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Varvara Popova
Varvara Aleksandrovna Popova (russian: Варвара Александровна Попова) (17 December 1899 - 31 October 1988) was a Soviet stage and film actress. She appeared in early silent films by Yakov Protazanov and Mikhail Doller, but most of her credits date from the 1960s, when she was in demand for character roles, generally as a grandmother, peasant woman, etc. She appeared in several fairy-tale films by Aleksandr Rou. For many years she was a member of the company of the Vakhtangov Theatre. Selected filmography * 1925 - ''His Call'' - Katya Sushkova * 1957 - ''The Snow Queen (1957 film)'' - Granny * 1963 - ''Fitil'' - Old woman on the pier * 1964 - '' The Chairman'' - Samokhina * 1964 - ''Jack Frost'' - Old blind woman * 1965 - ''Time, Forward!'' - Old woman in the hut * 1967 - ''Woman's World'' - Komarikha * 1969 - ''The Brothers Karamazov'' - Matryona * 1969 - ''Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair'' - Stepanida * 1973 - ''The Golden Horns ''The Golden Horns'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million residents within the city limits, over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in the metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's largest cities; being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow grew to become a prosperous and powerful city that served as the capital of the Grand Duchy that bears its name. When the Grand Duchy of Moscow evolved into the Tsardom of Russia, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of the Tsardom's history. When th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Frost (1964 Film)
''Jack Frost'' (russian: Морозко, ''Morozko'') is a 1964 Soviet romantic fantasy film made by Gorky Film Studio. It was based on a traditional Russian fairy tale '' Morozko''. It was directed by Alexander Rou, and starred Eduard Izotov as Ivan, Natalya Sedykh as Nastenka, and Alexander Khvylya as Father Frost. The script was written by Nikolai Erdman. The soundtrack was composed by Nikolai Budashkin, who was inspired by the works of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. A version with an English dub was released in 1966 in the U.S. and was the one also spoofed on the cult TV series '' Mystery Science Theater 3000''. It was also spoofed by the Rifftrax.com site in 2021. At the end of 2010, Russia 1 remade the film into a musical, very different from the 1964 film, starring Nikolai Baskov. Plot The lovely, humble Nastya is despised by her stepmother who favors her own mean-spirited and ugly daughter, Marfushka. Her meek father is powerless to stop his wife. After forcing Nastenka t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Film Actresses
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Soviet Film Actresses
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1988 Deaths
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1899 Births
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister Dezső Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Horns
''The Golden Horns'' (russian: Золотые рога, Zolotye roga), also known in English as ''Baba Yaga'', is a 1973 Soviet fairy tale film. It was director Alexander Rou's last film before his death later in 1973. While collecting mushrooms in the forest, sisters Dashenka and Mashenka get turned into does by the evil Baba Yaga. Their mother Yevdokia goes in search of them, while their brother Kiryusha also attempts to find the sisters. Plot In the forest lives a magnificent deer with golden antlers, who protects the poor and the weak, but prefers to avoid the evil. In the village near the forest lives the widow Yevdokia (Raisa Ryazanova) with her twins Maschenka (Ira Tchigrinova) and Daschenka (Lena Tchigrinova), their big brother Kiryushka (Volodya Belov) and the ancient grandfather. One day, while mushrooming, the twins see the stag as it is being hunted down by robbers. A short time later, despite their mother's prohibition, they decide to go deeper into the forest (to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara The Fair With The Silken Hair
''Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair'' (russian: Варвара-краса, длинная коса, Varvara-krasa, dlinnaya kosa) is a 1969 Soviet fantasy film directed by Alexander Rou and based on the fairy tale by Vasily Zhukovsky. The film premiered December 30, 1970. Plot Once upon a time there was a king Yeremei. He went to the annual campaign to make an inventory of his kingdom-state. He leaned over once to the well to drink, but immediately grabbed by the underwater tsar Chudo - Yudo. Demanded a ransom for the release - such as Jeremiah did not know or wondered what it is in his kingdom. The king agreed, not knowing that in the absence of the queen gave birth to a son. Cast * Mikhail Pugovkin as ''tsar Yeremei (the king)'' * Georgy Millyar as ''Chudo-Yudo (slavic monster, the underwater king)'' * Anatoly Kubatsky as ''Afonya, dyak'' * Aleksei Katyshev as ''Andrey, son of a fisherman'' * Sergei Nikolaev as ''Andrey, the tsar's son'' * Tatiana Klyueva as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brothers Karamazov (1969 Film)
