaigns: the Battle of Kursk, the Lower Dnieper Offensive, Operation Bagration, the Vistula–Oder Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin. Plot Film I: ''The Fire Bulge'' After the Soviets are alerted to the imminent German offensive in Kursk, they launch a preemptive artillery strike, delaying the enemy. The battalion of Lieutenant Colonel Lukin – led by officers Tzvetaev, Orlov, and Maximov – participates in the battl ...
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Federal Intelligence Service
The Federal Intelligence Service (German: ; , BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinate to the Chancellor's Office. The BND headquarters is located in central Berlin and is the world's largest intelligence headquarters. The BND has 300 locations in Germany and foreign countries. In 2016, it employed around 6,500 people; 10% of them are military personnel who are formally employed by the Office for Military Sciences. The BND is the largest agency of the German Intelligence Community. The BND was founded during the Cold War in 1956 as the official foreign intelligence agency of West Germany, which had recently joined NATO, and in close cooperation with the CIA. It was the successor to the earlier Gehlen Organization, often known simply as "The Organization" or "The Org", a West German intelligence organization affiliated with the CIA whose existence had not been officially acknowledged. The most central figure in the BND's history was former Wehr ...
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The Secret Agent's Blunder
''The Secret Agent's Blunder'' (russian: Ошибка резидента, Oshibka rezidenta), also translated as ''Resident's Mistake'', is a 1968 (or 1966?) Soviet spy film directed by . It is the first of four films based around the same character, the spy Mikhail Tulyev, played by Georgy Zhzhyonov. The sequel, ''Secret Agent's Destiny'' (or ''Resident's Way'') was released in 1970, with '' Resident Return'' (''Resident Is Back'') in 1982 and ' in 1986. Plot Part one. Under Old Cover (По старой легенде) Mikhail Tulyev, the son of a former spy and White Russian count, is sent by West German intelligence to collect Soviet nuclear secrets. He travels in Russia under the name Mikhail Zarokov, taken from a POW he had met in the Great Patriotic War, with the cover of looking for his supposedly lost sister. Tuylev stays with Dembovich (Oleg Zhakov), a bitter former German agent and works as a taxi driver, striking up a romantic relationship with the company's dispatche ...
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The Road To 'Saturn'
''The Road to 'Saturn (russian: Путь в «Сатурн») is a 1967 Soviet action film directed by Villen Azarov. Plot The film tells about Soviet intelligence agents who infiltrated the ''Saturn'', German espionage center, engaged in subversive activities against the Russians. They gained access to classified information that would help them fulfill their mission... Cast * Mikhail Volkov as Krylov / Kramer * Georgi Zhzhyonov as Timerin * Arkadi Tolbuzin as Drobot (as A. Tolbuzin) * Yevgeny Kuznetsov as Simakov * Leonid Chubarov * Vladimir Ferapontov * Grigoriy Gay * Lyudmila Shaposhnikova * Valentina Talyzina Valentina Illarionovna Talyzina (russian: Валентина Илларионовна Талызина; born January 22, 1935) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1985). Awarded the Order of Honor (2005 ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Road to Saturn, The 1967 films 1960s Russian-language fi ...
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Woman's World (1967 Film)
''Woman's World'' (russian: Бабье царство, Babye tsarstvo) is a 1967 war film directed by Alexey Saltykov. The film was a box-office leader in the USSR in the year 1968, fourth place 49.6 million viewers. Plot The film is about a simple female kolkhoz farmer, who heads the women of the village during the war and the horror of the Nazi occupation which deprives her of her son, her husband and her home ... Cast *Rimma Markova as Nadezhda Petrovna *Nina Sazonova as Anna Sergeevna *Alexandra Dorokhin as Marina, wife of Jean *Svetlana Sukhovey as Dunyasha Noskova *Valentina Stolbova as Sophia, the wife of Basil *Svetlana Zhgun as Nastya *Vitaly Solomin as Kostya Lubentsov *Aleksei Krychenkov as Kolya, son of Nadezhda Petrovna * Aleksandr Grave as store manager * Fyodor Odinokov as Vasily Petrichenko * Yefim Kopelyan as Nazi commandant Caspar Awards *VKF (All-Union Film Festival) **1970 — Diploma and Award for Best Actress (Rimma Markova) *San Sebastián International ...
