Irina Zarubina
Also Known As: Ирина Зарубина
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kazan, Russian Empire
Adult: No
Birthday: April 22, 1907
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 20, 1976
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Peter the First, Part II
Overview: Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overthrow him.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-08-22
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Thunderstorm
Overview: The cinematic adaptation of "The Storm" play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. In a provincial town on the Volga River, the young and sensitive Katerina marries Tikhon, a violent drunkard, and thus enters the crude milieu of greedy salesmen, the "dark kingdom". Her mother-in-law, Kabanikha, rules the family with an iron fist and endlessly harasses Katerina. One day, when Tikhon is away, she meets Boris, a man who embodies everything Katerina is longing for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-03-25
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Wings of Victory
Overview: The film is based on the biography of Valeri Chkalov (1904 - 1938), a Russian pilot, who set several long distance flight records. Chkalov and his co-pilots Baidukov and Belyakov together had accomplished several non-stop long-distance flights. In June of 1937 Chkalov set the world record, covering 12000 kilometers in 63 hours of non-stop flight from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, flying over the North Pole.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-03-12
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The Girlfriends
Overview: Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-02-19
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Eccentrics
Overview: The love triangle: wife, husband and his mistress, amusingly crumbles because the loving writer is fleetingly infatuated with a third woman, young and inexperienced, rightly believing that an artist needs a muse every day, not a wife and mistress.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Friends
Overview: The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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My Apprenticeship
Overview: Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-09-12
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The Red Village
Overview: The movie's opening sequence takes place in 1921, towards the end of Russia's civil war, as the Red Army are vanquishing the last Menshevik forces of the White Guard along the western frontier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-04-08
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Vassilisa the Beautiful
Overview: Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the youngest brother, Ivanushka, brings home a frog from the marshes. His father finds this most curious, but what he does not know was that the frog was actually a beautiful girl named Vasilisa who was cursed by a magical serpent whom she refused to marry. Now Ivanushka must overcome tremendous obstacles to restore Vasilisa to her true form and free her from the serpent's spell.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-05-13
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Driver Involuntarily
Overview: A driver of a big manager is hospitalized with his boss's documents and adventures start...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-07-28
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Alyonka
Overview: Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alenka Muratova (Ovodova) is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alenka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-03-22
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Soviet Border
Overview:
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Два друга
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-03-29
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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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Yudishka Golovlyov
Overview: Film adaptation of The Golovlyov Family ("Господа Головлёвы), a classic novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. In the mid-19th century old-fashioned estate based on serfdom laws and traditions, tough and shrewd Arina Petrovna tries her best to make her realm prosper and even expand – despite unwillingness of her husband and three of her four children to lend helping hands... Ten years on, serfdom abolished, and now Porfiry-Yudishka, the epitome of a corrupt, cruel hypocrite, becomes the heir to the estate. Dullness and horrors of life, spent in destroying everybody around him, finally makes him to slowly realize things went somehow wrong. Half-mad, apparently, he goes to the cemetery to "ask for forgiveness" from his mother Arina Petrovna, and dies somewhere along his way, his frozen corpse found the next day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-01-23
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Crazy Day
Overview: A funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-07-10
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Enemies
Overview: The eve of the 1905 Russian revolution was unquiet at the Skrobotova and Bardin factory. In response to the fair demand of the workers to dismiss the cruel and rude master, the masters close the factory and call in the troops. They shoot of one of the workers, who failed to restrain a rush of hatred towards the owners, ending Skrobotov's life. Gendarmes arrive at the factory. They succeed in uncovering the social democratic organization in the factory. The arrested workers oppose hysterical cruelty of gendarmes with calm, confident courage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-09-19
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The First Trolleybus
Overview: Svetlana, young pretty girl, works as a trolleybus driver in a small town and almost all her permanent passengers are at least a little bit in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-12-04
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The Village Detective
Overview: Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-03-15
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Авария
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-07-12
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