Tatyana Samoylova
Biography: Tatiana Yevgenyevna Samoilova (Russian: Татья́на Евге́ньевна Само́йлова; 4 May 1934 – 4 May 2014) was a Soviet and Russian film actress best known for her lead role in The Cranes Are Flying. She received a number of awards for the film, including a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival. Samoilova had several major roles in the 1960s before largely disappearing from public life. In 1993, she was named a People's Artist of Russia. She made a comeback in the 2000s and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 Moscow Film Festival.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 04, 1934
Deathday: May 04, 2014
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The End of a Beautiful Epoch
2015-06-07
The End of a Beautiful Epoch
Overview: Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-06-07
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Mommy
1999-03-31
Mommy
Overview: After Polina, a mother of six, loses her husband, who went to jail for stealing charcoal and was killed when he tried to escape, she stays behind without any support. To be able to survive, Polina and her family start a folk group. But soon she understands that her children deserve a better fate, and she takes the desperate decision to steal a plane and go abroad... Fifteen years later, Polina is released from prison and finds out that fate has scattered her children all over the country: one is in the army, another is a miner in the Donbass, and the oldest, Lyonchik, who used to be in a mental institution, now pretends to be insane. Polina gathers all of her sons to free their older brother from the psychiatric hospital...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1999-03-31
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Anna Karamazoff
1991-05-01
Anna Karamazoff
Overview: This film is of interest primarily because it contains within it the entire surviving footage of an unfinished 1974 film by the same director, Slave of Love, which was successfully remade shortly thereafter by another director, Nikita Mikhalkov.The "cover" story is about a woman (Jeanne Moreau) newly released from prison camps in the 1940s back into Russian society, who finds that there is no place for her in the world she has come back to. However, this painterly film is so filled with striking and surreal imagery that it would be misleading to say that the story is of any great importance in relation to that.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-01
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The Cranes Are Flying
1957-10-12
The Cranes Are Flying
Overview: Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-10-12
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Nirvana
2008-06-24
Nirvana
Overview: Young Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfriend Valera the Dead Man. First they fight, but soon the two women form a friendship. Together they even go after the Petersburg underworld when Dead Man is abducted because he can't pay his debts.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-06-24
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Anna Karenina
1967-11-06
Anna Karenina
Overview: The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei Vronsky. Anna leaves the family in search of happiness to her beloved person. She has to take a very serious step in her life - to part with her son. The attitude of the high society towards her is changing. All this brings a lot of pain and humiliation to the main character. The tragic story of love and betrayal, the fate of a woman, for the sake of passion who decided to change her life irrevocably.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-06
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24 Hours
2000-11-03
24 Hours
Overview: Feliks, professional killer, has only 24 hours to get to the distant island, where his beloved woman and the money for the custom made is waiting for him. Lyova Shalamov and his brother Garik have also 24 hours to find and to kill Feliks.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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Attack and Retreat
1964-09-16
Attack and Retreat
Overview: Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-16
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Alba Regia
1961-03-30
Alba Regia
Overview: A Hungarian doctor, Dr. Hajnal, who always considered himself out of politics, falls in love with the Soviet intelligence agent, the radio operator Alba, operating in the occupied Wehrmacht of Hungary. By accident, the radio operator is hiding in the doctor’s house. Hainal is drawn into a life-threatening confrontation with the Germans. A difficult question arises before him: to remain neutral when people die around and Alba is threatened with death, or to remain an honest person — to make his personal choice and take part in this struggle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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No Return
1974-04-08
No Return
Overview: According to the story of the same name by Anatoli Kalinin. The love story of Antonina and the battalion commander Nikitin, whom she sheltered after a severe wound. Antonina Kashirina is wanted to be excluded from the party, accusing the Don Cossack woman living in the territory occupied by the Germans during the war. They don't believe that she hid and treated a wounded Soviet officer. Unable to withstand insulting suspicions, she leaves the party committee bureau. On the way home, Tonya recalls how she picked up a bleeding artillery — the battalion commander Nikitin, she hid him and treated him as she fell in love...