''The Brothers Karamazov'' (russian: Братья Карамазовы, translit. ''Bratya Karamazovy'') is a 1969 Soviet film directed by Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov. It is based on the 1880 novel by the famous Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival, winning Pyryev a Special Prize. Plot summary Cast * Mikhail Ulyanov as Dmitri Karamazov * Lionella Pyryeva as Grushenka * Kirill Lavrov as Ivan Karamazov * Andrey Myagkov as Alyosha Karamazov * Mark Prudkin as Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov * Svetlana Korkoshko as Yekaterina Ivanovna * Valentin Nikulin as Pavel Smerdyakov * Pavel Pavlenko as elder Zosima * Andrei Abrikosov as Kuzma Kuzmich Samsonov * Gennadi Yukhtin as Father Paisi * Anatoly Adoskin as Examining magistrate * Rada Volshaninova as Gipsy * Tamara Nosova as Marya Kondratyevna * Nikita Podgorny as Mikhail Osipovic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman's World (1967 Film)
''Woman's World'' (russian: Бабье царство, Babye tsarstvo) is a 1967 war film directed by Alexey Saltykov. The film was a box-office leader in the USSR in the year 1968, fourth place 49.6 million viewers. Plot The film is about a simple female kolkhoz farmer, who heads the women of the village during the war and the horror of the Nazi occupation which deprives her of her son, her husband and her home ... Cast *Rimma Markova as Nadezhda Petrovna *Nina Sazonova as Anna Sergeevna *Alexandra Dorokhin as Marina, wife of Jean *Svetlana Sukhovey as Dunyasha Noskova *Valentina Stolbova as Sophia, the wife of Basil *Svetlana Zhgun as Nastya *Vitaly Solomin as Kostya Lubentsov *Aleksei Krychenkov as Kolya, son of Nadezhda Petrovna * Aleksandr Grave as store manager * Fyodor Odinokov as Vasily Petrichenko * Yefim Kopelyan as Nazi commandant Caspar Awards *VKF (All-Union Film Festival) **1970 — Diploma and Award for Best Actress (Rimma Markova) *San Sebastián International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time, Forward!
''Time, Forward!'' (russian: Время, вперёд!, ''Vremya, vperyod!'') is a 1965 Soviet drama film directed by Sofiya Milkina and Mikhail Schweitzer based on a novel with the same name and a screenplay by Valentin Kataev. The film was produced by Mosfilm, a unit of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino). The famous musical score was composed by Georgy Sviridov. The title is derived from Vladimir Mayakovsky's play ''The Bathhouse'' (russian: Баня). Plot summary The film is set in the 1930s, depicting one day of the construction work of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (or ''Magnitka''). The characters are construction workers and Komsomol members who are eager to work. Learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they are mobilized in order to beat them. Everyone at the construction site has embraced socialist competition. They are ready to win at any cost to speed up construction and complete the work on time. A Moscow journalist comes to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chairman (1964 Film)
''The Chairman '' (russian: Председатель, Predsedatel) is a Soviet films of 1964, 1964 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Saltykov and starring Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Nonna Mordyukova and Ivan Lapikov. This film was honored with a Second Prize at All-Union Film Festival in Kiev (1966). Plot After World War II ends, soldier Yegor Trubnikov comes back to his native village to restore the ruined collective farm facilities. Rebuilding the kolkhoz is as hard for him as fighting the war. Becoming chairman, he charges himself with the burden of responsibility not only for the collective farm business, but also for the destiny of the people who are so close to him. Trivia The film (quite unusually for a Soviet movie) contains performance of a Christian religious hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee (at 32nd minute). Cast *Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov, Mikhail Ulyanov as Yegor Trubnikov *Ivan Lapikov as Semyon Trubnikov *Nonna Mordyukova as Donya Trubni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
