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Yanina Zheymo
Yanina Boleslavovna Zhejmo (russian: Янина Болеславовна Жеймо; pl, Janina Bolesławowna Żejmo; 29 May 1909 – 29 December 1987) was a Soviet actress of Polish origin. Her father was Polish and her mother was Russian. She appeared in more than 30 films between 1925 and 1955. Partial filmography * ''Mishki versus Yudenich'' (1925, Short) - youngster * ''The Devil's Wheel'' (1926, Short) * ''The Overcoat'' (1926) * '' Somebody Else's Coat'' (1927) - Circus actress * '' Little Brother'' (1927, Short) * ''The Club of the Big Deed'' (1927) * ''The New Babylon'' (1929) - Therese, a seamstress * ''Road to the World'' (1929) * ''The Blue Express'' (1929) * '' Alone'' (1931) - Young Teacher * ''Man from Prison'' (1931) * ''Seeking Asylum'' (1932) * ''My Motherland'' (1933) - Olya * ''Song of Happiness'' (1934) - Anuk * '' Red Army Days'' (1935) - Kika, her friend * '' Girl Friends'' (1936) - Asya * ''Lenochka i vinograd'' (1936) * ''Enemies'' (1938) - Nadya * ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vawkavysk
Vawkavysk ( be, Ваўкавы́ск, ; russian: Волковы́ск; pl, Wołkowysk; lt, Valkaviskas; yi, וואלקאוויסק; Names of European cities in different languages: U-Z#V, names in other languages) is one of the oldest towns in southwestern Belarus and the capital of the Vawkavysk district. It is located on the Wolkowyja River, roughly from Grodno and from Minsk. Its population is estimated at 43,826 inhabitants. Vawkavysk was first unofficially mentioned in the Turaŭ, Turov Annals in 1005 and this year is widely accepted as the founding year for Vawkavysk. At that time it was a city-fortress on the border of the Baltic and the Slavic ethnic groups. Since the 12th century, Vawkavysk was the center of a small princedom. The Hypatian Codex, Hypatian Chronicle mentions the city in 1252. Toponymy The name is thought to be derived from the local dialect for the phrases for searching for wolves () or the howling of wolves (). Old Belarusian tradition refers to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alone (1931 Soviet Film)
''Alone'' (russian: Одна, Odna, meaning "''Alone''") is a Soviet film released in 1931. It was written and directed by Leonid Trauberg and Grigori Kozintsev. It was originally planned as a silent film, but it was eventually released with a soundtrack comprising sound effects, some dialogue (recorded after the filming) and a full orchestral score by Dmitri Shostakovich. The film, about a young teacher sent to work in Siberia, is in a realist mode and addresses three political topics then current: education, technology, and the elimination of the kulaks. Plot The film tells the story of a newly graduated Leningrad teacher, Yelena Kuzmina (played by Yelena Alexandrovna Kuzmina). She goes furniture shopping with her fiance, Petya, and in a fantasy sequence she imagines teaching a class of neat, obedient city schoolchildren. Instead, she is assigned to work in the Altai mountains of Siberia. Reluctant to leave, she appeals to remain in the city. Although her request is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Vawkavysk
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Deaths
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator Flashover, flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina (1987), Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is USS Stark incident, struck by Iraq, Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; President of the United States, U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous Tear down this wall!, speech, demanding that Soviet Union, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Births
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The Snow Queen (1957 Film)
''The Snow Queen'' (russian: Снежная королева, translit=Snezhnaya Koroleva) is a 1957 Soviet animated musical fantasy film directed by Lev Atamanov. It was produced by Soyuzmultfilm and is based on the 1844 story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. The film is one of the first cinematic adaptations of the Scandinavian Danish fable ever since the story was written by Andersen in '' New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection'' (1844). The film was the ninth full-length animated film from studio Soyuzmultfilm. The film was released in Russia on November 1, 1957. The film was re-released with English soundtracks in 1959, 1993 and 1995. The film was translated into all major languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and even Swedish. In 1959 at the height of the Cold War, Universal Pictures acquired the film for U.S. theatrical distribution. In the United States, in the 1960s and 70s, it became a good tradition to show ''The Snow Queen'' durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Friends (1954 Film)