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-04-08
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Far from Sunset Boulevard
2008-05-07
Far from Sunset Boulevard
Overview: The thirties, the heyday of Soviet film production. The story of the famed couple's glory — a filmmaker and actress, behind the external well-being of which were hidden strange contradictory relationships and a sense of fear that they carried through their whole lives. The prologue to this story is the 85th anniversary of Lidiya Polyakova, the formerly brightest star in Soviet cinema, who played the main role in all the films of her own husband, director Konstantin Dalmatov. Now in the courtyard there are other times, Dalmatov’s movies are called ideological agitation, and the director himself and his wife are hiding from the world in the country, trying not to let anyone in.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-05-07
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I Don't Want to Be Filmed
1967-07-31
I Don't Want to Be Filmed
Overview: A test film for black-and-white television, made by Mosfilm in 1967. A girl dreaming to be in movies got a call from Mosfilm, asking her to be filmed. She enters the dreamy bubble that is called filmmaking. The film was commissioned by the Research Film and Photo Institute. It features famous actors and directors, including Georgy Vitsin, Georgy Georgiu, Pavel Vinnik, Grigory Alexandrov and others. Some of them play themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-07-31
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Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
1976-06-21
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Overview: In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-06-21
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A Film About Mikhail Kalatozov
2006-01-01
A Film About Mikhail Kalatozov
Overview: The career of revered Russian filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov is explored in this documentary film comprised of rare behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with French director Claude Lelouch, and conversations with some of the biggest names in contemporary Russian cinema. Kalatozov's grandson Mikhail Kalatozishvili pays tribute to the director of such timeless classics as I Am Cuba, Salt for Svanetia, and The Cranes are Flying as such notable fans as Andrei Konchalovsky, Sergei Solovyov, and Alexei Batalov discuss the remarkable influence Kalatozov had on their own film careers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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There is No Death For Me
2000-11-03
There is No Death For Me
Overview: It is a documentary story about five legends of russian cinema: Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Tatyana Samoylova, Lidiya Smirnova and Vera Vasileva. These wonderful women tell about their lifes and careers in hour interview.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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Tanya...
2018-08-13
Tanya...
Overview: Documentary film dedicated to the destiny of the great Soviet actress Tatyana Samoylova
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-08-13
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The Ocean
1974-07-22
The Ocean
Overview: Three classmates of the naval school met many years later in the Northern Fleet. Their fates were different. One of them became the commander of a cruiser, while the other two had complex personal problems. In these circumstances, everyone behaves differently, sometimes not opening up from the best side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-07-22
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Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
1961-01-13
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Overview: During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalist, and his friends came to the USSR to make a report and find Boris in the meantime. In Moscow he doesn't found, and for the sake of meeting with a friend, Garros has to travel around the country by car... The foreigners are accompanied by Nikolai, the translator, who, in turn, is looking for his brother's runaway bride, Natasha.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-01-13
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Letter Never Sent
1960-06-27
Letter Never Sent
Overview: Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-06-27
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The Mexican
1956-04-13
The Mexican
Overview: Based on the short story by Jack London. 1910 year. Mexican patriots are preparing an uprising against the dictatorship of Diaz. Young Felipe Rivera joins the revolutionary junta, whose father and mother were shot by dictators. The hour of rebellion is near, but the heroes lack weapons. To get the necessary amount of money, Rivera decides to perform in the ring against Ward, America’s strongest boxer...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-04-13
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A Long Path on a Short Day
1972-10-16
A Long Path on a Short Day
Overview: Based on the novel by Natan Rybak “Soldiers Without Uniforms”. Director of a research institute engaged in research in the field of nuclear physics, Maxim Nerchin is testing a new research method. And although the method did not justify itself, Nerchin with unreasonable confidence began to build a more powerful installation... He uses almost all the institute's funds to create it and is so sure of success that he loudly announced it at a foreign symposium, thereby causing special attention to his institute on the part of those American circles who are primarily interested in creating weapons that bring death and destruction...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-10-16
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Unexpected Joy
1972-01-01
Unexpected Joy
Overview: Unfinished and lost film directed by Rustam Khamdamov, shot in 1972-1974.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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If I Had Four Dromedaries
1966-11-01
If I Had Four Dromedaries
Overview: Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries stages a probing, at times agitated, search for the meanings of the photographic image, in the form of an extended voiceover conversation and debate between the "amateur photographer" credited with the images and two of his colleagues. Anticipating later writings by Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag (who professed her admiration for the film) If I Had Four Dromedaries reveals Marker's instinctual understanding of the secret rapport between still and moving image.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-11-01
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