Vladimir Vysotsky
Also Known As: Vladimir Vysotskiy, Владимир Семёнович Высоцкий, Владимир Высоцкий, В. Высоцкий
Biography: Vladimir Vysotsky was a Soviet poet, singer-songwriter, and actor. In the course of his career, he wrote some 700 songs that were extremely popular in the USSR. He starred in 28 films, gave many concerts, and had a great influence on Soviet and Russian culture. His life has been the subject of many films and books.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: January 25, 1938
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 25, 1980
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The End of a Beautiful Epoch
Overview: Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-06-07
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Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...
Overview: Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a newborn baby. Vadim is forced to spend the rest of his day with Anna, helping her untangle herself from unpleasant, dramatic, and even tragic situations – and she and she alone is to blame for all of them. The baby, which Anna stole in order to make an impression on an estranged lover, is finally returned to its parents, but the problems that the theft caused remain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-02-18
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The Wizard of Oz
Overview: A cartoon about a girl, Ellie, of her little dog Totoshka, who, because of the evil Gingema, ended up in the Magic Country, where incredible adventures awaited them.
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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Intervention
Overview: The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-06-06
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The Two of Them
Overview: Looking for a safe place to live after being harassed by her husband, a depressive and violent man, Juli stays at a women's shelter run by Mária.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1978-01-05
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Overview: Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-11-11
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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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Brief Encounters
Overview: Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya's apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell in love with her currently absent husband, a geologist named Maksim, when he had visited Nadia's village during a recent expedition.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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The Duel
Overview: Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-12-20
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Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding
Overview: Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a wealthy boyar. Peter the Great insists the two be married, but Ibrahim goes against the tsar's wishes, refusing to force her to marry him since she doesn't consent. When another man tries to marry her, however, Ibrahim's loyalties and generous nature are put to the test.
Genres: Romance Comedy History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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Vertical
Overview: In the mountains, they stand alone against whatever will happen. For the several days they live in nature, they can rely only on themselves and each other. Elsewhere, there is always a fallback - here one is without a safety. This in itself can bring some to terror - the terror of having to rely on yourself - your own judgment, wits and fortitude. This is also the most incredible feeling of strength and independence. Knowing there is no safety means having to be one's own safety.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-11-11
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The Only One
Overview: Kolya Kasatkin, who saw in his wife Tanyusha the ideal of female charm, tenderness, kindness, who loved her to the point of oblivion, was at a loss before the idle conversations of well-wishers about his wife's betrayal. Having found his wife with the choir director, Nikolai demanded a divorce. Continuing to love each other, the former spouses are unhappy in separation. Kasatkin's new hasty marriage did not return his peace of mind. In daily agony, in the pursuit of a past life, he also lost his old dream — to live and work in the Far East, where he served in the army. Both realized too late that love does not forgive hasty decisions, that it must be able to keep and protect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-03-01
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The Only Road
Overview: Partisans attack a column of hundred german trucks cisterns, that carry fuel to the front. However, their action is difficult, as Germans have chained Soviet prisoners to the driving wheels. The mission is to stop and destroy the column and save the lives of the prisoners.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-01-10
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Dangerous Tour
Overview: Based on the events that took place in Odessa in 1910, when, on the instructions of the Foreign Bureau of the RSDLP, a prominent Bolshevik underground worker arrived in the city under the guise of a French timber merchant, who was to organize the delivery of illegal literature to Russia through the Odessa port. The task can be completed. In Odessa, a variety show theater was created, which, having gained fame, toured Russia and received "theater props" from France...
