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Shirli-Myrli
''Shirli-myrli'' (russian: Ширли-мырли, also released as ''What a Mess!'') is a 1995 farce comedy film of the early post-soviet era directed by Vladimir Menshov. Centered around a pursued con man, who stole a huge diamond, the movie, among other things, satirizes chauvinism, antisemitism and other ethnic tensions in the 1990s Russia. Valery Garkalin plays multiple roles as identical twins who were raised believing they belong to different cultures and races and used to look down on each other's. Plot summary While digging in the diamond mine "Unpromising" in Yakutia an enormous diamond was found. It is called ''The Savior of Russia'': officials declare that the sale of the diamond could pay off the national debt and pay for every Russian citizen to take a three-year-long vacation at the Canary Islands. While the diamond is being transported to Moscow (by Antonov An-124 ''Ruslan'') it is stolen by the crime boss Kozulskiy (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan), who is then robbed by pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Alisova
Nina Ulyanovna Alisova (russian: Нина Ульяновна Алисова) (15 December 1915 in Kyiv – 12 October 1996 in Moscow) was a Soviet theater and film actress. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1950). After her death she was buried in the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery. Selected filmography * '' Without a Dowry'' (1937) * ''Rainbow'' (1944) * ''Ivan Pavlov'' (1949) * ''The Lady with the Dog'' (1960) * ''Torrents of Steel ''Torrents of Steel'' (russian: Железный поток, Zhelezniy potok) is a 1967 Soviet war drama film directed by Efim Dzigan based on the eponymous story by Alexander Serafimovich. Plot The plot is based on a heavy campaign by the Taman A ...'' (1967) * '' Shirli-myrli'' (1995) External links * 1915 births 1996 deaths Soviet actresses Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni Honored Artists of the RSFSR Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour {{USSR-actor-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Batalov
Sergey Felixovich Batalov (russian: link=no, Серге́й Фе́ликсович Бата́лов) is a Russian actor. Merited Artist of the Russian Federation. He appeared in over 140 films. Biography Sergey was born on April 19, 1957. He studied at the acting department at ''Russian Institute of Theatre Arts'', after which he worked at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, as well as at the Human Theater and the Moscow Art Theater 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 f .... on kino.mail.ru Selected filmography References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Menshov
Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov (russian: Влади́мир Валенти́нович Меньшо́в; 17 September 1939 – 5 July 2021)Умер Владимир Меньшов Tass.ru. 5 July 2021 was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian actor and film director. He was noted for depicting the Russian everyman and working class life in his films. Although Menshov mostly worked as an actor, he is better known for the films he directed, especially for the 1979 melodrama ''Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'', which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Actress Vera Alentova, who starred in the film, is the mother of Vladimir Menshov's daughter Yuliya Menshova. Biography Menshov was born in a Russian family in B ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Militsiya
''Militsiya'' ( rus, милиция, , mʲɪˈlʲitsɨjə) was the name of the police forces in the Soviet Union (until 1991) and in several Eastern Bloc countries (1945–1992), as well as in the non-aligned SFR Yugoslavia (1945–1992). The term continues in common and sometimes official usage in some of the individual former Soviet republics such as Belarus, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as in the partially recognised or unrecognised republics of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, DNR and LNR. Name and status The name ''militsiya'' as applied to police forces originates from a Russian Provisional Government decree dated April 17, 1917, and from early Soviet history: both the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks intended to associate their new law-enforcement authority with the self-organisation of the people and to distinguish it from the czarist police. The militsiya was reaffirmed in Russia on October 28 (November 10, according to the ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Borisov
Lev Ivanovich Borisov (Russian: Лев Иванович Борисов; 8 December 1933, Plyos – 15 November 2011, Moscow) was a Russian actor. Brother of Oleg Borisov. He was a People's Artist of Russia.Почётное звание присвоено указом Президента России № 81 от 26 января 2001 года Lev Borisov was buried at the . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Artsybashev
Sergius is a male given name of Ancient Roman origin after the name of the Latin ''gens'' Sergia or Sergii of regal and republican ages. It is a common Christian name, in honor of Saint Sergius, or in Russia, of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, and has been the name of four popes. It has given rise to numerous variants, present today mainly in the Romance (Serge, Sergio, Sergi) and Slavic languages (Serhii, Sergey, Serguei). It is not common in English, although the Anglo-French name Sergeant is possibly related to it. Etymology The name originates from the Roman ''nomen'' (patrician family name) ''Sergius'', after the name of the Roman ''gens'' of Latin origins Sergia or Sergii from Alba Longa, Old Latium, counted by Theodor Mommsen as one of the oldest Roman families, one of the original 100 ''gentes originarie''. It has been speculated to derive from a more ancient Etruscan name but the etymology of the nomen Sergius is problematic. Chase hesitantly suggests a connection with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Apeksimova
