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Walking The Streets Of Moscow
''Walking the Streets of Moscow'' (''I walk across Moscow'', russian: link=no, italics=yes, Я шагаю по Москве) is a 1964 Soviet film directed by Georgiy Daneliya and produced by Mosfilm studios. It stars Nikita Mihalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Yevgeny Steblov and Galina Polskikh. The film also features four People's Artists of the USSR: Rolan Bykov, Vladimir Basov, Lev Durov, and Inna Churikova. The famous movie theme, performed by Mikhalkov, was written by the composer Andrey Petrov. The film, regarded as one of the most characteristic of the Khrushchev Thaw, premiered at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and won a prize for the work of cameraman Vadim Yusov, best known for his subsequent collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky. Plot summary The film opens at a Moscow airport in summer 1963. A young man, Volodya ( Aleksei Loktev), calls out to a young woman he sees singing to herself and dancing. :– Arriving or departing? :– Waiting for arrivals. :– Who is it? :– My hus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov (russian: Никита Сергеевич Михалков; born 21 October 1945) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union. Mikhalkov is a three-time laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1993, 1995, 1999) and is a Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", Full Cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". Nikita Mikhalkov won the Golden Lion of the 48th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival (1991) and was nominated for the Academy Awards, Academy Award (1993) in the category List of Russian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best International Feature Film for the film ''Close to Eden''. He won an 67th Academy Awards, Academy Award (1995) for Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival), Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival (1994) for the film ''Burnt by the Sun''. Mikhalkov received the "Special Lion" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Cannes Film Festival
The 17th Cannes Film Festival was held from 29 April to 14 May 1964. On this occasion, the Palme d’Or was renamed "Grand Prix du Festival International du Film", a name that remained in use through 1974, after which it became the Palme d'Or again. The Grand Prix went to the ''Les Parapluies de Cherbourg'' by Jacques Demy. The festival opened with ''Cent mille dollars au soleil'', directed by Henri Verneuil. Jury The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1964 competition: Feature films *Fritz Lang (West Germany) Jury President *Charles Boyer (France) Vice President *Joaquín Calvo-Sotelo (Spain) * René Clément (France) *Jean-Jacques Gautier (France) (journalist) *Alexandre Karaganov (Soviet Union) (critic) *Lorens Marmstedt (Sweden) *Geneviève Page (France) *Raoul Ploquin (France) *Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (USA) *Véra Volmane (France) (journalist) Short film jury *Jean-Jacques Languepin (France) Vice President *Jiří Brdečka (Czechoslovakia) *Robert Mén ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Vidov
Oleg Borisovich Vidov (russian: Олег Борисович Видов; June 11, 1943 – May 15, 2017) was a Soviet Russian American actor, film director and producer. He appeared in 50 films beginning in 1961. A refugee from his native Soviet Union, he was granted U.S. citizenship and became a naturalized American. Early life Oleg Vidov was born in either the Leninsky District, Moscow Oblast or Vidnoye, Moscow Oblast to Varvara Ivanovna Vidova, a teacher and a school principal, and Boris Nikolaievich Garnevich, an economist and a Finance Ministry deputy. According to Garnevich's fifth wife, Irina Vavilova, Garnevich was an influential man and served as an assistant of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Commissariat
A military commissariat is an institution that is part of military service or law enforcement mechanisms in some European countries. As part of the British Army in the 19th century, military commissariats were used for organisational, accounting and bookkeeping duties regarding military transport, personnel and equipment. The most widespread historic use of military commissariats existed as part of administrative military infrastructure in the Soviet Union. Each Soviet district would have a military commissariat that was responsible for keeping documentation up to date concerning military resources, including the labour force, in their region. Military commissariats in the Soviet Union were also tasked with the recruitment and training of military servicemen. The use of military commissariats as local military administrative agencies continued as a part of modern Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since the transition from the Soviet Union to Russia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Vinogradova (actress)
Maria Sergeyevna Vinogradova (russian: Мари́я Серге́евна Виногра́дова; 13 July 1922 – 2 July 1995) was a Russian actress. She appeared in more than one hundred films from 1940 to 1995. Filmography References External links * 1922 births 1995 deaths Russian film actresses Soviet film actresses Russian voice actresses Soviet voice actresses Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni Honored Artists of the RSFSR 20th-century Russian women {{Russia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Skobtseva
Irina Konstantinovna Skobtseva (russian: Ирина Константиновна Скобцева; 22 August 1927 – 20 October 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actress and second wife of Sergei Bondarchuk. Biography Irina Konstantinovna Skobtseva was born on 22 August 1927 in Tula. Her father was a research fellow at the Main Directorate of Meteorological Service, her mother worked in the archive. After finishing secondary school, Skobtseva studied art in the Faculty of History of Moscow State University. While studying, she acted in student theatre. After graduating from the Moscow State University in 1952, she entered the Moscow Art Theatre School, from which she graduated in 1955. In the same year, Irina Skobtseva made her cinematic debut as Desdemona in the film ''Othello'' by Sergei Yutkevich. The picture won the Best Director Award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, and was given diplomas and prizes at other international film festivals. In Cannes Irina Skobtseva was award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Ananina
