Aleksandr Gruzinsky
Also Known As: Александр Павлович Грузинский, Aleksandr Pavlovich Gruzinskiy, A. Gruzinskiy, Aleksandar Gruzinskiy, Александр Грузинский, А. Грузинский
Biography: Alexander P. Gruzinskiy (1899-1968) — Soviet film and theater actor. People's artist of the RSFSR (1949).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian Empire
Birthday: July 04, 1899
Deathday: January 09, 1968
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Summer Residents
Overview: In the focus of the film is the fate of Varvara Basova, whose painfully soulless, philistine-gray existence, devoid of ideals and moral content. Relevant today, the picture sounds like a verdict to all who are mired in vulgarity, who have exchanged life for petty pleasures, profit, empty philosophizing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-09-25
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Washington Story
Overview: Faith Vans, an employee of one of the departments of the US State Department, receives a summons to the commission to investigate un-American activities, and her prosperous, calm life begins to collapse. But Faith doesn't give up, and she fights for her rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Overview: In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of Borodino, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Bolkonsky's unit waits in the reserve, but he is hit by a shell. Both Anatol and Bolkosnky suffer severe wounds. The French Army is victorious and advances on Moscow.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-07-21
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War and Peace
Overview: A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Genres: History Drama War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-04-28
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The Golden Antelope
Overview: It is a screen version of an Indian national fairy tale. Malicious and greedy rajah wishes to get a wonderful antelope who strikes gold coins by hoofs. The country boy rescues an antelope, but rajah, threatening the boy, compels the antelope to serve him but he is severely punished for it.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-08-08
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Pavlik Morozov
Overview: The film was based on the story of the same name by A. Yakovlev about the most famous pioneer of the thirties of the last century, who was inscribed in the history of the pioneers under number 1.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-02-08
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Meeting
Overview: The hero saw among his colleagues a man whom he had met during the war in the dungeons of the Gestapo. This man reported that a thief from the same cell was trying to escape. The “thief” was shot, and later it turned out that he was the leader of the underground...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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A Royal Regatta
Overview: The student rowing team of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) was defeated in the competition. The coach drops the team and leaves, taking the best rowers with him. The remaining athletes decide to assemble a new team, and the management of the institute appoints a new coach for them — a teacher of hydrodynamics.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-11-27
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The Ugly Story
Overview: Based on a satirical short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky concerning the escapades of a Russian civil servant.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-10-10
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Eugénie Grandet
Overview: Eugénie Grandet is set in the town of Saumur. Eugénie's father Felix is a former cooper who has become wealthy through both business ventures and inheritance (having inherited the estates of his mother-in-law, grandfather-in-law, and grandmother all in one year). However, he is very miserly, and he, his wife, daughter, and their servant Nanon live in a run-down old house which he is too miserly to repair. His banker des Grassins wants Eugénie to marry his son Adolphe, and his lawyer Cruchot wants Eugénie to marry his nephew President Cruchot des Bonfons, both parties eyeing the inheritance from Felix. The two families constantly visit the Grandets to get Felix's favour, and Felix in turn plays them off against each other for his own advantage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-05-25
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My Universities
Overview: My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. The "university" of the title is actual the school of Hard Knocks, as Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-03-27
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The Stars of the Day
Overview: A female poet and author faces the harsh realities of a besieged Leningrad. Based on Olga Berggolts' memoir of the same name.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-02-08
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