''Two Friends'' (russian: Два друга) is a 1954 Soviet comedy film directed by Viktor Eisymont. Plot The film tells about two friends of Vita and Kostya who are extremely poor at school, preferring football studies. Vitya's mom takes away the ball from him, but this does not stop the boys from finding new entertainments and getting new bad grades. Starring * Lyonya Krauklis as Vitya Maleyev * Vladimir Guskov as Kostya Shishkin (as Vova Guskov) * Misha Aronov as Misha * Vitya Byelov as Khudozhnik stengazety * Borya Burlyaev as Tolik * Natasha Zasluyeva as Natasha * Kseniya Spiridonova as Tosya * Daniil Sagal as father of Vitya (as D. Sagal) * Vera Orlova as mother of Vitya (as V. Orlova) * Ksana Bibina as Lika Maleyeva * Yanina Zheymo as mother of Kostya * Irina Zarubina Irina Petrovna Zarubina (russian: Ирина Петровна Зару́бина; April 22, 1907 – May 20, 1976) was a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1951). Biogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinderella
"Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. The protagonist is a young woman living in forsaken circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage. The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between around 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story.Roger Lancelyn Green: ''Tales of Ancient Egypt'', Penguin UK, 2011, , chapter "The Land of Egypt" The first literary European version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his ''Pentamerone'' in 1634; the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking world was published in French by Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinderella (1947 Film)
''Cinderella'' (russian: Зо́лушка, Zolushka) is a 1947 Soviet fairy tale musical film by Lenfilm studios. Cast * Yanina Zhejmo as Cinderella * Aleksey Konsovsky as Prince * Erast Garin as King * Faina Ranevskaya as Cinderella's stepmother * Yelena Yunger as Anna, 1st daughter * Tamara Sezenyovskaya Marijana, 2nd daughter * Vasili Merkuryev as Forester * Aleksandr Rumnyov as Pas de Trois * Varvara Myasnikova as Fairy * Igor Klemenkov as Page * Sergey Filippov Sergey Nikolayevich Filippov (russian: Сергей Николаевич Филиппов, 24 June 1912— 19 April 1990) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor and comedian, best known for his parts in films ''Adventures of Korzinkina'' ... as Corporal External links * 1947 films Films based on Charles Perrault's Cinderella Lenfilm films 1940s musical fantasy films 1940s Russian-language films Films based on works by Evgeny Shvarts Russian children's fantasy films Soviet fantasy films Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We From The Urals
''We from the Urals'' (russian: Мы с Урала) is a 1943 Soviet drama film directed by Lev Kuleshov and Aleksandra Khokhlova. Plot Two teenagers working after school in a large military factory in the Urals rush to the front lines of war, where a nurse has left the sister of one of them. Their everyday life, love and youth make up the plot of the film. Cast * Aleksey Konsovsky as Kuzya Zavarin * Aleksandr Mikhailov as Vanya Tomakurov * Yanina Zhejmo as Vera Zavarina * Georgy Millyar as grandfather Tomakurov * Gleb Florinsky as Major Ignatyev * Maria Vinogradova as Sonya * Mariya Barabanova as Kapa Khorkova * Pyotr Galadzhev as factory painter * Nikolai Grabbe as Pavka Drozdov * Sergey Komarov as Yuri Pavlovich * Sergey Martinson as Head of the dancing group * Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Maria Vasilyevna * Sergey Filippov as Andrei Stepanovich * Ivan Ryzhov Ivan Petrovich Ryzhov (russian: Ива́н Петро́вич Рыжо́в; 25 January 1913, Zelyonaya Sloboda, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Young Fritz
''The Young Fritz'' (russian: Юный Фриц, Yunyi Frits) is a 1943 Soviet short film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg based on a short satiric poem by Samuil Marshak. Cast * Mikhail Zharov - Fritz * Maksim Shtraukh - Examining professor * Mikhail Astangov - Teacher * Vsevolod Pudovkin - Officer * Yanina Zhejmo * Mikhail Vysotsky - Father * Lydia Atmanaki - Mother * Lyudmila Shabalina - Tour guide in Museum of the Future * Konstantin Sorokin The first name Konstantin () is a derivation from the Latin name ''Constantinus'' (Constantine) in some European languages, such as Russian and German. As a Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. ... - Franz External links * 1943 films Lenfilm films Soviet black-and-white films Films directed by Grigori Kozintsev Films directed by Leonid Trauberg {{1940s-USSR-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Soldiers (1943 Film)
''Two Soldiers'' or ''Two Warriors'' (russian: Два бойца, ''Dva boitsa'') is a 1943 war film made in Tashkent (where the Soviet cinema industry had been evacuated) at the height of the Great Patriotic War. The film stars Boris Andreyev and Mark Bernes as two war buddies. The "beautiful" film was directed by Leonid Lukov. The movie features two of Nikita Bogoslovsky's most famous songs, '' Dark Is the Night'' and '' Boatfuls of Mullet''. Both were performed by Mark Bernes. His warm and sincere delivery of ''Dark Is the Night'' won the sympathy of millions of Soviet people, catapulting Bernes into enduring fame.Tatiana Egorova. ''Soviet Film Music''. Routledge, 1997. . Page 79. Cast * Mark Bernes as Arkady * Boris Andreyev as Sasha * Vera Shershnyova as Tanya * Yanina Zheymo as Nurse (as Ya. Zhejmo) * Maksim Shtraukh as Professor (as M. Shtraukh) * Ivan Kuznetsov as Galanin (as I. Kuznetsov) * Stepan Krylov as Maj. Rudoy (as S. Krylov) * Lavrenti Masokha as Okulita (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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