Leonid Yanovskiy
Also Known As: Leonid Yanovsky, Леонід Яновський, Яновський Леонід Федорович, Леонід Федорович Яновський, Leonid Yanovskyi, Леонид Яновский
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Birthday: April 13, 1946
Deathday: April 28, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Ukrainian Vendetta
Overview: The Hitlerian army has merely encroached upon the territory of Ukraine, and the majority of the local people have been already ready to cave in to a new regime. The Ukrainian policemen have killed the boy. It is clear that there is no hope to expect the justice from the invaders, that’s why the killed boy’s mother declares the war on the hangsman.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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The Crew of a Battle Vehicle
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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Наследница Ники
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-10-01
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Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus
Overview: Documentary trilogy about the thorny path of the famous Ukrainian poet, translator, political prisoner Vasyl Stus. Filmed in 1989-1992, it describes the life of the poet, the story of the destruction of the dissident by the Soviet authorities, highlights his influence on Ukrainian society during life and after his death, records the testimony of witnesses, films the liquidated Kuchino camp, in which Stus was imprisoned, the reburial of Stus, Lytvyn and Tykhy in 1989. Consists of three parts: «Come back to me, my memory» (Верни до мене, пам’яте моя), «In the white cold the sun of Ukraine» (У білій стужі сонце України), «Crucified on a black cross» (Розіп’ятий на чорному хресті).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1992-01-06
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The Zone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Twice Born
Overview: Events take place in the White Sea, 1942. New recruit Andrei Bulygin is assigned as an assistant machine gunner on a small ship that delivers soldiers and weapons to the front line. On the way back, German fighters sink the ship, leaving only Andrei alive. Having got out on the ice, he enters into an unequal battle with the cold and the German pilot von Bettger attacking him from the air...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-05-21
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Collapse
Overview: 1986, Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-09-13
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Hold on, Cossack!
Overview: Cossack Maxim and the girl who dressed in men's clothing run from Turkish captivity. On the road, full of adventures and surprises, they have to release the children stolen by evil janissaries. Lovers overcome all obstacles and win.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1991-09-04
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A Parcel For Margaret Thatcher
Overview: The film was created in the genre of an anecdote, where it is about a grandfather from a Ukrainian village who painted wooden eggs and decided to send them to the "iron lady". At the post office workers told him: "You can't!". But the grandfather showed character, did not give up on the plan, and, overcoming many obstacles, still sent the parcel.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Executed Dawns
Overview: Bolshevists aim to set their rules on the lands of the Western Ukraine repeatedly occupied by them. UPA – the partisan army – resists their policy. Civil population becomes a hostage of this war "without rules", and above all – relatives of the insurgents. Invaders and their allies cruelly torture Ukrainian people, but the struggle continues. Irritated, "bolshevists" start evicting people to Siberia. UPA tries to prevent this action, but the forces are not equal... Insurgents can only take revenge and punish the executioners.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Heavy Water
Overview: The film tells about the difficult and dangerous everyday life of submarine officers in love with their profession during the Cold War.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-06-30
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Eighteen Year Olds
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Yuri Smolich about the struggle of young people to establish Soviet power in Ukraine.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1987-07-05
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Bastion
Overview: In the summer of 1918, the situation in Transcaspia was especially difficult. The Menshevik government led by Funtikov seized power. Only the fortress city of Kushka remains Soviet. The garrison went over to the Bolshevik side. Large reserves of weapons and ammunition are concentrated in the fortress, which especially attracts the Mensheviks and the British who help them. The commander of the garrison, the former tsarist general Vostrosablin, decides not to surrender the fortress. To do this, he and Commissar Morgunov are developing a defense plan. White Colonel Zykov, with the support of the Basmachi and the British, hopes to take Kushka. But the tough confrontation between the parties ends with the victory of the defenders of the fortress.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: tk
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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Famine-33
Overview: The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1991-12-01
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The Feast of the Baked Potato
Overview: Drama about Aleksandra Avramovna Derevskaya (1902-1959), who, between the two wars - the Civil and Great Patriotic War, raised 48 orphan children of different nationalities. After her death, each birthday, her large family gathers at the table, to preserve the tradition of serving baked potatoes, which was a favorite dish of the household head.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-02-13
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Selfportrait of an Unknown Man
Overview: A strange combination of circumstances leads the forty-year-old engineer Igor into the hall of the old cinema, where the film session has already begun. The main character of the picture is the poet Belov, the same romantic loser, disappointed in himself and in everything - surprisingly similar to him. Moreover, Igor soon realizes that he is looking from the side at his own life. What is happening on the screen becomes a shock and revelation for him. In the dark hall of the mysterious cinema, fate gives Igor the only chance to start all over again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-12-03
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Faithful Ruslan: History of the Guard Dog
Overview: A Russian made-for-TV film about a guard dog named Ruslan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Captured by ghosts
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1984-12-01
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Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase
Overview: The film is set during World War II. After capturing the "trophy" Mercedes, a group of scouts, disguised as German officers commits a daring raid behind enemy lines (the 116th Motorized Division) on roads controlled by the enemy.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-03-01
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Расколотое небо
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Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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Tachanka from the South
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Sign of Disaster
Overview: A woman defends during World War II her home and her family against Hitler's soldiers.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-04-28
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Вторжение
Overview: They fell in love and got married - border guard Pavel Glazkov and medical school student Liza. And now he must return to his duty station. They are sure that the separation will be short-lived. And in the morning the war began ...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-02-06
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Fufel
Overview: Having been released from prison, where he was imprisoned for making “fufales” (copies of paintings), the guy decides to start an honest life. But the mafia does not want to lose a good specialist and introduces him to a dancer from a night cabaret...
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-08-11
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We Accuse
Overview: On May 1, 1960, on the eve of the meeting of the heads of government of the USSR and the United States, American pilot Francis Powers carried out a provocative "Flight" action on a Lockheed U-2 aircraft. While crossing the border, the plane was shot down, and a secret CIA agent, pilot Powers, appeared in court, and soon fully admitted his guilt. Fragments of the process and all the events related to the provocative flight are reproduced with documentary accuracy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-04-04
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Happiness of Nikifor Bubnov
Overview: Peasant Nikifor Bubnov goes to the mining regions of Donbass to earn money for a horse. People working nearby become his friends - with them he supports and develops the Stakhanov movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-11-30
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Can-Can in English Park
Overview: A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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The Secrets of St. Yuri
Overview: The film is based on real historical facts of the First World War. The action takes place in Galicia. Metropolitan Andrey, the head of the Uniate Church, who wants to permanently link Western Ukraine with the Austrian crown, assigns Roman, a young cornet of the Austrian army, to guard the archives at St. George's Cathedral. But Roman, having familiarized himself with the contents of some materials, is going to make secret documents public...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1982-12-06
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Історія пані Ївги
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Mutinous Orion
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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