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Sergei Yursky
Sergei Yurievich Yursky (russian: Серге́й Ю́рьевич Ю́рский, 16 March 1935 – 8 February 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His best known film role is Ostap Bender in '' The Golden Calf'' (1968) Biography Yursky was born in Leningrad, USSR, on 16 March 1935 in the family of Yuri Sergeyevich Yursky. He studied at the Faculty of Law of Zhdanov Leningrad State University. In 1959 he graduated from Ostrovsky Leningrad Theatrical Institute, Leonid Makaryev's course. From 1957 till 1979 he was one of the leading actors of Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad. The leading part in Wit Works Woe (1962) by Alexander Griboedov made him one of the most significant actors of his generation. His director's debut ''Moliere'' (also known as ''The Cabal of Hypocrites'') by Mikhail Bulgakov in 1977 was highly acclaimed, but was not accepted by Georgy Tovstonogov, and led to Yursky's departure from the theatre. Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), is the second-largest city in Russia. It is situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, with a population of roughly 5.4 million residents. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe after Istanbul, Moscow and London, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, and was named after apostle Saint Peter. In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy
The Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (russian: Российский государственный институт сценических искусств), formerly known as St Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, formerly Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinema (LGITMiK), is a theatre school in Saint Petersburg. It is the oldest Russian state theatre school, being founded in 1779, and has incorporated several mergers of other institutions during its history, including the Ostrovsky Leningrad Theatre Institute and the Leningrad Institute of Art History. It is located at 34 Mokhovaya Street. History The college was originally founded in 1779 at the Emperor's Theatre in St Petersburg, and is the oldest theatre school in Russia. Over the course of its history, the institute has been reorganised and renamed several times. A growing theatre school assimilated the St Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy, along with several independent theatre classes and sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Stag
''King Stag'' (russian: Король-олень, Korol-olen) is a feature film directed by Pavel Arsenov based on the musical play of the same name by Carlo Gozzi, and shot at the Gorky Film Studio in 1969. In the film, songs are played to the music of Mikael Tariverdiev performed by Alla Pugacheva, Yury Yakovlev, Sergei Yursky, Oleg Yefremov, Oleg Tabakov. It was a classic of children's cinema in the Soviet Union. Plot Deramo, kind but simple-hearted king of Serendippe, wishes to marry. There is a problem: how to find out which of the contenders for his loves is genuine and which is simply eyeing the royal throne. The wizard Durandarte gives the king a figure of a clown who laughs if someone utters an untruth. The clown appears similar to the favorite of the king, the crafty and mean first minister Tartaglia, who for a long time and unrequitedly was in love with Angela, the daughter of the second minister, Pantalone, a timid bureaucrat. But Angela loves Deramo, though she wi ... [...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] |
The Little Golden Calf (film)
''The Golden Calf'' (russian: Золотой телёнок, Zolotoy telyonok) is a 1968 Soviet comedy film directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, based on the eponymous novel by Ilf and Petrov. Cast * Sergei Yursky as Ostap Bender * Leonid Kuravlyov as Shura Balaganov * Zinovy Gerdt as Mikhail Samuelevich Panikovsky * Yevgeny Yevstigneyev as Koreiko * Svetlana Starikova as Zosya Sinitskaya * Nikolai Boyarsky as Adam Kozlevich * Igor Yasulovich as young driver * Nikolai Sergeyev as old man Sinitsky, Zosya's grandfather * Tamara Syomina as Rayechka * Pavel Pavlenko as Chairman Funt * Igor Kashintsev as servant Bomze (uncredited) * Mikhail Kokshenov Mikhail Mikhailovich Kokshenov (16 September 1936, Moscow – 4 June 2020, Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast) was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of Russia (2002). Biography Mikhail Kokshenov w ... as the secretary (uncredited) External links * 1968 films Mosfilm films Soviet bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Republic Of ShKID (film)
''The Republic of ShKID'' (russian: Республика ШКИД, Respublika ShKID) is a 1966 Soviet comedy-drama directed by Gennadi Poloka. The premiere of ''The Republic of ShKID'' was held on December 29, 1966; in 1967, the film became a box-office leader – it was seen by 32.6 million viewers (12th place). Synopsis The action takes place in Petrograd in the early 1920s. Throughout the country, as reported in the credits, four million children are homeless. Juvenile offenders are caught by the Cheka and sent to boarding schools and gated colonies. Children who are not chosen by school leaders and colonies are sent to prison. Vikniksor, director of the school-commune named for Dostoevsky, prepares the teaching staff and personnel to welcome the first set of students. They set the table for breakfast, but no one comes to the dining room: the children haven stolen keys from the janitor, Meftahutdyn, and left the school. The children throw the keys into a tree so that it is di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time, Forward!
