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Rufina Nifontova
Rufina Dmitrievna Nifontova (russian: link=no, Руфина Дмитриевна Нифонтова; September 15, 1931 – November 27, 1994) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1978). Biography Rufina Nifontova was born in Moscow on September 15, 1931 in a family with Greek roots. The father – Dmitry Pitade (1891–1944), was an assistant to the chief of station Moscow-Sorting – attentive, gentle man. Mother – Darya Semyonovna (1895–1964), worked at a textile factory, was a shock worker-activist, had a martial character. Alexander's brother went missing in the early days of the Great Patriotic War. Brother Boris was also killed at the front. Brother Vyacheslav (1931–1975) – the twin Rufina. She studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (course of Bibikov-Pyzhova). In 1955 Rufina Nifontova graduated from VGIK and was admitted to the Theater-studio movie actor. Since 1957 Nifontova comes into the troupe of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million residents within the city limits, over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in the metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's largest cities; being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow grew to become a prosperous and powerful city that served as the capital of the Grand Duchy that bears its name. When the Grand Duchy of Moscow evolved into the Tsardom of Russia, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of the Tsardom's history. When th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sisters (1957 Film)
''The Sisters'' () is a 1957 Soviet epic film directed by Grigori Roshal. It based on ''Sisters'' (1918–1922), the first part of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's ''The Road to Calvary'' trilogy. Production ''The Sisters'' was filmed in St. Petersburg, including in the Summer Garden. Music was composed by Dmitry Kabalevsky. Plot The Russian Empire during the First World War; two sisters in Petrograd pursue romance in the runup to the Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad .... Release ''The Sisters'' was released in the Soviet Union on 24 September 1957, and in the West in 1959. It was the highest-grossing film in the Soviet Union for 1957, with 42.5 million tickets sold. References External links * * (in Russian, no subtitles) 1957 drama films So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerasimov Institute Of Cinematography Alumni
Gerasimov (russian: Герасимов) or Gerasimova (feminine; Герасимова) is a Russian surname, derived from the given name Gerasim. Notable people with the surname include: * Aleksei Gerasimov (other), multiple people *Aleksandr Gerasimov (painter) (1881–1963), Russian/Soviet painter * Aleksandr Gerasimov (footballer) (born 1969), former Russian professional football player * Anatoly Gerasimov (1945–2013), Russian/American musician *Dmitry Gerasimov (c.1465–after 1535), Russian translator, diplomat, and philologist *Egor Gerasimov (born 1992), Belarusian tennis player *Gennadi Gerasimov (1930–2010), Soviet diplomat * Innokentiy Gerasimov (scientist) (1905–1985), a Soviet geographer, geomorphologist, soil scientist, and academician * Innokenty Gerasimov (1918–1992), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union * Ivan Gerasimov (footballer) (born 1985), Russian footballer * Ivan Gerasimov (botanist) (1867–about 1920), Russian botanist * Ivan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of The Soviet Union Members
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange which allocates products to everyone in the society.: "One widespread distinction was that socialism socialised production only while communism socialised production and consumption." Communist society also involves the absence of private property, social classes, money, and the state. Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance, but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a more libertarian approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and a more vanguardist or communist party-driven approach through the development of a constitutional socialist s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Deaths
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa's first president, and which effectively brought Apartheid to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada, the United States, and Mexico; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened Channel tunnel; The 1994 FIFA World Cup is held in the United States; Skulls from the Rwandan genocide, in which over half a million Tutsi people were massacred by Hutus., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1994 Winter Olympics rect 200 0 400 200 Northridge earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Sinking of the MS Estonia rect 0 200 300 400 Rwandan genocide rect 300 200 600 400 Nelson Mandela rect 0 400 200 600 1994 FIFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time And The Conways (film)
Time and the Conways (russian: Время и семья Конвей, Vremya i semya Konvey) is a 1984 drama film directed by Vladimir Basov and based on the eponymous 1937 play by English playwright J. B. Priestley, filmed in 1984. Plot Action takes place in Britain during the 20 years between the two wars. The film explores the relationship in a once wealthy family, whose members, in their own way, are experiencing the collapse of their plans and hopes. Cast * Rufina Nifontova as Mrs. Conway * Vladimir Basov, Jr. as Ernest Beevers in youth * Vladimir Basov as Ernest Beevers at maturity * Margarita Volodina as Kay * Yevgeny Leonov as Alan Conway * Alyona Bondarchuk as Magee in his youth * Irina Skobtseva as Magee twenty years later * Marianna Strizhenova as Joan Halford * Oleg Tabakov as Robin Conway * Igor Yankovsky as Gerald Thornton in his youth * Rostislav Yankovsky as Gerald Thornton twenty years later Almost all the characters in their youth were played by the chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Could One Imagine?
