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Vsevolod Larionov
Vsevolod Dmitriyevich Larionov (russian: Всеволод Дмитриевич Ларионов; September 11, 1928 in Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union – October 8, 2000 /ref> in , ) was a |
Vsevolod Larionov
Vsevolod Dmitriyevich Larionov (russian: Всеволод Дмитриевич Ларионов; September 11, 1928 in Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union – October 8, 2000 /ref> in , ) was a |
The Very Same Munchhausen
''The Very Same Munchhausen'' ( rus, Тот самый Мюнхгаузен, Tot samyy Myunkhgauzen, alt. translation - ''That Very Münchhausen'') is a 1979 Soviet fantasy dramedy television film directed by Mark Zakharov, based on a script by Grigoriy Gorin. The film relays the story of the baron's life after the adventures portrayed in the Baron Munchausen stories, particularly his struggle to prove himself sane. Münchhausen is portrayed as a multi-dimensional, colourful, non-conformist man living in a grey, plain, dull and conformist society that ultimately tries to destroy his personality. The film, created during late years of the Leonid Brezhnev rule, has been widely regarded as a tongue-in-cheek satire of the Soviet Stagnation-Era society.Kevin Moss: ''A Russian Munchausen, Aesopian Translation.'' In: Andrew Horton (Hrsg.)''Inside Soviet Film Satire: Laughter with a Lash.''Cambridge 1993, , S. 20–35(pdf)/ref> Plot The film is set in Germany in 1779. Firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaniusha The Newcomer
''Vaniusha The Newcomer'' (russian: Пришелец Ванюша) is a 1990 Soviet Russian stop-motion animation film by Vladimir Danilevich and Olga Panokina. It was produced by Soyuzmultfilm studio. The film is about The Friendly Newcomer from another planet. It is the second film of the tetralogy, which tells about the adventures of The Newcomer Vaniusha and his friends. The other three films are ''The Newcomer in The Cabbage'', ''Vaniusha and The Space Pirate'' and ''Vaniusha and The Giant''. Plot summary The Cold Russian Winter.Vaniusha with His Friends make The Snow Sculpture. The winter ends. The Spring begins. The Snow Sculpture can melt. Vaniusha and His Friends decide to save The Snow Sculpture. They go in The Deep Space. They leave The Sculpture in The World, where The Sun was extinguished, and always cold. This film has elements of folk tales and science fiction genres. Creators See also *"The Newcomer in The Cabbage" *"Vaniusha and The Space Pirate" *"Vanius ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intergirl
''Intergirl'' (russian: Интердевочка, translit. ''Interdevochka'') is a 1989 Soviet drama film. It is set in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in the time of perestroika during the 1980s. The film was the most popular Soviet film in 1989 (41.3 million viewers) and made a star of leading actress Elena Yakovleva. It is the screen adaptation of the eponymous story by Vladimir Kunin. Plot Tanya Zaitseva from Leningrad, a nurse by day and a prostitute catering to foreigners by night, suddenly receives a marriage proposal from a Swedish client. After another altercation with the police, she goes home to share good news with her mother, who thinks that her daughter is just a nurse. Tanya does not hide the fact that she is not marrying for love, but because she wants to have an apartment, a car, money and dreams "to see the world with my own eyes." In a conversation with her mother she argues that prostitution is characteristic of all trades, "all sell themselves.", but he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisoners Of Yamagiri-Maru
''Prisoners of Yamagiri-Maru'' (russian: Узники «Ямагири-мару», Uzniki «Yamagiri-maru») is a 1988 Soviet stop-motion animated science fiction short film directed by Aleksei Solovyov based on the short story of the same name by Kir Bulychov. Plot The end of the 21st century. Alisa Seleznyova and Pashka Geraskin undergo school practice under the leadership of Aran Singh, the director of the ocean farm on the island of Yap where mysterious events have recently begun to occur: species of marine creatures unknown to science suddenly appear while dolphins and whales belonging to the farm are vanishing. Pashka learns that the Japanese transport "Yamagiri-Maru" sunk near the island during World War II, carrying jewels from Burma, captured by the Japanese. He is going to stealthily take a submersible apparatus — a "bathyscaphe", to go down inside the ship and find treasures there, but Alice persuades him to swim with her. In the sunken cruiser, Alice and Pashka find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Eyes (1987 Film)
''Dark Eyes'' ( it, Oci ciornie; russian: Очи чёрные; ) is a 1987 Italian and Soviet film. Set in Italy and Russia in the years before the First World War, it tells the story of a married Italian who falls in love with a married Russian woman. Starring Marcello Mastroianni and Yelena Safonova, it received positive reviews from critics. Plot At a table in the empty restaurant of an Italian ship, Romano is sitting drinking. Pavel, a middle-aged Russian on his honeymoon cruise, enters and the two men strike up a conversation. When Romano says he once went to Russia because of a woman, Pavel asks to hear his story. From a poor family, he qualified as an architect and married a rich woman who inherited a bank. With little to do, on pretence of illness he took a holiday on his own at an expensive spa. There he met Anna, a Russian woman on her own, who told him she was from a poor family and married a rich man for security. After one night together, she left Romano a letter and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter The Great (miniseries)
