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Viktor Sukhorukov
Viktor Ivanovich Sukhorukov PAR (russian: Виктор Иванович Сухоруков; born 10 November 1951) is a Russian actor. He has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1974. He starred in ''Happy Days'' (1991), which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. Sukhorukov is most known for his role as Viktor Bagrov in the films Brother and Brother 2. Selected filmography * ''Happy Days'' (1991) * '' The Year of the Dog'' (1994) * '' The Castle'' (1994) * ''All My Lenins'' (1997) * ''Brother'' (1997) * ''Of Freaks and Men'' (1998) * ''Brother 2'' (2000) * '' Antikiller'' (2002) * ''Poor Poor Paul'' (2003) * '' Goddess: How I fell in Love'' (2004) * ''Graveyard Shift'' (2005) * ''Dead Man's Bluff'' (2005) * '' The Island'' (2006) * ''Hamlet. XXI Century'' (2009) * ''Silent Souls'' (2010) * ''In the Style of Jazz'' (2010) * ''Furtseva (12-part Russian TV series)'' (2011) * '' Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orekhovo-Zuyevo
Orekhovo-Zuyevo (russian: Оре́хово-Зу́ево, ) is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow in a forested area on the Klyazma River (a tributary of the Oka). Orekhovo (russian: Оре́хово), often pronounced only as ''Orekh'', is a Russian word which means "nut". The city was established in 1917 when three villages ( Orekhovo, Zuevo, and Nikolskoye) were merged, hence its name. Population: History The first known facts about what now is Orekhovo-Zuyevo date back to 1209. The place was mentioned in the Moscow Chronicles as the place called "Volochok" where the battle between Vladimir's prince Yury and Ryazan's prince Izyaslav took place. The name "Volochok" (or, as it was later called, "Zuyev Volochok") is derived from the Slavic word for "portage": a place where wooden ships were carried by land from one river to another. In this place in particular, the ships were usually moved by land between the Klyazma and Nerskaya Rivers. The vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Man's Bluff
''Dead Man's Bluff'' or ''Zhmurki'' (russian: Жмурки) is a 2005 Russian black comedy/crime film. Director Aleksei Balabanov, who directed ''Brother'' and ''Brother 2'', uses cameo performances, by Russia's most prominent actors. The film depicts the anarchistic reality of the free-market streets of Russia in the beginning of 1990s, where the only real liberty was the freedom to kill. Plot The film opens with a professor lecturing a group of university students on the primitive accumulation of capital. The professor says: "Start-up capital is how everything begins - it makes it possible to start a business and multiply the initial investment many times over. The key question is how to get start-up capital..." By way of example, she begins to tell a story that supposedly took place a decade earlier during the socio-economic tumult in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The movie flashes to Nizhniy Novgorod in the mid-1990s, to an interrogation scene that takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Male Film Actors
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Living People
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1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darya Jurgens
Darya Georgievna Jurgens (russian: Дарья Георгиевна Юргенс) is a Russian actress most noted for her role in the film ''Brother 2'' as prostitute Marilyn / Dasha. Until 2003, she was known as Darya Lesnikova. She has had a long career, both in stage, television, and film. TV series *Streets of Broken Lights *Sherlock Holmes (2013 TV series) Films *Of Freaks and Men *Brother 2 ''Brother 2'' (russian: Брат 2, translit=Brat 2) is a 2000 Russian crime film. It is the sequel to the 1997 film ''Brother''. Much of it is set in Chicago. Plot The film opens with Danila Bagrov being interviewed on television with two fr ... References Living people 1968 births Russian film actresses People from Tomsk {{Russia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Bodrov, Jr
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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise (2016 Film)