Irina Victorovna Apeksimova (russian: Ири́на Ви́кторовна Апекси́мова, born January 13, 1966, Volgograd, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian stage and screen actress. She became director of the Taganka Theatre in March 2015. Biography Apeksimova was the child of classical musicians, Victor Nikolaevich Apeksimov and Svetlana Yakolevna. Irina was the second child in the family; her older brother Valery Apeksimov, Valery later became a jazz composer and pianist in the United States. Apeksimova's parents divorced when she was in the eighth grade, and she moved with her mother to Odessa, where she studied acting. After high school Apeksimova went to Moscow to enter the Moscow Art Theater School, but was rejected because of her Russian language in Ukraine, Odessa accent. Back in Odessa, she joined the Odessa Opera Theater and danced for a year in the corps de ballet. She then applied again to the Moscow Art Theater School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeni Aleksandrov
Yevgeni, Yevgeny, Yevgenii or Yevgeniy (russian: Евгений), also transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii or Evgeniy, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene. People with the name include: :''Note: Occasionally, a person may be in more than one section.'' Arts and entertainment * Yevgeny Aryeh (1947–2022), Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter and set designer * Yevgeni Bauer (1865–1917), Russian film director and screenwriter *Yevgeni Grishkovetz (born 1967), Russian writer, dramatist, stage director and actor * Evgeny Kissin (born 1971), Russian pianist *Yevgeny Leonov (1926–1994), Soviet and Russian actor *Yevgeni Mokhorev (born 1967), Russian photographer *Evgeny Mravinsky (1903–1988), Russian conductor *Evgeny Svetlanov (1928–2002), Russian conductor *Yevgeni Urbansky (1932–1965), Soviet Russian actor *Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev (1926–1992), Soviet and Russian actor * Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017), Soviet and Russian poet * Yevgen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeri Afanasyev
The French name Valery () is a male given name or surname of Germanic origin ''Walaric'' (see Walric of Leuconay), that has often been confused in modern times with the Latin name ''Valerius''—that explains the variant spelling Valéry (). The Slavic given name Valery, Valeriy or Valeri derives directly from the Latin name ''Valerius''. Given name * Valery Afanassiev, Russian pianist and author * Valery V. Afanasyev, Russian hockey coach * Valery Asratyan (1958–1996), Soviet serial killer * Valery Belenky, Azerbaijani-German former Olympic artistic gymnast * Valeriy Belousov, Russian decathlete * Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian international footballer * Valery Bryusov, Russian poet * Valeri Bukrejev, Estonian pole vaulter * Valeri Bure, Russian ice hockey player * Valery Chkalov, Russian aircraft test pilot * Valery Gazzaev, Russian football manager * Valery Gerasimov, Russian General, the current Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, and first Deputy Defen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 was born on 16 September 1936 in Moscow. He spent his childhood in the Zamoskvorechye District. The actor's parents in the 1930s lived in the Far East of the USSR: in the village of Monomakhovo, the Far Eastern Krai, now the Dalnegorsky District of the Primorsky Krai. In 1957 he graduated from the Moscow Industrial College, after which he worked as an engineer for the management of Glavnefterudprom. In 1963 he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. He worked as an actor at the Mayakovsky Theatre. In 1966 he moved to the Moscow Theater of Miniatures and began to act in films in parallel. In 1974 he moved to the Theater-Studio of the Film Actor. Author of the book of memoirs "Oranges, Vitamins ..." (2000). Career Kokshenov s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyorny
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Pankratov-Chyorny (russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Панкра́тов-Чёрный; born 28 June 1949) is a Russian actor and film director. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1978. He was awarded People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2009) for great achievements in the field of cinematographic art. Selected filmography References External links * 1949 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyubov Polishchuk
Lyubov Grigoryevna Polishchuk (russian: Любо́вь Григо́рьевна Полищу́к; 21 May 1949 – 28 November 2006) was a popular Russian actress. She was born in the Siberian city of Omsk. After school she decided to become an actress and moved to Moscow. She made her debut in cinema in 1976 in the popular comedy film The Twelve Chairs (1976 film), The Twelve Chairs in 1977, which was directed by Mark Zakharov. Lyubov Polishchuk died of bone cancer in Moscow in 2006, aged 57. She was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery. Selected filmography * ''The Twelve Chairs (1976 film), The Twelve Chairs'' (1976) as dancer * ''Zolotaya mina'' (1978) as Larisa Kovalyova * ''31 June'' (1978, TV Movie) as Miss Quinn, hostess of ''The black horse * ''The Very Same Munchhausen'' (1979, TV Movie) as Bertha, songstress * ''Vavilon XX'' (1980) as Malva * ''I Ask to Accuse Klava K. of My Death'' (1980) as Vera Sergeevna * ''Vystrel v spinu'' (1980) as Yelena Vanina * ''Bolshaya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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