Nina Ruslanova
Biography: Soviet and Russian theatre and film actress, Nina Ivanovna Ruslanova, made her on-screen debut in Kira Muratova's 1967 film "Brief Encounters" after studying at the Kharkiv Theatre Institute for a year. In 1998, she was honored with the "People's Artist of Russia" award. She appeared in over 150 films throughout her nearly 50 year career. She died in 2021 due to COVID-19 complications.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 05, 1945
Deathday: November 21, 2021
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Afonya
1976-01-01
Afonya
Overview: The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Бесстрашный атаман
1973-12-30
Бесстрашный атаман
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-12-30
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There's Still Time
1974-11-04
There's Still Time
Overview: The hero of the film, a Komsomol member of a large youth construction site, decides whether it is possible to sacrifice people's lives in the name of a great goal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-04
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Poor Sasha
1997-12-26
Poor Sasha
Overview: A young girl wants to rob her mother's bank in order to have her to leave work and come home for a New Year Eve.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-12-26
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And the Eternal Battle... From the Life of Alexander Blok
1980-01-01
And the Eternal Battle... From the Life of Alexander Blok
Overview: TV film-monograph. Filmed for the centenary of Alexander Blok's birth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Meeting
1980-01-01
Meeting
Overview: Anna and Nikolai meet many years later. In their youth, they loved each other, but life separated them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Trasa
1979-02-23
Trasa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-02-23
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Branded
2012-09-06
Branded
Overview: In a dystopian future, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy leads to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Дикий хмель
1986-03-01
Дикий хмель
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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That's My Village...
1986-05-15
That's My Village...
Overview: How to save the village? How to keep people in it? How to manage the land adjacent to large construction sites? The last inhabitants of the village are trying to solve these problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-05-15
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Migrants
1991-08-03
Migrants
Overview: Pavel and Pavelina leave their rural countryside homes and move to Moscow to find work. Once there, they find that urban life is not what they thought it was and have to endure bitter hardships as they try to find work and places to live. The two meet for the first time during a fight at a bar, when they are arrested by police along with others in the building. The understand each other's troubles and band together to avoid both the police and criminal gangs that plagued Moscow toward the end of the Soviet Union.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-08-03
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Beyond the Vetluga River
1986-01-01
Beyond the Vetluga River
Overview: The leader of the ensemble came to the village in search of musical folklore. He heard a line from an unknown song and made considerable efforts to find out its lyrics. This is how his meeting took place with Lena, who was the author of the song..
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Tears Were Falling
1983-01-15
Tears Were Falling
Overview: A beautiful man, husband, father and worker Pavel Ivanovich Vasin got into the eye with a shard of the mirror of an evil wizard. And the world for him appeared in a gloomy light. He began to insult and offend everyone at home and at work. Anger and suspicion overwhelmed Vasin's heart. Enemies, schemers and thieves are seen everywhere. Everywhere he sees intrigues and intrigues. In complete despair from the ineradicability of evil, Vasin cries bitterly... along with tears, the unfortunate splinter disappears...
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-01-15
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Seven Days of Nadezhda
1988-01-01
Seven Days of Nadezhda
Overview: The young weaver Nadezhda was encouraged in every possible way at the factory: she was awarded a trip to Italy, given a new apartment, nominated as a candidate for deputy of the Supreme Council, while the factory administration turned a blind eye to the fact that some of her products were defective.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Bread
1988-10-06
Bread
Overview: Set around the Volga river, the story begins around 1900, when Russian peasants are let free and allowed to own their farmlands. But soon they suffer from losses during the 1917 Russian Revolution and the following Civil War. Then, the major national catastrophe is started by Stalin: his communist government kills millions of farmers and steals all their food supplies, causing the longest and deadliest famine all over central Russia during the 1920s and 1930s.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-10-06
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What Men Talk About
2010-03-04
What Men Talk About
Overview: Four old friends - Kamil, Lesha, Sasha and Slava - all well-to-do professionals in their late 30s embarking on a two days road trip from Moscow to Odessa. They wish to escape the metropolis and the everyday routine of work, family and girlfriends to relax in a nightclub run by Slava's friend and to see the popular band B-2 show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-03-04
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Having Lied Once...
