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Little Vera
''Little Vera'' (russian: links=no, italics=yes, Маленькая Вера, Malenkaya Vera), produced by Gorky Film Studio and released in 1988, is a film by Russian film director Vasili Pichul. The title in Russian is ambiguous and can also mean "Little Faith," symbolizing the characters' lack of hope (or a glimmer thereof).Horton, Andrew and Brashinsky, Michael, ''The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition'' (pp. 111-113). Princeton University Press, 1992 The film was the leader in ticket sales in the Soviet Union in 1988 with 54.9 million viewers, and was the most successful Soviet film in the US since 1980's ''Moscow Does not Believe in Tears''. Part of its popularity was due to being one of the first Soviet movies with explicit sexual scene. The film's main character and namesake is a teenage girl, who just having finished school feels trapped in her provincial town. With its pessimistic and cynical view of Soviet society, the film was typical of its time (' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasili Pichul
Vasili Vladimirovich Pichul (russian: Васи́лий Влади́мирович Пи́чул; 15 June 1961 – 26 July 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, best known for his film ''Little Vera'' (Маленькая Вера, "Malenkaya Vera" in Russian), released in 1988. His film ''How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. He died of lung cancer. Selected filmography * ''Little Vera'' (1988) * ''How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea ''How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea'' (russian: В городе Сочи тёмные ночи, V gorode Sochi tyomnye nochi, lit. In the city of Sochi, the nights are dark) is a 1989 Soviet comedy film directed by Vasili Pichul. It was ...'' (1989) References External links * 1961 births 2015 deaths Soviet film directors Russian film directors Academicians of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences "Nika" {{Russia-fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Sokolov
Andrey Alekseevich Sokolov (russian: link=no, Андре́й Алексе́евич Соколо́в; born August 13, 1962, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actor, film and theater director, TV presenter, producer, public figure. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2005). Selected filmography * 1987 — She with a Broom, He in a Black Hat as Alexey Orlov, young doctor * 1988 — Little Vera as Sergei Sokolov * 1989 — How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea as Borya * 1990 — The Executioner as Andrey Arsentyev * 1991 — Tsar Ivan the Terrible as Vyazemsky * 1993 — Prediction as Oleg Goryunov in his youth * 1993 — The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After ''The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After'' (russian: Тайна королевы Анны, или Мушкетёры тридцать лет спустя; translit. ''Taina korolevi Anni, or Mushketeri tritsat' let spustya' ... as Raul, Viconte de Bragelonne, son of Athos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Vasili Pichul
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 sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1988 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents *General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev *Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet – Andrei Gromyko (until 1 October, then Mikhail Gorbachev) *Premier of the Soviet Union – Nikolai Ryzhkov *Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union – Vladimir Terebilov Events January *7 January – The decision by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union to rename the city of Brezhnev to Naberezhnye Chelny is published. This was followed by the decision to remove the names of Leonid Brezhnev and Konstantin Chernenko from the names of all Soviet institutions, streets and inhabited places later that year. *16 January – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet adopts a Decree on the Establishment of the State Committee for Natu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorky Film Studio Films
Gorky may refer to: ;People *Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), Russian author and political activist, founder of socialist realism *Arshile Gorky (1904–1948), Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter ;Inhabited localities *Gorky, name of Nizhny Novgorod, Soviet Union from 1932 to 1990 ;Other uses *Gorky Reservoir, on the Volga in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia * 2768 Gorky, asteroid *Gorky, original band of Luc De Vos and predecessor of his subsequent band Gorki **'' Gorky'', their first album See also *Gorki (other) *Górki (other), various locations in Poland *Gorky Park (other) *Gorky Film Studio, Moscow *Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Welsh indie band, 1991–2006 **''Gorky 5'', their fifth album *Gorky 17 ''Gorky 17'' (released as ''Odium'' in North America) is a turn-based tactics tactical role-playing video game developed by Polish studio Metropolis Software and published by Monolith Productions for Microsoft Windows in 1999. The game was lat ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Russian-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * May 25 – '' Rambo III'' was released as the most expensive film ever made with a production budget between $58 and $63 million. The film failed to match the box office earnings from '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (1985). * July 15 – ''Die Hard'' defies low commercial expectations to gross $141.5 million worldwide. Hailed as an influential landmark in the action film genre, it influenced a common formula for many '90s action films, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terrorist character who's usually holding hostages in an isolated setting. Such films and their sequels are often referred to as "''Die Hard'' on a _____": '' Under Siege'' (battleship), ''Cliffhanger'' (mountain), ''Speed'' (bus), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital media, digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (publisher), George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked List of newspapers by circulation, 18th in the world by circulation and List of newspapers in the United States, 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is Public company, publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasnost
''Glasnost'' (; russian: link=no, гласность, ) has several general and specific meanings – a policy of maximum openness in the activities of state institutions and freedom of information, the inadmissibility of hushing up problems, and so on. It has been used in Russian to mean "openness and transparency" since at least the end of the 18th century. In the Russian Empire of the late-19th century, the term was particularly associated with reforms of the judicial system. Among these were reforms permitting attendance of the press and the public at trials whose verdicts were now to be read aloud. Vladimir Lenin repeatedly emphasized the importance of glasnost as the most important feature of democracy. In the mid-1980s, it was popularised by Mikhail Gorbachev as a political slogan for increased government transparency (behavior), transparency in the Soviet Union. Historical usage Human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva argues that the word ''glasnost'' has been in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playboy
''Playboy'' is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. Known for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude models (Playmates), ''Playboy'' played an important role in the sexual revolution and remains one of the world's best-known brands, having grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (PEI), with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of ''Playboy'' are published worldwide, including those by licensees, such as Dirk Steenekamp's DHS Media Group. The magazine has a long history of publishing short stories by novelists such as Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, P. G. Wodehouse, Roald Dahl, Haruki Murakami, and Margaret Atwood. With a regular display of full-page c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Pichul
Vasili Vladimirovich Pichul (russian: Васи́лий Влади́мирович Пи́чул; 15 June 1961 – 26 July 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, best known for his film '' Little Vera'' (Маленькая Вера, "Malenkaya Vera" in Russian), released in 1988. His film ''How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. He died of lung cancer. Selected filmography * '' Little Vera'' (1988) * ''How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea ''How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea'' (russian: В городе Сочи тёмные ночи, V gorode Sochi tyomnye nochi, lit. In the city of Sochi, the nights are dark) is a 1989 Soviet comedy film directed by Vasili Pichul. It was ...'' (1989) References External links * 1961 births 2015 deaths Soviet film directors Russian film directors Academicians of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences "Nika" {{Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rimgaila Salys
Rimgaila "Rima" Salys is Professor Emerita of Russian Program at the University of Colorado Boulder and an expert in 20th century Russian literature, film, and culture. Her research interests include Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, 20th century Russian art and culture, theory and praxis of literary modernism, and Soviet cinematic musical. Of note is her research in the history of the Patterson family of black expatriates in the Soviet Union, which included James Patterson, who played the black baby boy in the famous soviet musical ''Circus''. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University in Slavic Languages and Literatures. From 1994 to 2014 she taught at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she served as Associate Chair for Russian and Interim Chair for Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. Books *1999: ''Leonid Pasternak: The Russian Years (1875–1921)'', 2 vols, Oxford University Press *2009: ''The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Alek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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