Olga Zhiznyeva
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 17, 1899
Deathday: November 10, 1972
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The Tailor from Torzhok
1925-04-09
The Tailor from Torzhok
Overview: A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky), bought a lottery ticket and handed it to his landlord, widow Shirinkina (Deykun) who wants to marry him. Petya is a hard-working tailor trying to start his own business. He is also in love with Katya (Maretskaya), whom he wants to marry. He has to survive a cascade of funny situations in the unstable Soviet reality, before his romance with Katya comes to a happy ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1925-04-09
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The Nice Life
1932-03-17
The Nice Life
Overview: Fred, a young British sailor who accidentually finds himself in the USSR and after a number of comic adventures he, attracted by Soviet youth enthusiazm, goes to take part in Dneprostroy (building of Dnepr power station).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1932-03-17
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Russian Ballerina
1947-01-28
Russian Ballerina
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-01-28
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Ordinary Story
1962-10-22
Ordinary Story
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-10-22
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The Foundling
1939-11-18
The Foundling
Overview: A little girl is lost in Moscow and hits the road making fun (not intentionally) of everybody she meets. She'll be back home soon but she will change the life of at least one man forever...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-11-18
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Albidum
1928-08-03
Albidum
Overview: About the struggle of a Soviet agronomist to create a drought-resistant variety of wheat. His work is hampered by bureaucracy. When excellent qualities of Albidum, as the developed variety is called, receive wide recognition and authorities decide to export it, external market monopolies do everything possible to prevent the export of Albidum. The film is considered to be partially lost as only one seven-minute fragment is known and found.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-08-03
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Different Fortunes
1956-09-21
Different Fortunes
Overview: Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya is in love with Styopa, but he loves Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. The rejected Styopa leaves for a distant Siberian city and starts working at the factory, studying at the evening institute. Sonya leaves after him and gets a job at the same factory. Tanya and Fedya, having married, go to college, and the young husband has to earn some money as a driver to support his family. The selfish nature of Tanya refuses to put up with the modest position in which the newlyweds are forced to be, and she starts an affair with an elderly composer...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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Wind from East
1940-06-06
Wind from East
Overview: A story about a life of a small village in Western Ukraine during 30-ies.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-06-06
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It Can Not Be Forgotten
1954-07-05
It Can Not Be Forgotten
Overview: The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy agents. The story is pertinent due to resurgence of ultra-nationalist underground activity in Western Ukraine after World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-07-05
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We'll Live Till Monday
1968-07-02
We'll Live Till Monday
Overview: Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-07-02
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In the Mountains of Yugoslavia
1946-10-31
In the Mountains of Yugoslavia
Overview: Yugoslav farmer-turned-partisan Slavko Babić starts an uprising against the fascist Germans and their allies.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-10-31
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The Slippers
1945-04-21
The Slippers
Overview: Film-opera based on Tschaikovsky's adaptation of Gogol's story, 'Noch' pyered Rozhdestvom.'
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-04-21
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The Ghost That Never Returns
1930-03-15
The Ghost That Never Returns
Overview: The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his rebel gang. This existential drama disguised as a saga about the proletarian struggle presents a lonely and insecure individual who is challenged to act more heroically than he is prepared to, but who constantly questions his confidence and loyalties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1930-03-15
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Admiral Ushakov
1953-04-22
Admiral Ushakov
Overview: Historical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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A Severe Young Man
2019-02-13
A Severe Young Man
Overview: The film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the 1930s. The cast of characters is extremely unlikely in almost every conventional respect. The action involves the household of the prominent Dr. Stepanov and his young wife, Masha, who share their large and richly adorned mansion with the parasitical Fedor Tsitronov, whose presence in the household is given only the most implausible of explanations. Equally implausible is the acquaintance of the family with the young and proud Grisha Fokin, whose leadership role in the Young Communist League is never clearly defined and who is never seen engaged in any work or professional activity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-02-13
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In the Name of the Motherland
1943-07-19
In the Name of the Motherland
Overview: The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-07-19
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The Invasion
1945-02-22
The Invasion
Overview: A Russian village struggles through the German occupation during World War II in this tense drama from the Soviet Union. As the town doctor finds his home has been taken by German troops, his daughter becomes involved in the anti-Axis resistance, and his son -- confined to a mental hospital -- escapes to fight the invading armies.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-02-22
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The Murderers Are Coming
1942-01-01
The Murderers Are Coming
Overview: Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, including "the Physicist", "Judicial Process", and "the Jewish Wife".
