Mariya Shalaeva
Also Known As: Maria Shalayeva, Мария Шалаева, Maria Shalaeva, Mariya Shalayeva, Маша ШАЛАЕВА
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Birthday: March 15, 1981
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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I Am
Overview: The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen conflict, where he meets his own apparent death. He recalls his life and realizes it mirrors that of his whole generation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-09-15
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Jolly Fellows
Overview: Veselchaki is a movie centered on a Moscow nightclub owned by Rosa; he performs as part of the drag revue in the club. The movie starts with five cross-dressing men sharing their stories with a reporter.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-15
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Friends of Friends
Overview: New Year's Eve stories intersect promoter for the first time to stay home with five years old, three musicians from the Philharmonic, dared to rob stern businessman at a house party to which they sent the same promoter, and a poor student, invited on a first date to an expensive restaurant daughter of most severe businessman. As a result, each of the characters fall into the absurd, naughty, dangerous, but still very funny situation out of which it will certainly help, friends...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-10-10
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Bimmer
Overview: A black BMW, a symbol of luxury, is racing along the night streets of Moscow in the 90s. Bad luck turns four friends into criminals and they have no way back. Only the black “bimmer” is reliable in this life without rules, taking the friends farther and farther from Moscow, into the crazy and ruthless wilderness of Russian roads… None of them wanted to kill. None of them wanted to die. But they will have to face their destiny in the end.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-08-02
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Express 'Moscow-Russia'
Overview: This is a story about a guy who is willing to sell the soul, just to dial million views for your videos on YouTube. On the way to his goal, he turns into a fast train "Moscow - Vladivostok», where faced with an American actress, suffering aerophobia. On the way strangers expect such adventures that they lag behind the train that trying to catch up, moving our unpredictable and fabulous Mother Russia - After each of them need to be in Vladivostok exactly 7 days - for reasons which they carefully conceal from each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-04-17
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Clipmakers
Overview: A ravishing comedy about controversial post-Soviet Russia of the 90s with storylines of four friends in the world of the glam-our entertainment industry closely tangled with criminals. The movie savors the final moments of the golden age of Russian clip makers full of easy money, dolce vita and danger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-01-05
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There's No Hurry
Overview: Every year, 25,000 people die on Russian roads. You could say a whole city is disappearing from our planet. And about a third of its "residents" were involved in an accident due to speeding. Many drivers do not consider acceleration even at 30 km / h a violation, but statistics show that they are wrong. Five different stories combined in movie almanacs will make every viewer, at least, think about the right choice of speed. Both on the road and in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Dialogues
Overview: Five attempts to say the most important thing, through dumbness and fear of being misunderstood. Five steps to yourself, through the reflection in the closest people. Five breaths to go on, overcoming emptiness and fear of death, in search and finding love. Different heroes go this way with only one desire to be heard and accepted as they are. But is it possible?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-04-24
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Rider
Overview: Zina stubbornly goes on dates, flirts with strangers on social networks and bypasses the dance floor, because she doesn't dance well. But one day it is her turn to shine with happiness. In the life of Zina, a man finally appeared, and that very ideal one. Flowers, restaurants, gifts - a true gentleman, gallant boyfriend and a big fan of Matisse (Pavel Derevyanko) is in a hurry to please all her whims. And everything would be fine, but the protracted platonic relationship does not suit Zina, she wants something more. But for some reason, the gentleman is in no hurry with closeness. And for that he has his own reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-12-06
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Blind Valentine's Day
Overview: Crises happen in any relationship. The most romantic day of the year has prepared serious challenges for the heroes. Will they find the strength to cope? Or will they be scared and disperse? The film is about the fact that true love is able to conquer everything, even if Cupid's arrow accidentally hit the wrong place.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2022-02-03
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Stories on Human Rights
Overview: 20 short films about human rights.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy Documentary Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-10-23
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Lord of the Ether
Overview: The radio air is a whole layer of the life of the night city. Radio helps to meet the lost in the night, brings comfort to the homes of people suffering from loneliness and insomnia. DJs become not just masters of the ether, they are the arbiters of fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-06-08
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Second Life
Overview: Fascinated by a computer game that simulates the real world with unlimited possibilities, a young family man, an employee of an online store, gradually loses his sense of reality. Unsuited to family life, he makes a choice towards the flat world, creating in it an imaginary image of a man with a capital letter. Having made a bet on the virtual space, he does not notice how “orobotel". One day, coolly pressing “delete” on a folder with family photos, the only one that reminds him of reality, he finally plunges into the digital space and forgets about his loved ones...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Till Night Do Us Part
