Leonid Mozgovoy
Also Known As: Леонид Мозговой
Biography: Leonid Mozgovoy was born on April 17, 1941 in Tula. In 1961-1965 he studied at the Leningrad state Institute of theater, music and cinematography (LGITMiK) at the faculty of dramatic art (course of Professor B. V. Zona). His fellow students were Olga Antonova, Lev Dodin, Viktor Kostetsky, Sergei Nadporozhsky, Natalia Tenyakova, Vladimir Tykke. About his teacher and the learning Process L. Brain recalls in detail in the book "School of Boris". Lessons of acting and directing" (St. Petersburg., 2011.). From 1965 to 1970 he worked at the Leningrad theatre of musical Comedy. In 1967 he became a Laureate of the Leningrad competition of artists-readers[4]. He is well known as an actor of literary variety, for many years he successfully works in " Lenkontsert "(now - "Petersburg-concert"). Popular is his one-man show "Funny" by F. M. Dostoevsky in the St. Petersburg classical theater. His debut work in film was the role of A. p. Chekhov in the film "Stone" by Alexander Sokurov[5]. He became a favorite actor of the Director, starring in his paintings "Moloch" (Hitler) and "Taurus" (Lenin).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tula, USSR
Birthday: April 17, 1941
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Garpastum
Overview: Garpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about the matches they play on the streets. They hatch a scheme to buy a playing field. But World War I has already begun and soon their lives and dreams will be shattered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-10-27
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The Border
Overview: The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-11-30
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Reading Book of Blockade
Overview: Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Taurus
Overview: Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2001-02-24
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Russian Ark
Overview: A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
Genres: Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-05-22
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The Ugly Swans
Overview: In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate what's going on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. Banev's tween daughter Ira is enrolled at a school for gifted children which has been taken over by the mutants, who have grown to despise ordinary humanity.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-10-19
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Moloch
Overview: In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1999-02-01
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White Lilacs
Overview: From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer Serguei Rachmaninov. This film is based on the legend that Rachmaninoff received a bouquet of lilacs from an unknown admirer after every performance. He emigrated to the United States, and after an interval, began to receive the mysterious lilacs again.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-06-22
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Memorabilia Collections
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2001-11-27
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Stone
Overview: Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and the ghost's present-day guardian. In fact, the two characters seem to be the shade of Anton Chekhov and the young man who tends a Chekhov museum in the Crimea, though that is never made explicit."
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-09-13
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Rasputin
Overview: A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-30
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Thumbelina
Overview: Based on famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
Genres: Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-27
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Night Visitors
Overview: The story of a famous actress who had an incomprehensible attack on the set somewhere in the countryside and was urgently sent to a rural hospital. There she spends a sleepless night in complete obscurity and decides that she is leaving this world. The actress calls all the close people with whom she talks very openly, believing that they should find out the truth.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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Faust
Overview: A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-09-08
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Saint Petersburg
Overview: Elliot, a 25-year-old British boy, discovers that he has a secret half-brother, Fyodor in Saint Petersburg. Elliot travels to the city, meets his brother and falls in love with Anya, Fyodor's girlfriend.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-04-03
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Pure Art
Overview: Pretty Sasha finds herself in a whirlpool of intrigue and criminal games after her lover, a talented painter, is murdered. Chased on one side by brutal criminals who don't leave witnesses, and on the other by the cops who consider her the #1 suspect, Sasha is forced to act alone to solve the mystery of her lover’s death and keep herself alive and free at the same time. Gradually she unravels the tangle of mysteries and deceptions, only to learn that her lover was forging paintings which had been sold for millions of dollars, and no-one really is who they say they are.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-06-09
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Last Love
Overview: The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole of one eternal Love.
Genres: Drama Romance Music Fantasy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-06-09
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The Role
Overview: The Role is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life - the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt… even when the play of the life he is writing heads towards a tragic finale. Based on true incidents in the lives of Russia’s symbolists, this gripping film explores how far one man will go for the role of a lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-02-10
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Sobchak. Woe from Wit
Overview: The first attempt in the history of Russian documentalism to understand what was the historical moment in which Anatoly Sobchak appeared in the political arena what his role in the history of the country was and, finally, why he suffered as a politician collapse. Perhaps his ideas were too advanced for his time?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-08-10
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Snowstorm
Overview: Lev Nikolaevich, Levanka, Levochka, as his many friends call him, is a successful, glamorous, Moscow photographer. He's smart, good-natured. And he is an absolutely cynical person who can be rude to people. He lives in a world where talent, success and fame are valued above all else. At the same time, he is very childish, but does not realize this. The childhood fears are still inside him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-09-02
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Sokurov
Overview: Poetic portrait of a filmmaker. The famous director reflects on creativity and love. His friends and associates take part in the film: artist Vladimir Shinkarev, engineer Vladimir Nikolaev, actress Elena Kramer (Spiridonova), director, film critic Oleg Kovalov, necrorealist directors Yevgeny Yufit, Igor Bezrukov.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-11-18
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Arventur
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-09-23
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