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Kirill Lavrov
Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov (russian: link=no, Кирилл Юрьевич Лавров; 15 September 1925 – 27 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor and director. Biography Childhood Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov was born on 15 September 1925, in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). He was baptized by the Russian Orthodox Church of St. John the Divine in Lavrushinskoe Podvorie Monastery in Leningrad. Young Kirill Lavrov was brought up in Leningrad, in a family with deep roots in St. Petersburg society. He was fond of literature and theater from a young age, and was exposed to a highly stimulating intellectual environment in his family. He was also a good sportsman: he took gymnastics, fencing, and was a member of the youth football (soccer) team at "Spartak" sports club in Leningrad. War During World War II Kirill Lavrov was evacuated to Kirov, then to Novosibirsk in Siberia. There he worked as a metal worker at a military-industrial plant. In the beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel before resigning in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 to join the administration of president Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and secretary of the Security Council of Russia, before being appointed as prime minister in August 1999. After the resignation of Yeltsin, Putin became Acting President of Russia and, less than four months later, was elected outright to his first term as president. He was reelected in 2004. As he was constitutionall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuril Island
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (; rus, Кури́льские острова́, r=Kuril'skiye ostrova, p=kʊˈrʲilʲskʲɪjə ɐstrɐˈva; Japanese: or ) are a volcanic archipelago currently administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. It stretches approximately northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the north Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many minor rocks. The Kuril Islands consist of the Greater Kuril Chain and the Lesser Kuril Chain. They cover an area of around , with a population of roughly 20,000. The islands have been under Russian administration since their 1945 invasion as the Soviet Union towards the end of World War II. Japan claims the four southernmost islands, including two of the three largest (Iturup and Kunashir), as part of its territory, as well as Shikotan and the Habomai islets, which has led to the ongoing Kuril Islands dispute. The disputed islands are know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trust (1976 Film)
''Trust'' ( fi, Luottamus; russian: Доверие, Doverie) is a 1976 Finnish-Soviet historical drama film directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich. The film portrays the events leading up to the Finnish Declaration of Independence from Russia in 1917 and especially the role of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in them. The main roles are played by Kirill Lavrov as Lenin and Vilho Siivola as P. E. Svinhufvud. Edvin Laine received the state film artist award for the film, and Vilho Siivola received the Jussi Award for best actor. At the Riga Film Festival in 1977, the film was awarded a special jury prize for artistic merit in depicting the beginning stages of peaceful coexistence between two neighboring countries.Luottamus – Elonet.fi (in Finnish) After completion, the film was shown in schools as an |
Taming Of The Fire
''Taming of the fire'' (russian: Укрощение огня, Ukroshcheniye ognya) is a 1972 film, directed by Daniil Khrabrovitsky and starring Kirill Lavrov.Kirill Lavrov in the movie "Taming of the Fire" Kirill Lavrov in the movie "Taming of the Fir/ref> Awards and recognition The Vasilyev Brothers' State Prize of RSFSR was awarded to actor Lavrov for his performance in the leading role. The film also received several awards at various festivals in Europe and Soviet Union, including the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Crystal Globe Award (1972).Article about the film Taming of the fire (film poster and cast) Plot Epic film in two episodes, based on a true story of creation and development of Soviet space and missile industry. Due to secrecy d ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Pyryev
Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Пы́рьев; – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1946, 1946, 1948, 1951), served as Director of the Mosfilm studios (1954–57)Ирина Гращенкова''Пырьев Иван Александрович,'' Кинобраз. Accessed 18 July 2008. and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry. Life and career Pyryev was born in Kamen-na-Obi, in the Tomsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Altai Krai, Russia). His early career included acting on stage directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold in ''The Forest'' («Лес») and by Sergei Eisenstein in the Proletcult Theatre production ''The Mexican''. Pyryev also acted in Eisenstein's first short film '' Glumov's Diary.'' Pyryev's early career included production jobs behind the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov
Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov (russian: Михаил Александрович Ульянов; 20 November 1927 – 26 March 2007) was a Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognized persons of the post-World War II Soviet theatre and cinema. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1986 and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982. Biography Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov spent his childhood and youth in the town of Tara, Omsk Oblast. Although he had failed his exams in Schepkinskoe School and for the Moscow Art Theatre School, he moved to Omsk in 1944 to become an actor. After two years of studies in the studio at Omsk Drama he went to Moscow and entered the Schukin Theatre School in 1946. Ulyanov worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre from 1950 and directed it from 1987. He played a wide range of characters on stage, with Rogozhin in Dostoevsky’s ''Idiot'' being the most remarkable of them. In 1979 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brothers Karamazov (1969 Film)
''The Brothers Karamazov'' (russian: Братья Карамазовы, translit. ''Bratya Karamazovy'') is a 1969 Soviet film directed by Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov. It is based on the 1880 novel by the famous Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival, winning Pyryev a Special Prize. Plot summary Cast * Mikhail Ulyanov as Dmitri Karamazov * Lionella Pyryeva as Grushenka * Kirill Lavrov as Ivan Karamazov * Andrey Myagkov as Alyosha Karamazov * Mark Prudkin as Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov * Svetlana Korkoshko as Yekaterina Ivanovna * Valentin Nikulin as Pavel Smerdyakov * Pavel Pavlenko as elder Zosima * Andrei Abrikosov as Kuzma Kuzmich Samsonov * Gennadi Yukhtin as Father Paisi * Anatoly Adoskin as Examining magistrate * Rada Volshaninova as Gipsy * Tamara Nosova as Marya Kondratyevna * Nikita Podgorny as Mikhail Osipovic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Stolper
Aleksandr Borisovich Stolper (russian: Александр Борисович Столпер; 12 August 1907, in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils) – 12 January 1979, in Moscow) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 14 films between 1940 and 1977. Aleksandr Stolper was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1949 and 1951 and received the honorary title People's Artist of the USSR in 1977. Filmography *'' The Law of Life'' (1940) *''Lad from Our Town'' (1942) *'' Wait for Me'' (1943) *''Days and Nights'' (1945) *''Our Heart'' (1946) *''Tale of a True Man'' (1948) *''Far from Moscow'' (1950) *''The Road'' (1955) *'' A Unique Spring'' (1957) *'' Hard Happiness'' (1958) *''The Alive and the Dead ''The Alive and the Dead'' (russian: Живые и мёртвые, Zhivye i myortvye) is a 1964 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Stolper based on the eponymous 1959 novel ''The Living and the Dead'' by Konstantin Simonov. Plot The film tak ...'' (1964) *'' Retribution'' (1967) *'' The F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alive And The Dead
''The Alive and the Dead'' (russian: Живые и мёртвые, Zhivye i myortvye) is a 1964 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Stolper based on the eponymous 1959 novel ''The Living and the Dead'' by Konstantin Simonov. Plot The film takes place in a time warp from the first days of the Great Patriotic War and until the middle of the winter of 1941–1942, before the beginning of the Soviet counterattack near Moscow. Ivan Sintsov (Kirill Lavrov) is a correspondent with an army newspaper. The war starts while he is on vacation with his wife. He tries to return to his unit which is located in Western Belarus. However, it is impossible since the unit is overrun by the advancing Wehrmacht. Near the town of Borisov, he meets another officer also trying to reach his unit. They go on a road and try to get a car going in the direction they need. As the other officer stopped the car, a German air raid starts. The direct hit blows up the officer and the car he stops. Sintsov continues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Frez
Ilya Abramovich Frez (russian: Илья Абрамович Фрэз; 20 August 1909, Roslavl Roslavl (russian: Ро́славль, ) is a town and the administrative center of Roslavlsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia. It is a road and rail junction and a market town. Population: Climate Roslavl has a warm-summer humid continenta ... – 22 June 1994, Moscow), People's Artist of the USSR, PAU, was a Soviet film director primarily known for his films for younger viewers. Among his films was the internationally popular I Loved You (1967 film), ''I Loved You'' of 1967.Film Culture - Issues 63-69 - Page 147 Ilia Frez and Russian Children's Films, by Steven Selected filmography *''First-Year Student'' (1948) *''Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades'' (1955) *''Trubachyov's Detachment Is Fighting'' (1957) *''I Loved You (film), I Loved You'' (1967) *''Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase'' (1970) *''Crank from 5th B'' (1970) *''We Didn't Learn This'' (1975) *''Could One Imagine? (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasyok Trubachyov And His Comrades
, image = , caption = , director = Ilya Frez , producer = , writer = , starring = , music = Mikhail Ziv , cinematography = Militsa Bogatkova , editing = Bertha Pogrebinskaya , released = 1955 , runtime = 82 min , country = Soviet Union , language = Russian , budget = , studio= Gorky Film Studio ''Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades'' (russian: Васёк Трубачёв и его товарищи, Vasyok Trubachyov i yego tovarishchi) is a 1955 Soviet adventure film directed by Ilya Frez. Plot The film shows the life of schoolchildren from the USSR on the eve of the Great Patriotic War, the film tells how easily a friend can become an adversary. Cast * Oleg Vishnev as Vasyok Trubachyov * Aleksandr Chudakov as Kolya Odintsov * Vladimir Semenovich as Sasha Bulgakov * Vyacheslav Devkin as Mazin * Georgi Aleksandrov as Rusakov * Natalya Rychagova as Nyura Sinitsyna * Valeri Safarbekov as Malyutin * Yury Bashkirov as Medvedev * Yury Bogolyubov as teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