1988-02-02
Having Lied Once...
Overview: Set in the Soviet Union the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-02-02
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The Piano Tuner
2004-09-06
The Piano Tuner
Overview: A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-09-06
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Alyonushka and the Soldier
1974-02-10
Alyonushka and the Soldier
Overview: Snake Gorynych kidnapped the girl Alyonushka. Only a soldier can save her, who, thanks to his ingenuity, led the villain.…
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-02-10
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Heart of a Dog
1988-11-11
Heart of a Dog
Overview: "Heart of a Dog" is a Soviet film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novella. Set in 1920s Moscow, it tells the satirical and darkly humorous story of a stray dog named Sharik, who is transformed into a human by Professor Preobrazhensky through a daring medical experiment. The resulting man, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, embodies the social and ideological tensions of early Soviet society. With its sharp critique of class struggle, human nature, and the perils of radical change, the film is celebrated for its faithful adaptation, brilliant performances, and rich allegorical depth.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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Promised Heaven
1991-01-01
Promised Heaven
Overview: In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Be My Husband
1981-06-06
Be My Husband
Overview: The children's doctor is sent on leave to the south where its services in quality "husband" were necessary for young and very beautiful woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-06-06
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Don't Cry Mommy
1997-02-24
Don't Cry Mommy
Overview: Wedding in a provincial seaside town. In the midst of the fun criminal authority Tourist begins to molest the bride, which infuriates the groom — merchant seaman. The bandits and the police decide to plant a sailor, but he runs away and on his quest sent the police, killers, relatives and different people.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-02-24
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The Irony of Fate. The Sequel
2007-12-21
The Irony of Fate. The Sequel
Overview: Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married him and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married and had a son, Konstantin. Both later divorced. More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk in the flat where the younger Nadya finds him. He is there as part of a convoluted ruse by his father's friends to get Zhenya back into the arms of the woman with whom he shared a magical night. The waylaid son is the bait to get Zhenya back to Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. One romance is rekindled and another between the son and daughter is struck up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-12-21
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Father
2007-05-03
Father
Overview: The war is over, but instead of happiness and joy Alexei Ivanov feels bitterness and fear. We have to go home, but do his children remember him, whom he left as kids?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-05-03
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Waiting for a Miracle
2007-04-05
Waiting for a Miracle
Overview: The story of a young girl who believes in miracles. The guys do not pay any attention to her, at work, her ideas are stolen and used, friends consider her a little strange, but the young girl does not lose heart and continues to believe in a prince on a white horse. And one day he appears. Handsome, young, he is subject to magic, and henceforth her feelings. How now not to believe in a fairy tale when she herself was in it?... The long-awaited prince will make her life truly magical.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-04-05
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The House of Sun
2009-06-06
The House of Sun
Overview: The whole world of a young girl Sasha is changing after she meets Sun - a hippie leader.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-06-06
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Ne Strelyayte v Passazhira
1993-06-06
Ne Strelyayte v Passazhira
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-06-06
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The circus burned down and the clowns scattered
1998-02-21
The circus burned down and the clowns scattered
Overview: A film director Nikolai Khudokormov is on the brink of his 50th anniversary. He has the whole life rich in events under his belt: creative quests, several marriages and children. Now he has to live with an old insane Mother and seems to be indifferent to what is going on around. But at the same time he is obsessed by the idea to make a film which will be his best one. Nikolai makes every effort to raise the money for this project. And all the time he is followed by a mysterious stranger. She is a beautiful young creature who speaks to him about the vanity of the world and the meaningless of a human life. Finally, Nikolai realizes that he is speaking to the Death herself.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-02-21
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Brief Encounters
