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Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Ovchinnikov (russian: Вячесла́в Алекса́ндрович Овчи́нников; 29 May 1936 in Voronezh, Soviet Union – 4 February 2019 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian composer. Biography He began composing at age 9 and entered the Moscow Conservatory at 15. Later he studied with Tikhon Khrennikov and Leo Ginzburg. He composed symphonies, symphonic poems, as well as works for chamber orchestra, small ensembles and solo instruments. Outside his native country he is best known as a composer of music for such films as ''War and Peace'', the 1966–67 film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, ''Ivan's Childhood'' and ''Andrei Rublev'' for Andrei Tarkovsky. He has composed for some 40 films in total. Tarkovsky is said to have been so impressed by Ovchinnikov that he stated: "I cannot imagine a better composer for myself than Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov." Ovchinnikov also had a successful career as a touring conductor from the 1970s. He h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voronezh
Voronezh ( rus, links=no, Воро́неж, p=vɐˈronʲɪʂ}) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don– Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census; making it the fourteenth most populous city in the country. Geography Urban layout Information about the original urban layout of Voronezh is contained in the "Patrol Book" of 1615. At that time, the city fortress was logged and located on the banks of the Voronezh River. In plan, it was an irregular quadrangle with a perimeter of about 130 fathoms (238 m), that is, it was very small: inside it, due to lack of space, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirikit
Queen Sirikit ( th, สิริกิติ์; ; ); born ''Mom Rajawongse'' Sirikit Kitiyakara ( th, สิริกิติ์ กิติยากร; ; 12 August 1932) is the queen mother of Thailand. She was List of Thai royal consorts, Queen of Thailand as the wife of Bhumibol Adulyadej (or Rama (King of Thailand), King Rama IX) and is the mother of the current King Vajiralongkorn (or King Rama X). She met Bhumibol in Paris, where her father was Thai ambassador. They married in 1950, shortly before Bhumibol's coronation. Sirikit was appointed Regent of Thailand, queen regent in 1956, when the king entered the Buddhist monkhood for a period of time. Sirikit has one son and three daughters with the king. Consort of the monarch who was the Current reigning monarchs by length of reign, world's longest-reigning head of state, she was also the world's longest-serving queen consort. Sirikit suffered a stroke on 21 July 2012 and has since refrained from public appearances. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsenal (1929 Film)
''Arsenal'' ( uk, Арсенал, also alternative title ''January Uprising in Kyiv in 1918'') is a 1929 Soviet war film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The film was shot at Odessa Film Factory of VUFKU with the camera of legendary cameraman Danyl Demutskyi and using the original sets made by Volodymyr Muller. The expressionist imagery, perfect camera work and original drama took the film far beyond the usual propaganda and made it one of the most important pieces of Ukrainian avant-garde cinema. The film was made in 1928 and released early in 1929.Magill's Survey of Silent Films, Vol.1 A-FLA p.152 edited by Frank N. Magill c.1982 (3 book set ) It is the second film in his "Ukraine Trilogy", the first being ''Zvenigora'' (1928) and the third being ''Earth'' (1930). The film concerns an episode in the Russian Civil War in 1918 in which the Kiev Arsenal January Uprising of workers aided the besieging Bolshevik army against the Ukrainian national Parliament Central Rada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Soldier Came Back From The Front
''A Soldier Came Back from the Front'' (russian: Пришёл солдат с фронта) is a 1971 Soviet drama film directed by Nikolay Gubenko. Plot The film tells about the soldier Nikolay, who returns from the front and learns that his wife is no longer alive. But, despite this, he continues to live and work on. Cast * Mikhail Gluzskiy as Ivan Menshikov * Irina Miroshnichenko as Vera Kurkina * Nikolay Gubenko as Nikolay Maksimovich Yegorov * Lena Smirnova as Nadenka Yegorova * Misha Rodyakov as Leshenka * O. Larionova * Ivan Sharin as Yerofeich (as I. Sharin) * Lyudmila Stoyanova * Natalya Bondarchuk Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (russian: Наталья Серге́евна Бондарчук) (born 10 May 1950) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's ''Solaris (1972 ... as Shura (as N. Bondarchuk) * Alevtina Rumyantseva References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Soldier Came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Nest Of Gentry (film)
, image = , caption = , director = Andrey Konchalovsky , producer = , writer = , starring = , music = Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov , cinematography = Georgi Rerberg , editing = L. PokrovskayaValentina Oleynik , released = 1969 , studio = Mosfilm , runtime = 111 min. , country = Soviet Union , language = Russian , budget = ''A Nest of Gentry'' (russian: Дворянское гнездо, Dvoryanskoe gnezdo) is a 1969 Soviet drama film directed by Andrey Konchalovsky. Plot Fyodor Ivanovich Lavretsky returns to his estate after 11 years in Paris, in which his wife remained. Frustrated by life, deceived by his wife who had cheated on him, exhausted by a long separation from Russia this is how the hero looks at the beginning of the film. Soon, Lavretsky falls in love with his charming young cousin's daughter, Lisa. After some time, Lavretsky learns from the newspapers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Long Happy Life