Overview: A genuine satiric comedy, based on real conversations - both amusing and sad - overheard by a journalist in one of the most expensive Moscow restaurants. Hilarious and revealing, this is a film about women who choose between affection and money, film producers that don't really know what they're filming, and weary businessmen who sometimes say screw it, down a shot and leave their mother-in-laws to pay the bill. But most of all, it's about true love that favors noisy kitchen floor over gilded fine-dining halls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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Sweets to the Sweet
Overview: “Time… Hours… Minutes… Seconds… Time does not exist, we invented it ourselves. This is a beautiful illusion that fills our life with mystical meaning. The whole of human history is a search for a loophole in time, a desire to use Him not against oneself, but for the good." The film shows the expectations of twelve people happening in parallel on a certain day at five o'clock in the evening. A subtle, thought-provoking film about the essence and meaning of time in life. For RADO Switzerland.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-18
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I'll Be Around
Overview: A 30-something single mother must find adoptive parents for her son when she founds out she has an incurable illness in this family drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-12-06
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Patient No. 1
Overview: The end of the Soviet empire. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. "The power is only taken, it is never given away," he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret services -- while the "body" is alive, various groups are scoring their political points. The General Secretary is "sentenced to life". A young nurse Sasha looks after him. Small, fragile and invisible, she bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the life of the country's top official. Meanwhile, the old man is waging a war in Afghanistan, has a nuclear button and can take the entire world to the grave with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Graveyard Shift
Overview: A maniac terrorizes a town during rainy nights. And exactly on one rainy night a student has a night shift in a 24-hour shop. And exactly on this night the owner of the shop goes to play in a casino, his wife wants to be entertained, a detective is awaiting for a crime to be committed and certainly... the maniac begins hunting.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-01-20
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The Odyssey 1989
Overview: Moving from rural Russia to the city, Den faces a new reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-02-18
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Bride at any Cost
Overview: Businessman Staskin need to provide to himself an alibi which should be a bride - and at any cost.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-09-17
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Holiday Lockdown
Overview: A funny romantic comedy about a young actor Slava Belkin who works as Santa during New Year days.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-12-13
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Mermaid
Overview: The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples with love, modernity and materialism.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-06-05
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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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Eternal Cold
Overview: A girl left a young handsome hockey player on the eve of the decisive match. Moreover, she did not go to anyone, but to a museum worker. To support a friend, five hockey players and a goalkeeper go to the museum to explain to the art critic that he did wrong and the woman must be returned. How could the athletes know that the museum is not just a place where statues stand and pictures are hung on the walls. That in giant vaults-storerooms, ancient as the world creatures, which our ancestors described in myths and legends, rest in frozen form. And they are supervised in the image of quiet museum workers by the same immortal humanoid entities…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-07-14
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Bird Flu's Case
Overview: One night experiment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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No Borders
Overview: Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-10-22
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About Love
Overview: What is love? The heroes of the film try to answer this question. A series of the most different characters and their stories are woven together. Small stories about various things, all about love: a young pair who prefer to live through images of Japanese anime-heroes; a secretary who receives an obscene offer from her boss; a Japanese woman who arrives in Moscow in search of a Russian man; a graffiti artist in search of beauty; an ex-wife employed by her husband for an unusual task; and many other things...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-12-10
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Blockbuster
Overview: A wannabe model from a small Russian town robs a local bank to fund her modeling career.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-07-13
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Завтра день рождения
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2001-09-01
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Hostages
Overview: Soviet Georgia, 1983. Preparations for Nika and Ana's wedding are in full swing and it's a big day for both of their elite families. For the newlyweds and their friends, however, the celebrations are in fact part of a cover-up, as they plot an audacious escape from the Soviet Union.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-04-20
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Федька
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Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-06-02
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Russian Psycho
Overview: Contemporary Moscow. Svyatoslav, a poor boy, falls in love with Asya, a rich girl, and wants to marry her. To support her in the manner in which she is accustomed, he opens an upscale restaurant. But he soon discovers he has a unseen enemy.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-01-31
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Mistresses
Overview: Three young women living in Moscow found out that their partners are married to other women. Coping with this news at the bar, they decide to seek revenge for each other. When the job is done, it turns out that there are thousands of women caught in the same situation, hurt and cheated on by unfaithful husbands. All of these offended women want revenge. Our ladies can help with this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-02-28
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Sadko
Overview: The adventurer named Sadko sets sail in search of a mythical bird of happiness...
