Oleg Yankovskiy
Also Known As: Oleg Yankovski , Oleg Yankovsky, Oleg Yankovskiy, Олег Янковский, Oleg Jankovsky, Олег Иванович Янковский
Biography: Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky (Russian: Оле́г Ива́нович Янко́вский; February 23, 1944 – May 20, 2009) was a Soviet/Russian actor who has excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals. In 1991, he became, together with Alla Pugacheva, the last person to be named a People's Artist of the USSR.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bolshoy Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhskaya SSR, USSR
Adult: No
Deathday: May 20, 2009
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Nostalgia
Overview: A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-02
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Mirror
Overview: A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-03-07
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Dictatorship of Conscience
Overview: Performance of the Lenkom Theater based on the play by M. Shatrov.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-05-25
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The First Love
Overview: Based on the story of the same name by I. Turgenev. A story about the romantic feeling of falling in love with a young man for whom everything is for the first time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-04-26
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Trust
Overview: Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and the Soviet Union. In December 1917, the Finnish delegation, composed of Chairman of the Senate Finance Department P.E. Svinhufvud (Vilho Siivola), Senator Carl Enckell (Yrjö Tähtelä) and State Secretary Gustaf Idman (Yrjö Paulo) arrive in St. Petersburg to meet V.I. Lenin (Kirill Lavrov) to gain recognition for the country's independence.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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The Theater Is My House
Overview: A.N. Ostrovsky recalls the first period of his creative work (1849–1859), when he began collaborating with the Maly Theatre and with masters of the Russian stage such as L.P. Kositskaya, M.S. Shchepkin, and P.M. Sadovsky. Almost every character in this film is a real historical figure.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-04-01
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Wrath
Overview: Historical drama about the Tatarbunar uprising in southern Bessarabia in September 1924. The plot is based on the complicated relationship between two brothers standing on opposite sides of the barricades. The betrayal of one of the brothers led to a spontaneous uprising of the poor, which swept the entire south of Bessarabia and was brutally suppressed by the punitive occupation forces.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-09-16
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The Musicians from Bremen
Overview: The classic story about a musicians from Bremen is told in not so classical way.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-06-06
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The Passport
Overview: A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-06-06
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Ordinary Miracle
Overview: A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love?
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-10-02
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The Very Same Munchhausen
Overview: A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and behavior is what sets him apart from others. He becomes alienated from the society that failed to grasp his brilliance. In fact, his brilliance is what underlines the faults with the society itself. It's a beautiful yet tragic story that is filled with dense and intellectual dialogue.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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The House That Swift Built
Overview: An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-11-03
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To Kill a Dragon
Overview: Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's multiple personalities, ranging from a "dragon" to a "samurai" to a "Nazi", scare the hell out of all people, except Lancelot. Finally Dragon drops all his masks, to become the most dangerous of his incarnations - "himself". And the battle begins
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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Paradise Apple
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Tsar
Overview: In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan's close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign's mystical tyranny. What follows is a clash between two completely opposite visions of the world, smashing morality and justice, God and men. A grand-scale film with excellent leading roles by Mamonov and Yankovsky. An allegory of Stalinist Russia
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-11-04
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My Tender and Affectionate Beast
Overview: An aristocrat falls for a young woman who brings him ruin. Based on Chekhov's story. AKA A Hunting Accident, The Shooting Party.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-05-16
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Hipsters
Overview: In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Alissa
Overview: The son of an editor discovers that one of his father's writers is a former criminal from the Eastern bloc.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-07-29
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Two hussars
Overview: Drama on the novel of the same name L. N. Tolstoy. Two hussars - father and son - two morals, two worldviews. And although older Turbin frivolous in love, but reliable in friendship and principled in matters of honor. Junior Turbines do not stand up to comparison with his father - he is calculating, shallow and selfish "hussars of the new generation".
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-06-06
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Two Comrades Were Serving
Overview: Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-10-21
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The Lover
Overview: This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya’s attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didn’t really know her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-10-24
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Come Look at Me
Overview: The movie is about an old disabled lady who lives with her spinster daughter. The lady desperately wants her daughter to marry, and the daughter, driven by the supposed imminent death of her mother, invites a total stranger home and introduces him as her boyfriend. The man and the prospective mother-in-law eventually start to like each other, and he makes every effort to be liked by the daughter. With the intervention of a fantasy granddaughter, quasi-miraculous healing, and a lot of hilarious repartee in between, the movie has a happy ending.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-06-06
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The Captivating Star of Happiness
Overview: In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and tyrannical Czar Nikolai I in the wake of his not honoring the drafting of a constitution for the Russian people. The revolution failed miserably and the conspirators (known as the Decembrists) were weeded out by the czar himself. One by one, each of the conspirators confess and are systematically exiled to the harsh winters of Siberia, slated to work and wither in a prison/mine. The wives of the conspirators are faced with the prospect of leaving the bosom of wealth and family (including their own children) to be with their husbands in the brutal Siberian locale. If they agree to this, they face having their illustrious social stations stripped away and certain disdain from everyone around them...