''Time, Forward!'' (russian: Время, вперёд!, ''Vremya, vperyod!'') is a 1965 Soviet drama film directed by Sofiya Milkina and Mikhail Schweitzer based on a novel with the same name and a screenplay by Valentin Kataev. The film was produced by Mosfilm, a unit of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino). The famous musical score was composed by Georgy Sviridov. The title is derived from Vladimir Mayakovsky's play ''The Bathhouse'' (russian: Баня). Plot summary The film is set in the 1930s, depicting one day of the construction work of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (or ''Magnitka''). The characters are construction workers and Komsomol members who are eager to work. Learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they are mobilized in order to beat them. Everyone at the construction site has embraced socialist competition. They are ready to win at any cost to speed up construction and complete the work on time. A Moscow journalist comes to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Serf Actress
''The Serf Actress'' (russian: Крепостная актриса) is a 1963 Soviet musical film directed by Roman Tikhomirov. Plot The film tells about the serf Nastya Batmanova, who was able to make a successful acting career in the court theater. She travels around the world, and when she returns, she finds herself in the Kutaisovo mansion among hussars and ladies, and there in her soul a feeling of love is born. Cast * Tamara Syomina as Anastasiya Batmanova * Yevgeny Leonov as Count Ivan Pavlovich Kutaysov * Dmitri Smirnov as Prince Andrei Tumansky * Sergey Yurskiy as Prince Nikita Petrovich Baturin * Grenada Mnatsakanova as Polenka * Aleksandr Potapov as Mitka * Sergey Filippov as Ruler of Yelpidifor * Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova as Primadonna Glikeriya Orestovna Rykalova * Marina Polbentseva A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : ''marina'', "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats. A marina dif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From Nowhere (1961 Film)
, image = , caption = , director = Eldar Ryazanov , producer = Max Gershengorin , writer = Leonid Zorin , starring = , music = Anatoli Lepin , cinematography = Leonid Kraynenkov , editing = Ekaterina Ovsyannikova , released = 1961 , studio= Mosfilm , runtime = 81 min. , country = Soviet Union , language = Russian , budget = ''The Human from Nowhere'' (russian: Человек ниоткуда, Chelovek niotkuda ) is a 1961 Soviet comedy film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. Plot The geologist of the anthropological expedition, Vladimir Porazhaev, is among the savages of the fantastic Tapi tribe and escapes with the help of his intellectual abilities. Cast * Sergey Yursky as Chudak * Yury Yakovlev as Vladimir Porazhayev * Anatoliy Papanov as Krokhalyov * Lyudmila Gurchenko as Lena * Anatoly Adoskin as Mikhail * Vladimir Muravyov as police captain * Yuri Belov as Gavrilov * Yuri Nikulin as petty officer * Georgy Millyar as electrician * Georgi Kulikov as assistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; russian: Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ)) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in 1898 by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time. The theatre, the first to regularly put on shows implementing Stanislavski's system, proved hugely influential in the acting world and in the development of modern American theatre and drama. It was officially renamed the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre in 1932. In 1987, the theatre split into two troupes, the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre and the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. Beginnings At the end of the 19th-century, Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mossovet Theater
Mossovet State Academic Theatre (Государственный академический театр имени Театр Моссовета) is one of the oldest theatres of Moscow, opened in 1923 and based at Bolshaya Sadovaya, 16. History Mossovet Theater was created in 1923 by the theatre entrepreneur S.I.Prokofiev, first as the Theater of Moscow Provincial Council of Trade Unions (MGSPS). In 1925–1940 it was led by E.O. Lyubimov-Lanskoy and in 1938 changed its name to the Theatre of Moscow City Council (Teatr Moscovskovo soveta) later to be shortened to its present form. The theatre progressed greatly during the reign of actor and director Yury Zavadsky (the protégé of Konstantin Stanislavski) which started in 1940 and lasted up to 1977. In those years the Mossovet became home to such Soviet stage stars as Vera Maretskaya, Nikolai Mordvinov, Faina Ranevskaya, Lyubov Orlova, Rostislav Plyatt, Boris Ivanov, Georgiy Zhzhonov, Gennady Bortnikov, Mikhail Kozakov, Yury K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Tovstonogov
Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov (russian: Георгий Александрович Товстоногов, – 23 May 1989) was a Russian-Georgian theatre director. He was the leader of the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater which was renamed after him in 1992. Biography Georgy Tovstonogov was born in Tbilisi (now Georgia), or in St. Petersburg on 28 September 1915, to a Russian noble and a Georgian classical singer Tamara Papitashvili. In 1938 he graduated from the State Institute of Theatrical Art in Moscow. From 1938 to 1946, he worked as a director in the Tbilisi Griboedov Theater, from 1946 to 1949 in the Central Children's Theater in Moscow, from 1950 to 1956 in the Leningrad Leninsky Komsomol Theater, and from 1956 until his death in 1989 in the Bolshoi Academic Gorky Theater. He was a professor at the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema since 1960. In 1957 he became a People's Artist of the USSR. He won the Stalin Prize thrice (1950, 1952, 1956), and g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