1967-12-13
Brief Encounters
Overview: Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya's apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell in love with her currently absent husband, a geologist named Maksim, when he had visited Nadia's village during a recent expedition.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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Winter Cherries
1985-10-21
Winter Cherries
Overview: Olga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-10-21
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin
1985-01-03
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Overview: Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-03
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The First After God
2005-11-03
The First After God
Overview: The film is based on the true story of Captain Marinesku and set in 1944 during WWII at the Russian Navy Base. Young and beautiful Tanka is in love with Aleksandr Marinin, the brave Captain of the Russian submarine. He is under the KGB surveillance, and his life is at risk. He takes his boat to fight the Nazi fleet, and he cannot come back home without a victory.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-11-03
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I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
1994-06-06
I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
Overview: The hero of the film, afraid of losing both his wife and his mistress, is ultimately left alone.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-06-06
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Until the Thunder Strikes
1991-06-01
Until the Thunder Strikes
Overview: Few months before collapse of USSR. Villages and collective farms are facing with problem: young and working age people leaving countryside for better life in cities. Same problem in collapsing collective farm near Moscow - the only mechanic and harvester driver decides to leave his native village because he feels deeply offended for being severely punished for breakdown harvester. But his countrymen disagree with his decision and try to prevent his escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-06-01
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Случай на птичьем рынке
1988-06-22
Случай на птичьем рынке
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-22
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Ruanskaya Deva po Prozvishchu Pyshka
1989-06-06
Ruanskaya Deva po Prozvishchu Pyshka
Overview: Телевизионный мюзикл по рассказам Ги де Мопаcсана «Пышка», «Мадемуазель Фифи», «История батрачки», простым и одновременно беспредельно сложным произведениям, очень жизненным и по сей день актуальным, несмотря на то, что написаны в 19 веке. Любовь и измена, поиски места в жизни, одиночество, гордость, нравственность и безнравственность...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-06
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Chinese Grandma
2010-08-26
Chinese Grandma
Overview: The life of two old people Katya and Pasha is turning upside down after arrival of Katya's sister Mila who is definitely not an ordinary average person...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-08-26
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Once There Was a Woman
2011-10-27
Once There Was a Woman
Overview: A chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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Khrustalyov, My Car!
1999-01-13
Khrustalyov, My Car!
Overview: Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1999-01-13
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Mommies
2012-03-01
Mommies
Overview: Every year on the International Women’s Day telephone networks transfer millions of phone calls and SMS messages. The vast majority of phone calls are addressed to the most important women in lives of everyone - to our mothers. But what would it be if because of enormous number of calls telephone network breaks down? What would we do? Someone would wait until network is rebuilt and would congratulate his mom in the evening or even the next day. But others, like the heroes of our movie, would change their plans to congratulate their moms just today ... personally ... as a kid!..
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-03-01
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Very Important Person
1984-06-06
Very Important Person
Overview: Rodion Mikhailovich Shishkin, the chairman of the collective farm, is a man with a complex character. He quarrels with his superiors, who don't allow him to work, and doesn't tolerate injustice. But one day another scandal he raised ended for him... with a promotion!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-06-06
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Valentin and Valentina
1985-12-12
Valentin and Valentina
Overview: Valentin and Valentina love each other and want to marry. But their mothers are strongly against this marriage. So strong is their hate that they can use any possible means.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-12-12
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Tanks Are Running on Taganka
1991-12-01
Tanks Are Running on Taganka
Overview: After a serious injury, the hero loses his memory, but gains the gift of suggestion. On his walks around Moscow he is accompanied by the demon-tempter Brockhaus...
