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Planet Parade
''Planet Parade'' (russian: Парад планет, Parad planet) is a 1984 drama film directed by Vadim Abdrashitov. The film's script was written by Aleksandr Mindadze and was based on the final part of the trilogy by Ukrainian writer Yevgeny Gutsalo, novel ''Planet Parade''. Party primary contest 42nd Venice International Film Festival. Plot The film takes place in the USSR in 1984. Six forty-year-old men are cut off from ordinary life by draft for military reservists, the last one at their age. They represent a cross-section of the Soviet society of that time: an astronomer, a butcher from a shop, a factory worker, a loader, an architect, and a trolleybus driver (elected as people's deputy). Some of them know each other due to previous guerrilla assemblies and are friendly with each other, but by their own admission rarely spend time together — the reasons include work, mundane everyday life which leaves little time for leisure and, in general, differing interests and values ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadim Abdrashitov
Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (russian: Вадим Юсупович Абдрашитов, tt-Cyrl, Вадим Йосыф улы Габдерәшитов) is one of Russian cinema's most notable independent directors. He is internationally renowned, with awards from the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals, and is a People's Artist of Russia. Early life and education Abdrashitov was born in Ukraine to Tatar father and Russian mother. He moved all over the Soviet Union with his father's military assignments. He was so impressed with the space flight of the first Russian cosmonaut that he left his parents and moved to Moscow to study nuclear physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Around that time, he developed an interest in amateur filmmaking, and he transferred to the D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology because it was equipped with a film studio for students. His cultural and artistic interests developed during the "Thaw". After graduation as an eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Leonidovich Romanov
Boris Leonidovich Romanov (russian: Борис Леонидович Романов; born March 29, 1942, Lyubim, Yaroslavl Oblast) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, People's Artist of Russia (2005). Biography Boris Romanov born March 29, 1942 in Lyubim (Yaroslavl Oblast). In 1959-1961 he studied at drama school at Saratov Drama Theater, there at the age of 17, he went to the professional scene. Then he entered the studio Moscow Art Theatre (Sofya Pilyavskaya and Alexander Karev course) and he graduated in 1966. In 1966–1982 years - an actor the Moscow Stanislavsky Drama Theater, in 1982–1985 years - in Taganka Theatre. Since 1990 - Hermitage Moscow theater. Selected filmography * 1964 – ''I, Beryoza'' as a German officer * 1969 – '' Bonivur's Heart'' as episode * 1970 – ''Sport, Sport, Sport'' as merchant Kalashnikov * 1973 – '' The Silence of Dr. Evans'' as Buami * 1974 – ''Agony'' as Balashov * 1979 – ''The Wild Hunt King Stach'' as coro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Speculative Fiction Films
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