''Could One Imagine?'' (russian: links=no, italics=yes, Вам и не снилось, Vam i ne snilos), also released as ''Love and Lies'', is a 1981 Soviet teen drama film directed by Ilya Frez based on the novella by Galina Shcherbakova. Plot High school student Katya Shevchenko (Tatyana Aksyuta) moves to a new district and meets classmate Roman Lavochkin (Nikita Mikhaylovsky) at school. Gradually their friendship grows into love, which appears surprisingly strong to the adults around them. Roman's father, Konstantin ( Albert Filozov), was in love with Katya's mother, Lyudmila (Irina Miroshnichenko), who eventually rejecting him. Roman's mother, Vera (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina), jealous of Katya's mother, hates her and her daughter. Aspiring to separate the children by force, she transfers Roman to another school and forbids them to meet. But love between Katya and Roman does not diminish. Then Vera deceives her son, forcing him to leave Moscow for Leningrad for a long time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Do Not Part With Your Beloved
''Do Not Part with Your Beloved'' or (russian: С любимыми не расставайтесь, S lyubimymi ne rasstavaytes) is a Soviet romantic drama, directed by Pavel Arsenov in 1980. The film is based on the eponymous play written in 1971 by Alexander Volodin. The picture was remade in 2014 as ''Another Year'' by director Oksana Bychkova. Plot Divorce proceedings is the last and the most difficult act in the life of any family. In a civil court there is a continuous bustle: for various reasons people who have recently loved each other and who have built their lives together, are forced to prove and explain to the judge that nothing binds them together anymore. Family life, with all its joys and sorrows, is put on public display and for discussion which is always agonizingly painful and embarrassing ... Young spouses Mitya and Katya are participants in one of the tragic stories. Katya provokes a fierce jealousy from Mitya's side for sleeping over at her classmate Vadim's pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewelina Hańska
Eveline Hańska (; 6 January – 11 April 1882) was a Polish noblewoman best known for her marriage to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Born at the Wierzchownia estate in VolhyniaJuanita Helm Floyd ''Women in the Life of Balzac''. Page 136.''Kessinger Publishing'', 2004 reprint. . Retrieved October 8, 2011. (now Ukraine), Hańska married landowner Wacław Hański when she was a teenager.Frederic Ewen''Heroic imagination: the creative genius of Europe...'' Page 498.''New York University Press'', 2004 reprint. . Hański, who was about 20 years her senior, suffered from depression. They had five children, but only a daughter, Anna, survived. In the late 1820s, Hańska began reading Balzac's novels, and in 1832, she sent him an anonymous letter. This began a decades-long correspondence in which Hańska and Balzac expressed a deep mutual affection. In 1833, they met for the first time, in Switzerland. Soon afterward he began writing the novel ''Séraphîta'', which includes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intervention (1968 Film)
''Intervention'' (russian: Интервенция, Interventsiya) is a 1968 Russian adventure film directed by Gennadi Poloka. The film was banned in the Soviet Union for nearly 20 years and was released only in 1987. Cast * Vladimir Vysotsky as Michel Voronov / Brodsky * Valeri Zolotukhin as Zhenka Xidias, student of Odessa University * Olga Aroseva as Banker Xidias, Zhenka's mother, rich widow * Gelena Ivlieva as Sanyka alias Fyokla, flower-girl, Bolshevik * Yefim Kopelyan as Philipp, main thief of Odessa * Rufina Nifontova as Madame Tokarchuk, Mokrushnitsa (criminal jargon — female homicide) * Vladimir Tatosov as Imertsaki, card-sharper * Marlen Khutsiev as Philippe Henri Joseph d'Anselme * Georgy Shtil as Martial, french soldier * Boris Leskin as businessman References External links * 1960s adventure films Soviet adventure films Lenfilm films Soviet films based on plays {{1960s-USSR-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