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-12-01
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Contraband
1975-05-26
Contraband
Overview: Borders guard are trying to catch a group of smugglers using the cruise ship to move a contraband.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-05-26
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Vanechka
2007-11-08
Vanechka
Overview: A young girl dreaming to become an actress goes through hell with an orphan baby on her hands. The whole world seems to be against her. She meets the love of her life when there is no one to stand by her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-11-08
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The World In Another Dimension
1990-04-04
The World In Another Dimension
Overview: A delinquent boy of about fifteen years is sent to a reformatory and there finds himself in more trouble than he was in the outside world. Can he endure the frequent bullying that occurs at his new home?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-04-04
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Frenchman
2004-01-07
Frenchman
Overview: A French baron Paul travels to Russia to find the woman whom he had been in correspondence. On arriving to a small Russian town he finds out that Ania had been helping his friend Irina to translate letters which Irina subsequently has been sending to Paul. At this New Year's Day love sparks in his heart as he tries to win her hand.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-01-07
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To Find and Neutralize
1982-12-06
To Find and Neutralize
Overview: Fyodor hasn't been in homeland for 10 years. After leaving for Moscow for education, he stayed there for living. And now he persuaded his two colleagues to pass the vacation in his motherland, at his brothers house in a small Siberian village. Because what can be better than rest close to nature, hunting in taiga and fishing. But already on a plane he finds out that the girl, master of shooting sports and one the mans bride, joins their male company. As soon as vacationists reach the location, they get the news about an armed attack on a bus, which transported geologists salary. This attack resulted in a woman-cashiers death, whom Fyodor used to know well. The guys decide to head for taiga and catch bandits, but they still don't know that soon the bandits will kidnap the wife of Fyodor's brother and a newly arrived girl.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-06
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Do Not Shoot at White Swans
1980-06-11
Do Not Shoot at White Swans
Overview: Egor Polushkin (Stanislav Lyubshin) is a kind-hearted, nature loving, artistic family man who is living in a small village. To his neighbors and even his wife (Nina Ruslanova) he is a walking disaster, so they frown at him and call him Bedonosec (engl. misfortune bearer). Only Egors son (Viktor Anisimov) shares his enthusiasm for the beautiful things of live. As Egor becomes the new forest ranger, this new position brings him not only joy, but it is also the source of great suffering to come, as his fondness for the living nature and especially the newly acquired white swans is in conflict with the interests of others...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-06-11
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Twice Born
1984-05-21
Twice Born
Overview: Events take place in the White Sea, 1942. New recruit Andrei Bulygin is assigned as an assistant machine gunner on a small ship that delivers soldiers and weapons to the front line. On the way back, German fighters sink the ship, leaving only Andrei alive. Having got out on the ice, he enters into an unequal battle with the cold and the German pilot von Bettger attacking him from the air...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-05-21
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Tomorrow Was the War
1987-10-18
Tomorrow Was the War
Overview: This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The main characters of the film are ordinary Soviet high school students. They study in the Soviet school, try to be correct and ideological Komsomol activists. But not always the “correctness” suggested by the teachers coincides with the inner convictions of young souls - it is difficult for them to come to terms with the fact that their relatives and loved ones are suddenly “enemies of the people”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-10-18
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The Train Has Stopped
1982-08-03
The Train Has Stopped
Overview: In this drama with socio-political nuances, a heroic engineer is able to save the passengers on his train from injury or death by sacrificing his own life when his locomotive crashes. An investigator Ermakov and journalist Malinin are both involved in the story of the crash but from two different angles: the investigator wants to find out why it happened, the journalist wants to laud the heroism of the dead engineer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-08-03
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Forbidden Empire
2014-01-30
Forbidden Empire
Overview: Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Mystery Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-01-30
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Getting to Know the Big Wide World
1978-03-31
Getting to Know the Big Wide World
Overview: On a rough and tumble construction site for a new factory, the conversation flows and love blooms for trio Lyuba, Misha, and Kolya. In the liminal space of their workplace, they build material and intangible connections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-03-31
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Do Not Marry, Girls
1985-11-01
Do Not Marry, Girls
Overview: A chairman of a Kolkhoz tries to organize a musical band in order to prevent kolkhoz girls to escape into a big city.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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What's There Around the Bend?
1981-01-08
What's There Around the Bend?
