Mikhail Kuznetsov
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 24, 1918
Deathday: August 23, 1986
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Maria, the Wonderful Weaver
1959-06-07
Maria, the Wonderful Weaver
Overview: An old soldier helps a young boy find his mother, who's been kidnapped to the magical underwater kingdom in a remote Russian lake.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-06-07
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The Circus Boy
1980-01-01
The Circus Boy
Overview: This story is about the events of the beginning of the century, the circus, in which the favorite of the troupe Alesha grew up. After the mother - acrobat Maria-Louise died, his childhood was over. Revolutionary events influenced the fate of a small circus - and the boy was left alone. But when in his life appeared Bolshevik Stepan Ratushny, Alyosha again began to perform in the circus.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Secret Ballot
1980-10-01
Secret Ballot
Overview: The chairman of the Rassvet collective farm, Foma Lukash, lived honestly and fairly. But when his heart began to catch, Lukash went to the hospital. Meanwhile, his deputy began to establish new orders on the collective farm. For example, the working day was moved to a later time. Many people liked it, because it wasn’t war. But Foma, upon leaving the hospital, did not accept the new changes - and demanded early re-election of the chairman...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Scarlet Straps
1979-06-06
Scarlet Straps
Overview: A story of a young cadets of Suvorovsky army school - based on Boris Iziumskii novel.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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In the Name of Life
1946-06-06
In the Name of Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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Extraordinary Accident
1958-06-06
Extraordinary Accident
Overview: The crew of a soviet cargo falls prey to an act of piracy in waters between China and Taiwan, and are taken to Taiwan where they are pressured into stating they chose to go into the free world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-06-06
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Young Russia
1984-01-04
Young Russia
Overview: The film is set in the era of Peter I The Great, on the Russian North. The plot revolves around the fate of three people: Captain-Commander Sylvester Ievlev, customs army lieutenant Athanasius Krykov vaster and-White Sea Ivan Ryabov. Ivan Ryabov - a real historical character. In 1701, during the defense of Arkhangelsk from the Swedish military squadron of Charles XII, accomplished the feat as a vaster under the guise of traitors planted swedish flagship aground under fire from shore batteries.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-01-04
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The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit, Across the Wild Land, Through the Dark Forest, Beyond the Misty Mountains. There and Back Again
1985-12-31
The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit, Across the Wild Land, Through the Dark Forest, Beyond the Misty Mountains. There and Back Again
Overview: The Author, i.e. J. R. R. Tolkien himself (played by Zinovij Gerdt), tells "his" story: the life of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and enjoyable hobbit, is turned upside down when he decides to join the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves in an attempt to regain a treasure stolen from the latter. [Soviet television movie adaptation of "The Hobbit"]
Genres: Adventure Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-12-31
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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958-10-10
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Overview: This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-10-10
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944-11-11
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Overview: Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-11-11
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The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
1965-01-01
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
Overview: A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Air Taxi
1943-08-26
Air Taxi
Overview: A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-08-26
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Adventure in Odessa
1953-03-25
Adventure in Odessa
Overview: Group of youngsters find a sunken sailboat used by guerrillas during WWII, raise it, repair it, and sail out to sea for adventure.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-03-25
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Нам здесь жить
1982-01-01
Нам здесь жить
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Game Without Rules
1965-01-01
Game Without Rules
Overview: The Second World War is over. The post-war Germany is divided into several responsibility zones. Still many Russian people languish in camps located in the American zone. Though former allies are in no hurry to let them off to the motherland, and even try to enroll some of them. The American intelligence agency gets to know that they've got a daughter of one of the West Germany cities commandant, whose brother is a famous soviet rocket engineering designer. They plan a crafty operation on the discrimination of the Russian colonel and introduction of the niece into the uncles design office. The Russian Intelligence service is also aware of the Americans interest in the designers works. The special department colonel Lartsev is coming from Moscow to Germany to prepare a reciprocal operation.