''Paradise'' (russian: Рай; ''Ray'') is a 2016 Russian drama film produced and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. At Venice Konchalovsky won the Silver Lion for Best Director. It was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. In December 2016, it made the shortlist of nine films to be considered for a nomination at the 89th Academy Awards. Plot The film is built around the intertwining destinies of three main characters during the Second World War: aristocratic Russian émigré and member of the French Resistance Olga ( Yuliya Vysotskaya), a French collaborator Jules (Philippe Duquesne), and a high-ranking SS officer Helmut (Christian Clauß). Olga is arrested for hiding Jewish children from the Nazi roundups. Her case is overseen by Jules. He is interested in her and it seems that in exchange for sexual relations, he is ready to sof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlean (film)
''Orlean'' (russian: Орлеан) is a 2015 Russian film directed by Andrey Proshkin, screenplay by Yuri Arabov. The film participated in the competition program of the XXXVII Moscow International Film Festival. For her starring role, Elena Lyadova was awarded the prize Silver George for Best Actress. Plot The small town of Orlean, located on the shores of the salt lake in the Altai steppe. In the hospital room where after yet another abortion the local beauty Lidka lies, appears a strange gentleman who identifies himself as Pavlyuchek, executioner. His questions drive Lidka to hysterics and she runs for help to her friend surgeon Rudik. In a changed appearance the clerk appears in the apartment of Rudik, where lies his paralyzed father in a bad condition. Cast * Elena Lyadova as Lidka * Oleg Yagodin as Rudik * Vitaly Khaev as Nevolin * Viktor Sukhorukov as Executioner * Timofey Tribuntsev as Borya Amaretto * Pavel Tabakov as Igor Criticism *The Hollywood Reporter: In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Tsarevich And The Gray Wolf (film)
''Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf'' also commonly known as ''Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf'' (russian: Иван Царевич и Серый волк, Ivan Tsarevich i Seriy volk) is a 2011 Russian animated film directed by Vladimir Toropchin. Plot The young princess Vasilisa from a faraway kingdom is too enthusiastic about her education and she dreams of marrying out of love only. Her father, an elderly king, not unfamiliar with intrigues, gives up in trying to get his daughter to "settle down". Meanwhile, his minister, cunning and dexterous, but not very intelligent, under the influence of a living shadow-spirit with sin in half decides to steal the famous royal key from the secret storage. In the opinion of this spirit, the best way to realize this plan is to marry Vasilisa. However, before the minister manages to convince the king in what he wants, the king announces to his daughter that she must marry the first man she meets. And this man turns out to be a certain Ivan from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furtseva
Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva (russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Фурцева; 7 December 1910 – 24 October 1974) was a Soviet politician and the second woman to be admitted as secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (the first being Yelena Stasova, member of the 7th Bureau). Furtseva was born in Vyshny Volochyok. Until the 1940s, she worked as an ordinary weaver at one of Moscow's textile factories. She had been a minor party worker in Kursk and the Crimea, and was called to Moscow and sent to the Institute of Chemical Technology from where she graduated in 1941 as a chemical engineer.O, Ekaterina. |
In The Style Of Jazz
''In the Style of Jazz'' (russian: …в сти́ле JAZZ, …v stile JAZZ) is a 2010 romantic comedy directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. Plot The protagonist is a successful young man with charm and the ability to please all women regardless of their age and position in society. The heroine is a girl of twenty-six, with a head gone to work, disappointed in love and no longer dreaming of a woman's happiness. But ... he gets acquainted with her younger sister and mother, still a beauty. Over time, they find themselves in the power of the hero's charm. Cast *Michał Żebrowski as Sergei Vladimirovich Saveliev, writer (voiced by Viktor Rakov) *Olga Krasko as Irina, the eldest daughter, an actress *Elena Yakovleva as Vera Dmitrievna, mother, stewardess *Aglaya Shilovskaya as Zhenya, the youngest daughter, a student *Anatoly Bely as actor *Tatyana Ustinova as Tanya, Sergey's ex-wife, a successful writer (actually - cameo) *Marat Basharov as actor *Fyodor Dobronravov as Lieutenant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
