Valentin Gaft
Also Known As: Валентин Гафт
Biography: Valentin Yosifovich Gaft was born on September 2, 1935 to Ukrainian parents recently relocated to Moscow. Gaft entered the Moscow Theater School in 1953 at age 18 and made his film debut three years later in Mikhail Romm’s “Murder on Dante Street”. Over a half century of performing Valentine Gaft has been associated with the Mossovet and Leninsky Komsomol Theater troupes and the Sovremennik Theater which Gaft joined in 1969 and where he continues to work to this day. Gaft was named a People’s Artist of the Soviet Union in 1984 and has authored series of highly acidic epigrams satirizing members of the Russian film and theater communities. ----- Content From 12 Presskit http://www.sonyclassics.com/12/externalLoads/12_presskit.pdf -----
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Birthday: September 02, 1935
Deathday: December 12, 2020
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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12
Overview: A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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Cement
Overview: About the restoration of a cement plant destroyed during the Civil War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-07
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The Circus Boy
Overview: This story is about the events of the beginning of the century, the circus, in which the favorite of the troupe Alesha grew up. After the mother - acrobat Maria-Louise died, his childhood was over. Revolutionary events influenced the fate of a small circus - and the boy was left alone. But when in his life appeared Bolshevik Stepan Ratushny, Alyosha again began to perform in the circus.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Небо в алмазах
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1999-11-03
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The Magic Skin
Overview: Struggling with financial loss, a poet receives a shagreen leather from an antiquities shop, fulfilling his wishes
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Суббота и воскресенье
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Genres: Romance Family TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Three Years
Overview: Alexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev decides to marry her, but the relationship is not going to be simple.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Дорогое удовольствие
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-12-01
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Футболист
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-07-01
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Magicians
Overview: In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to marry not Ivan Puhov, but Ivan Kivrin, whom Shemahandskaya is going to marry herself. Enraged, Shemahandskaya, who is a powerful witch, orders Sanina to forget about her Ivan and marry Sataneev instead. And this will be final unless Alyona kisses Puhov before midnight on New Year. Alyona's friends call Puhov to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
Overview: The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will eventually be defeated by the nobility, loyalty and love.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Как кошка с собакой
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Promised Heaven
Overview: In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Master and Margarita
Overview: Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by their harassment, Master throws his manuscript into the fire, before he is locked up in a mental clinic. His assistant and Muse Margarita tries to help Master using the supernatural powers she got from the devil - Woland who is visiting Moscow..
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-06-06
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The Holiday of Disobedience
Overview: About that, how parents abandoned the disobedient children and returned only then, when they reformed.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-01-03
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Postman's Tale
Overview: Based on the tale of the same name by Karel Capek about postal gnomes.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-03-10
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Overview: Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in the front-lines. His daughter, Nadia, who survived a rape attempt by Nazi soldiers, is now a nurse risking her own life to save others. In the war-torn nation even former enemies are fighting together to defend their land. People stand up united for the sake of victory. Written by Steve Shelokhonov
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-04-22
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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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Cabbages and Kings
Overview: Everything would have gone on as usual in the island of Anchuria, if not for a small suitcase filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars that suddenly turned up at the local barber's, and the mysterious stranger who one day was washed ashore by the waves on the coast of Anchuria...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-09-29
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Записки Пиквикского клуба
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Year of a Calf
Overview: The young energetic Lyudmila Petrovna Nikitina, who worked as a milkmaid on the farm, decided to radically change her life. Settling the head of a rural furniture store, she sold a cow, pigs, sheep, and even invited the sons of a music teacher from the city, violinist Valerian Sergeyevich, to her sons. Her husband Theodosius, a collective farm carpenter, is not able to reason with his wife, but at the same time he does not intend to put up with the new order. To Lyudmila Petrovna’s surprise, the music teacher, who had a taste for village life, also fell under the influence of Theodosius. Once, having seized children, the men fled home. With difficulty, Lyudmila Petrovna was able to restore the broken family peace, and the wife of Valerian Sergeyevich to return his husband home.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-12-15
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The Amazing Boy
Overview: After professor creates a robot who looks like blue-eyed boy the criminals become very interested in the invention.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-09-01
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Aelita, Do Not Pester Men
Overview: She's not so young, not so pretty and has a weird name - but she still believes in founding her happiness.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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About the Cat...
Overview: The musical based on the famous "Puss in the Boots".