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Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-01-08
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About Businessman Foma
1993-01-01
About Businessman Foma
Overview: Foma, a kolkhoz employee, decides to build a pay toilet in his village. Bit not all the villagers like the idea...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Afghan Breakdown
1991-01-01
Afghan Breakdown
Overview: During the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under the command of Major Bandura are joined by Steklov, the son of a high-ranking officer.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Vultures on the Road
1990-01-01
The Vultures on the Road
Overview: The Vultures on the Road - an organized gang of robbers and murderers, which includes even the police. They kill the truck driver's friend, whose wife is expecting a baby. The police (which is cooperating with the bandits), of course, does nothing, so he begins to take revenge on the scum, crushing their cars by his truck.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Phenomenon
1983-09-06
Phenomenon
Overview: One soviet programmer has problems in his job. He is laughed at by women, they think he is too awkward. His chiefs are giving no rest to him. In addition to that they give him very difficult project to be done very soon. Overcoming himself he does impossible. After closing away in his office and spending there several days and nights without sleep he finds some solution and immediately fells asleep. After waking up after very surrealistic dream he surprises of what has happened while he was asleep. And the miracles have just started for him…
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-09-06
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Sin: A Story of Passion
1993-06-06
Sin: A Story of Passion
Overview: Young girl Nina is falling in love with the orthodox priest with a criminal past.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-06-06
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The Public House
1989-07-10
The Public House
Overview: "Horror" film about the harsh lives of the children living in an outwardly prosperous orphanage. When a young boy dies during a clandestine mutual drug-taking session, his accomplices unsuccessfully try to hide his corpse to evade punishment, and then the orphanage management tries to hush up the whole affair to keep up appearances.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-07-10
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What About You, Comrade?
1969-01-01
What About You, Comrade?
Overview: A teleplay about the III Komsomol Congress held in Moscow in 1920, about Komsomol members - delegates to the congress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Auto Stop
1991-08-01
Auto Stop
Overview: Incredible adventures of an Italian test auto-racer in the exotic and so unpredictable Russia! Originally, this film was made as a commercial for the Fiat Automobile Company, but the abundance of the shot material proved enough for editing a full-length feature.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-08-01
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Gypsy
1980-08-18
Gypsy
Overview: A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life and the difficult love to Russian woman.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-08-18
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Return of Budulai
1986-03-25
Return of Budulai
Overview: A continuation of a saga about Budulai started in "Gypsy" (1979).
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-03-25
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Sign of Disaster
1987-04-28
Sign of Disaster
Overview: A woman defends during World War II her home and her family against Hitler's soldiers.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-04-28
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При открытых дверях
1987-02-20
При открытых дверях
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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The Humble Cemetery
1989-12-01
The Humble Cemetery
Overview: The main character Vorobei is a professional grave digger and alcohol addict, who runs away from hospital to dig graves instead of treating his head broken by his brother. He comes to cemetery and keeps on working, instead of his friends' advice to stay in the hospital. The world of death turns out to be surrounded by corruption, satanic money-making, cemetery mafia and lots of vodka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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Седой медведь
1988-01-01
Седой медведь
Overview:
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Martinko
1987-01-01
Martinko
Overview: Martynko, while in the guardhouse, found a deck of magic cards with which he could easily beat anyone! He made a quick career to the customs minister, robbing all foreigners to the skin right at the border crossing. However, the princess's unrequited feelings led to the end of his career, and he was abandoned in the forest. After eating wonderful apples, he develops a plan of revenge.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Among Grey Stones
1983-12-01
Among Grey Stones
Overview: A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his loneliness.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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She Has a Broom, He Has a Black Hat
1987-05-13
She Has a Broom, He Has a Black Hat
Overview: A Baba Yaga's grand-daughter gets into the argument with the young son of Kashchey and decides to leave the magic forest.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-05-13
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Melody for a Street Organ
2009-07-31
Melody for a Street Organ
Overview: Two young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-07-31
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An Amazing Find, Or the Most Ordinary Miracles
1986-09-08
An Amazing Find, Or the Most Ordinary Miracles
Overview: A young boy suddenly finds a magic bolt which makes him incredibly brave.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-09-08
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Film Festival
2006-09-22
Film Festival
Overview: The musical follows events taking place at the Moscow International Film Festival, at the beginning of Perestroika. The plot focuses on Nikolay Vasiliev one of the many Interpreters hired to work at the festival by the imposing Margo Altshuller (who is in charge of all the interpreters). While working Nikolay meets and falls in love with a young and very attractive interpreter Marina Almazova. As hundreds of foreign guests arrive in Moscow, the KGB plots to discredit Hollywood star Richard Dirk. The KGB appoints Valya Kashina, to go undercover as a personal interpreter for Dirk. What follows is intrigue, romance, confusion and misunderstandings, all making for an unforgettable Moscow International Film Festival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-09-22
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The Fish Carriage
1982-01-05
The Fish Carriage
Overview: Soviet stop-motion animated film consisting of three stories based on the fairy tales of the peoples of the North.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-01-05
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Ка-ка-ду
1992-01-01
Ка-ка-ду
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Swindlers
1990-01-01
Swindlers
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Игра в любовь
2000-06-01
Игра в любовь
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-06-01
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Where is he going!