, image = A Long Happy Life.jpg , caption = , director = Gennady Shpalikov , producer = Vladimir Besprozvanny , writer = Gennady Shpalikov , starring = , music = Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov , cinematography = Dmitry Meskhiev , editing = Aleksandra Borovskaya , released = 1966 , studio = Lenfilm , runtime = 76 min. , country = Soviet Union , language = Russian , budget = ''A Long Happy Life'' (russian: Долгая счастливая жизнь, Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn) is a 1966 Soviet melodrama film directed by Gennady Shpalikov. Included in the 100 best Russian films according to the Russian Guild of Film Critics (No. 92). Plot The film tells about the geologist Viktor, who on his way home meets a girl named Lena, whom he falls in love with. Victor promises her a long happy life, but in reality everything does not turn out as he thought. He understands that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Teacher
''The First Teacher'' (russian: Первый учитель, Pervyy uchitel) is a 1965 drama film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. It is his first full-length work, based on the book by Chinghiz Aitmatov. Synopsis The action takes place in the years from 1924 all the way to the early 1950s in the Kurkureu village of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, which is now Kyrgyzstan. The Russian Civil War ended not so long ago. Young Komsomol member and a former Red Army soldier, Dyuyshen, travels to a remote village where he takes up his post as the new teacher for the children of the village. His enthusiasm to bring new ideas immediately faces a centuries-old tradition of life in Central Asia. The former soldier tries to improve the children's literacy but faces opposition from their Muslim parents who, moreover, look unfavorably on the idea of a girl joining the school. Dyuyshen meets Altynai, a 15-year-old illiterate girl who has a burning desire to study, but her aunt sells her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy And The Dove
, image = , caption = , director = Andrey Konchalovsky , producer = , writer = Andrey Konchalovsky , starring = Nikolay Burlyaev , music = Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov , cinematography = Mikhail Kozhin , editing = , released = , studio= , runtime = , country = Soviet Union , language = Russian , budget = ''The Boy and the Dove'' (russian: Мальчик и голубь) is a 1961 Soviet short film directed by Andrey Konchalovsky Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (russian: link=no, Андрей Сергеевич Михалков-Кончаловский; born 20 August 1937) is a Russian filmmaker. He has worked in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian .... Plot The film tells about a boy who dreams of acquiring a dove and depicting him on a wall. He can endlessly watch the birds flying in the sky. But the dove can't afford it. The guy decides to buy a dove for an album with stamps and sends a pigeon to the sky. But the dove returned to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Steamroller And The Violin
''The Steamroller and the Violin'' (russian: Каток и скрипка, Transliteration, translit. ''Katok i skripka''), is a 1960 featurette directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and from a screenplay written by Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky. The film tells the story of the unlikely friendship of Sasha (Igor Fomchenko), a little boy, and Sergey (Vladimir Zamansky), the operator of a steamroller. The film was Tarkovsky's diploma film at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), but was made at the Mosfilm studio. Plot Sasha (Igor Fomchenko) is a boy who lives with his mother (Marina Adzhubei) and his sister in an old house in Moscow. He is learning to play the violin. Every morning he has to cross the yard to go to the music school, trying to avoid some other children who are bullying and harassing him. This day he is lucky as Sergey (Vladimir Zamansky), the operator of a steamroller, tells them to leave Sasha alone. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel Prize laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature. Born in New Albany, Mississippi, Faulkner's family moved to Oxford, Mississippi when he was a young child. With the outbreak of World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel '' Soldiers' Pay'' (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote '' Sartoris'' (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published ''The Sound and the Fury''. The following year, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryantsev Youth Theatre
The A. Bryantsev Youth Theatre (also spelled ''State Theater For Young Audience Named After A. A. Bryantsev'' or ''Bryantsev Young Viewers Theater''; russian: Театр Юного Зрителя имени Брянцева) is one of the first professional children's theatres in Russia, opened in 1922. In Soviet time the theatre was called Leningrad Young People's Theatre (russian: Ленинградский театр юных зрителей, ЛенТЮЗ). In 1962 it was moved to the current newly constructed building. The theatre is in Saint Petersburg, on the Pionerskaya Square near the end of Gorokhovaya Street. The theatre has been the start of many well-known actors, and is well known for playing fairy tales. The Theatre is named after its founder Aleksandr Bryantsev (1883-1961). He was the leader of the theatre in 1921-19and directed more than fifty plays there. In 1962-1986 the leader of the theater was Zinovy Korogodsky. He directed more than one hundred plays and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling in the Vostok 1 capsule, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. By achieving this major milestone in the Space Race he became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation's highest honour. Gagarin was born in the Russian village of Klushino, and in his youth was a foundryman at a steel plant in Lyubertsy. He later joined the Soviet Air Forces as a pilot and was stationed at the Luostari/Pechenga (air base), Luostari Air Base, near the Norwegian border, before his selection for the Soviet space programme with five other cosmonauts. Following his spaceflight, Gagarin became deputy training director of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Cos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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