Genres: Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-02-08
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The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
Overview: A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-11-06
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I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
Overview: The hero of the film, afraid of losing both his wife and his mistress, is ultimately left alone.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-06-06
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The Garage
Overview: An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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Old Hags
Overview: Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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Daylight Train
Overview: Two old friends living in Moscow and St. Petersburg are hoping to get their children married.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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The Terrorist
Overview: A man invites a soaking wet under the rain young girl to his house not suspecting that her visit is not an accident.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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The Career of Arturo Ui
Overview: When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - how many opportunities there are for a funny comedy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1996-06-07
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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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Mister Perrichon's Trip
Overview: Monsieur Perrichon, a rich coachbuilder by profession, is an honest but vain member of the bourgeoisie who decides to take a pleasure trip in the company of his wife Caroline and his daughter Henrietta. The family, deciding on a train journey to the Swiss Alps, arrive at Gare de Lyon in Paris where they happen upon two young suitors, both with the same goal of marrying Henrietta. Over the course of the journey, the two men are involved in an honorable but fierce struggle for the young lady's hand in marriage.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-08-30
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Esop
Overview: This is a story about Greek slave Esop, who contributed a lot to the world of literature, and about his silly owner, who had the power and money, but did not have kindness.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Night Fun
Overview: A night become real "fun" for a family with the visit from very strange person.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Visit
Overview: In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-06-30
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Kings of Crime
Overview: This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetoric, deaths of innocent people.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
Overview: The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive mess in the same House of Culture, where they celebrated the New Year 50 years ago. Now the institution is named after Ogurtsov and is headed by Mr. Kabachkov. A young enthusiast Alyona Krylatova and a young man Denis Kolechkin work in the recreation center. Alyona, as she can, opposes the "arts" of the bureaucrat and opportunist Kabachkov, and Denis helps her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Sympathy Seeker
Overview: A Christmas story, almost a fairy tale. An ordinary Russian girl brought up without a father could not even think that one fine day she would find him. And who could suppose that three "fathers" at once would pretend to the role?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-12-07
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New Adventures of Babka Ezhka
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-09-10
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Lost in Siberia
Overview: The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-04-08
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Eight Days of Hope
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-12-28
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Wings
Overview: In the weeks leading up to the grand air show young Su-27 fighter by the name of Knight comes to the disciples to aircraft leading figures, which are taken to prepare it for the competition. But Knight forget about classes, when the ears falls in love with a charming light aircraft lightning, not knowing what it is - an assistant cruel and evil Thunder fighter who wants to deal with the Knight. Would love to win the Knight Lightning? A time to destroy evil plans of Thunder? And most importantly - will the winner of the Knight airshow?
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-08
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Forgotten Tune for the Flute
Overview: A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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Long-Haired Wonder
Overview: A story based on life events of famous gymnast Olga Korbut.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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Encore, Once More Encore!
Overview: A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-06-06
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The Story of an Old Woman
Overview: The Story of an Old Woman was filmed in one shot without any cutting or pasting. Annotation from author: In this film I wanted to show how the one person can be violent and aggressive, and the other one helpless and defenseless. Our heroes hide their flaws behind the beautiful words and actions. Unfortunately a betrayal of the family became more common, and the opportunity to get hit in the back from the nearest person is already a reality. The film is about the family relationship, happiness and sorrow. The main thing is to stay human in all circumstances.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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An Almost Funny Story
Overview: The younger of two sisters living together suddenly meets the love of her life...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-07-27
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Six Degrees of Celebration 3
Overview: And again a heroes of "Yolki" series are ready and prepared for a New Year.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-12-26
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Fight in a Blizzard
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Tender Age
Overview: A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves into an extraordinarily told ballade with twofold meaning - sad and optimistic at the same time...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-06-06
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Vertical Races
Overview: A drama about a psychological duel between a police detective and career criminal.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-10-10
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The Book of Masters
Overview: A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field. It transforms her heart into a stone and puts her under a queer curse. She is to be the evil Countess of Stones and live in a stone tower. If the greatest gem-cutter in the world brings the stone of Alatyr to life, though, she'll become the ruler of the world. The Stone Countess, now cruel and selfish, is fascinated with the idea. She starts searching for the best gem-cutters and forces them to work with Alatyr, so the magical stone would become a living thing. Neither of the gem-cutters succeeds, so she kills them. While being imprisoned in her tower, they work on a large book about the secrets of gem-cutting. Each of them edits the book, so it's later named "the Book of Masters".
