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Oleg Efremov
Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov (russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Ефре́мов, 1 October 1927, Moscow, Soviet Union – 24 May 2000, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian actor and Moscow Art Theatre producer. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1976) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1987). In 1949, he graduated from Moscow Art Theatre School and became an actor and later a producer of the Central Children Theater, started teaching at School-Studio by himself. Oleg Yefremov debuted as a film actor in the melodrama '' The First Echelon'' in 1955. Since then he was regularly acting in films, and his every appearance on screen turned to be a real event for millions of spectators. Some of his most notable roles were in the films ''The Alive and the Dead'' (1964), melodrama ''Three Poplars in Plyushchikha'' (1967), ''Shine, Shine, My Star'' (1969), comedies ''Aybolit-66'' (1966), and '' Beware of the Car'' (1966). In 1956, having gathered around himself students and gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery ( rus, Новоде́вичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site. History The cemetery was designed by Ivan Mashkov and inaugurated in 1898. Its importance dates from the 1930s, when the necropolises of the medieval Muscovite monasteries ( Simonov, Danilov, Donskoy) were scheduled for demolition. Only the Donskoy survived the Joseph Stalin era relatively intact. The remains of many famous Russians buried in other abbeys, such as Nikolai Gogol and Sergey Aksakov, were disinterred and reburied at the Novodevichy. A 19th-century necropolis within the walls of the Novodevichy convent, which contained the graves of about 2000 Russian noblemen and university professors, also underwent reconstruction. The vast majority of graves were destroyed. It was at that time that the remains of Anton Chekho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aybolit-66
''Aybolit-66'' (russian: Айболит-66) is a 1966 Soviet family comedy film directed by Rolan Bykov. It is based on a story by Kornei Chukovsky. The film features Oleg Yefremov as the good ''Aibolit'' and Rolan Bykov as the evil ''Barmalei''. Plot In Africa, monkeys have become sick. The news was reported to Dr. Aybolit by Monkey Chi-Chi, but Barmalei with his gang are attempting to hamper their plan. At first they seize the doctor's ship on the sea and throw out Dr. Aybolit. At the end, the robbers by order of chief Barmalei collect all the local pirates on the river bank. In conclusion the good doctor manages to overpower Barmalei using drugs and cures the monkeys. Cast * Oleg Yefremov as Doctor Aybolit * Lidiya Knyazeva as Chi-Chi the Monkey * Yevgeni Vasilyev as Avva the Dog * Rolan Bykov as Barmalei / Author * Aleksei Smirnov as Jolly pirate * Frunzik Mkrtchyan as Sad pirate * Leonid Yengibarov as cheerful clown #1 * Konstantin Khudyakov as pirate * Igor Yasulovich as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Pokrovskaya
Alla Borisovna Pokrovskaya (russian: А́лла Бори́совна Покро́вская; 18 September 1937 – 25 June 2019) was a Soviet-Russian actress and educator. Life Pokrovskaya was born in Moscow her father was the opera director Boris Pokrovsky and her mother, was the director of the Central Children's Theatre. Her parents' did not encourage or rate her acting talents. She initially decided to be a teacher but then went into acting. She studied at the Moscow Art Theater School and in her spare time she volunteered as a stage hand for Oleg Efremov's theatre. Whilst there where she saw Igor Kvasha, Galina Volchek and Yevgeny Yevstigneyev perform at the Sovremennik Theatre. She graduated in 1959. Pokrovskaya was a professor at the Moscow Art Theatre School. She was married to actor Oleg Yefremov. Pokrovskaya was known for her roles in ''Take Aim'', ''Fox Hunting'' and ''July Rain'', One of her last films was ''Vysotsky. Thank You For Being Alive'' where she app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Theatre Workers Of The Russian Federation
The Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation or STD of RSFSR (russian: Союз театральных деятелей Российской Федерации (СТД РСФСР), links=no) is the principal actors and theatrical workers union of Russia founded in 1887. It was previously known as the Russian Theatrical Society. The Russian Theatrical Society had its own theatrical and opera ensembles, which toured the Soviet Union, and also the frontline during the Great Patriotic War. The VTO Soviet Opera Ensemble was founded by Ivan Kozlovsky Ivan Semyonovich Kozlovsky (russian: Ива́н Семё́нович Козло́вский, uk, Іван Семенович Козловський; also referred to as Kozlovskiy or Kozlovskij; 21 December 1993) was a Soviet lyric tenor and on ... in 1938.Михаил Михайлович Яковлев ''Гордость советской музыки: музыканты, Герои Социалистического ...'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatyana Lioznova
