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Kira Kreylis-Petrova
Kira Alexandrovna Kreylis-Petrova (russian: Кира Александровна Крейлис-Петрова; 1 July 1931 – 12 May 2021) was a Soviet and Russian stage, television, and film actress. She was an Honored Artist of Russia (1993). Biography Kira Petrova was born in Leningrad, and as a child survived the Siege of Leningrad. From an early age she engaged in playing the violin, always loved to make people laugh all around. After school, she decided to become an actress. On the first attempt, she entered the Moscow Art Theatre School. In Moscow, which came to the commission of the Art Theatre, flew a telegram: ''We carry a pearl of laughter''. The course, where she studied, Kira Petrova proved stellar: Galina Volchek, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Igor Kvasha, Leonid Bronevoy, Irina Skobtseva, Pyotr Fomenko, Lyudmila Ivanova and others. Kira married the Institute's future director Yacov Kreylis and took the surname Kreylis-Petrova. Careers In 1955, Kira Kreylis-Petrova grad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leningrad
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), is the second-largest city in Russia. It is situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, with a population of roughly 5.4 million residents. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe after Istanbul, Moscow and London, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, and was named after apostle Saint Peter. In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrinsky Theatre
The Alexandrinsky Theatre (russian: Александринский театр) or National Drama Theatre of Russia is a theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Alexandrinsky Theatre was built for the Imperial troupe of Petersburg (Imperial troupe was founded in 1756). Since 1832, the theatre has occupied an Empire-style building that Carlo Rossi designed. It was built in 1828–1832 on Alexandrinsky Square (now Ostrovsky Square), which is situated on Nevsky Prospekt between the National Library of Russia and Anichkov Palace. The theatre was opened on 31 August (12 September) 1832. The theatre and the square were named after Empress consort Alexandra Feodorovna. The building is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. It was one of the many theatres of the Imperial troupe. Dramas, operas and ballets were on the stage. Only in the 1880s, the theatre has become dramatic and tragedy filled. The premières of n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Symphony
''Russian Symphony'' ( ''Russkaya simfoniya'') is a 1994 Russian psychological drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky and starring Viktor Mikhaylov. The narrative is set in a dark version of contemporary Russia where the world seems to be coming to an end through a flood. A man is desperate to do something good with his life before it ends, but is mostly met with suspicion. The film ties in thematically with Lopushansky's other apocalyptic films, ''Dead Man's Letters'' (1986), ''A Visitor to a Museum'' (1989) and ''The Ugly Swans'' (2006), and is the most overtly religious of them. It played in the Forum section of the 45th Berlin International Film Festival and received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. Cast * Viktor Mikhaylov as Ivan Sergeyevich Mazayev * Aleksandr Ilyin as Sanya * Kira Kreylis-Petrova as Valentina Ivanovna Mazdukhina * Valentina Kovel as Semyonovna * Mikhail Khrabrov as General *Valentin Golubenko as Giliuli * Natalya Akimova as Teacher * Nora Gryakalov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Window To Paris
''Window to Paris'' (russian: Окно в Париж) is a 1993 Russian comedic drama film directed by Yuri Mamin. Plot In the film, which is set in the 1990s, a magical portal connecting Saint Petersburg with Paris is discovered. The main character, Nikolai Chizhov, is a school music teacher and a member of the Russian intelligentsia. Reception Mamin considered it unfair that the film was not chosen as the official Russian submission for the 1994 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, asserting that this was due to the personal and political influence of Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков; born 21 October 1945) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union. Mikhalkov is a three-time laureate of the .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drumroll (film)
''Drumroll'' (russian: Барабаниада) is a 1993 Russian comedy film directed by Sergei Ovcharov. It was entered into the 18th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver St. George and the Prix of Ecumenical Jury. The picture also won the Special Jury Prize at Kinotavr. Plot One winter, at a funeral the specter of one of the deceased presents a large drum of Stradivarius as a gift to a drummer playing in the ensemble. Over time the drum begins to behave as an independent creature, and the drummer can no longer part with it. Because of the nightly playing on the drum he is forced to leave the hostel where he lived and go on a journey. Having crossed several borders of newly formed post-Soviet states, the drummer after contact with customs officers is left without property, with the exception of the drum. Noticing that at the subway many people give money to beggars he also starts to stand there with the drum, but all the money he earned is taken aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devil, I'm Bored
, image =Devil, I'm Bored.jpg , caption = , director = Yury Borisov , producer = Alexey Shekhtman , writer = , screenplay = , story = , based_on = , starring = , narrator = , music = Yury Krasavin , cinematography = Vladimir Shevtsik , editing = Tatyana Shapiro , distributor = , released = , studio = Lenfilm , runtime = 97 min. , country = Russia , language = Russian , budget = , gross = ''Devil, I'm Bored'' (russian: Мне скучно, бес, Mne skuchno, bes) is a 1993 Russian fantasy drama film directed by Yury Borisov, based on the writings of Thomas Mann, Aleksandr Pushkin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Plot The film tells about a homeless man who is very bored of living. In a market where there is everything, he finds the soul of a ballet dancer. Cast * Oleg Borisov as Mephistopheles / God (last role) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love By Request
