Aleksandr Yakovlev
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Adult: No
Birthday: January 15, 1946
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 19, 2016
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Law of Corruption
Overview: Events of the film take place in both hemispheres. Presidents of countries, bosses of drug cartels, special agents and powerful secret service agencies from all around the world are the first hand participants of its events. The film begins with an account of a shocking yet quite ordinary skirmish - an average drug kin pin is beating one of his assistants with a golf club with a purpose of educating him, because the assistant's cell phone was quite unlawfully confiscated by an overly diligent secret service agent. The mutilated gangster understands the incommensurability of his guilt and the level of his fault, and becomes the first character who asks the question: What do we know about the world we live in?
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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The Great Beggars
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-10-29
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The Barber of Siberia
Overview: Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-11-11
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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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Escape to the End of the World
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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After You're Gone
Overview: Aleksey Temnikov is a renowned ballet dancer and an acknowledged genius whose career was abruptly cut short after sustaining an injury in the 1990s. Twenty years later, Aleksey discovers that his condition is degenerative and that he will soon lose the ability to walk. Aleksey sets out to choreograph a ballet he envisaged long before but never staged for fear of failure. “What will I leave behind after I am gone?” is a question Aleksey feels he must contend with. However, returning to the world of ballet will not be easy for a man who has made so many enemies over the course of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-06-09
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Moscow Chill
Overview: Trouble seems to find Ray Perso, or maybe he just looks for it. First he's busted for hacking Manhattan's ATM banking system - sending twenties flying on every street corner. Then he's sprung from the Computer Rehab by a Russian gangster and smuggled to Moscow to work for an imprisoned "businessman". Maneuvering his way through the chaotic and violent Moscow Underworld, Ray finds love. But, his bliss is short-lived when he finds out someone has 40 million reasons to want him dead!
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-18
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Half a Chance
Overview: Alice Tomaso gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo and Julien, one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one belonging to the Russian mafia, and arrives at her destination with a gang of thugs out looking for her and the car.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-25
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Siberiade
Overview: The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
Genres: War Drama History Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-11-28
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Legend No. 17
Overview: Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-04-17
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Metro
Overview: Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-02-21
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Sin: A Story of Passion
Overview: Young girl Nina is falling in love with the orthodox priest with a criminal past.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-06-06
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Broken Circle
Overview: A group of "friends" are trying to solve a mysterious death of a factory director - and find the money he stole from them.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-05-22
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Star and Death of Joaquin Murrieta
Overview: A poor Chilean Joaquin Murrieta decides to move to California in gold searches. On his way he meets a beautiful girl who becomes his wife. But their happiness is short. Life of the gold diggers is cruel... After his wife dies Joaquin takes up arms to revenge.
Genres: Music Drama Action Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-06-08
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A Slave of Love
Overview: During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-09-27
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At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Overview: Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was entrusted with is stolen, initially by a group of assassins and then by a group of bandits. In tracking the gold’s whereabouts, Shilov’s motives are questioned and he is suspected of treason, in part because his brother was a devoted White. In an effort to clear his name, Shilov locates the gold, but he also discovers rampant greed and corruption.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-11
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Mail Order Bride
Overview: Nobody likes to be made a fool of, especially no the mafia. So, when it comes to light that a number of men from The Mob in New York have fallen for a Russian mail-order bride, who has blatantly ripped each of them off, their boss is not impressed. In fact, Tony Santini thinks the only way to prove that you shouldn't mess with the mob is to send his nephew to Russia to bring back the beautiful but manipulative Nina.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Primary Russia
Overview: The film takes place in pre-Christian Russia, when Ratibor united the East Slavs into one army against the nomadic Khazars.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-03-31
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The Right to Shot
Overview: Adventurous movie about a fight between Soviet border patrol and foreign spy ship.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-06-06
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Forbidden Empire
Overview: Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Mystery Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-01-30
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Приказано уничтожить! Операция: «Китайская шкатулка»
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Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-05-09
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Hostage
Overview: A story about complicated relationships between escaped refugee and a young girl he took hostage.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-06-06
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Tsar Ivan the Terrible
Overview: Adaptation of 'Prince Serebrenni' by A. K. Tolstoy.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-03-21
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The Adventures of Quentin Durward, Marksman of the Royal Guard
Overview: France, XV century. The young Scot, striving to make his worthy efforts, is kindly treated by the king and admitted to the guard. Soon the king entrusts him with a difficult mission - however, the matter turns into an insidious deception. Saving his beloved, the shooter of the guard shows miracles of courage and nobility ...
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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The Attic Story
Overview: The film takes place in the troubled October days of 1993. The characters — Sergey and Lisa — meet under strange circumstances. And then they are overtaken by love, for which everyone is ready to give their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-03-03
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Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-12-29
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Keep Your Eyes Open!
