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Friend (1987 Film)
''Friend'' (russian: Друг, Drug) is a 1987 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze. The film tells the story of the friendship between a binge drinker (Sergey Shakurov) and a talking dog which understands what it means to be a real person better than humans and tries to help the man become whole again. Plot Kolyun, a binge drinker, walks about the local bird market and begs for money, which he allegedly lacks in order to buy an animal for a sick child. He is observed by a man (Anatoly Romashin) with a dog, he asks Kolyun aside and says that he will give him the dog, and even pay for it. Kolyun agrees. The man touchingly bids farewell to the dog. Kolyun returns to work in dry cleaning, ties the dog at the entrance and sends his drinking companion away for vodka. But the vigilant boss (Galina Polskikh) does not allow them to drink. Kolyun makes a scandal. The boss threatens to send him to rehab. On the way home Kolyun buys himself a drink, but the dog drops the bottles f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Kvinikhidze
Leonid Aleksandrovich Kvinikhidze (russian: Леонид Александрович Квинихидзе; 21 December 1937 – 13 March 2018) was a Russian screenwriter and film director His father, Aleksandr Faintsimmer, was also a film director. His first wife was the ballerina Natalia Makarova. He died in Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ... on 13 March 2018. Selected filmography References External links * 1937 births 2018 deaths Theatre directors from Saint Petersburg Russian film directors 20th-century Russian screenwriters Male screenwriters 20th-century Russian male writers Soviet film directors Soviet documentary film directors Soviet screenwriters Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni Soviet theatre directors ... [...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] |
Mosfilm Films
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 Ostern, Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production ''Dersu Uzala (1975 film), Dersu Uzala'' () and the epic ''War and Peace (film series), 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 Mosfilmovskay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films About Dogs
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Fantasy Drama Films
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Russian Fantasy Drama Films
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1980s Fantasy Drama Films
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All-Union Film Festival
The All-Union Film Festival (russian: Всесоюзный кинофестиваль; tr.:''Vsesoyuznyy kinofestival'', also known as ВКФ; ''VKF'') was one of the most important film festivals of the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1958 and held regularly from 1964-1988. It was held annually from 1972 onwards, and bi-annually before that (before 1964, there were festivals in the years 1958, 1959 and 1960). Its time and location were determined by Goskino and the Union of Soviet Composers. There were four categories among which prizes were handed out: *Fiction films *Documentaries, scientific-popular films, and film-journals *Fiction films for children and youth (from 1977) *Animated films (from 1977) Locations # 1964, Leningrad # 1966, Kiev # 1968, Leningrad # 1970, Minsk # 1972, Tbilisi # 1973, Alma-Ata # 1974, Baku # 1975, Kishinev # 1976, Frunze # 1977, Riga # 1978, Yerevan # 1979, Ashgabad # 1980, Dushanbe # 1981, Vilnius # 1982, Tallinn Tallinn () is the most popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Solovey
Elena Solovey (born 24 February 1947) is a Soviet-Russian film actress. She has appeared in more than 60 films since 1966. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress in the film '' Faktas'' at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Drama from Ancient Life'' (Драма из старинной жизни, 1971) as Lyuba * ''A Slave of Love'' (Раба любви, 1975) as Olga Voznesenskaya * '' An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano'' (Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино, 1977) as Sophia Yegorovna * '' A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov'' (Несколько дней из жизни И. И. Обломова, 1980) as Olga * ''The Suicide Club, or the Adventures of a Titled Person'' (Клуб самоубийц, или Приключения титулованной особы, 1981) as Lady Wendeler * ''Could One Imagine?'' (Вам и не снилось…, 1981) as Tatyana Koltsova * '' Faktas' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Yasulovich
Igor Nikolayevich Yasulovich (russian: Игорь Николаевич Ясулович; born 24 September 1941) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, film director and pedagogue. Biography Yasulovich was born in the village of Reinsfeld (now Zalesye) in Koshkinsky District of Kuybyshev Oblast. In 1962 he graduated from the cast, and then, in 1974, Directing Department Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. From 1962 he became an actor of experimental theater-studio pantomime, in 1964-1994 — Theatre studio of film actor, 1994 — Moscow Youth Theater. He has played over 170 roles in cinema, his debut appearance being in ''En Route'' (1961), albeit uncredited. Honours and awards * Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988) * State Prize of the Russian Federation (2000) * People's Artist of Russia (2001) * Order of Honour (2013) Filmography Actor * ''En Route'' (В пути, 1961) as student-fellow traveler with baguettes (uncredited) *'' Adventures of Krosh'' (При ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Uralsky
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Sergey Shakurov
Sergey Kayumovich Shakurov (russian: Сергей Каюмович Шакуров, tt-Cyrl, Сергей Каюм улы Шәкүров, translit=Sergey Qayum ulı Şäkürov; born 1 January 1942) is a Soviet and Russian actor of theater. He has appeared in more than ninety films since 1967. Life and career Sergey Shakurov was born in Russian-Tatar family of Moscow. In 1964, after graduating from the school-studio, actor started working at the Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya, and a year later he was accepted into the troupe of the Central Academic Theatre of the Soviet Army. Out of the theater together with Leonid Kheyfetz in the Maly Theatre after the close of the play "Two Friends" by Vladimir Voinovich, but it was not adopted. Since 1971, Sergey Shakurov worked in the Stanislavsky Drama Theatre. Now the actor Moscow Youth Theatre. In the movie Sergey Shakurov made his debut in 1966, appearing soon in the lead role in the movie Manos Zacharias, "''I'm a Soldier Mom''". He playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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