Alla Tarasova
Also Known As: Алла Константиновна Тарасова
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kiev, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Ukraine]
Birthday: January 25, 1898
Deathday: April 04, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Концерт-вальс
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-03-22
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Peter the First, Part I
Overview: This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs. Rulers like Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great were widely admired for their dedication to Russia and their absolute determination to enhance her position in the world. But praise for the hated later Romanovs conflicted too heavily with the very beliefs that had brought about the Revolution in 1917.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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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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The Kremlin Chimes
Overview: Performance of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater based on the play by N. Pogodin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Raskolnikow
Overview: Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benifit of mankind, murders an old woman, who operates a crooked loaning house, as well as her sister, who made the mistake of visiting her at the wrong time. He is suspected of the crime, but somebody else confesses to the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-10-26
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Guilty Without Guilt
Overview: A story based on a classic play by Alexander Ostrovsky,
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-09-21
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A Long Happy Life
Overview: A young man and woman meet by chance and experience a night and a morning together. One of the truest and realistic depiction of Russian romance and life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-11-14
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The Lower Depths
Overview: A group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Peasant woman
Overview: Collective farmers of the Volga region decide to create the first female fishing team. Her hardworking and neat Varvara Kladova, a quiet and gentle woman suffering from adultery with Stepan's husband, becomes her head. Having overcome the first difficulties, women are ahead of the brigade of men. And this makes Stepan look at his wife with different eyes.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-07-27
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Anna Karenina
Overview: The performance of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky based on the novel of the same name by L. N. Tolstoy, staged for the stage by one of the founders of the theater V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-04-06
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