Andrey Mironov
Also Known As: Andrey Mironov, Andrei Mironov, Андрей Миронов, Андрей Александрович Менакер, Andrej Mironov
Biography: Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov (07/03/1941-16/08/1987) was one of the most popular and beloved Soviet stage and film actors. He acted in many acclaimed comedy films such as "The Diamond Arm" and "The Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia." One of his most notable roles was in the television film "The 12 Chairs," where he played the leading role of Ostap Bender. He died in 1987 at the age of 46 as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Adult: No
Deathday: August 16, 1987
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The Diamond Arm
Overview: A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-05-23
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Сказки русского леса
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Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Inspector General
Overview: The performance of the Moscow Theater of Satire, based on the play by N.V. Gogol.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-26
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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 Straw Hat
Overview: A musical comedy based on the classic play by Eugène Labiche.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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Be My Husband
Overview: The children's doctor is sent on leave to the south where its services in quality "husband" were necessary for young and very beautiful woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-06-06
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The Blonde Around the Corner
Overview: An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-06
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But What If This Is Love?
Overview: High school students Ksenya and Boris are in love but all the world is against them.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-06-06
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A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines
Overview: Mr. Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-06-23
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Old Men: Robbers
Overview: An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-08-07
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Three Men in a Boat
Overview: Three London gentlemen take vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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Beware of the Car!
Overview: An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-05-22
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The Property of Republic
Overview: Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid Keshka, is stealing a collection of paintings and sculptures from the abandoned estate owners. Hoping to transport her abroad, criminals wander with a circus troupe, and in their wake goes a tireless criminal investigator — Makar Ovchinnikov.
Genres: Adventure Crime Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-04-24
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Three Plus Two
Overview: Three best friend are going to spend a vacation on a sea shore. But when they arrive to their usual place they suddenly find that the spot is already occupied - by two beautiful girls.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-07-03
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Faratyev's Fantasies
Overview: Averbakh's adaptation of a play by Alla Sokolova, Faratyev's Fantasies is the story of a man surrounded by four woman, Faratyev, he is madly in love with on, Aleksandra, compassionately take care of another, her aunt, and is indifferent to the other two, Aleksandra's mother, and her sister, Lyuba. The world of these characters are that of dreams, each one's dream in interconnected to that of other, and each respond differently to it. Faratyev is a man who dreams, he live in the world of fantasies. Aleksandra and her mother listen to him, but do not take him seriously, his aunt listen to him, believe him, but do not encourage him, only Lyuba understand him, but to him, she is a mere child, he is madly in love with her sister, Aleksandra, she is a realist, she does not love him, but for sake of her own prosperity and that of her mother and sister, she agree to marry him, only to run away with the mysterious Bedhudov...
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Overview: Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-03
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Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Overview: In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-31
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Mad Day or Figaro Wedding
Overview: The servant of Count Almaviva, the jolly and joker Figaro, is going to marry the maid of the Countess Rosina - Susanne. But the count wants to upset the wedding and make the girl his lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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Heavenly Swallows
Overview: Denise de Flavigny, a young convent student, discovers a double-life of the organist Célestin, who teaches her music at the convent. He secretly composes popular operettas for his mistress Corinne. Célestin visits the city to witness the premiere of his latest effort; Denise escapes the convent as well. Following a quarrel with Célestin, Corinne walks out and instead, Denise appears in her role, taking the name Mam'zelle Nitouche. Denise falls in love with Fernand, a handsome young soldier. Both Denise and Célestin are mistaken for soldiers absent without leave and shipped off to an army camp. A series of coincidences brings happiness to all concerned.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-12-19
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Koe-chto iz Gubernskoy Zhizni
Overview: A television film based on vaudeville and early short stories by Anton Chekhov, "The Proposal", "The Wedding", "The Anniversary", etc. The scene is a provincial ball.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-29
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The Story of the Voyages
Overview: In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake Saint Nick because the little boy is blessed with the ability to locate gold. A kindly, wise philosopher-type by the name of Orlando joins Marta in her search, and together they survive a gigantic sleeping dragon and imprisonment in a tower with no clear means of escape. They overcome that hurdle, but later on, Orlando succumbs to the evils of The Plague (an all-consuming woman!) and Marta continues on her search alone. Eventually, she does find her brother -- but that only introduces problems she had never considered.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-09-05
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Lev Gurych Sinichkin
Overview: The old actor dreams of a leading role for his young talented daughter. However, she is opposed by a powerful diva of the troupe with a terrible character and great connections. After a series of efforts of the characters and hilarious misunderstandings, the old man's dream come true.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-12-30
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To Love
Overview: Four love stories connected by newsreels of the late 60s. Each short story begins with an epigraph taken from the Song of Songs of the Old Testament. The stories are interconnected by documentary shots and numerous interviews taken on the streets from passers-by who are asked the same question: “what does it mean to love?”.
Genres: Drama Romance Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-01-29
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Step Forward
Overview: Five sad and funny romantic stories about love...