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-05-24
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Spring, come!
Overview: Maya goes to a meeting with ex-boyfriend Zemo, who took her rightful time. She needs to say goodbye to this guy, because she has a new relationship. The meeting takes place in the park. In parallel, Maya writes her new love, which is already impatient to Maya belonged only to him. Maya, like a real woman, has to make a difficult choice between Summer and Winter. She's just in love Spring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-06-06
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Divorce
Overview: She is absolutely sure she wants a divorce! He doesn’t agree, but doesn’t dare contradict. So they go for a divorce. They’d go to the end, if they weren’t stopped by a ridiculous incident... Why do people part? Where do feeling go in a stream of offences and claims? The film is a reflection about partings and relationships, where there is no good and bad, but people don’t hear each other, even though they are close.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-06-05
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Happiness Is... Part 2
Overview: Another seven good-ending stories for a whole family.
Genres: Romance Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-04-01
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Anybody Seen My Girl?
Overview: Sergei and Kira were considered the most beautiful bohemian couple among cinema lovers of Saint Petersburg in the early 90’s. Their fantastic love affair ended with Kira leaving town, fleeing for new life, new relationship. Sergei has died shortly after. Only after a few years does Kira realize that she never stopped loving Sergei. And that she’s doomed to stay in a neverending dialogue with a dead lover.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-02-04
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Thunderstorm
Overview: The action unfolds in our days, in the small Volga town of Kalinov, where nothing has changed since the days of Alexander Ostrovsky’s classical play: if any rays of light do appear in the dark empire, then they are doomed to perish quietly in the general absurdity and ignorance, or shine brightly as a token of protest against lie and tyranny. The young, married girl Katerina Kabanova leads a happy life — at first sight. Only her mother-in-law Kabanikha constantly nags her and does not allow her to take things easy. Her weak-willed husband Tikhon loves his wife, but he always sides with his powerful mother. When Katerina unexpectedly falls in love with Boris, the young relative of the town’s mayor, she finds that he also has tender feelings for her…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-06-15
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Fairy
Overview: The creator of the best virtual reality games is convinced that in reality everyone and everything is controlled, but a chance meeting with a young activist opens his eyes to the fact that the world is much wider and more complicated than anything that he knows and understands about it.
Genres: Drama Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-04-30
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Masha
Overview: "Masha" is a romantic and ironical comedy. The script is based on the life of Masha, a real young woman from Moscow. One day she ran away to Paris to Dima, a Russian translator. It turns out he is her father, who hasn't seen her since she was a baby. He lets her stay with him. His good friend Natasha helps them understand each other. But his whole life turned upside down and he must now rethink many aspects of his carefree life as a bachelor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-06-24
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The Charge
Overview: A young man who was raised in a children's home wants to go to the Chechen war. He believes in his heart that he belongs there and that in those difficult conditions he will make himself visible. After the training, Alexander enters the elite troops of the special forces and leaves for the harsh ordeals that wait for him in the war. He doesn't change his principles and manifests himself as a hero, who won't be a traitor, even if his life depends on it. The concepts of real friendship, love and honor are eternal values. After overcoming all hardships and learning the pain of loss, he finds his love and a home, where they will wait for him, where he comes home from the war...
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-02-20
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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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Freshman
Overview: A teacher and a student are at war about their differences. Thank God, they are of the opposite gender, so there's a chance for them to put the differences aside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-07-02
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