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Genres: Drama History Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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Paradise now-Journal d'une femme en crise
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
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The Aquanauts
Overview: While doing their work on the deep underwater station two aquanauts discover strange mystery: it seems as if one of the aquanaut's girlfriend who recently died in a car crash had turned into a big manta fish. That manta writes words on the station's port-holes and tries to draw attention many other ways.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-10-11
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The Extraterrestrial Women
Overview: Extraterrestrial Girl visited Earth.Inventor Blinkov in love with her. His love is awakened in her new emotions and feelings.She realized that Blinkov can not live in a different world.And she leaves the Earth with sadness and loneliness.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Choice
Overview: An unexpected man once considered dead by everybody suddenly occurs in the life of Moscow artist and his family and changes everything forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-12-25
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Copper Angel
Overview: An international geological expedition led by a Russian engineer works in an inaccessible area of one of the Latin American countries. Scientists are held hostage by a nearby gang that trades in the drug trade. Geologists are in mortal danger ...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-07-16
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Deer Hunting
Overview: Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. To find the people's avengers, the Nazis decide to use children.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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Побег из тюрьмы
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Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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Aborigine
Overview: Fifteen years old Boris hates his life and is ready for everything to just leave his small Siberian town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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Ten Years Without Right to Write Letters
Overview: After the war, the hero of the film comes to Moscow to take revenge on the scammer, through whose fault his father died in the 37th. He carries out his sentence and is ready to answer for it according to the law. His girlfriend becomes an involuntary participant in the drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Khagi – Tragger
Overview: According to ancient legend, the artist found a mineral that can revive any inanimate thing. To hide the mineral, he inserts it into a doll named Hagi. A century later, Hagi falls into the hands of a puppeteer, and he with horror discovers that the old doll is alive. Moreover, she also has a nasty character. Criminals try to take possession of it in order to use it for mercenary purposes. But they do not know the secrets of this doll - no one can take possession of it, but it has a destructive effect on any person who falls within its influence.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-11-13
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Rats, or Night Mafia
Overview: A former orphanage resident, having served time for a fight, returns to his hometown, terrorized by the local mafia. Not wanting to put up with their criminal laws, the hero courageously enters into battle...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Big Gold of Mr. Greenwood
Overview: Three seekers set off in search of a treasure that was hidden in the taiga by a hunter from Alaska, Mr. Greenwood. And in the footsteps of a friendly trinity are bandits ...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-03-08
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The Law
Overview: The hero of social drama, a young prosecutor, is engaged in repressed cases in the mid-50s. Behind each of the fabricated charges is a human tragedy; together they form a monstrous picture of lawlessness triumphing in the country. However, there are other laws - the laws of conscience, which no power can not cancel and destroy ...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-10-15
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Mologa. Russian Atlantis
Overview: This city is no longer on the map. In the 30-40s of the twentieth century, during the construction of the Rybinsk reservoir, seven hundred villages, one hundred and forty churches and monasteries, the ancient Russian city of Mologa went under water. An area of 4,600 kilometers was flooded. The deceased city carried away a secret that has not been solved so far.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-11-06
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Kremlin secrets of the XVI century
Overview: Spring of 1584. The Magi predict the death of King John within 24 hours. Warring boyars are rebelling and are ready to unite against Boris Godunov. The royal court is in turmoil. The already unstable moral principles become completely unbridled. Moscow is filled with violence, drunken orgies and the wild revelry of tsarist power.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-02-09
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Duel
Overview: The main characters of the film are Zhenya and Volodya: these are young guys from wealthy families who have been friends since childhood, both work in the company of Volodya’s father and are fond of motor sports. Volodya has a bride, Olga, but, as Zhenya becomes aware, she is going to marry solely for selfish ends. A friend refuses to believe it, and then Eugene decides to prevent the tragedy on her own. Mercilessly and publicly, he breaks down the wedding, loses a friend and breaks the heart of Tanya, Olga's sister, who is selflessly and secretly in love with him. The whole story takes place against the backdrop of upheavals within the Zhenya’s family: the mother threw them with her sister Sveta into the care of her father, as a result, Sveta is closed and pathologically unsure of herself, and the imperious father is constantly dissatisfied with his children.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-11-18
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Inhuman
Overview: Criminals kidnapped the son of the chairwoman of the city administration. Feelings of helplessness and fear follow. A series of checks, mocking calls, humiliating requests for help to colleagues in the "shadow business" goes on and on.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-09-10
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The Secret Agent's Return
Overview: After returning from the USSR, Tulyev was subjected to rigorous verification of his former "owners". He continues his work in Western intelligence, but already as a Soviet intelligence officer through the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. In a new capacity, he establishes the whereabouts of Hitler’s criminal Hoffmann, who was once sentenced to death, and helps the authorities arrest him. However, as a result of the conflict within NATO intelligence, Charlie Brighton, Hoffman's assistant, begins to hunt for him. At the same time, Tulyev manages to establish the identity of the murderer of his father, Karl Brockmann, with whom they crossed in the service of mercenaries somewhere in hot countries. He wants revenge, but, by an evil irony of fate, he must help prepare Brockmann for being cast as a spy in the Soviet Union.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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One Second for a Feat
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Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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It's Our Turn, Guys!
Overview: Georgy, who unsuccessfully tried to enter the conservatory twice and was left without family support, ran away from a prestigious job, not knowing how to live, and soon received a draft notice for the army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1985-12-01
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The Order
Overview: A desperate woman finds a hitman and orders her own murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-06-06
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Childhood. Boyhood. Youth
Overview: In this three-part series, Nikolai Irteniev reminisces and reflects on his life; he is eager to find answers to the most important questions of life. "How to be? how to do the right thing? What goals to strive for?" Based on Lev Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Artyom
Overview: About the life and work of the professional revolutionary Bolshevik F.A. Sergeev (1883-1921), known under the pseudonym Artyom. The film takes place in the period from 1905 to 1921 in Kharkov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-06-15
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