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Repeated Wedding
1975-03-25
Repeated Wedding
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-03-25
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The Blue Notebook
1963-01-01
The Blue Notebook
Overview: In the summer of 1917, Vladimir Lenin leaves Petrograd and shelters in Razliv with fellow revolutionary Grigory Zinoviev. In the weeks that follow, Lenin writes his famous "Blue Notebook" advocating proletarian revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Our Girls
1942-04-05
Our Girls
Overview: One of the anthology films about Soviet citizens resisting the Nazi invaders during World War II, the feature consists of two stories, one about a teenage woman telephone operator who sacrifices herself, the other about a farm girl tending a sick pig who deals with two paratroopers seeking shelter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-04-05
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Taras Shevchenko
1951-12-17
Taras Shevchenko
Overview: Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people. The poems of Shevchenko are imbued with love for the common people. Fiery freedom-loving creativity of Taras Shevchenko is known throughout Russia. Nicholas I exiles the poet to the distant Caspian fort where he is to serve as an ordinary soldier and is banned from writing or drawing. In the poet's difficult days he has the support of Ukrainian soldier Skobelev, Polish revolutionary Sierakowski, captain Kosarev and the commandant of the fortress, Uskov. For the sake of his release Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov are hard at work. And so, the sick and aged Shevchenko is finally free. Together with Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, he dreams of a bright future of the motherland, when the Russian and Ukrainian peoples throw off the chains of slavery.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-12-17
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The District Secretary
1942-11-30
The District Secretary
Overview: A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-11-30
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Mr. Student
1985-01-10
Mr. Student
Overview: The adventures of a high school student Igor who is helping Reds during the October Revolution in Russia.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-10
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Missing Person
1957-01-07
Missing Person
Overview: A story about injured Soviet Army officer who joins resistance group in Slovakia during WWII.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-01-07
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Чужая беда
1960-12-26
Чужая беда
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-12-26
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Precious Gift
1956-11-01
Precious Gift
Overview: The inveterate fisherman Karp Trofimovich has his birthday during competition of fishermen so his nephew clings a huge pike to the uncle's hook .
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Sea Cadet of Northern Fleet
1973-12-16
Sea Cadet of Northern Fleet
Overview: The screen story of four teenagers, on whom the horrors of war had left an indelible mark. Their relatives’ deaths and their yearning for fighting the Nazis led them, one way or another, to a sea cadet school that had been opened on Solovetski Islands at the start of the war. This film tells of men’s friendship, the boys’ first baptism of fire, and the victory…
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-12-16
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Our Heart
1947-04-15
Our Heart
Overview: A story about a creation of a new Soviet Jet during WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-04-15
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The Guarneri Quartet
1978-12-26
The Guarneri Quartet
Overview: A group of musicians are trying to prevent the stealing of rare musical instruments in Russia during the twenties.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-12-26
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The Road
1975-06-06
The Road
Overview: Lena and Pasha come to the girl's hometown to apply for a divorce. Pasha does not understand the motives of divorce and is very upset about it. But in the Registry office say that you need to wait 3 months. Young people decide to stay in the city for this time and agree not to meet and not to communicate. They are both arranged for the construction of a large road, and from that moment their fate changes dramatically…
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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The Ship Commander
1954-04-05
The Ship Commander
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-04-05
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Mashenka
1942-04-10
Mashenka
Overview: Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-04-10
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Marina's Destiny
1954-02-23
Marina's Destiny
Overview: Marina's Destiny (Russian: Судьба Марины, Sudba Mariny) is a 1953 Soviet drama film directed by Viktor Ivchenko. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-02-23
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Yulka
1972-12-28
Yulka
Overview: A story about sixteen years old youths learning the painter profession.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-28
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The Frigid Sea
1954-01-01
The Frigid Sea
Overview: Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Bountiful Summer
1951-03-08
Bountiful Summer
Overview: The war is over. The Red Army soldier Pyotr tries to find himself in a peaceful life. He takes the place of an accountant, and long-time friend Nazar, who has already grown to the post of the head of a collective farm, helps him in this. Together they achieve high performance indicators of their wards, skillfully solving controversial issues and emerging from confused situations.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-03-08
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It Happened in the Donbass
1945-07-11
It Happened in the Donbass
Overview: The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbass and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-07-11
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Bagrationi
1985-12-09
Bagrationi
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Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-12-09
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Private Aleksandr Matrosov
1947-05-12
Private Aleksandr Matrosov
Overview: The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy's bunker with his body.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-05-12
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Sailor Chizhik
1955-01-01
Sailor Chizhik
Overview: Having been wounded during the exercises, the sailor Fedos Chizhik is sent as a orderly to the house of Captain Luzgin. The captain's wife - a young, beautiful, and spoiled woman - is very hard on the orderly.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Actress
1943-04-22
Actress
Overview: Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded major Peter Nikolayevich Markov.
Genres: War Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-04-22
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Viburnum Grove
1953-11-26
Viburnum Grove
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Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-11-26
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Rains
1958-05-18
Rains
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-05-18
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Серебряный тренер
1963-08-03
Серебряный тренер
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-08-03
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