1981-06-19
Where is he going!
Overview: The youth field team of the Ukrainian collective farm comes to Moscow to participate in the All-Union competition of pop groups. The guys really want to win the first prize. They are also worried by others. At the Exhibition of Economic Achievements an experimental model of a tractor is presented, which is very necessary on their collective farm. But how to get this tractor to undergo field tests with them?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-06-19
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Year of the Horse - Constellation Scorpio
2003-04-08
Year of the Horse - Constellation Scorpio
Overview: In the past, the famous circus rider Maria learns that her favorite horse Senator, with whom she spoke, want to send to the slaughter. Then Mary decides to take a risky step and steals the horse from the circus.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-04-08
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My Friends
1974-10-07
My Friends
Overview:
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-10-07
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Купальская ночь
1982-07-07
Купальская ночь
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-07-07
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На исходе ночи
1988-05-16
На исходе ночи
Overview:
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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Zudov, You're Fired!
1984-07-16
Zudov, You're Fired!
Overview: About rural projectionist Nikita Zudov, a passionate film lover who makes amateur films that expose and ridicule bureaucrats, parasites and bribe-takers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-07-16
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Winter Cherries 2
1990-08-16
Winter Cherries 2
Overview: Olga, married to a reach American businessman, returns to Russia after six years.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-08-16
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Two Lines in Small Font
1981-04-09
Two Lines in Small Font
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-04-09
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The Actors
1992-10-01
The Actors
Overview: A young man follows a theatre troupe during their tour.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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The Orlovs
1978-11-06
The Orlovs
Overview: The drunkard and his wife become orderlies in a cholera barracks during the outbreak.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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Мещанин во дворянстве
1977-04-11
Мещанин во дворянстве
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-04-11
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Fighter's Night
2009-09-10
Fighter's Night
Overview: Crazy? A maniac? Or the devil, clothed in the flesh of a cyber fighter, dreamed of by sixteen-year-old Lisa, who is obsessed with computer games? The cast-iron manhole cover is shifted, and Someone comes out of the infernal depths of the basement… That night, in the walls of the old confectionery factory, the virtual becomes real… That night, the deserted workshops turn into labyrinths of a tough game that Lisa has to play ... games without rules. GAMES WHERE "EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE"…
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-09-10
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Don't Cry Mommy 2
2005-06-21
Don't Cry Mommy 2
Overview: A heroes from the first movie now are involved in high politics.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-06-21
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It Happened Near the Sea
1989-03-22
It Happened Near the Sea
Overview: The events of the film take place in a resort area South of the seaside city, beautiful and alien. The heroine of the film - girls orphanage for children with a sick spine, physical energy of the characters looking out in painfully cruel scheme of mutual relations. And finds cruel and unfair to the weaker......
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-03-22
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The Black Monk
1988-01-25
The Black Monk
Overview: Man who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-01-25
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Take Care of the Men!
1982-03-03
Take Care of the Men!