Genres: Action History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-12-07
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The Cook
Overview: Based on the play of the same name by Anatoly Sofronov. In one of the Kuban collective farms, a new beauty-cook has appeared. Many began to look after her, but the girl was not a timid dozen and quickly gave a turn to the unlucky boyfriends from the gate. However, true love found a way to her heart, and although human envy and stupidity have done many troubles, the lovers still managed to unravel this complex tangle of misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-05-23
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Little Tragedies
Overview: A feature film based on the three-part adaptation of the poetic and dramatic cycle of Alexander Pushkin
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-06-30
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713th Asks for Landing
Overview: Transatlantic flight 713 is in trouble because the pilot and crew are poisoned while flying above the ocean. Now the passengers have to take control to save their lives.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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Our House
Overview: A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-12-07
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The Living Vysotsky
Overview: Over the years, so much has been said about Vladimir Vysotsky that behind the pile of memories of people who knew him, the living Vysotsky gradually disappears. They say that Vladimir Vysotsky lived the way he wrote and sang his songs! You can create a legend about him as much as you like, make a monument out of him, but there is an absolutely real Vysotsky, whom each of us can recognize and understand. This Vysotsky has been preserved forever in fragments of newsreels, in the lyrics of his songs, in his voice. And that's where he's real…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-10-05
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Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady. Last Kiss
Overview: The film tells about one of the most beautiful love stories of the 20th century. According to everyone who witnessed the relationship between the famous French actress Marina Vlady and the great Russian poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, it was that extraordinary love that we usually read about only in books. Marina Vladi herself will share her memories in an exclusive interview. The film contains rare documentary footage with Vladimir Vysotsky.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-03-04
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Escape of Mr. McKinley
Overview: A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-15
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Penalty Kick
Overview: A crafty swindler, appointed to be a coach of an amateur sports team, came up with a cheat plan for victory - secretly recruit a number of professional players to his team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-07-04
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Dima Gorin's Career
Overview: Dmitry Gorin is awaiting the post of branch manager of a savings bank. But one day he accidentally gives an extra amount to a person who works in the taiga on the construction of the Siberia-Ural power transmission line. To return the money, Dmitry has to go to the taiga. But he is not in a hurry to return to Moscow. The fact is that he discovers a completely different life, which he likes, and meets the girl he dreamed of
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-06-12
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Stop Potapov!
Overview: A film based on the story of the same name by Grigory Gorin. An employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Владимир Высоцкий. Монолог
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Fourth
Overview: American journalist gets a sensational material but is afraid to publish it...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-11
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Shore Leave
Overview: A sailor spends only one day on a shore but during this day he meets a lot of people and even meets a girl who is going to wait for him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-06-18
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I Come From My Childhood
Overview: Life is returning to normal in a half-ruined town of Belorussia at the summer of 1945. The children are undernourished and emotionally scarred. The community displays solidarity and common sacrifice, as they recovered from the ravages of war.
Genres: War Drama Romance Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-12-27
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Whose Are You, Old People?
Overview: A story about two old people living in the abandoned faraway village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-11-01
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Sasha-Sashenka
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-07-24
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On Tomorrow's Street
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-09-06
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White Explosion
Overview: 1942, the German Wehrmacht is trying to capture the Baku oilfields at the Black sea. Their biggest obstacle are the Caucasian Mountains and few Russians soldiers to stop them. The story revolves around an important Mountain Pass, that is heavily contested by both sides.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-12-19
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War Under the Roofs
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Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Master of Taiga
Overview: Based on the story of Boris Mozhayev “The Power of the Taiga”. In the taiga village, where everyone is in sight, almost unbelievable happens — a local store is robbed. One of the rafters of the forest is recognized as a hacker. But some “inconsistencies” haunt the young precinct Vasily Seryozhkin. And in the end, he goes on the trail of the true participants in the crime...
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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I Am Returning Your Portrait
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Sons Go Into Battle
Overview: The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Tolya and Aleksey, the sons of Anna Korzun, became partisans and fought against the invaders in the BSSR.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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Ilf and Petrov
Overview: About the life and work of Soviet writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-03-24
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A Song is Urgently Needed
Overview: These songs are born on long hikes, around campfires in moments of joy and sadness. Here, in the Leningrad club "Vostok", they take the stage for the first time. And is it possible to remain indifferent when the argument turns to the song?
Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-03-30
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