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The Diamond Arm
''The Diamond Arm'' (russian: Бриллиантовая рука ''Brilliantovaya ruka'') is a Soviet crime comedy film made by Mosfilm and first released in 1969. The film was directed by director Leonid Gaidai and starred several famous Soviet actors, including Yuri Nikulin, Andrei Mironov, Anatoli Papanov, Nonna Mordyukova and Svetlana Svetlichnaya. ''The Diamond Arm'' has become a Russian cult film and is considered by many Russian contemporaries to be one of the finest comedies of all time. It was also one of the all-time leaders at the Soviet box office with over 76,700,000 theatre admissions in the Soviet era. The plot of the film was based on a real-life news item about Swiss smugglers who tried to transport jewels in an orthopedic cast. Plot The boss of a black market ring (known only as "The Chief") wants to smuggle a batch of jewelry from a foreign state into the Soviet Union by hiding it inside the orthopedic cast of a courier. The Chief sends a minor henchman nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Gaidai
Leonid Iovich Gaidai (russian: Леонид Иович Гайдай; 30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was a Soviet and Russian comedy film director, screenwriter and actor who enjoyed immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former Soviet Union. His films broke theatre attendance records and were some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia. He has been described as "the king of Soviet comedy".Prokhorova, Elena, "The Man Who Made Them Laugh: Leonid Gaidai, the King of Soviet Comedy", in Beumers, Birgit (2008) ''A History of Russian Cinema'', Berg Publishers, , pp. 519–542 Early life and first success Gaidai was born on 30 January 1923 in Svobodny, Amur Oblast,Rollberg, Peter (2010) ''The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema'', The Scarecrow Press, Inc., , pp. 235–8 where he is commemorated by a statue. His father Iov Isidorovich Gaidai came from a Ukrainian family of serfs of the Poltava Governorate. At the age of 22 he was sentenced to several years of katorga fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a East Thrace, small portion on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Cyprus is located off the south coast. Turkish people, Turks form the vast majority of the nation's population and Kurds are the largest minority. Ankara is Turkey's capital, while Istanbul is its list of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city and financial centre. One of the world's earliest permanently Settler, settled regions, present-day Turkey was home to important Neol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Yasulovich
Igor Nikolayevich Yasulovich (russian: Игорь Николаевич Ясулович; born 24 September 1941) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, film director and pedagogue. Biography Yasulovich was born in the village of Reinsfeld (now Zalesye) in Koshkinsky District of Kuybyshev Oblast. In 1962 he graduated from the cast, and then, in 1974, Directing Department Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. From 1962 he became an actor of experimental theater-studio pantomime, in 1964-1994 — Theatre studio of film actor, 1994 — Moscow Youth Theater. He has played over 170 roles in cinema, his debut appearance being in ''En Route'' (1961), albeit uncredited. Honours and awards * Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988) * State Prize of the Russian Federation (2000) * People's Artist of Russia (2001) * Order of Honour (2013) Filmography Actor * ''En Route'' (В пути, 1961) as student-fellow traveler with baguettes (uncredited) *'' Adventures of Krosh'' (При ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Kanevsky
Leonid Semyonoviсh Kanevski ( uk, Леонід Семенович Каневський, russian: Леони́д Семёнович Кане́вский; 2 May 1939, Kiev, USSR) is a Soviet, Russian and Israeli actor. He became popular with the Soviet audience after starring in '' The Investigation Is Conducted by ZnaToKi'' detective series where he appeared as major Tomin. Filmography * 1963 — Forty Minutes Before Dawn — Store manager in a village general store * 1965 — City of Masters — Head of the secret police * 1967 — The Life and Ascension of Yuras Bratchik — A henchman of the cardinal, posing as a blind beggar * 1967 — Two Hours Earlier — Ensemble administrator * 1968 — Spring on the Oder — Intelligence officer Oganesyan * 1968 — Smile to Your Neighbor — House Manager * 1968 — The Punisher — Mr. Andreas * 1968 — ''The Diamond Arm'' — ''Contrabandist, put in plaster'' * 1969 — '' The Red Tent — Italian Radio Operator'' * 1969 — Every E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigory Shpigel
Grigory Oyzerovich Spiegel (russian: Григо́рий О́йзерович Шпи́гель; 24 July 1914 — 28 April 1981) was a Soviet and Russian actor and voice actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974). Biography He worked as a pleater at a dye factory in Leningrad. He studied at the directing department of the Central School of amateur theater in Moscow. In 1940 he graduated from an acting school at the Mosfilm. He worked as a National Film Actors' Theatre. He took part in voicing cartoon characters, known for his voice being unusually high pitched and sonorous for a man. Death Died April 28, 1981. He was buried in Moscow at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery. Selected filmography * ''The Oppenheim Family'' (Семья Оппенгейм, 1939) as ''high-school student'' (uncredited) * ''Taxi to Heaven'' (Воздушный извозчик, 1943) as ''Anany Svetlovidov'' * ''Ballad of Siberia'' (Сказание о земле Сибирской, 1947) as ''Gregory Galaida'' * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Khvylya
