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Moonzund
''Moonzund'' (russian: Моонзунд) is a 1988 Soviet war film based on Valentin Pikul's 1970 novel of the same name. "Moonzund" refers to the West Estonian archipelago, where the Battle of Moon Sound took place during World War I. Plot Epic film set during the First World War brightly illustrates the struggles of Russian Empire in the years 1915–1917. The hardships of war cause major social and political unrest in the Tsarist Russia. Communist propaganda provokes conflicts between classes causing clashes and un-subordination aboard battleships of Russian Imperial Navy and on locations in Tallinn, Kronstadt and Saint Petersburg. Torn by internal class struggle, Russian Navy is weakened and loses major battles in the Baltic theater of war. Against this background, the commanding admirals of the Russian Navy are powerless witnesses of the tragic collapse of the fleet in terms of nascent revolutionary events of 1917. Most film characters are officers and sailors of the Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentin Pikul
Valentin Savvich Pikul (russian: Валенти́н Са́ввич Пи́куль) (July 13, 1928 – July 16, 1990) was a popular and prolific Soviet historical novelist of Ukrainian-Russian heritage. He lived and worked in Riga. Pikul's novels were grounded in extensive research, blending historical and fictional characters and often focusing on Russian nationalistic themes. Pikul's best-selling 1978 novel ''At the Last Frontier'' was a dramatized telling of Rasputin's influence over the Russian imperial court. Richard Stites says he was "a name hardly known to literary scholars but the most widely read author in the Soviet Union from the seventies to today .e., 1991..Richard Stites, ''Russian Popular Culture'' (Cambridge UP, 1992, repr. 1995), p. 151. Pikul's works were wildly popular: more than 20 million copies were sold in his lifetim Little of Pikul's work has been translated into English. In May 2001 a seagoing minesweeper of the Black Sea Fleet was named in his honor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Menshikov
Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, PAR (russian: Оле́г Евге́ньевич Ме́ньшиков, link=no; born 8 November 1960) is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer. He is the current artistic director of the Yermolova Theatre in Moscow. Internationally, Menshikov is the best known for his roles in the films by Nikita Mikhalkov ''Burnt by the Sun'' (1994), ''The Barber of Siberia'' (1998), '' Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus'' (2010) and '' Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel'' (2011), as well as for his performance in Régis Wargnier's ''East/West'' (1999). Menshikov is the winner of a Laurence Olivier Award, a Nika Award and three State Prizes of the Russian Federation, and the recipient of the Order of Honour of the Russian Federation. Early life Menshikov was born in Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast, to father Evgeny (born 1934), a military engineer, and mother Yelena (born 1933), a doctor. In addition to regular school, Menshikov also attended music school, where he p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vija Artmane
Vija Artmane (born Alīda Artmane; 21 August 1929 in Kaive, Sēme Parish – 11 October 2008 in Strenči) was a Latvian theatre and cinema actress. Life and career Childhood Vija Artmane was born Alīda Artmane at the time when Latvia was a sovereign nation. Her father, Fricis Arnolds Artmanis, of partial Baltic German ancestry, died in an accident aged 19, just four months before she was born. Her mother Anna Regīna Zaborska, of Polish heritage, survived as a single mother by doing seasonal agricultural jobs. As a young girl, Artmane grew up playing in the fields; she was fond of wildflowers and learned to make flower arrangements and dolls in the Latvian traditional style. While her mother worked for a landlord, her master sent young Artmane to study music and dance at a ballet class for a couple of years. However, at the age of 10, young Artmane became a shepherd girl. She worked with a herd of cows for over five years and survived until the end of the Second World War. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Garmash