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-11-11
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Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Overview: On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-10-04
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Other People's Letters
Overview: Zina is sixteen. She is a manipulative schoolgirl living in a small Russian town among sincere and simple people. Zina is nice on the surface, but so unable to enjoy normal life, that she is desperately trying to hurt someone. She tries to seduce and compromise a handsome young man, but he is smart enough to see through her and escapes from her trap. Zina manipulates her classmates so she looks like a victim. Now Zina's teacher, Vera, a sweet and loving lady, takes care of her trying to save the troubled girl, but in return, Zina becomes extremely crafty to hurt the teacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-16
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family.
Genres: Crime Adventure Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-07-25
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A Ballad of Love
Overview: Leningrade. Galina works as a restorer at Catherine Palace; she is a sculptor as well and takes her profession very seriously and enthusiastically. Vera, a friend from art school, sees her loneliness and introduces her to her husband's colleagues - friendly Mitya and mysterious Andrey. Soon Galina finds herself torn between the two men.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-02-20
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Chinese Tea-Set
Overview: The film is set in 1913 Russia during the celebrations of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. Rich Russian merchants are celebrating their wealth by gambling and playing poker. They are traveling aboard the luxurious cruise liner "St. Nikolai" on Volga river, oblivious to the fact that several gangs of crooks and con-artists are stealing their money in the game. Their target is the wealthiest Russian tycoon Satanovsky.
Genres: Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-01-03
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Anna Karenina
Overview: The film adaptation of the famous novel by Leo Tolstoy. The story of the illegal and tragic love of a married lady Anna Karenina for a brilliant officer Vronsky.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-03-01
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The Fatal Eggs
Overview: Based on the motifs of M. Bulhakow's story with the same title. The thing about the scientist-zoologist Persikow, whose unique invention makes the rate of formation and development of organisms grow thousands of times. The experiment subjects eggs of the anaconda, which by mistake go to the mad director of the model chicken farm, dealing with rebuilding the hen population in the country. Irradiated reptiles, hatching from eggs, start to devour.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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A Long, Long Case...
Overview: A murder just happened and it seems the answer is simple on who and how did it. But a casual talk between suspect's mother and prosecutor sets a different point of view on a just opened case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-09-10
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Assassin of the Tsar
Overview: A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-10-02
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Dark
Overview: This story of the beginning of the century about a terrorist and a prostitute combined the inhumanity and sacrifice of terrorism - a disastrous and noble delusion that originated in Russia and spread throughout the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-07-06
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Love by Request
Overview: Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete living aimlessly and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, a dowdy librarian, try to find their luck by planning to fall in love with each other based on "psychological conditioning".
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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A Sweet Woman
Overview: A story about life and love of a young girl Anna who moves from her village to a big city.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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Hamlet
Overview: TV performance of the famous work of Shakespeare.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-08-01
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Racers
Overview: An unpleasant incident on the winter track results in a conflict between two racing drivers: the aging master of sports Kukushkin and his student — the young and ambitious Sergachev. The disagreement leads to the fact that despite the protests of the team coach, on the eve of the next major competitions, former teammates find themselves in different crews.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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Guard Me, My Talisman
Overview: The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the plush forest around Boldino when a mysterious figure pops up from behind a tree and asks the couple a question on an esoteric point of Pushkin scholarship. From that strange beginning, the man, whose name is Klimov, starts to ease himself into the couple's private space, and trouble ensues. Complementing this story is the festival itself, enactments of Pushkin's works, and emotional debates among the festival-goers over the meaning of his poetry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-08-31
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Mado, poste restante
Overview: In this gentle comedy, Mado (Marianne Groves) is the letter-carrier for her small town, and she is constantly on the lookout for a good Catholic man who shares her enthusiasm for sunrises. She even puts up posters on trees and walls advertising her interest. The townspeople make fun of her, but she isn't discouraged. Her best friend is Germaine (Isabelle Gelinas), a pretty girl whose moral standards are not as strict as Mado's. When a film director (Oleg Yankovsky) arrives in town, everyone is agog, but Mado is particularly keen to find out about him. However, it seems that he has his eye on Germaine, and he isn't really in her league anyhow.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-10-03
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Bed of Procust
Overview: The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the reasons of those actions. In his search he discovers a mysterious Miss T.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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Poor, Poor Pavel
Overview: Lenfilm's most recent major production spins a kind of historical fantasy based on real incidents that's full of ominous implications for today. One night, a patrol rushes into the chambers of the Russian prince Pavel, son of the Empress Catherine; the Empress has died, and Pavel is to be anointed the new Tsar. Thought to be feeble-minded at best and crazy at worst, Pavel soon lives up to his enemies' fears: he dismisses long-serving courtiers, demands that peasants only work three days a week, and declares that state officials should start their days at 5 am. Soon, it seems that everyone who can is trying to hatch some kind of plot against him - including his own sons. Sumptuously designed, POOR POOR PAVEL constrasts the imperial splendor of the court with the sordid atmosphere of conspiracies and backstabbing that comes to define these characters' lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-06-21