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-12
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Don't Be Sad
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-05-19
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Identification Marks None
Overview: Drama about Feliks Dzerzhinsky's life
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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White Roses, Pink Elephants
Overview: Molly Egan, an almshouse resident, takes part in picketing a laboratory developing nuclear weapons. Judge Henry Pulaski finds her guilty of “trespassing.” Not heeding his warning, Molly again participates in the picket, for which she goes to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Mysterious Wall
Overview: The action takes place in Siberia where a mysterious wall appears from time to time. Scientists are dispatched to study it and some of them believe that the wall is produced by some sort of alien intelligence, "the Martians", as they call them. The scientists attempt to communicate with the Wall, but all they experience in return are hallucinations about their past experiences. In those visions they are faced with some unresolved issues, repressed memories, and absurd dream-like situations. They meet people – messengers – from their past who reveal to them some simple truths about their own lives, which may be hard to accept, so they dismiss those messengers as the Martians and stubbornly continue attempting to "understand" the Mysterious Wall using their rational minds.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Convent
Overview: Musical comedy based on the play by V. Dykhovichny and M. Slobodsky, staged by the Moscow Academic Theater of Satire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-05-28
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The Pathfinder
Overview: Wild West adventures in this action movie based on famous "The Pathfinder" novel by James Fenimore Cooper.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-07-07
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Repeated Wedding
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-03-25
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Once Cowboy, Twice Cowboy
Overview: A bandit wearing a black mask, having shot the train, takes a bag of gold coins from the post car and hides on his horse. The bandit takes refuge in the ranch, driving out the farmer and his cow. The farmer and the cow leave for the nearest town. In the saloon, the farmer sees an announcement of a reward of one thousand coins for catching a bandit in a black mask. Then he tells local cowboys where the bandit is hiding. Cowboys go to catch a bandit, but they return back all wounded.
Genres: Animation Western Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Месть кота Леопольда
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Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Victory
Overview: 30 years after the end of World War II, a Soviet and an American journalist meet again for realizing post war paths of their countries.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-04-01
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Karlsson-on-the-Roof
Overview: The mischievous Carlson and the gullible Kid are the heroes of a well-known fairy tale. Carlson loves to play pranks very much, and for all the consequences of pranks he has a "proprietary" excuse: "It's nothing, it's an everyday thing!".
Genres: Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Blue Puppy
Overview: Blue Puppy is a 1976 Soviet animated film. The lyrics and screemplay were written by Yuri Entin, loosely based on the tale by Gyula Urban.
Genres: Music Animation Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-11-28
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Встреча в концертной студии Останкино: Андрей Миронов
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-12-31
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Little Comedies in a Big House
Overview: Theatrical movie based on an ordinary life of an average soviet family
Genres: Family Drama Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-03-30
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The Appointment
Overview: A soft and gentle man suddenly starts to change after being appointed to the manager position.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-05-31
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Two Sundays
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-17
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Hold on to the Clouds
Overview: In 1919, in Petrograd, a pilot Sevastyanov was asked to help in training flight personnel for the young Hungarian republic, together with a Hungarian journalist he makes a desperate, with many adventures, flight across the front to Hungary ...
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-08-26
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New Year's Abduction
Overview: The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert. A police captain investigates the kidnapping and listens to complaints from the “unkidnapped” artists.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-13
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Sherlock Holmes and I
Overview: The film is an animated parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The dog talks about his adventures with the great detective. Listeners do not believe him. At least, they didn't believe it, until Sherlock Holmes suddenly called the dog.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-04-23
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Pages from Pechorin's Journal
Overview: Grigory Pechorin, a dashing Byronic figure, arrives in Pyatigorsk and gets entangled in a web of romantic ploys and deceptions. Based on "Princess Mary", the longest novella in Mikhail Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time".
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-08-16
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Between Sky and Earth
Overview: The famous musician is selfish and proud towards ex-wife, son, partner, colleagues and relatives. One day, the plane on which he was supposed to fly on vacation crashes. He's late for that and alive, but for his loved ones he isn't...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-01-03
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Year as Long as Life
Overview: The film takes place in Europe in the 19th century. The film shows the popular uprisings that took place there, as well as the search for truth and the confrontation of Karl Marx and opponents of the revolution.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-07-16
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My Younger Brother
Overview: Based on the novel of Vasiliy Aksyonov "A Ticket to the Stars". School is over, final exams are behind — and Dimka was the first to think of waving away from home. The convictions of his elder brother Viktor about a serious attitude to the future life only more “warmed up” the four friends, and for the first time they went to Tallinn for the first time without the bored care of adults...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-08-20
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Ten
Overview: The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king. But unlike many “suitors”, selfish thoughts are alien to Christian-Theodore. He is sincerely fascinated by her beauty and releases his Shadow, hoping to get a faithful helper in his quest to marry the Princess. But the Shadow is the embodiment of egoism, greed and meanness. Quickly betraying the scholar, he marries the Princess himself and takes the royal throne.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-09-18
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Fate Plays with a Man
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-12-31
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Return
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Family Happiness
Overview: Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-06-08
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Old Walls
Overview: Anna Georgievna Smirnova is a serious, businesslike and judicious person. It was these strengths of her character that helped the woman achieve high career results. Anna is a deputy and director of a textile factory in the Moscow region, who has long put an end to her personal life. She lives with her elderly mother. Her husband died, and her only daughter, Irina, is married. But suddenly, in a sanatorium in the southern resort of Anna, she meets a man named Volodya. He is a Muscovite, a former pilot, and now a driver. Volodya is younger than Anna, behind him two unsuccessful marriages. Between already middle-aged people a feeling of mutual sympathy erupts.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-03-11
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Fiasco of Operation Terror
Overview: The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-08-10
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Two Comedies of Branislav Nušić
Overview: Teleplay based on comedies by Serbian playwright Branislav Nušić and combined with songs by Andrey Mironov
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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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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Literature Lesson
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Капризная принцесса
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-04-22
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