Sergei Leonidovich Garmash (russian: Серге́й Леони́дович Гарма́ш; born 1 September 1958) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He is a People's Artist of Russia. In 2013 he was a member of the jury at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival. Biography Early life and education Sergei Garmash was born on September 1, 1958 in the city of Kherson of the Ukrainian SSR, in a family of workers. His mother, Lyudmila Ippolitovna was from a small village in Western Ukraine, she graduated after seven classes and spent her whole life working as a dispatcher at a bus station. Sergei's father, Leonid Trofimovich Garmash was a driver at first, then graduated from the institute and began to work in leadership positions. Garmash was a difficult child, he was expelled from school several times. After school, he wished to enter the nautical institute, but ended up filing documents for the Dnepropetrovsk theatrical school. He graduated from the school with a degre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksei Buldakov
Aleksey Ivanovich Buldakov PAR (russian: Алексе́й Ива́нович Булдако́в) (26 March 1951 – 3 April 2019) was a Soviet and Russian movie actor.Kino-teatr.netBiography of Aleksey Buldakov Selected filmography * '' Through the Fire'' (1982) as Savely *''Confrontation'' (1985) as director of taxi company * ''Moonzund'' (1987) as Portnyagin * '' All Costs Paid'' (1988) as Khramov * ''The Guard'' (1990) as Paromov * ''Mother'' (1990) as Stepan Somov * ''Shirli-Myrli'' (1995) as commander of the An-124 crew * '' Za co?'' (1995) as captain * ''I, a Russian soldier'' (1995) as sergeant * ''Peculiarities of the National Hunt'' (1995) as General Ivolgin * ''Hello, Fools!'' (1996) as foreman from Ukraine * ''Operation Happy New Year'' (1996) as General Ivolgin * ''Peculiarities of the National Fishing'' (1998) as General Ivolgin * ''Peculiarities of the National Hunt in Winter Season'' (2000) as General Ivolgin * ''Peculiarities of National Politics'' (2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya
Yevgenia Vladimirovna Dobrovolskaya (russian: Евге́ния Влади́мировна Доброво́льская; born 26 December 1964) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2005). Laureate of the Nika Award (2001) and Golden Eagle Award (Russia), Golden Eagle Award (2007). Biography Dobrovolskaya was born on 26 December 1964 in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. In 1987 she graduated from GITIS (course of Lyudmila Kasatkina and Sergey Kolosov), and was admitted to the Maxim Gorky Moscow Art Theater. She made her debut in the movie in 1983 in the Pavel Chukhrai film :ru:Клетка для канареек, Cage for Canaries. In 2014, she took part in an advertising campaign absorbing underwear Depend. Personal life * First husband — :ru:Баранов, Вячеслав Васильевич, Vyacheslav Baranov (1958-2012), actor. **Son Stepan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev (russian: Евгений Александрович Евстигнеев; 9 October 1926 — 4 March 1992) was a prominent Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre pedagogue, one of the founders of the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1983 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1974. Early years Yevgeny Yevstigneyev was born on 9 October 1926 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR (modern day Nizhny Novgorod Oblast of Russia) into a poor working-class family and spent his childhood at the outskirts in the Volodarsky village.''Yevgeny Yevstigneyev and a collective of authors (2017)''I'm Alive...— Moscow: AST, 288 pages He was a late child of Maria Ivanovna Yevstigneyeva (née Chernishova), a milling machine operator, and a metallurgist Aleksandr Mikhailovich Yevstigneyev who was twenty years older than her and who died when Yevgeny was six years old. Maria Ivanovna married another man who died when Yevgen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Yeryomin (actor)
Vladimir Arkadievich Yeryomin (russian: Владимир Аркадьевич Ерёмин; born September 6, 1950) is a Soviet and Russian actor, screenwriter and producer. Member of the Cinematographers' Union and the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation. Biography Yeryomin was born on September 6, 1950 in the village of Muromtsevo, Omsk Oblast. In 1957-1967 he studied at the school in Pavlodar (Kazakhstan). Parents of the future actor had no relationship to the theater and cinema, but as a child, Vladimir became interested in circus and theater. In 1968-1972, Vladimir Yeryomin studied at the Nemirovich-Danchenko School-Studio (Moscow Art Theater). In 1973-1979 - he played in the company of the Lermontov State Academic Russian Drama Theatre in Almaty. Since 1982 - Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater. From 1995 to 1997 - an actor of the Moscow theater Satyricon, participates in the entreprise performances. Since 2014 - Artist of the Russian Army Theatre. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Klyuyev