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-10-29
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Ivan and Marya
Overview: Between the king and the soldier Ivan a serious dispute occurs. A seasoned soldier, of course, takes precedence over the quarrelsome sovereign. But until then happen in the Kingdom a lot of unusual and fun…
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-07-28
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Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
Overview: A funny comedy based on famous Brandon Thomas' play "Charley's Aunt".
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-26
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Visiting the Minotaur
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Genres: History Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-11-09
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Lot
Overview: Young hockey player try his best to become success goal-keeper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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Monsieur Lenoir, who...
Overview: Teleplay based on the play by Armand Salacrou.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
Overview: The film is based on the story of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A sad story about how the demagogue and idler Foma Opiskin lived in the house of Colonel Rostanev, took possession of the souls and minds of educated, intelligent people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Today and Tomorrow
Overview: The film raises environmental issues and examines the nature of the relationship between the manager and the team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-03-03
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The Golden Fleece
Overview: Eight very different people are looking for a treasure on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean.
Genres: Adventure Crime Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-01-13
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Olga Sergeevna
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-10-13
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Aleksa Dundic
Overview: Life and times of Aleksa Dundic, a volunteer in the Serb army during WW1, who later became a legend by fighting for the Red Army in the Russian Civil War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1958-05-18
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Do You Want to Be an Actress, Girl?
Overview: A young girl traumatized by her mother death is becoming an actress.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-06-01
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Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night
Overview: The story begins on New Year's Eve. The editor of the newspaper Orest Orlov offers the successful 35-year-old correspondent Ksenia to take a candid interview with the famous Canadian hockey player Denis Kravtsov. But everything is not as simple as it seems at first glance, because the journalist and the athlete had an affair 10 years ago...
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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My Dearly Beloved Detective
Overview: The conceit is that Sherlock Holmes is, as in reality, a fictional creation of Arthur Conan Doyle, but that the place where his office would be is maintained by the brilliant detective Shirley Holmes, who both solves crimes and maintains a museum for people who think Sherlock Holmes is real -- accompanied by a phonograph playing music from the Livanov series which had not long ended. She is accompanied, as might be expected, by a woman Watson, and must fight off the affections of both a Scotland Yard inspector an a parody Latin lover from Spain.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-11-03
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Hurry to Do Good
Overview: The film-play tells about a teenage girl with a difficult fate, who by chance ended up in someone else's family, about difficult relationships with the people who sheltered her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Centaurs
Overview: The story takes place in an unnamed Latin Country.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-01-29
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The Morning Round
Overview: Doctor Nechayev lives by the concerns of his patients. This is a man of remarkable mental qualities and a highly qualified specialist in cardiology, but he is completely unadapted to life in everyday life and imperceptibly lost himself, did not do much of what he dreamed of and did not understand the selfless love of a young student Alya. The doctor gradually puts an end to his hopes and dreams – they fade into the background, supplanted by work in the hospital.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-04-09
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Mitya
Overview: The chief engineer of a large enterprise is waiting for a meeting with the minister on an important issue and at the same time is trying to return the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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The Dog in Boots
Overview: The story about an enamored singing dog who isn't thoroughbred - that's a minus, but honorable - that's a plus.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-10-03
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Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Overview: Vasily Muravin, 50, a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Management, is experiencing a crisis. At work, the place of the head of the department is replaced by the more pragmatic, but limited person Valentin Romanovsky. At home, his wife Lida, who earns at work more than her husband, habitually reproaches him for indecision. It’s hard for Muravin to come to terms with his established attitude to himself, but he is most worried when his wife shows disrespect for his main hobby - playing the guitar. Once, unable to bear the bullying, Muravin suddenly leaves the family (wife and daughter) and from work.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-05-12
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Moscow, My Love
Overview: A young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She achieves professional success, for the first time real love comes to her. However, the girl’s happiness was short-lived — a sudden illness of blood interferes in the fate of the dancer, like an echo of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, where her parents lived.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-10-17
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We Are Russian People
Overview: Based on a novel by Vsevolod Vishnevsky. January 1917. The workers and peasants of Russia, hunted by the tsarist government in the trenches, forced to defend alien interests of the king, the landowners and exploiters-capitalists. Bolshevik worker Yakov Orel, selflessly performing party mission, said the soldiers the truth about war, about revolution, about what the overthrow of the autocracy does not mean the liberation of the workers from the yoke of landlords and capitalists exploitation. For example, one regiment of the film reflects the events that took place in the whole of the Russian army between February and October 1917.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-01-16
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If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender...
