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Zhanna Prokhorenko
Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trofimovna Prokhorenko (russian: Жаннета "Жанна" Трофимовна Прохоренко, uk, Жаннета "Жанна" Трохимівна Прохоренко; 11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Soviet and Russian actress, best known for her role in Grigory Chukhray's film '' Ballad of a Soldier''. Life and career She was born in Poltava, Ukraine, and grew up in central Ukraine inside the Prokofiev house, before she and her family moved to Leningrad. She graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1964. She was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. She was also a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour and of the Medal "For Labour Valour". Her granddaughter is actress Maryana Spivak. Marriages Prokhorenko married twice. Her first husband was film director Yevgeny Vasilyev, and they had one daughter. Her second husband, writer Artur Makarov, was murdered in her apartment in 1995. The killer never was found. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Ivashov
Vladimir Sergeyevich Ivashov (russian: Влади́мир Серге́евич Ивашо́в; 28 August 1939 — 23 March 1995) was a Soviet and Russian actor. Biography He had a film career that spanned over 30 years. He is best known for his role as Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov in '' Ballad of a Soldier'' which he starred in with Zhanna Prokhorenko in 1959. The film was awarded the Moscow International Film Festival award in 1960. It also won the Lenin Award. The film was kept in the film hall of The Kremlin to be shown to foreign guests. Ivashov died in Moscow, Russia on 23 March 1995 of acute gastric ulcer at the age of 55. Asteroid 12978 Ivashov, discovered by Lyudmila Zhuravleva in 1978, was named in his memory. Personal life Wife — actress Svetlana Svetlichnaya. Two sons — Oleg and Alexey. Selected filmography * Ballad of a Soldier (1959) as Alyosha Skvortsov * Seven Nannies (1962) as Viktor * Hero of Our Time (1965) as Grigory Pechorin * The Hockey Players (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attack And Retreat
''Attack and Retreat'' ( it, Italiani brava gente, russian: Они шли на Восток, Oni shli na Vostok) is a Soviet-Italian war drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and Dmitri Vasilyev in 1964. The movie follows the steps of Italian soldiers of the Italian Army in Russia fighting on the Eastern Front on Hitler's side. Heavily based on diaries and memories of real war veterans. Cast * Arthur Kennedy as Ferro Maria Ferri *Peter Falk as Lieutenant Mario Salvioni *Zhanna Prokhorenko as Katya *Raffaele Pisu as Libero Gabrielli * Tatyana Samojlova as Sonya *Andrea Checchi as Colonel Sermonti *Riccardo Cucciolla as Giuseppe Sanna * Valeri Somov as Giuliani * Nino Vingelli as Amalfitano *Lev Prygunov as Loris Bazzocchi * Grigory Mikhaylov as Russian Partisan (as Grigorij Mikhailov) * Erwin Knausmyuller as German colonel *Gino Pernice Gino Pernice (6 May 1927 – 25 April 1997) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. Life and career Born in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Russian Actresses
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2011 Deaths
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1940 Births
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entrance To The Labyrinth
''Entrance to the Labyrinth'' (russian: Вход в лабиринт, Vkhod v labirint) is a 1989 Soviet five-episode television crime film directed by Valeriy Kremnev based on the Vayner Brothers novel ''Medicine against Fear''. Plot The film consists of several storylines. Main one occurs in the USSR in the 1980s - a detective story about scammers who, using a police identification card, break into the apartments of dishonest people and rob them under the guise of a search. When studying this case, investigator Muromtsev discovers a conflict between two inventors of miracle drug metaproptozole, called abroad as "medicine against fear". The professor does not believe in the existence of this drug because he did not succeed in inventing it himself. Therefore, he denies that his opponent Lyzhin, who is considered a kooky eccentric could invent such a drug. However, the criminals manage to poison the district plenipotentiary with this particular drug, after which they abduct the iden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witches Cave