''Peter the Great'' is a 1986 American biographical historical drama television miniseries directed by Marvin J. Chomsky and Lawrence Schiller, based on Robert K. Massie's 1980 non-fiction book '' Peter the Great: His Life and World''. It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard, Laurence Olivier, Helmut Griem, Jan Niklas, Elke Sommer, Renée Soutendijk, Ursula Andress, and Mel Ferrer. The miniseries received generally positive reviews from critics and won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries. It was also nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Miniseries or Television Film. Cast * Maximilian Schell as Peter the Great * Jan Niklas as Peter the Great in early adulthood * Vanessa Redgrave as Tsarevna Sophia * Omar Sharif as Prince Feodor Romodanovsky * Laurence Olivier as William III and II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland * Trevor Howard as Sir Isaac N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alone And Unarmed
Alone and Unarmed (russian: Один и без оружия, Odin i bez oruzhiya) is a Soviet 1984 crime drama directed by Pavel Fattahutdinov and Vladimir Khotinenko. A screen adaptation of the detective Nikolai Leonov's ''Agony''. Plot The film is set in 1927. Former commander of the Red Army Konstantin Vorontsov is appointed chief of criminal investigation in a small provincial town. Together with experienced investigation employee Ivan Melentyev, he starts to fight the leader of the thieves' world who goes by the name of Korney. Vorontsov and Melentyev prefer different methods of work; if Melentyev relies on deliberate placement of his people in the criminal environment, then Vorontsov wants to act as quickly as possible. The complexity of the struggle against Korney is that he does not commit the crimes with his own hands but instead oversees their execution. Due to a successful operation judiciary police manages to plant their agent to Korney in order to find out the place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev ( ; rus, Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев, , sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise. The active years of Diaghilev’s career can be divided into two periods: the one in St Petersburg (1898–1906) and the other in emigration (1906–1929). Biography Sergei Diaghilev was born in Selishchi to a noble officer . His mother died from childbed fever soon after his birth. In 1873, Pavel met and married Elena Panaeva, who loved Sergei and raised him as her own child. The in Perm was a local cultural centre, and the Diaghilevs housed a musical evening every second Thursday, Modest Mussorgsky being one of the most frequent guests. Sergei Diaghilev composed his first romance at the age of 15. When he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Pavlova (film)
''Anna Pavlova'', also known as ''A Woman for All Time'', is a 1983 biographical drama film depicting the life of the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, written and directed by Emil Loteanu and starring Galina Belyayeva, James Fox and Sergey Shakurov. It depicts Pavlova's passion for art and her collaboration with the reformers of ballet including Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky and Sergei Diaghilev. A co-production between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, famed British director Michael Powell served as a producer and featured American director Martin Scorsese in a cameo role. Plot The film opens in the cold Saint Petersburg with a scene where Anna as a young girl observes through a window young dancers practicing. Although she catches a cold, Anna decides that she does not merely want to be a dancer but that she wants to be one of the best. It is shown how classical master dancer/ballet teacher Marius Petipa helps Anna on to the path to glory and her rise in the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House That Swift Built
''The House That Swift Built'' (russian: Дом, который построил Свифт, Dom, kotoriy postroil Svift) is a 1982 Soviet fantasy comedy film directed by Mark Zakharov based on the eponymous play by Grigori Gorin about Irish satirist writer and Anglican priest Jonathan Swift. Plot A doctor arrives at a mentally unstable house, looking to reveal the truth of a famous writer, Jonathan Swift. Swift is surrounded by actors playing out the life in the house, somehow causing his mental illness and even slightly lost his grip on reality (so do other people think). The summary of this challenging story to comprehend is that the movie is about coping mentally with what is actually going on around you. Cast *Oleg Yankovsky - Jonathan Swift * Aleksandr Abdulov - Richard Simpson, Doctor *Vladimir Belousov - Patrick, servant-secretary *Yevgeny Leonov - Glum, the giant *Marina Ignatova - Vanessa * Alexandra Zakharova - Stella (Esther Johnson) *Alexander Sirin - Mr. Someone, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Relations
''Family Relations'' (russian: Родня, Rodnya) is a 1981 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. Plot A rural woman Mariya Konovalova (Nonna Mordyukova) goes to the regional center to visit her daughter Nina (Svetlana Kryuchkova), and beloved granddaughter Irishka (Fedor Stukov). A good and simple-minded woman can not imagine what kind of world they are living - the dearest and, perhaps, the only people close to her. Trying to deal with their ideas about life and being willing to improve her daughter's difficult relationship with her ex-husband, she brings them all to a lot of grief. Cast * Nonna Mordyukova as Maria Konovalova * Svetlana Kryuchkova as Nina, Maria's daughter * Yuri Bogatyryov as Tasik, Nina's husband * Andrei Petrov as Liapin, Maria's fellow traveler * Fyodor Stukov as Irishka, Nina's daughter * Ivan Bortnik as Vovchik, Maria's ex-husband * Oleg Menshikov as Kirill, Vovchik's son * Vsevolod Larionov as Lieutenant-General in the train * Nikita Mik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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