|
The Blonde Around The Corner
''The Blonde Around the Corner'' (russian: Блондинка за углом, Blondinka za uglom) is a 1984 Soviet romantic comedy directed by Vladimir Bortko. It tells the story of an astrophysicist who begins to work at a grocery store where he falls in love with a saleswoman. The film became Bortko's breakthrough. Plot Former astrophysicist Nikolai Gavrilovich ( Andrey Mironov) who spent fifteen years in a fruitless search for extraterrestrial life, neither aspiring or succeeding to acquire material wealth in life, by fate gets the post of a porter at a local self-service supermarket, where he falls in love with Nadezhda (Tatyana Dogileva), a cute blonde salesgirl of the gastronomic department, whom as it turned out, he saw every morning at the bus stop. She is also fond of him. It is immediately obvious that the businesslike and living below her means Nadezhda is the antithesis of Nikolai — she is practical, penetrating, knows all the "right people" (and she herself is such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Bortko
Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko (russian: Владимир Владимирович Бортко; born 7 May 1946) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and politician. He was a member of the State Duma between 2011 and 2021, and was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia. Biography Vladimir Bortko was born 7 May 1946 in Moscow. He grew up in the family of the Ukrainian Soviet playwright Oleksandr Korniychuk. After his studies in the ''Geological College'' in Kyiv and his military service in 1965-1966, he worked three years as an electrical engineer in Kyiv. In 1969 he went to the Karpenko-Kary State University of Theatre, Film and Television in Kyiv. After graduating in 1974 he worked as an assistant director at the Dovzhenko Film Studios. In 1975 he was directing his first film, entitled ''Channel''. In 1980, Vladimir Bortko became production leader in the Kinostudiya Lenfilm in Leningrad, the largest film production company of the Soviet Union after Mosfi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baadur Tsuladze
Baadur Tsuladze ( ka, ბაადურ წულაძე; 5 March 1935 – 13 May 2018) was a Georgian actor, film director, writer and broadcaster. Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1979). Biography In 1961, Tsuladze graduated from the Directing Department of VGIK (workshop of Alexander Dovzhenko and Mikheil Chiaureli). Actor and director of the film studio Kartuli Pilmi. He worked as the director of dubbing. President of the Screen Actors Guild of Georgia, Member of the Board of the Union of Cinematographers of Georgia. She teaches acting at the Institute of Theatre and Cinema of Shota Rustaveli. Baadur Tsuladze was a former presenter of culinary transmission on Georgian TV. Death Tsuladze died on 13 May 2018 in Tbilisi. He never married and had no children. Selected filmography [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Russian-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Vladimir Bortko
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The year's highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada was ''Beverly Hills Cop''. ''Ghostbusters'' overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year. It was the first time in five years that the top-grossing film did not involve George Lucas or Steven Spielberg although Spielberg directed and Lucas executive produced/co-wrote the third placed '' Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' (the highest-grossing film worldwide that year); Spielberg also executive produced the fourth placed ''Gremlins''. U.S. box office grosses reached $4 billion for the first time and it was the first year that two films had returned over $100 million to their distributors with both ''Ghostbusters'' and ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' achieving this. ''Beverly Hills Cop'' made it three for films released i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Romantic Comedy Films
Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 10 ** The United States and the Vatican City, Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. ** The Victoria, Seychelles, Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. *January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh 128K, Macintosh personal computer in the United States. February * February 3 ** Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth. ** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger, Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission. * February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered spac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Efimov
Igor Markovich Yefimov or Igor Efimov (Russian: И́горь Ма́ркович Ефи́мов; August 8, 1937 – August 12, 2020) was an American philosopher, historian, writer and publisher of Russian origin. Some of his works were published under the pen name Andrei Moscovit. Together with , Sergei Dovlatov, , and , he founded the Leningrad writers' group "Townspeople" (), whose works circulated in samizdat. He was also the founder of Hermitage Publishers; a company specializing in Russian writers. Biography In 1960, he graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. He then attended the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute; graduating in 1973. He joined the Union of Soviet Writers in 1965. He originally wrote stories for children and pieces for Soviet radio and television as well as screenplays. It was not known until after he left the Soviet Union, in 1978 by way of Austria, that he had written ''Practical Metaphysics'' and ''Metapolitics'' under the pseudonym Andrei Moscovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Kadochnikov