Overview: She is a business, courageous and energetic woman. He is spineless, awkward and also not amenable to “correction.” It goes to divorce. Moreover, an ardent admirer of her beauty suddenly appears on the horizon. However, this circumstance, ultimately, leads to an unexpected result...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-03-03
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At the River
2007-06-22
At the River
Overview: A day in the life of a mother and her daughter, who have already reached a stage in life where their age difference is barely noticeable. One day, the two are visited by a young official who quite unwittingly makes the mother feel young again, and so she decides to set out for a walk by the river together with her daughter. It becomes increasingly clear to both of them that the best days of their lives are past and that they make a ludicrous impression wherever they go. However, they somehow keep their spirits up and try to enjoy this last walk together. They both know that this is the very last of the ‘grand days’ of their lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-06-22
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Russian Brothers
1991-03-02
Russian Brothers
Overview: A large group of criminals escapes from prison. Helicopter with a group of capture crashes and now the pursuers were in the role of the persecuted. It is tragic that among criminals there was a brother of one of field investigators.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-03-02
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Ivan the Fool
2002-04-30
Ivan the Fool
Overview: A science fiction take on the classic folk character Ivan the fool/idiot.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-04-30
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Winter Cherry 3
1995-01-01
Winter Cherry 3
Overview: The main character, whose life seemed to have lost all meaning, suddenly receives an inheritance abroad. This leads to the most unexpected consequences, the most important of which is a new, this time happy, meeting with your beloved.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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A Case from Investigative Practice
1968-12-09
A Case from Investigative Practice
Overview:
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-12-09
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A Boulevard Romance
1995-04-10
A Boulevard Romance
Overview: The film was shot on the story of Valentin Pikul “Go and do not sin”, which tells about the real events that took place in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The story of the young beauty Olga Palem from a poor large family is replete with tragic events. Olga's passionate disinterested love for student Alexander Zapolsky becomes her evil rock. Spoiled and selfish, Alexander is not able to appreciate her feelings. Exhausted by humiliation, a young woman kills her lover. The high-profile trial of Olga Pale becomes a sensation that stirred up the whole of Russia ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-04-10
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I Don't Guarantee Personal Safety
1980-09-14
I Don't Guarantee Personal Safety
Overview: In March 1946, Andrei Bologov, a graduate of the Leningrad Party School, arrived in one of the western regions of the country to build a peaceful life on earth, where unfinished fascist gangs continued to rage. Andrei was given the task of organizing the removal of harvested wood from distant plots, but barely left the claws of the "forest brothers" of Krakowski. The trainee from the party school and the local chairman of the village council, together with the residents, had to fight one of the many fascist detachments, consisting of traitors, deserters and ideological fighters against the Soviet regime ...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-09-14
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Big Trap, or solo for cat under full moon
1992-09-10
Big Trap, or solo for cat under full moon
Overview: A large government official from Moscow, having come to rest at home, falls into a trap organized for him by two sisters working in the former state house. Sincerely falling in love with one of them, he does not suspect that he is becoming the object of blackmail ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-09-10
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Goodnight!
1992-04-06
Goodnight!
Overview: Cute Roman, who enjoys an enviable interest in the female, has an obsessive dream in which a beautiful girl is to him. Roman's life has turned into an unimaginable nightmare, which he sincerely loving man helps to get rid of.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-04-06
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Find me
2010-11-29
Find me
Overview: Surviving a difficult period in the relationship, the Kuznetsovs go to an amusement park, where their daughter disappears in the "Cave of Fear", but when they report to the police, it turns out that there is no such attraction in the park ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-11-29
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Chekhovian Motifs
2002-06-26
Chekhovian Motifs
Overview: The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-06-26
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Yegor Bulychyov and Others
1973-04-09
Yegor Bulychyov and Others
Overview: In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic discord with himself, with the world that surrounds him, with great social injustice, to which his whole life has been given. The idea of the film is to determine the purpose and meaning of the existence of the human person, consider its polysyllabic and versatile connections with the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-04-09
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Windhover
1992-11-01
Windhover
Overview: In a remote village on the seashore lives a boy nicknamed Shumilka, the village mockingbird and mischief maker. A loyal fan of circus master Leonid Yengibarov considers himself his son. But Yengibarov himself doesn’t dare write a letter and ask for advice on how to join the circus. The morals and spirit of the village, its miserable and half-drunk life make thirteen-year-old Shumilka want to take revenge by all means. And the world takes revenge on him in its own way: everyone gave up on the boy - his mother, his grandmother, and his deaf-mute grandfather. In addition, he is expelled from school because he could not restrain himself and hit the teacher with a teapot. And now the boy is threatened with a colony...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-11-01