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We, the Undersigned
Overview: The main events unfold in the train. The acceptance committee from Moscow, revealing deficiencies in the constructed bakery, did not sign the act of its delivery. But the fate of not only many people associated with the construction, but also the life of the town as a whole depends on this. Lyonya Shindin — a conscientious and decent man — is trying by all means and by any means to change the decision of the commission...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-03-14
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The Bonus
Overview: A small construction team led by Potapov suddenly refuses to receive a bonus payment from their company for exceeding performance targets. The team accuses its construction company HQ with artificially reducing the targets, so they can be easily exceeded. It makes the management looks good, yet leads to frequent downtime reducing earnings for common construction workers even with fake bonuses. On a hastily organized meeting the management tries to subdue the "unruly" gang leader charging that he cannot know all details. It turned out that Potapov and his team prepared a detailed business analysis, which proved their point. Managers, who had different interests and positions, have to decide how to deal with the real problem leading to unexpected results.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Yankovsky
Overview: This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his personal life. Although it's all in the film: a dramatic fate, unknown pages of biography. Like any great actor, he possessed a secret - he did not tell both in the movies and in life. But his main gift was not even acting. Yankovsky was talented at making people fall in love with him. I wanted to look at him again and again: that's why they loved him and still love him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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Birds of Paradise
Overview: The events of the film take place in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. It is forbidden to listen to foreign radio stations, it is not safe to voice one’s opinions in front of strangers. Words of truth are spoken only in private kitchens behind the curtained windows. The KGB tap phones, survey the ‘unreliable’ and consistently step by step destroy all forms of decent. The protagonists challenge the inhumane state machine, putting on stake their very lives and proving that nothing and nobody can stop a person who is on his way to achieve a true freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-04-01
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Kreutzer Sonata
Overview: A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-07-22
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The Dream of Russia
Overview: Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-25
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Белая земля
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-08-21
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Crusader
Overview: At the filming movie about the crusaders, in Turkey, with one of the stunts died in accident. Death of a stuntman was rigged by criminals, who smuggled a large shipment of drugs in the coffin. Producer Anton is killed, money stolen...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-01-10
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Doctor Zhivago
Overview: Russian TV miniseries of Boris Pasternak's classic novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-04-01
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72 Degrees Below Zero
Overview: Antarctic station "Vostok" threatens conservation due to lack of fuel. Volunteer squad is called to take fuel, but will soon begin "Polar autumn" in Antarctica. No one has walked this way, when the temperature drops below 71 degrees Celsius and freezes fuels.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-07-11
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The Spy
Overview: 1916: on the verge of being evicted from his apartment, unable to find a job, with a desperate wife and a sick child, a man wrestles with his conscience about whether to turn police informer for money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-09-11
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Ivan & Abraham
Overview: In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying together, they demonstrate their inseparability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-26
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Evenings on a farm near Dikanka
Overview: A fantasy film on the theme of the early works of Nikolai Gogol, tightly interwoven with his personality and biography.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-17
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The Hat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-03-19
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Loser
Overview: Initially, all the events take place in Moscow, where the main character Dima accidentally ends up in a casino after a series of failures. And then he starts to get lucky. First, he wins a million and a chic car, and then unexpectedly Dima is invited by his old friend from St. Petersburg to celebrate the New Year. On the new car, the main character of the film rushes towards the northern capital, but in the middle of the road, near Valdai, his watchful car policeman Pavel stops him. Dima, trying to melt the heart of a law enforcement officer, tells Pavel a touching story about his beloved, who lives in the small town of Valdai. However, the randomly named address turns out to be the address where Paul himself lives. Shocked traffic cop arranges a confrontation with the so-called "lovers."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-12-27
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The Turning Point
Overview: The newlyweds return to Moscow after a wonderful sea cruise on the Black Sea. It seems that they will have a happy life ahead, their beloved job, but chance rudely cuts off all dreams: Viktor doesn't have time to slow down and knocks down an elderly woman with his Zhiguli. His desire to evade responsibility is replaced by repentance and a decision to accept the burden of guilt upon himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-04-09
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The Kiss
Overview: The film is based on the short story by Anton Chekhov. Gentlemen invited to tea by the local landowner, a retired major-General von Rebbeca.. Lieutenant ryabovich lost in the darkness, in the rooms of the old house, suddenly kissed a stranger.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-10-22
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Speech for the Defence
Overview: Valya supported her lover, denied herself everything, devotedly and sincerely loved him. He answered her with black ingratitude. Struck in the very heart, Valya decides to commit suicide with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-02-04
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Mute Witness
Overview: Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a snuff film being made. Billy escapes and, with the help of her sister, Kate, alerts authorities about what she saw. Unfortunately, in doing so, she makes an enemy of the Russian mafia, who funded the snuff film.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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My Twentieth Century
Overview: A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan. Their paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899...
