Boris Lyoskin
Biography: Born in Petrograd, RSFSR, USSR. Participant in the Great Patriotic War. Defended Leningrad as part of the 22nd fortified region. In 1952 he graduated from the Leningrad Ostrovsky Theatre Institute (course of L.F. Makaryev). In 1952-1979 - actor of the Leningrad Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Since 1980 he lived and worked in the USA. Worked at the Circle in a Square Theatre on Broadway. Acted in episodic roles in American films. Member of the Actors Guild of America, was a member of the Oscar nomination committee.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 05, 1923
Deathday: February 21, 2020
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Everything Is Illuminated
2005-09-05
Everything Is Illuminated
Overview: A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-05
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Vampire's Kiss
1988-09-17
Vampire's Kiss
Overview: A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-17
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A Very Old Story
1968-06-04
A Very Old Story
Overview: Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-06-04
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World War Three
1998-12-01
World War Three
Overview: This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-12-01
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The Nick Of Time
1993-09-10
The Nick Of Time
Overview: A wealthy American businessman, Mr. Clarke, forces his dissolute but charming nephew James to go with him to Russia, where he buys a Faberge watch that belonged to Nicholas II himself. He is received by Mr. Borsch, who dreams of becoming a minister by signing a lucrative contract. A representative of a Japanese company, nicknamed the Samurai during the auction, is hunting for the same watch. Borshch's wife also "laid eyes" on an antique watch, and a talented thief leaves the prison. All the participants of the future adventures met at the restaurant, where James met the beautiful niece of Borsch's wife. Mr. Clark flies to Namibia, instructing his nephew to put the watch in the hotel safe. Naturally, on the same evening, the watch is stolen...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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Cold Souls
2009-08-07
Cold Souls
Overview: Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-07
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Fear and Despair in the Third Empire
1965-01-01
Fear and Despair in the Third Empire
Overview: Chronicle dramatic scenes of Germany under the rule of fascism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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First Visitor
1966-10-31
First Visitor
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-10-31
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Conscience Doesn't Forgive
1964-01-01
Conscience Doesn't Forgive
Overview: Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Falcon and the Snowman
1985-01-25
The Falcon and the Snowman
Overview: The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-25
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The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!
1969-01-01
The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!
Overview: About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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You!
1969-01-01
You!
Overview: The teleplay was based on V. Mayakovsky’s poems “You!”, “Listen!”, “Conversation with Comrade Lenin” and other works of the poet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Vanya, How are You Here?
1969-01-01
Vanya, How are You Here?
Overview: Tractor driver Pronka Lagutin comes to the city. Meeting the director's assistant unexpectedly turns into an invitation to him to play the role of a rural guy who moves to the city. Pronka rehearses with pleasure, but realizing that staying means never seeing her native village again, she runs away from the director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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31st Dept.
1972-01-03
31st Dept.
Overview: The Commissioner of Police has been tasked with conducting an investigation into the threat of a terrorist attack in the building of the press concern. During the investigation, he learns about the existence of the 31st department, created by the management of the concern with the aim of eliminating the opposition press.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-01-03
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Dead Souls
1969-12-10
Dead Souls
Overview: In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-12-10
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Царевич Проша
1974-11-18
Царевич Проша
Overview:
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-18
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Next to us
1957-11-05
Next to us
Overview: The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just completed the institutions and are confident that the future is in their hands. At the plant, all relations are formed around the dubious glory of the Turner Milovidov. A fresh look, self-confidence and each other help friends to expose the "record holder".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-11-05
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The Package
1989-01-25
The Package
Overview: Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-25
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Two Sundays
1964-12-17
Two Sundays
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-17
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Kukhlya
1963-12-31
Kukhlya
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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Рембрандт
1963-12-31
Рембрандт
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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12 Chairs
1966-12-31
12 Chairs
Overview: Who was the first to bring the great novel "12 Chairs" to the screen? You say "Leonid Gaidai" - and it will be a mistake. In our country, the first director was Alexander Belinsky (Leningrad television, 1966). Filming the favorite books of millions is a difficult task. The audience knows the plot in detail. Winged phrases have long gone to the people. Everyone has their own idea of the main characters. In general, dissatisfied will be sure. So the version of "12 chairs", proposed by Alexander Belinsky, of course, will not suit everyone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-12-31
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The Strogovs
1976-02-10
The Strogovs
Overview: In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Anna and his parents. Through the fate of this peasant family, a picture of the life of the Siberian region during major historical events — the Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War is outlined.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-02-10
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Cadillac Man
1990-05-18
Cadillac Man
Overview: Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-18
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The Soul Calls
1962-10-30
The Soul Calls
Overview: Two old Leningrad workers, Sukhov and Solyanov, have a long-standing friendship — they worked at the same plant, lived in the neighborhood. Now Solyanov, at the insistence of his son, decides to retire. But it is not so easy to part with his native plant, which, as it turned out, still needs an old personnel officer...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-10-30
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The Only One
1976-03-01
The Only One
Overview: Kolya Kasatkin, who saw in his wife Tanyusha the ideal of female charm, tenderness, kindness, who loved her to the point of oblivion, was at a loss before the idle conversations of well-wishers about his wife's betrayal. Having found his wife with the choir director, Nikolai demanded a divorce. Continuing to love each other, the former spouses are unhappy in separation. Kasatkin's new hasty marriage did not return his peace of mind. In daily agony, in the pursuit of a past life, he also lost his old dream — to live and work in the Far East, where he served in the army. Both realized too late that love does not forgive hasty decisions, that it must be able to keep and protect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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A Couch in New York
1996-02-21
A Couch in New York
Overview: Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply involved into the social settings of the other, because the decision to change their flats is made overnight. Could be the perfect amusement, but suddenly Henry finds himself beaten up by Beatrice' lover and Beatrice is considered to be Dr. Harriston's substitute by his clients...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-02-21
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Men in Black
1997-07-02
Men in Black
Overview: After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-02
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Way Home
1967-01-01
Way Home
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The House on Carroll Street
1988-03-04
The House on Carroll Street
Overview: Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of FBI officer Cochran who was initially detailed to check her out. Just as well when things turn nasty
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-04
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At the Breaking Point
1957-12-09
At the Breaking Point
Overview: After his father's death, teenager Viktor Tsaplin was sent by his stepmother, who suspected the boy of stealing watches, to an Odessa orphanage. The guys met the new guy unfriendly, and when the teacher's antique watch was missing, Victor was considered the culprit. After enrolling in a nautical school and once going to sea with tipsy fishermen, Victor crashes a boat. He is being expelled from the college. Deciding to start a new life and in a new place, Victor leaves to work as a fireman in Kamchatka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-12-09
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