''Love by Request'' (russian: Влюблён по собственному желанию, Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu, en, Enamored by own Accord) is a 1983 Soviet comedy film directed by Sergey Mikaelyan. It was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival, where Yevgeniya Glushenko won the Silver Bear for Best Actress. Plot A handsome but poor former sportsman Igor Bragin and a plain but brainy librarian Vera Silkova make an unusual agreement: to fall in love with each other through will alone. In the background is late Soviet reality with a few of its unattractive features – ambition ridden careerists, black market, drunkenness, growing skepticism and disillusionment with ideals. Cast * Oleg Yankovskiy as Igor * Yevgeniya Glushenko as Vera * Vsevolod Shilovsky as Nikolai * Irina Reznikova as Natasha * Yuriy Dubrovin as Petrushin * Vladimir Belousov as Gena * Yuri Kopych as Mikhail Petrovich * Kira Kreylis-Petrova as Vera's mother * Ivan Ufimtsev as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest (1980 Film)
''Forest'' (russian: Лес) is a 1980 Soviet comedy film based on Alexander Ostrovsky"s comedy directed by Vladimir Motyl. Plot The film tells about the elderly lady Gurmyzhskaya, who lives in the province. Suddenly, a nephew comes to her and Gurmyzhskaya begins to flirt with him. Cast * Lyudmila Tselikovskaya as Gurmyzhskaya * Boris Plotnikov as Gennadiy Neschastlivtzev * Vyacheslav Kirilichev * Stanislav Sadalskiy * Elena Borzova * Aleksandr Solovyov * Mikhail Pugovkin Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin (russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Пу́говкин; July 13, 1923, Rameshki, Chukhlomsky District of Kostroma Oblast — July 25, 2008, Moscow) (aged 85) was a Soviet and Russian comic actor named a Peopl ... * Kira Kreylis-Petrova * Viktor Tsepaev * Yuriy Chernitsky References External links * {{IMDb title, id=0172718 1980 films 1980s Russian-language films Soviet comedy films 1980 comedy films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Men In A Boat (1979 Film)
''Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)'' (russian: Трое в лодке, не считая собаки, Troe v lodke, ne schitaya sobaki) is a 1979 Soviet two-part musical-comedy miniseries directed by Naum Birman and based on the eponymous 1889 novel by Jerome K. Jerome. Plot Three friends: J, Harris and George, tired of idleness and wanting to correct their ill health, decide to go on a boat trip along the Thames. Together they take the fox terrier Montmorency. Before their journey, they agree to travel without females. But almost immediately on the road they meet three women going the same way as themselves: Anne, Emily and Patricia. First, the heroes try to keep their agreement, but then fall in love with these women and the women fall in love back with them. In the finale they are already three couples in love. In the final episode of the film it is understood that Jerome K. Jerome invented his friends and the whole story from loneliness. Cast * Andrei Mironov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ksenia, Fedor's Beloved Wife
''Ksenia, Fedor's Beloved Wife'' (russian: Ксения, любимая жена Фёдора) is a 1974 Soviet drama film directed by Vitaliy Melnikov. Plot The film tells about the love, complex relationships and human generosity that everyone needs. Cast * Alla Meshcheryakova as Kseniya Ivanova * Stanislav Lyubshin as Fyodor Petrov * Lev Durov as Sidorov * Lyudmila Zaytseva as Valentina * Vasiliy Merkurev as Personnel Director * Azat Sherents * Vladimir Tatosov Vladimir Mikhailovich Tatosov (russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Тато́сов; 10 May 1926 – 24 December 2021) was a Russian stage, television, voice and film actor. He had an honorary title People's Artist of the RSFSR (1 ... as Kondratyev * Lorents Arushanyan as Reporter * Armen Khostikyan * Oleg Belov as Worker in a Canteen References External links * {{Vitaly Melnikov 1974 films 1970s Russian-language films Soviet drama films 1974 drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Chains
''Green Chains'' (russian: Зелёные цепочки) is a 1970 Soviet adventure film directed by Grigori Aronov. Plot The film takes place in the summer of 1941. Styopa and Misha return to their native Leningrad from a pioneer camp and meet a one-armed man on the way, whom they decide to help. Suddenly, a bombardment begins, which tears them apart, and the luggage of the man remains with the guys. Returning to Leningrad, they open their suitcase and find fascist missiles there, as a result of which they go in search of a one-armed man. Cast * Aleksandr Grigoryev as Mishka Alakseyev * Igor Urumbekov as Vaska Kozhukh * Vladimir Leletko as Styopka Panfilov * Pavel Luspekayev as Ivan Vasilyevich * Oleg Belov as Alesey Burakov * Aleksey Mikhaylov * Fyodor Odinokov as Semyon Semyonov (as F. Odinokov) * Andrey Krupenin as Shurka * Aristarkh Livanov Aristarkh Yevgenyevich Livanov (russian: Ариста́рх Евге́ньевич Лива́нов; born 1947) is a Soviet and R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mama Married
, image =Mama Married.jpg , caption = , director = Vitaly Melnikov , producer = , writer = Yuri Klepikov , starring = , music = Oleg Karavaychuk , cinematography = Dmitriy Dolinin , editing = Zinaida Sheineman , released = 1969 , studio= Lenfilm , runtime = , country = Soviet Union , language = Russian , budget = ''Mama Married'' (russian: Мама вышла замуж, Mama vyshla zamuzh) is a 1969 Soviet drama film directed by Vitaly Melnikov. Plot In the life of Zinaida, who single-handedly raised her son, Viktor appeared. However, Boris is not able to immediately understand that his mother also needs personal happiness. Zinaida works at a construction site as a plasterer, she and her son live in a new house on the outskirts of the city, which is being built up with new residential buildings. Boris works as a scooter driver-forwarder, delivers pastries and cookery to shops. Mother and son are generally friendly, the son treats the mother with patronizing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
