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The Girl From Leningrad
''The Girl from Leningrad'' (russian: Фронтовые подруги) is a 1941 Soviet adventure film directed by Viktor Eisymont. Plot The film takes place during the Finnish war. A group of girls voluntarily go to the front. Young girls help doctors save the lives of wounded soldiers, and also fight with the enemy. Starring * Zoya Fyodorova as Natasha * Mariya Kapustina as Tamara * Olga Fyodorina as The Cricket * Tamara Alyoshina as Zina * Yekaterina Melentyeva as Shura * Andrei Abrikosov as Lt. Sergei Korovin * Konstantin Adashevsky The first name Konstantin () is a derivation from the Latin name '' Constantinus'' (Constantine) in some European languages, such as Russian and German. As a Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great ... as Dr. Katner * Yury Tolubeev as Maj. Braginsky * Boris Blinov as Andrei Morosov References External links * 1941 films 1940s Russian-language films Soviet adventure films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Eisymont
Viktor Vladislavovich Eisymont (russian: Виктор Владиславович Эйсымонт, 20 December 1904 – 31 January 1964) was a Soviet film director. He was a three-time recipient of the Stalin Prize, in 1942, 1947, and 1951. Filmography * ''Friends (russian: Друзья)'' (1938); co-directed with Lev Arnshtam * ''The Fourth Periscope (Четвертый перископ)'' (1939) * '' The Girl from Leningrad (Фронтовые подруги)'' (1941) * ''Once There Was a Girl (Жила-была девочка)'' (1944) * '' Cruiser 'Varyag' (Крейсер «Варяг»)'' (1946) * '' Alexander Popov (Александр Попов)'' (1949); co-directed with Gerbert Rappaport * ''Lights on the River (Огни на реке)'' (1953) * '' Two Friends (Два друга)'' (1954) * ''Lights on the River (Огни на реке)'' (1954) * ''The Drummer's Fate ''The Drummer's Fate'' (russian: Судьба барабанщика, Sudba barabanshchika) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Rapoport
Vladimir Abramovich Rapoport (russian: Владимир Абрамович Рапопорт, link=no; 6 November 1907, Vitebsk – 17 June 1975, Moscow) was a Soviet cinematographer. Vladimir Rapoport received the Stalin Prize four times: in 1942, 1946, 1949, 1951 and the USSR State Prize in 1971. Selected filmography *'' Golden Mountains'' (1931) *''Counterplan'' (1932) *'' Girl Friends'' (1936) *''Large Wings'' (1937) *''Frontier'' (1938) *''Friends'' (1938) *''She Defends the Motherland'' (1943) *''Sons'' (1946) *''A New Home'' (1947) *'' The Young Guard'' (1948) *''The New China'' (1950) *''The Country Doctor'' (1951) *''Wolves and Sheep'' (1952) *'' Vassa Zheleznova'' (1953) *''Barbarians'' (1953) *''Least We Forget'' (1954) *''To a New Shore'' (1955) *''And Quiet Flows the Don'' (1957–1958) *''Leon Gaross Looks for a Friend'' (1961) *''Men and Beasts'' (1962) *''Comrade Arseni'' (1965) *''The Journalist'' (1967) *''A Village Detective'' (1968) *''By the Lake ''By the Lake' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Adventure Films
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Action T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua. * January 4 – The short subject ''Elmer's Pet Rabbit'' is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card. * January 5 – WWII: Battle of Bardia in Libya: Australian and British troops de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Adventure Films
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940s Russian-language Films
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 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 * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Films
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, '' Citizen Kane''. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1941 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January 17 ''Gone with the Wind'' goes into general release after touring in a roadshow version during 1940. Becoming a cultural phenomenon, it sells an estimated 60 million tickets this year alone. Adjusted for inflation with numerous rereleases, it remains the highest grossing domestic film of all time with $1.8 billion. *March 24 - Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie '' Sun Valley Serenade'' for Twentieth Century Fox *May 1 – '' Citizen Kane'', consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, is released. *July 2 – '' Sergeant York'', the film biopic of World War I hero Alvin C. York, starring Gary Cooper in the title role, premieres in New York City. It is the highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Blinov
Boris Vladimirovich Blinov (19 April 1909 – 13 September 1943) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1935). Personal life He was born in Saint Petersburg. In 1929, he became an actor in Bryantsev Youth Theatre. During the filming of ''Wait for Me (film), Wait for Me'', he contracted typhoid fever. Nevertheless, he continued his work until the filming was done, dying two months before the film's premiere. Filmography * ''Chapaev (film), Chapaev'' (1934) – Dmitry Furmanov * ''Girl Friends (1936 film), Girl Friends'' (1935) – injured commissioner * ''The Youth of Maxim'' (1935) – political prisoner (uncredited) * ''The Defense of Volotchayevsk'' (1937) – sailor Bublik * ''The Vyborg Side'' (1939) – Anatoli Zhelezniakov * ''Member of the Government'' (1939) – district committee secretary * ''Yakov Sverdlov (film), Yakov Sverdlov'' (1940) – Anatoli Zhelezniakov (uncredited) * ''The Girl f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yury Tolubeev