Pavel Petrovich Kadochnikov (russian: Павел Петрович Кадочников; – 2 May 1988) was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1979) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1985). Biography Pavel Kadochnikov was born in Petrograd in 1915. In 1927, he entered a children's artistic studio, dreaming to become a professional artist, but, because of the severe illness of his father, Pavel, as the elder in the family, was forced to become the apprentice to a metal craftsman. However, he continued to study in the studio. In 1929, he entered the actor's department of theatrical school of TYuZ. In 1935, he graduated from Leningrad Theatrical Institute and until 1944 was an actor in Leningrad's New TYuZ. He began to act in the cinema in 1935. His first role was Mikhas in the film ''Maturity''. Kadochnikov was not pleased the way he looked on the screen in his early roles, and he decided to never play in the cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeny Kindinov
Yevgeny Arsenievich Kindinov (russian: Евгений Арсеньевич Киндинов, born 24 May 1945 in Moscow) is a Russian theatre and film actor. He spent his entire professional career at the Moscow Art Theatre, and, after the theater was split in 1987, at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre. He is a People's Artist of Russia. Selected filmography * '' Dead Season'' (1968) as Soviet intelligence officer * ''Punisher'' (1968) as Vangelis * '' A Lover's Romance'' (1974) as Sergei Nikitin * '' Mama, I'm Alive'' (1976) as Viktor Glunsky * ''A Taiga Story'' (1979) as Goga Gertsev * ''The Suicide Club, or the Adventures of a Titled Person'' (1981) as Simon Rolls * '' The Blonde Around the Corner'' (1983) as store clerk (voice) * ''Children of the Arbat'' (2004) as Lev Kamenev * ''Adjutants of Love ''Adjutants of Love'' (russian: Адъютанты любви, ''Adyutanti lyubvi'') is a 2005 Russian telenovela. It is the second successful historical telenovela fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksei Zharkov
Aleksei Dmitrievich Zharkov (russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Жарков; 27 March 1948 – 5 June 2016) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia (1994). Biography Aleksei Dmitrievich Zharkov was born on March 27, 1948, in Moscow. In 1960, the director Mark Donskoy chose Aleksei for the role of Petit in his film ''Hello, Children!'' (1962), where the 14-year old Zharkov played one of the main roles a Soviet teenager who becomes friends with a Japanese girl who survived the tragedy of Hiroshima. In 1963, Zharkov was confirmed for an episodic role in Rolan Bykov's comedy ''The Lost Summer''. In 1966, Zharkov starred in the role of Kohl in the military film ''Such a Big Boy''. Aleksei Zharkov graduated from Moscow Art Theater School (acting course of Alexander Karev). Between 1971 and 1988 Zharkov was an actor of the Yermolova Theatre. In 1988–2000 years an actor of Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre. Zharkov returned to Yermolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoly Ravikovich
Anatoly Yuryevich Ravikovich (russian: Анатолий Юрьевич Равикович; December 24, 1936 – April 8, 2012) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He graduated from the Ostrovsky Leningrad Theatre Institute (later LGITMiK) in 1958, and started to work at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur drama theater. In 1962 Ravikovich returned to Leningrad and started to work at the Lensovet Theatre. In 1982 he appeared in Mikhail Kozakov's comedy film ''The Pokrovsky Gate''. He was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1988. Ravikovich died on April 8, 2012 in Saint Petersburg. He is survived by his wife Irina Mazurkevich, also a People's Artist of Russia. Selected filmography * ''Agony'' (1974) as ''supplicant'' * ''The Pokrovsky Gate'' (1982) as ''Lev Yevgenevich Khobotov'' * ''The Blonde Around the Corner'' (1984) as ''store clerk'' * ''Musketeers Twenty Years After'' (1992) as ''Cardinal Mazarin'' * ''The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After'' (1993) as ''Card ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoly Slivnikov
Anatoly (russian: Анато́лий, Anatólij , uk, Анато́лій, Anatólij ) is a common Russian and Ukrainian male given name, derived from the Greek name ''Anatolios'', meaning "sunrise." Other common Russian transliterations are Anatoliy and Anatoli. The Ukrainian transliteration is Anatoliy or Anatolii. The French version of the name is Anatole. Other variants are Anatol and more rarely Anatolio. Saint Anatolius of Alexandria was a fifth-century saint who became the first patriarch of Constantinople in 451. Anatoly was one of the five most popular names for baby boys born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2004. One in every 35,110 Americans are named Anatoly and the popularity of the name Anatoly is 28.48 people per million. The name of Anatolia – a region located to the east from the Greeks' point of view – shares the same linguistic origin. People * Anatoli Agrofenin (born 1980), Russian footballer * Anatoli Aleksandrovich Grishin (born 1986), Russian footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