''The Witches Cave'' (russian: Подземелье ведьм) is a 1989 science fantasy film from Gorky Film Studio, USSR and Barrandov Studios, Czechoslovakia. The script was written by Kir Bulychov based upon his own story and directed by Yuri Moroz. The cast featured Sergei Zhigunov as Andrei Bruce, Marina Levtova as Belogurochka, Dmitry Pevtsov as Oktin Khash and Nikolai Karachentsov as cosmolinguist Jean. The movie had two nominations in 1991 Nika Awards. Plot summary An interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet far from Earth. Despite the fact that creatures from various Earth time periods appear to inhabit the world (mammoths, pterodactyls, dinosaurs, horses, birds, etc.), the stone-age-level natives also possess swords made of metal. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TASS Is Authorized To Declare
''TASS Is Authorized to Declare...'' (russian: ТАСС уполномочен заявить..., translit. ''TASS upolnomochen zayavit...'') is a 1984 Soviet spy miniseries directed by Vladimir Fokin. The series is set in Cold War era and portrays the struggle of Soviet and American intelligence agencies. It is based on a novel by the same name by Yulian Semyonov (the author of cult spy series ''Seventeen Moments of Spring''). "17 Moments" star Vyacheslav Tikhonov played KGB General Konstantinov, the protagonist of the "TASS..." series.Taisiya Belousova Козлы отпущения/ref> Original film music score was composed by Eduard Artemyev as a blend of progressive rock and electronic music. Plot ''Trianon'' ( Boris Klyuyev), a willing mole agent for the Americans, is providing his CIA handlers in Moscow with information on Soviet supplies to the fictional African state of Nagonia which he obtains through his high-positioned expert job. The KGB counterintelligenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcomer (film)
''Newcomer'' (russian: Приезжая) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Valeriy Lonskoy. Plot The film tells about the love of the village driver Fyodor for the teacher Mariya, who, together with her daughter, visits his village. They begin to live together. Everything was fine with them, until her ex-husband arrived in the village. Cast * Zhanna Prokhorenko as Mariya Nesterova * Yelena Ikonitskaya as Katya * Aleksandr Mikhaylov as Fyodor Barinev (as A. Mikhaylov) * Sergei Ponachevny as Semyon Arsentevich Barinev (as S. Ponachevnij) * Yelena Kuzmina as Klavdiya Barineva (as Ye. Kuzmina) * Mariya Skvortsova as Anisya Borisova (as M. Skvortsova) * Sergei Torkachevsky as Vanya 'Kochetok' (as S. Torkachevsky) * Lev Borisov as Yakov Silin (as L. Borisov) * Mariya Vinogradova as Sasha (as M. Vinogragodova) * Vladimir Zemlyanikin Vladimir Mikhailovich Zemlyanikin (russian: Владимир Михайлович Земляникин; 27 October 1933 – 27 October 2016) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Dawn Till Sunset
''From Dawn Till Sunset'' (russian: От зари до зари, Ot zari do zari) is 1975 Soviet drama film directed by Gavriil Egiazarov. Big screen. A cinematic tale about collective farm mechanic, became acutely aware of its responsibility for everything that happens around. From dawn to dusk. Plot Ordinary village house where an old Russian oven peacefully coexists with a gas stove. On the walls of honor, pennant drummer communist labor, photos. Here lives the zernotok operator one of the Ural collective farms Fyodor Roznov. Now here comes Rozhnov in-law, who had just returned, as they say, from places not so remote. He got there because of his wife's eldest Rozhnov's daughter Nadya. Jealous of it to one person, gave vent to his hands, well. Nadezhda is not home she lives in the city and found there seemed to be their happiness, and the yard runs her six-year-old son Sergei. In-law and father in law to be a difficult conversation. And in the morning at Rozhnov c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red Snowball Tree
''The Red Snowball Tree'' (russian: Калина красная, Kalina krasnaya) is a 1974 Soviet drama film written and directed by Vasily Shukshin. It was the most successful film of that year. In total, the film sold an estimated 140million tickets at the Soviet box office, making it the highest-grossing Soviet film of all time. German film director and screenwriter Rainer Werner Fassbinder included ''The Red Snowball Tree'' in the top ten of his favorite films. Plot Yegor Prokudin ( Vasili Shukshin), a recidivist thief nicknamed Gorye (Grief), completes his prison sentence and moves to a village to meet his pen pal Lyuba (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) who lives there. She is a stranger that wrote to him while he was in prison. At first, Yegor plans to lay low for a while before returning to crime. Lyuba appears to genuinely love him, despite his criminal past and skepticism from her own friends and hostility from parents. Yegor goes to town where he spends a lot of money d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