Tatyana Mikhailovna Lioznova (russian: link=no, Татьяна Михайловна Лиознова; 20 July 192429 September 2011) was a Soviet film director best known for her TV series ''Seventeen Moments of Spring'' (1973). Film career All of Lioznova's featuresfrom ''Three Poplars in Plyushcikha'' (1967), a cult film of the 1960s, to her last movie, '' Carnival'' (1981),are distinguished by open narratives, psychologically penetrating close-ups, and poignant musical scores. The subtle and touching drama ''Three Poplars at Plyuschikha Street'' (1967) sprouted from Aleksandra Pakhmutova’s song “ Tenderness”. The starry duet of Tatiana Doronina and Oleg Yefremov is a masterpiece of acting. This story of a nearly sprung love of a taxi driver and a married peasant woman won the hearts of Russian viewers, just like '' Casablanca'' gained the love of Americans. Known as a tireless perfectionist, filming just half a dozen features, this didn't prevent her becoming People's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldar Ryazanov
Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (russian: Эльдар Александрович Рязанов; 18 November 1927 – 30 November 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pact countries. Biography Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was born in Samara. His father, Aleksandr Semyonovich Ryazanov, was a diplomat who worked in Tehran. His mother, Sofya Mikhailovna (née Shusterman), was of Jewish descent. In 1930, the family moved to Moscow, and soon his parents divorced. He was then raised by his mother and her new husband, Lev Mikhailovich Kopp. In 1937 his father was arrested by the Stalinist government and subsequently served 18 years in the correctional labour camps. Ryazanov began to create films in the early 1950s. In 1955, Ivan Pyryev, then a major force in the Soviet film industry, sugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Mitta
Alexander Naumovich Mitta (russian: Алекса́ндр Нау́мович Митта́; born 28 March 1933 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor. Mitta's birth name was Alexander Naumovich Rabinovich (russian: Рабино́вич). He studied engineering (graduated in 1955), then worked as a cartoonist in art and humour magazines. In 1960 Mitta graduated at the film directing faculty of the VGIK. Mitta's career as film director and screenwriter spans from the 1960s until the 2010s. Among the movies are ''Shine, Shine, My Star'' (1970) about actors trying to survive and work during the time of the Russian revolution or the high budget catastrophe movie ''Air Crew'' (1979). For his work Mitta obtained numerous awards in the Soviet Union and Russia. In 1980, Mitta was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. Mitta supported the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, even though he also noted that he didn't like tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Trauberg
Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg (russian: Леонид Захарович Трауберг, 17 January 1902 – 14 November 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941. Trauberg was Jewish, and was fiercely attacked by Soviet authorities during the so-called "anti-cosmopolitan" period following World War II. Biography Leonid Trauberg was born 17 January 1902 (there is conflicting information that he was born the previous year) in Odessa. His father, Zahar Davidovich Trauberg (1879, Odessa – 1932, Leningrad) was a publisher and a journalist, an employee of "Southern Review" and "New Gazette" newspaper (1918), later director of the printing house LUCS (Leningrad Union of Consumer Societies) in Leshtukov Lane, 13; mother, Emilia Solomonovna Weiland (1881, Bessarabia Orhei – 1934, Leningrad), was a homemaker. With the move to Petrograd, the family settled in the house number 7, Apt. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Kalatozov
Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov ( ka, მიხეილ კალატოზიშვილი, russian: Михаил Константинович Калатозов; 28 December 1903 – 26 March 1973), born Mikheil Kalatozishvili, was a Soviet film director of Georgians, Georgian origin who contributed to both Cinema of Georgia, Georgian and Cinema of Russia, Russian cinema. He is most well known for his films ''The Cranes Are Flying'' and I Am Cuba, ''I Am Cuba''. In 1969, he was named a People's Artist of the USSR. His film ''The Cranes Are Flying'' won the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arbat Street
Arbat Street (Russian ), mainly referred to in English as the Arbat, is a pedestrian street about one kilometer long in the historical centre of Moscow, Russia. The Arbat has existed since at least the 15th century, which makes it one of the oldest surviving streets of the Russian capital. It forms the heart of the Arbat District of Moscow. Originally the street formed part of an important trade-route and was home to many craftsmen. In the 18th century, the Russian nobility came to regard the Arbat as the most prestigious living area in Moscow. Almost completely destroyed by the great fire of 1812 associated with Napoleon's occupation of Moscow, the street required rebuilding. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it became known as a place where petty nobility, artists, and academics lived. In the Soviet period, it housed many high-ranking government officials. , the street and its surroundings are undergoing gentrification, and it is considered a desirable place to live. Bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