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Anna Karenina (1967 Film)
''Anna Karenina'' (russian: Анна Каренина) is a 1967 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi, based on the 1877 novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. Cast * Tatiana Samoilova as Anna Karenina * Nikolai Gritsenko as Aleksei Karenin *Vasily Lanovoy as Aleksei Vronsky * Yury Yakovlev as Stiva Oblonsky * Boris Goldayev as Konstantin Lyovin * Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Kitty Shcherbatskaya * Iya Savvina as Dolly Oblonskaya * Maya Plisetskaya as Betsy Tverskaya * Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Lidiya Ivanovna * Yelena Tyapkina as Knyagina Myagkaya * Sofia Pilyavskaya as Grafina Vronskaya * Andrei Tutyshkin as Lawyer * Vasili Sakhnovsky as Seryozha (voiced by Klara Rumyanova) * Anatoly Kubatsky as Camerdiner Matvey * Yuri Volyntsev as Vronsky's brother-soldier *Alexander Kaidanovsky Alexander Leonidovich Kaidanovsky (russian: Алекс ...
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Royal Regatta
''Royal Regatta'' (russian: Королевская регата) is a 1966 Soviet comedy film directed by Yuri Chulyukin. Plot A student team is defeated in rowing competitions. The coach decides to leave with the four best rowers. The remaining athletes want to revive the team; they attract a new coach who develops a new technique for them. The team gains the opportunity to compete in an international regatta. Cast * Natalya Kustinskaya as Alyona, a stewardess * Valentin Smirnitskiy as Vasya * Aleksandr Gruzinsky as Sexton * Aleksandr Khanov as Grandfather * Georgiy Kulikov as Nikolai Lvovich 'Niels Bohr' - a coach * Vyacheslav Zakharov as Seva - a coxswain * Aleksandr Potapov as Taras * A. Martyshkin as Pashka * Igor Yurash as Anton (as Igor Iurashas) * Leonid Brusin as Vikentiy (as L. Bruskin) * Georgiy Svetlani as Gervasiy Fedoseyevich - a sexton (as G. Svetlani) * Leonid Chubarov * Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova * Ervin Knausmyuller as An umpire * Vladimir Lippart * Irina Mir ...
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Franz Von Weyrother
Franz von Weyrother (1755 – 16 February 1806) was an Austrian staff officer and general who fought during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He drew up the plans for the disastrous defeats at the Battle of Rivoli, Battle of Hohenlinden and the Battle of Austerlitz, in which the Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon Bonaparte twice and Jean Moreau once. Early career Weyrother was born in Vienna as the son of cavalry ''Major'' ( Major) Anton von Weyrother, who was Chief Rider of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. After studying at the ''Ingenieurakademie'' in Vienna (later known as the Imperial and Royal Technical Military Academy), he joined the army as a ''Fahnencadet'' (Academy graduate) in Infanterie-regiment Nr. 22 Franz von Lacy on 1 December 1775 as Lacy was his godfather. On 1 May 1777, he was promoted to ''Fähnrich'' (cadet officer or ensign) and on 16. November 1778 to ''Unterlieutenant'' (second lieutenant). In August 1779, he was chosen by ' ...
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War And Peace (film Series)
''War and Peace'' (russian: Война и мир, trans. Voyna i mir) is a 1966–67 Soviet war drama film co-written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel ''War and Peace''. The film, released in four installments throughout 1966 and 1967, starred Bondarchuk in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, alongside Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Ludmila Savelyeva, who depicted Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova. The film was produced by the Mosfilm studios between 1961 and 1967, with considerable support from the Soviet authorities and the Red Army which provided hundreds of horses and over ten thousand soldiers as extras. At a cost of 8.29 million  Rbls – equal to US$9.21 million at 1967 rates, or $60–70 million in 2019, accounting for rouble inflation – it was the most expensive film made in the Soviet Union. Upon its release, it became a success with audiences, selling approximately 135 million tickets in the USSR. ''War and Peace'' a ...
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