Overview: A story about one of the big battles of WWII.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-26
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Normandy - Neman
Overview: A certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne nor Vichy's orders decide to join the USSR. Once they have reached Moscow they resume training and form a squadron they call "Normandie". Reinforced in 1944, the squadron wins many victories. Following the acts of valor displayed by its pilots during the Battle of the Nieman River, it becomes the "Normandie-Niemen" squadron for the rest of times...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Milky Way
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Allow Take-Off!
Overview: A new pilot arrives to a far away airport forcing the old veteran to retire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-12-08
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Murder on Dante Street
Overview: A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-06-02
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The Black Hen, or Living Underground
Overview: At a St. Petersburg boarding school, a new life began for the ten-year-old Alyosha, who was accustomed parental attention. Missing his home, Alyosha created an imaginary magic world of underground dwellers, with a king and his subjects who very much resembled the people surrounding the boy. Alyosha experienced many interesting adventures in this mysterious fairy tale...
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-08-26
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Подлец
Overview: russian comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-11-02
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Iron Mountain
Overview: The third part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tell about the student years of Nursultan Nazarbayev, about the most important stages of his personality formation against the background of key events in the history of the country, when the future of Kazakhstan's industry was being built in the steppes.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-12-13
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Fiery River
Overview: The second part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tells about Nursultan Nazarbayev's student years, about the most important stages of his personality formation set on historical events, when the future of Kazakhstan's industry was being built in the steppes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-12-12
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Breaking The Vicious Circle
Overview: The film tells about Nursultan Nazarbayev who went into politics and made efforts to improve the existing at that time difficult situation in Kazakhstan’s metallurgy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-12-04
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Сергеев ищет Сергеева
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Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Watch Without Hands
Overview: A major politician and businessman was killed. His widow, with the help of a private detective and a photojournalist, begins her own murder investigation. She learns not to trust anyone, especially her friends. The only one she trusted is a strange young man with paranormal abilities who promises to protect her and find the killer. Now Nelya is in real danger...
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-12-01
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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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Poet
Overview: Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-02-09
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Contract of the Century
Overview: In order to negotiate with West German financiers about the construction of the gas pipeline between Siberia and Western Europe, a delegation of Soviet foreign trade collaborators flies to Germany, where they immediately come under CIA surveillance: U.S. intelligence agencies are interested in disrupting the 'contract of the century.' ”...
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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На всю оставшуюся жизнь
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-06-15
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Story of an Unknown Actor
Overview: The of an actor in a provincial theatre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Suicide
Overview: As Soviet Russia enters the era of the New Economic Policy, Semyon Podsekalnikov decides to stop looking for a job. However, the prospect of living at the expense of his wife and mother-in-law seems unbearable. Having reached the end of his tether, Semyon is resolved to take his own life. Based on Nikolai Erdman's controversial play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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An Ordinary History
Overview: The film is a play based on the novel “An Ordinary History” by Ivan Goncharov directed by the Sovremennik Moscow Theater. The main roles were played by Oleg Tabakov, Mikhail Kozakov, Lyudmila Ivanova, Anastasia Vertinskaya and others.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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Customs
Overview: When vigilant Soviet customs officers find smuggled gold on a ship named Amur, they conduct an investigation to find the culprit and learn about a murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-11-09
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Fouetté
Overview: Prima-ballerina Elena Knyazeva prepares for her performance on the anniversary jubilee for the theater Swan Lake on the eve of her fiftieth birthday and simultaneously participates in the production of the innovative ballet Master and Margarita. Suddenly, the choreographer gives the role of a young ballerina, with whom he begins an affair. Overcoming jealousy and desperation, Knyazeva begins to work with the student over the image of Margarita
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-10-15
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The First Courier
Overview: The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian Social Democrats, began to appear. The Russian conspirator Konkordiya arrives from Munich at the railway station of the Bulgarian port city Varna. She meets the Bulgarian Ivan Zagubanski and gives him two suitcases with false bottoms, which contain a secret consignment of the latest issue of a newspaper. About the young, courageous revolutionary Ivan Zagubanski, who was one of the first couriers to bring Iskra from abroad. The film showed an ideological, moral clash of people preparing a revolution with the guardians of the royal order.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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New Girl
Overview: A talented athlete joins the USSR gymnastics team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-04-07
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The Chosen Ones
Overview: The film is based on a dialogue between young and older generations about life, profession, fame, love, the mission of art, the destiny of man, heroism and the ideals of our time. Conversations of outstanding figures of Russian culture with actors who have recently started their professional path and have already clearly declared themselves in art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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Time to Fly