Yury, Yuri, Youri, Yurii, Yuriy, Yurij, Iurii or Iouri is the Slavic (russian: Юрий, Yuriy, or uk, Юрій, Yuriy, or bg, Юрий, Jurij, or be, Юры, Jury) form of the masculine given name George; it is derived directly from the Greek form Georgios and related to Polish Jerzy, Czech Jiří, and Slovak and Croatian Juraj, akin to Spanish and Portuguese Jorge, and German Jürgen, and assimilated in modern forms such as German and Italian Juri, Portuguese Iury, and Dutch Joeri. The Slavic form of the name originates with Yuri Dolgoruky, Grand Prince of Kiev (c. 1099–1157), in early accounts recorded as ''Gyurgi, Dyurgi''. Yaroslav the Wise, great-grandfather of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, was the first Ruthenian ruler whose patron saint was Saint George. The saint is now depicted on the coat of arms of Moscow. Ancient and medieval world (Listed chronologically) * Yuri Dolgorukiy or Yuri I Vladimirovich (c. 1099–1157), Grand Prince of Kiev * Yuri II of Vladimir (1189–12 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Adashevsky
The first name Konstantin () is a derivation from the Latin name ''Constantinus'' (Constantine) in some European languages, such as Russian and German. As a Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. A number of notable persons in the Byzantine Empire, and (via mediation by the Christian Eastern Orthodox Church) in Russian history and earlier East Slavic history are often referred to by this name. "Konstantin" means "firm, constant". There is a number of variations of the name throughout European cultures: * Константин (Konstantin) in Russian (diminutive Костя/Kostya), Bulgarian (diminutives Косьо/Kosyo, Коце/Kotse) and Serbian * Костянтин (Kostiantyn) in Ukrainian (diminutive Костя/Kostya) * Канстанцін (Kanstantsin) in Belarusian * Konstantinas in Lithuanian * Konstantīns in Latvian * Konstanty in Polish (diminutive Kostek) * Constantin in Romanian (diminutive Costel), French * Kon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vissarion Shebalin
Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin (russian: Виссарио́н Я́ковлевич Шебали́н; 29 May 1963) was a Soviet composer. Biography Shebalin was born in Omsk, where his parents were school teachers. He studied in the musical college in Omsk, and was also enrolled in the Institute of Agriculture. He was 20 years old when, following the advice of his professor, he went to Moscow to show his first compositions to Reinhold Glière and Nikolai Myaskovsky. Both composers thought very highly of his compositions. Shebalin graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1928. His diploma work was the 1st Symphony, which the author dedicated to his professor Nikolai Myaskovsky. Many years later his fifth and last symphony was dedicated to Myaskovsky's memory. In the 1920s Shebalin was a member of the Association for Contemporary Music (ACM); he was a participant of the informal circle of Moscow musicians known as "Lamm's group", which gathered in the apartment of Pavel Lamm, a pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Mikhalkov
Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov (russian: link=no, Серге́й Влади́мирович Михалко́в; 27 August 2009) was a Soviet and Russian author of children's books and satirical fables. He wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems. Life and career Mikhalkov was born in Moscow, to Vladimir Aleksandrovich Mikhalkov and Olga Mikhailovna (née Glebova). Since the 1930s, he has rivaled Korney Chukovsky, Samuil Marshak and Agniya Barto as the most popular poet writing for Russophone children. His poems about enormously tall " Uncle Styopa" ("Дядя Стёпа") enjoyed particular popularity. Uncle Styopa is a friendly policeman always ready to rescue cats stuck up trees, and to perform other helpful deeds. In English, his name translates as Uncle Steeple. As a 29-year-old in 1942, Mikhalkov's work drew the attention of the Soviet Union's leader Joseph Stalin, who commissioned him to write lyrics for a new national anthem. At the time, the country w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Abrikosov
Andrei Lvovich Abrikosov (russian: Андрей Львович Абрикосов; 14 November 1906 – 21 October 1973) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1968). Biography He was born in Simferopol to an agronomist family. Member of the Communist Party from 1950. He died in Moscow, and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery. Filmography Awards and honors * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1939) * Stalin Prize, 1st class (1941) * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1946) * Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1946) * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1946) * Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1948) * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1952) * People's Artist of the USSR (1968) * Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" The Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (russian: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
