Faina Ranevskaya
Also Known As: Faina Grigoryevna Feldman, F.G. Ranevskaya, F. Ranevskaya, Faina Georgijewna Ranewskaja, Фаина Георгиевна Раневская
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]
Birthday: August 27, 1896
Deathday: July 19, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Cinderella
Overview: In the fairy kingdom live stepmother, her evil daughters — Anna and Maryana, a limp husband-forester and his daughter from his first marriage — Cinderella. The stepmother exploits the poor girl as a housekeeper. With the help of her godmother-fairy, Cinderella gets to the royal ball, where a beautiful and very kind prince falls in love with her. At midnight, the magic ends, and poor Cinderella has to return to her former life. But on the crystal shoe that Cinderella lost while fleeing the palace to the battle of the palace chimes, the prince searches for the bride.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-05-16
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The Sky Slow-Mover
Overview: Three pilots are best friends and good fighters. During the WWII they are taking an oath to refrain from love until the end of the War. But soon they meet three women-pilots. One by one they give up the oath, and all three fall in love.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-12-28
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Dream
Overview: The spiritual and material misery of a group of people inhabiting the hotel of the title during the War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-09-13
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New Attraction Today
Overview: A new girl becomes circus star despite her husband objective.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-03-07
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Meeting on the Elbe
Overview: Soviet and American soldiers are meeting on the shores of the Elbe river in Germany in 1945.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-03-16
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Karlson Returns
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Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-06-06
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Engineer Kochin's Error
Overview: Engineer-designer of the Moscow aviation plant Cochin took the secret blueprints home. He didn't know that foreign intelligence had long been hunting for these blueprints...
Genres: Adventure Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-10-05
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The Foundling
Overview: A little girl is lost in Moscow and hits the road making fun (not intentionally) of everybody she meets. She'll be back home soon but she will change the life of at least one man forever...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-11-18
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The Ballad of Cossack Golota
Overview: The story of three young Russsian adventurers against the background of post-revolutionary skirmishes in the Ukraine. The boys get mixed up with a wounded commissar and a marauding White Russian officer. They find themselves in all sorts of predicaments before the Reds arrive to save the day, and become the mascots of a troop of Bolshevik cavalry.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-10-18
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The Beloved
Overview: Friends and family are trying to bring together newlyweds who separated immediately after the wedding.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-08-20
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Spring
Overview: A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-07-02
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Boule de Suif
Overview: A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them comes one attractive demimonde lady. The only way to get out is to persuade her, nicknamed "Ball-of-Fat" a la "Boule-de-Suif" to satisfy the lust of the head of the gendarmerie...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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A Girl with Guitar
Overview: A romantic story about the girl working in the musical instruments store.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Wedding
Overview: According to the eponymous vaudeville by A.P. Chekhov. Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov, who has been caring for Dasha all summer, has dined every day with them and has proved himself to be his bridegroom, is not going to marry at all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-06-15
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An Easy Life
Overview: A chemist by training, Alexandr Bochkin manages a Moscow dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise," run in conjunction with "Queen Margot". But when his old friend from the chemical institute, Yuri Lebedev arrives in Moscow from the Siberian city of Dalnegorsk, along with a traveling companion, Olga, Bochkin becomes uncomfortable with his job title.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-08-24
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Be Careful, Grandma!
Overview: Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her grandmother and her 'old guards'. Look out Lena's enemies. Here's her grandma coming!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-03-07
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The Rest Is Silence
Overview: TV version of the acclaimed stage production of Viña Delmar's script for the film Make Way for Tomorrow.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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Old Masters
Overview: A film about outstanding actors of the Soviet stage: Angelina Stepanova, Mark Prudkin, Igor Ilyinsky, Faina Ranevskaya, Veriko Andzhaparidze and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-01
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Man in a Shell
Overview: The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a case, on the principle: “no matter what happens”. By this principle, he literally "terrorized" the gymnasium and the villagers. Hope appeared when Varenka arrived in the village - “not a girl, but marmalade”, although she was already aged, and “did not mind being married, even if only to a teacher of the Greek language”.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-05-25
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An Elephant and a Rope
Overview: All the girls of one of the Moscow houses can tirelessly jump over a skipping rope. But little Lida did: can't learn to jump. Once in a dream a wise elephant gives her a piece of advice: to learn how to jump, you must first do a good deed...
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-12-21
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The New Adventures of Schweik
Overview: The New Adventures of Schweik adopted to the WWII reality.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-11-22
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Native Shores
Overview: Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-07-05
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They Have a Motherland
Overview: The Great Patriotic War is over, but Major Sorokin and Colonel Dobrygin still have a lot to do for their homeland. They must go to West Germany in order to find and return the children who were taken out of the Soviet Union by the Nazis and are now kept in atrocious conditions under the supervision of British intelligence. Former allies want to grow real spies out of their children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-04-29
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Overview: The story is about three sisters. The youngest is chosen by Tsar Saltan to be his wife. He orders the other two sisters to be his royal cook and weaver. They become jealous of their younger sister. When the tsar goes off to war, the tsaritsa gives birth to a son, Prince Gvidon (Gvidón.) The older sisters arrange to have the tsaritsa and the child sealed in a barrel and thrown into the sea. The sea takes pity on them and casts them on the shore of a remote island, Buyan. The son, having quickly grown while in the barrel, goes hunting. He ends up saving an enchanted swan from a kite bird. The swan creates a city for Prince Gvidon to rule, but he is homesick, so the swan turns him into a mosquito to help him. In this guise, he visits Tsar Saltan's court, where he stings his aunt in the eye and escapes. Back in his realm, the swan gives Gvidon a magical squirrel. But he continues to pine for home, so the swan transforms him again, this time into a fly.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-01-23
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How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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Private Aleksandr Matrosov
Overview: The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy's bunker with his body.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-05-12
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Aleksandr Parkhomenko
Overview: About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Parkhomenko. In 1918, capturing Ukraine, the German occupiers sought to use the Haidamaks, the White Guards and the Greens in their struggle. By order of Voroshilov, Aleksandr Parkhomenko from Lugansk arrives in Tsaritsyn. At the same time, the Germans launched an active offensive. The "red" battalions are poorly armed, however, Parkhomenko manages to raise them to the attack and put the enemy to flight.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-07-20
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Drama
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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