Overview: Nothing like this has ever happened and could not happen in any of the airports. However, according to the authors of the film-parable, this tragicomic story is directly related to reality. It turns out that in order to properly fly airplanes, sometimes it is enough to fly to one chief. Of course with his seats. However, it does not prevent that the passengers themselves are very eager to go on a flight…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-18
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From Lopatin's Notes
Overview: Based on the stories of the same cycle of Konstantin Simonov, who visited as a war correspondent almost on all fronts of the great Patriotic war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-02-02
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Girl Without Dowry
Overview: Unlike her sisters, Larisa Ogudolova refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry, but falls in love with a dashing scoundrel who soon betrays her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-19
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Balalaykin and K
Overview: The performance of the Sovremennik Theater directed by G. A. Tovstonogov.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-05-28
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Dombey & Son
Overview: The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-09-04
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Players
Overview: The play is about the Game, about creativity, which this time turned into the form of a brilliant speck. Skillfully, talentedly and artistically, the victim of the same players as himself, Ikharev does not suffer a catastrophe, because his "Adelaide Ivanovna" remains with him. Tool and mascot of his game. His secret manuscript ...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-08-10
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The Man from the Other Side
Overview: After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the opponents of the revolution.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-03-26
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Tanya
Overview: The story of a couple chasing their dreams amid the challenges of life in the postwar Soviet Union. Based on Aleksei Arbuzov's play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-13
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Overview: In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love with Rose, leading to his disappearance.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-09-15
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The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
Overview: The nobleman des Grieux falls in love with the mysterious and attractive girl of humble origin Manon Lescaut. The girl seems to love the young man, but at the same time commits unworthy acts, seducing rich noblemen and involving des Grieux himself in a dissolute life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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Widower's Houses
Overview: Two friends, Harry and William, meet the respectable Mr. Sartorius and his lovely daughter Blanche on the trip. Harry falls in love with Blanche and proposes to her. But it suddenly turns out that Sartorius made his entire fortune through fraud. What should an honest young man do?
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-11-22
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: This TV version of the world-famous play by William Shakespeare stands out for its unusual production design and mise-en-scene.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-31
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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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The Road to Rübezahl
Overview: The German anti-fascist Max in 1939 emigrated to the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought in the Soviet partisan detachment and died, performing a responsible mission. After many years, her companion in guerrilla warfare, Lyudmila, was able to realize their common dream — to climb to the top of Mount Rübezahl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-07-26
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Russkiy Suvenir
Overview: The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thunderstorm and makes an emergency landing in the Baikal region. In addition to the Soviet citizen Varvara Komarova, all other passengers are foreigners. Using a stop, they explore new cities and get acquainted with the life, work and rest of Soviet people.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-06-27
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I want to go to America
Overview: The spicy story of a modest Russian guy drawn into the incessant sexual marathon by the will of rival intelligence agencies. The victims of such an incredible love contest are charming ladies - from an opera singer to an overseas prostitute - and even the wife of an intelligence general. However, the love that has happened violates the plans of the rival intelligence agencies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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One Day of Zhora Vladimov
Overview: The turning point for Russia is 1991. Exiled from the country, writer, dissident and human rights activist Georgiy Vladimov found himself in a forced, joyless emigration in Niedernhausen. Later, Vladimov will begin writing a novel in three parts, "Long Way to Tipperary," which, according to the plan, would cover the period from August 1946 to August 1991. But he will have time to write only the first part, where he will again and again return to the almost unconscious childish act of one day in August 1946. On that blurry day in memory, cadet-Suvorov student Zhora Vladimov went to support the disgraced writer Mikhail Zoshchenko.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-02-17
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Islands in the Stream
Overview: TV version of a play based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-11-25
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Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière
Overview: Episodes from the life of Molière with scenes from his play, revealing the tragic picture of the confrontation between the great playwright and the authorities.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-05-01
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House for the Rich
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-07-01
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Равняется одному Гафту
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-07-01
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Калиф-аист
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Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Night at 14th Parallel
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-03-20
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Сон Гафта, пересказанный Виктюком
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Temptation
Overview: The film takes place in Budapest in the 1920s. The teenage Rózsa Béla, the son of a washing-woman and a salesman born out of wedlock, gets employment as callboy in a luxurious hotel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Solo
Overview: Based on the short story of the same name by M. Gorky.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1970-09-17
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The Music of Life
Overview: Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-01
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