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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Under a Stone Sky
Overview: In the autumn of 1944, contrary to the order of the Nazi command to evacuate to the south, residents of the Norwegian town of Kirkenes took refuge in an abandoned mine. The command of the Soviet Army became aware of the intentions of the Nazis to blow up the old tunnels of the city, but the Soviet soldiers managed to prevent the tragedy.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-10-25
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Wait For Me, Anna
Overview: A love story during wartime.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-09-29
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Обратная связь
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-04-17
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Reckoning
Overview: A young man discovers that his father behaved dishonourably during wartime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-23
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Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
Overview: Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the years Tarkovsky spent in Italy, personal accounts of friends and professionals, the shooting locations of his films, to what degree his works reflects his personal life. The film brings us closer to the man to whom contemporary filmmaking owes so much.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-04-04
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Police Sergeant
Overview: Alexey Severtsev, who came to enroll at Leningrad University from Siberia, is cleverly deceived by experienced criminals. At the station, they manage to lure Severtsev into a deserted place, beat him and rob him. A young police sergeant Nikolai Zakharov is assigned to investigate this incident. Zakharov will show resourcefulness and courage, and, of course, will detain repeat offenders.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-08-11
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Сохранившие огонь
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-04-21
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The Man Who Cried
Overview: A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Genres: Romance Drama Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-29
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Шут Балакирев
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Genres: Drama History Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2001-05-14
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Tales of Belkin. Shot
Overview: Over officer Silvio laughed at the fate itself in the image of a brilliant and successful opponent. How not to challenge this fate! And how not to give her the right to shoot first?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-08-17
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Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
Overview: A poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-05-05
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Marriage
Overview: About the hapless bridegroom Podkolesin, who escaped from the bride through the window, and the picky bride Agafya Tikhonovna, who can not choose the right one, Mark Zakharov saw the story of a man who wants to change something in his life, but is not capable of doing anything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-04-22
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Guilty Without Guilt
Overview: In a small provincial town, a famous actress comes on tour, who once fled from here from the shame of unhappy love. Many years ago, she was forced to leave her illegitimate son to raise strangers. Therefore, when a talented and reckless young actor appears on the way of a now rich and famous woman, she certainly wants to help him. The actress begins to take an active part in the fate of the young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-10-05
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The Retired Colonel
Overview: Korney Korneevich Polunin is a career military officer, a retired colonel. His wife died when his son was one and a half years old, Alexey had already grown up, became independent, and they rarely see each other. Unable to stay at home, Polunin goes to the factory as a locksmith - in his old specialty. Friends perceive this as an oddity, and they look at him warily at work. But a group of teenagers comes to the plant's personnel department, and Polunin undertakes to lead this team, instilling in it respect for work and awareness of his need to achieve the final result of work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-02-07
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Peer Gynt
Overview: Peer Gynt grew up a handsome guy, girls peered at him, and he dreamed of becoming a king and getting rich. He went to the wedding and there he saw the girl Solveig. Peer got drunk, quarreled with the guests and went into the mountains, where he met a troll maiden. Peer wanted to marry her and become a king, but the troll king explained that for this you need to become a troll and live according to their customs. Peer managed to escape, and he sailed on the ship. For many years he swam and accumulated wealth. And when he returned to his native coast in a storm, the ship sank with all the load.
Genres: Animation Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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A Sentimental Romance
Overview: The film is set in the 1920s. Shura Sevastyanov is an aspiring journalist in a small newspaper, with two-classes of a parochial school behind him. In the spirit of building communism, he is an ardent fighter against philistinism in all its forms. He denies the phenomenon of love, believing that it does not exist and that there is only friendship and sexual desire of man to woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-12-01
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1
Overview: The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-07-25
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2
Overview: The second part of the Russian TV adaption.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-07-26
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Ревизор
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1996-10-08
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Me, Francysk Skaryna
Overview: A film about the Belarusian publisher and educator Francis (Georgy) Skaryna, who lived in the first half of the 16th century, the founder of the first Belarusian printing house in Vilnius and the author of fundamental research in the field of linguistics.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-11-30
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