Valentina Georgievna Ananina (russian: Валентина Геopгиeвна Ананьина; May 18, 1933, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. Biography Valentina Ananina was born May 18, 1933 in Moscow. In 1957 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (1957, workshop Yuli Raizman). In the years 1957-1990 actress Studio Theatre of film actor. Valentina Ananina master of the episode, the lists of the most popular actresses of the national cinema has always occupied the first place. The assets actress more than 200 roles. In addition to filming a movie, Valentina working in the children's Sunday school at the Novodevichy Convent. Selected filmography * 1955: The Lesson of Life as '' Nura, a maid * 1955: Private Ivan as ''country girl'' * 1957: The Communist as ''Frosya'' * 1957: The Girl Without an Address as ''Secretary in the office'' * 1957: The Cranes Are Flying as ''Dasha'' * 1959: Ballad of a Soldier as ''countrywom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyubov Sergeyevna Sokolova
Lyubov Sergeevna Sokolova (russian: Любо́вь Серге́евна Соколо́ва; July 31, 1921June 6, 2001) was a Soviet and Russian cinema actress, named a People's Artist of the USSR. She played more than 300 film roles. Biography Lyubov Sokolova studied cinematography with Boris Bibikov and Olga Pyzhova, graduating in 1946. From 1951 to 1956, she was an actress with the Drama Theatre Group of the Soviet Forces in Germany (Potsdam). She was a studio actress from 1946 to 1951 and in 1956. Sokolova had her movie debut in 1948, as the simple village woman Varvara in ''The Story of a Real Man''. Some of the films she acted in included '' Quiet Flows the Don'', '' Splendid Days'', ''The story of Asya Klyachina'', ''Far from Moscow'', ''Shine, Shine, My Star'', ''Crime and Punishment'', ''Walking the Streets of Moscow'', ''Thirty Three'', ''The Irony of Fate'', ''Moscow, My Love'', ''White Bim Black Ear'', '' Live Till Monday'', ''Belorussian Station'', '' Do Not Shoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irina Miroshnichenko
Irina Petrovna Miroshnichenko (russian: Иpина Пeтpoвна Миpoшничeнкo; born 24 July 1942) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988). Selected filmography *1964 – Walking the Streets of Moscow as Katya *1966 – Andrei Rublev as Mary Magdalene *1970 – Uncle Vanya as Yelena Serebryakova *1970 – Mission in Kabul as Marina Arkadyevna Luzhina *1973 – That Sweet Word: Liberty! as Maria *1976 – Trust as Maria Andreeva *1981 – Could One Imagine? as Lyudmila Sergeevna *1981 – The Old New Year The Old New Year (russian: Cтаpый Нoвый гoд, Stariy Noviy god) is a 1981 Soviet comedy film directed by Naum Ardashnikov and Oleg Yefremov. After the successful staging at the Moscow Art Theatre (directed by Oleg Yefremov), based on Mi ... as Klava Poluorlova References External links * 1942 births Living people People from Barnaul Soviet film actresses Soviet stage actresses Soviet television actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GUM (department Store)
GUM (russian: ГУМ, , an abbreviation of russian: Главный универсальный магазин, Glavnyy universalnyy magazin, lit=Main Universal Store) is the main department store in many cities of the former Soviet Union, known as State Department Store (russian: Государственный универсальный магазин, Gosudarstvennyy universalnyy magazin, link=no) during the Soviet era (until 1991). Similarly named stores operated in some Soviet republics and in post-Soviet states. The most famous GUM is the large store facing Red Square in the Kitai-gorod area – itself traditionally a trading center of Moscow. , the building functions as a shopping mall. Before the 1920s the location was known as the Upper Trading Rows (russian: Верхние торговые ряды, Verkhniye Torgovyye Ryady, link=no). As of 2021, GUM carries over 100 different brands, and has cafes and restaurants inside the mall. Moscow GUM Design and structure With ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clean Ponds
The Clean Ponds (russian: Чистые пруды, ''Chistye Prudy''), is a large pond in Moscow, Russia, located in the Basmanny District, on the Boulevard Ring. The pond gives its name to Chistoprudny Boulevard, which runs from Turgenevskaya Square and Sretensky Boulevard towards Pokrovka Street, where it adjoins Pokrovsky Boulevard, and to Chistyye Prudy (Moscow Metro), Chistyye Prudy station on the Moscow Metro. According to retired KGB colonel Victor Cherkashin, author of ''Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames'', the adjoining 'Chistyi Prudy (Clean Ponds)' is also part of "an old, prestigious neighborhood." On page 177 of his book, Victor Cherkashin spells the area as 'Chistyi' as opposed to 'Chistye.' The ponds were formed by a dam on the Rachka River which used to flow underneath the walls of the Bely Gorod, White City in the 17th century. Nowadays the river is underground, as are all the ponds but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro) is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. , the Moscow Metro, excluding the Moscow Central Circle, the Moscow Central Diameters and the Moscow Monorail, has 250 stations (287 with Moscow Central Circle) and its route length is , making it the fifth-longest in the world and the longest outside China. The system is mostly underground, with the deepest section underground at the Park Pobedy station, one of the world's deepest underground stations. It is the busiest metro system in Europe, and is considered a tourist attraction in itself. Operations The Moscow Metro, a state-owned enterprise, is long and consists of 15 lines and 250 stations organized in a spoke-hub distribution paradigm, with the majority of rail lines running radia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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