Alexander Leopoldovich Khvylya (born Bressem, russian: Александр Леопольдович Хвыля, uk, Олександр Леопольдович Хвиля, ''Oleksandr Leopoldovych Khvylya''; 15 July 1905 – 17 October 1976) was a Soviet theater and film actor who played in ''The Diamond Arm'', '' The end of Chyrva Kozyr'', ''Bohdan Khmelnytsky'', and others. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR (23 October 1963). Khvylya was born in the Swedish colony in the village of Oleksandro-Shultyne (Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire) to Swedish parents as Alexander Leopoldovich Bressem. Today the village is part of the Ivanopil rural community in Kostiantynivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast. Career In 1922 he graduated from the Vorovsky Drama Studio. Khvylya worked in the Zankovetska Music-Drama Theater from 1924 through 1926, then in Berezil that just relocated to Kharkiv from Kyiv. From 1934 until the German invasion of WWII, he worked in the Kharkiv Drama Theater of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Trofimov
Nikolay Nikolaevich Trofimov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Трофи́мов; January 21, 1920, Sevastopol — November 7, 2005, St. Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1990). Biography Nikolay Trofimov was born into a working-class family. Stage career began in 1934. During the Great Patriotic War he served in the navy. On the stage Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater played more than 40 roles. In the cinema, Nikolai Trofimov played mostly small roles. Nikolay Nikolaevich Trofimov died on the night of November 7, 2005 in the St. Petersburg Alexandrovsky hospital from the consequences of a stroke. He was buried on November 14 at the Literary Sheds of Volkovskoye Cemetery. Selected filmography * '' Pirogov'' (russian: Пирогов, 1947) as ''pieman'' * '' Belinsky'' (Белинский, 1951) as ''typographic worker'' * ''Tamer of Tigers'' (Укротительница тигров, 1954) as ''Myshki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Fajt
Andrei Andreyevich Fajt (russian: Андрей Андреевич Файт; 29 August 1903 – 17 January 1976) was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in 44 films between 1925 and 1976. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and died in Moscow. Selected filmography * ''The Battleship Potemkin'' (1925) * ''The Bay of Death'' (1926) * ''The Happy Canary'' (1929) * ''The Great Consoler'' (1933) * '' Outskirts'' (1933) * '' Dzhulbars'' (1933) * ''The Thirteen'' (1937) * ''Wish upon a Pike'' (1938) * '' Minin and Pozharsky'' (1939) * ''Siberians'' (1940) * '' Salavat Yulayev'' (1941) * '' The Young Guard (1948) * ''Encounter at the Elbe'' (1949) * ''The Battle of Stalingrad'' (1949) * ''The Composer Glinka'' (1952) * ''Admiral Ushakov'' (1953) * ''The Star'' (1953) * ''A Lesson in History'' (1957) * ''The Idiot'' (1958) * ''On Distant Shores'' (1958) * ''The Secret of the Fortress'' (1959) * ''Peace to Him Who Enters'' (1961) * ''Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors'' (1964) * ''Aladdin's Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Gulyaev
Vladimir Leonidovich Gulyaev (russian: Влади́мир Леони́дович Гуля́ев; 30 October 1924, Yekaterinburg, RSFSR — 3 October 1997, Moscow) was a Soviet actor of theater and cinema. Biography He was born October 30, 1924 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg, Russia). His father was as candidate of historical sciences and the deputy head of the political department of the Molotov Military Aviation. During World War II, he went to work as a mechanic in an aviation workshop, and in 1942, became a cadet of Molotovskaya military aviation school of pilots. Having graduated with honors and received in November 1943 and received the rank of Junior Lieutenant of the Air Force. He fought in Belarus and the Baltic States. He ended his service as a Red Army lieutenant in East Prussia. He participated in the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 on Red Square. He graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1951. As a student, he married his classmate Rimma Shorokhov. ... [...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] |
Stanislav Chekan
Stanislav Yulianovich Chekan (russian: Станисла́в Юлиа́нович Чека́н; 2 June 1922, Rostov-on-Don — 11 August 1994, Moscow) was a Soviet actor of theater and cinema, known primarily for his blue-collar manly appearance, and character actor roles of a stereotypical "big guy." Biography Stanislav Chekan was born in Rostov-on-Don on 2 June 1922. When he was 15 years old, his father was arrested as an enemy of the people. Stanislav was sent to a labor colony, where he first began to participate in amateur activities. Then he was sent to a vocational school, but on the way he turned to Rostov, where he entered another school, a theater school. From 1938 to 1941 he studied at the studio of Yuri Zavadsky in the Theater School of Rostov-on-Don. Member of the Great Patriotic War, fought near Novorossiysk, after a serious injury — the actor of the front-line theater. In 1945 Stanislav Chekan became an actor of the Odessa Theater of the Soviet Army, then, in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Femme Fatale
A ''femme fatale'' ( or ; ), sometimes called a maneater or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly traps. She is an archetype of literature and art. Her ability to enchant, entice and hypnotize her victim with a spell was in the earliest stories seen as verging on supernatural; hence, the femme fatale today is still often described as having a power akin to an enchantress, seductress, witch, having power over men. Femmes fatales are typically villainous, or at least morally ambiguous, and always associated with a sense of mystification, and unease.Mary Ann Doane, ''Femme Fatales'' (1991) pp. 1–2 The term originates from the French phrase '' femme fatale'', which means 'deadly woman' or 'lethal woman'. A femme fatale tries to achieve her hidden purpose by using feminine wiles such as beauty, charm, or sexual allure. In many cases, her attitude towards sexuality is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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