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Fun of the Young
1987-12-29
Fun of the Young
Overview: The main characters of the film is a company of students who have recently entered college. They just managed to taste the adult free life away from their parents. Now the world has acquired new colors, and everyday life has become more saturated - filled with entertainment and interesting activities. A stern physical education teacher in a technical school puts a “fail” to the whole group. The reason is simple - truancy. But adolescents cannot stand any morality from the lesson the man taught them and decide to teach him a lesson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-12-29
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Канувшее время
1989-01-01
Канувшее время
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Tycoon's Interpreter
2006-08-01
Tycoon's Interpreter
Overview: Ira is Russian. Ivan Tashkov, too. She is 23 years old, lives in Geneva with her mother and knows very little about her homeland. Tashkov is a supposed gangster of the Russian mafia, and is in jail waiting to be judged. Ira, who is searching for her roots and her own path in life, happens to be the interpreter of Tashkov's defense lawyer, and gets instantly captivated by of this powerful, cultured and manipulative man.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-08-01
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My Love
2006-04-08
My Love
Overview: In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-04-08
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Drama on the Hunt
1970-12-31
Drama on the Hunt
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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Braking in the Heavens
1990-07-17
Braking in the Heavens
Overview: The first secretary of the regional committee, Makhonin, sums up after the meeting of the party's general secretary with the regional economic and party activists. At the same time, he reports to those who allowed themselves critical speeches at this meeting. Central television accidentally records this “debriefing”, finding the material interesting send the film to Moscow by plane. Makhonin finds out about this and, frightened of the consequences, decides to return the plane and destroy the film at all costs...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-07-17
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Two in One
2007-11-27
Two in One
Overview: This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality - if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-11-27
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The Certificate
2005-02-12
The Certificate
Overview: One day, Grigori appears at the hospital in a state of excitement and informs her that his mother has died. Margarita, who also knew this friendly old lady, is saddened at the news. On the other hand, the announcement makes her hopeful that things might just work out for her and Grigori after all.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-02-12
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Her Name Is Spring
1969-01-01
Her Name Is Spring
Overview: The film takes place in Uzbekistan during the Great Patriotic War. Pulat and Bahor love each other, but the happiness of the heroes is prevented by a rich friend of the parents of a girl who sees her as her future wife.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Gambrinus
1990-11-01
Gambrinus
Overview:
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-11-01
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Second Wind
1971-01-01
Second Wind
Overview: A seriously ill patient is brought to the clinic of a research institute. Young doctor Falko, a resident at the institute, insists on an urgent operation, but his supervisor Druz believes that in this case therapeutic treatment will be more effective and, moreover, will not be associated with risk. Professor Shostenko nevertheless undertakes to operate on the patient. The successfully completed operation confirms the diagnosis made by Falko. Parallel to the events in the clinic, the action unfolds in the house of the director of the institute Shostenko, where his son Igor returns after a three-year absence. The complicated relationship between Igor and his wife, the love story of Shostenko's daughter and Druz - the canvas of the second plot of the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Homeless House-Elves
1981-02-07
Homeless House-Elves
Overview: About two little house-elves who were driven out of the house by an evil mistress.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-02-07
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Rubber Woman
1991-11-01
Rubber Woman
Overview: The sculptor lives as a hermit in the country, drinking vodka with a local cheerful drunkard and "sealing plaster piglets" for his wife, who sells these products on the Old Arbat. A friend sends him a rubber woman from Italy who miraculously assumes the appearance of a living woman. He buys outfits for the "doll", paints portraits of her, and life becomes joyful for him. Happiness, however, was broken by the drunkard who stole a doll with dirty intentions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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Karpusha
1988-06-09
Karpusha
Overview: The strong man tries to help the old people, but only ruins everything.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-09
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Music Shop
1989-02-08
Music Shop
Overview: Based on the fairy tale by L. Legut.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-02-08
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Who's There?
1990-01-01
Who's There?
Overview: One evening, Mom, Dad, and a maid named Natasha were sitting at a table drinking.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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