Boris Vladimirovich Klyuyev (russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Клю́ев; 13 July 1944 — 1 September 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor and theatre teacher. He served as one of the lead actors of the Maly Theatre from 1969 to 2020 and taught acting technique in Shchepkin Higher Theatre School. He was named a People's Artist of Russia in 2002. He died on 1 September 2020 at the age of 76 from lung cancer. Biography Boris Klyuyev was born in Moscow. He spent his childhood in the area of the Patriarch Ponds. When Boris was four years old, his father Vladimir Klyuyev died from a heart attack at the age of 36. Due to the difficult financial situation in the family, Boris had to unload wagons since he was 13. He started working at a construction site at the age of 16. After graduating from school Klyuyev entered Shchepkin Higher Theatre School. In a year he joined the Soviet Army and served for three years. During his army service, he took part in the extras o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yury Belyayev
Yury Viktorovich Belyayev (russian: Юрий Викторович Беляев; born 28 August 1947) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor. He has received the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1995) and the USSR State Prize (1991). Biography In Belyayev began studying at drama school Stupinskaya Studio (Theatre Youth) under the direction of O. Livanova. After leaving school he worked in a factory, he served in the Soviet Army, worked as an instructor DOSAAF, a janitor. In 1975, Belyayev graduated from the Shchukin Theatre School (course of Lyudmila Stavskaya). In the same year he became an actor of the Moscow Taganka Theater. Personal life In May 2014 he married the actress Tatiana Abramova. From his first marriage he had two children, a daughter Olga and son Alexey. Selected filmography * 1979 — ''On the Trail of the Ruler'' as Belov * 1983 — ''The Mystery of Blackbirds'' as Percival Fortescue * 1985 — ''Gunpowder'' as Nikonov * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Karachentsov
Nikolai Petrovich Karachentsov (russian: Николай Петрович Караченцов, 27 October 1944 – 26 October 2018) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor of Lenkom Theatre. Karachentsov's popularity peaked in the late 1970s and early 1980s among the Soviet youth after he had starred in rock operas. In 1989 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR. In 2003 he received the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He was also awarded the Order of Honour and Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class. Biography Early life Nikolai Karachentsov was born in Moscow on 27 October 1944. His father, Pyotr Yakovlevich Karachentsov (1907–1998), worked for many years in the magazine ''Ogoniok'' as a graphic artist, he received the title of Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR in 1967. Nikolai's mother, Yanina Brunak (1913–1992), was a choreographer. She directed plays in major musical theaters, took part in staging performances at the Bolshoi Theatre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Vladimir Vasilyevich Gostyukhin (russian: Владимир Васильевич Гостюхин, be, Уладзі́мір Васі́льевіч Гасцю́хін, born 10 March 1946) is a Soviet and Russian, Belarusian film and stage actor. Selected filmography Actor * 1977: ''The Ascent'' as Rybak * 1980: '' The White Crow'' * 1980: ''Fox Hunting'' as Belov * 1983: '' Moon Rainbow'' as David Norton * 1986: '' Zina-Zinulya'' as Viktor Nikolaevich * 1986: '' In Search for Captain Grant'' as Major McNabbs * 1987: ''Moonzund'' as Semenchuk * 1989: ''Abduction of the Wizard'' as Akiplesha * 1991: '' Close to Eden'' as Sergey * 1992: '' The General'' as Alexander Gorbatov * 2002: '' War'' as Ivan's father * 2013: ''Ottepel ''The Thaw'' (russian: Оттепель, Ottepel) is a Russian television series which debuted in 2013. Valery Todorovsky debuted as a TV director with it. The series is a melodrama about life in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev Thaw, spec ...' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