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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The Garnet Bracelet
1965-03-18
The Garnet Bracelet
Overview: The story of a sublime unrequited love of a petty official for a young socialite.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-03-18
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The House with the Mezzanine
1961-05-04
The House with the Mezzanine
Overview: A famous painter lives in idleness in the estate of the landlord Belokurov. Once he meets a family of Volchaninov's living in the neighborhood, in which there are two daughters: the eldest (Lydia), a serious and strict girl with convictions, who tries to help ordinary people and doesn't like the artist very much for his idleness, and the youngest (Zhenya or Misyus), which soon takes a great interest in the artist. The painter also falls in love with Zhenya, but Lydia destroys their happiness ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-05-04
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Lyuboy tsenoy
1960-09-12
Lyuboy tsenoy
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Genres: Drama War Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-09-12
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An Unusual Summer
1957-02-07
An Unusual Summer
Overview: The film takes place in 1919 in Saratov. Student Kirill Izvekov becomes Commissioner of the Red Army and participates in the battle with Wrangel and the capture of the city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-02-07
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Первые радости
1956-07-02
Первые радости
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-07-02
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Across Rus'
1968-03-18
Across Rus'
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-03-18
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Sud chesti
1949-02-25
Sud chesti
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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Father and Son
1936-04-14
Father and Son
Overview: While a factory director is distracted by production problems, his adolescent son suffers from loneliness. His mother is dead, and the father – a kind man and exemplary communist, winner of a Lenin Prize – is unable to find the time to educate his son, or a way to express his feelings. After an argument, the young boy runs away and, at his own risk, joins a band of criminals.
Genres: Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-04-14
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Two Lives
1961-10-16
Two Lives
Overview: In the center of the film - two lives, two destinies. A simple, illiterate soldier Vostrikov of the Tsar's Army during the years of Soviet power grew into a devoted fighter of the revolution, he became a general of the Soviet Army, respected by all. A guards officer, a brilliant prince Naschyokin, who fought against Soviet power, emigrated from his native country and eventually became a lackey in a port restaurant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-10-16
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His Call
1925-01-02
His Call
Overview: The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1925-01-02
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The Case of the Three Million
1926-04-28
The Case of the Three Million
Overview: History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a religious community.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-04-28
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Belated Flowers
1970-01-19
Belated Flowers
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Anton Chekhov. Princess Mariya fell in love with doctor Toporkov, who was treating her, in the recent past the serf of her family. Now he has become a celebrity and is only concerned about buying a new home profitably. He does not notice her love and marries a rich merchant. The princess in love comes to see Toporkov and opens to him. Her strong feeling touches Toporkov’s hardened heart, he leaves his wife and leaves the princess abroad.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-19
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The Property of Republic
1972-04-24
The Property of Republic
Overview: Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid Keshka, is stealing a collection of paintings and sculptures from the abandoned estate owners. Hoping to transport her abroad, criminals wander with a circus troupe, and in their wake goes a tireless criminal investigator — Makar Ovchinnikov.
Genres: Adventure Crime Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-04-24
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The Golden Echelon
1959-11-04
The Golden Echelon
Overview: 1919 year. There is a civil war in Siberia. Taking advantage of the complete confusion, Admiral Kolchak wants to export part of the country's gold reserves abroad. At the very last moment the Bolsheviks find out about it. They decide to intercept the train, but do not have time to properly prepare the operation... The girl Nadya, in whom the head of the train is passionately in love, can save the situation. Several kilometers of railway tracks to the border become a battlefield between white and red.
Genres: War Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-11-04
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Музыка Верди
1961-10-01
Музыка Верди
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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