Yuri Lyubimov
Also Known As: Юрий Любимов, Juri Petrowitsch Ljubimow, Yuriy Lyubimov
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Danilov, Yaroslavskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Birthday: September 30, 1917
Deathday: October 05, 2014
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Novelly
Overview: The composition includes two short stories: "The Swineherd" (based on the fairy tale by H.C. Andersen) and "Heaven and Hell" (based on the short story by P. Merime).
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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Blue Roads
Overview: Captain Ratanov is working on de-mining the port of Odessa after WWII.
Genres: Adventure War Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1947-06-06
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A Noisy Household
Overview: A comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-05-15
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Cain the XVIII-th
Overview: A fairytale about homeless musician and his love for the princess.
Genres: Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-08-05
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Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady. Last Kiss
Overview: The film tells about one of the most beautiful love stories of the 20th century. According to everyone who witnessed the relationship between the famous French actress Marina Vlady and the great Russian poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, it was that extraordinary love that we usually read about only in books. Marina Vladi herself will share her memories in an exclusive interview. The film contains rare documentary footage with Vladimir Vysotsky.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-03-04
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Behind the Footlights
Overview: Russian Empire, the middle of the XIX century. Aged, beggar dramatic actor Lev Gurych Sinichkin, in search of work, wanders through the cities with his young daughter Liza. They dream that Lisa someday will succeed on stage and become a famous actress.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-06-28
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Robinson Crusoe
Overview: A man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-02-20
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Belinsky
Overview: A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production of the film was completed in 1951, but it was not released until 1953, following the reshooting of various scenes demanded by Stalin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-06-04
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Man of Music
Overview: The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.
Genres: History Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1952-06-06
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Cossacks of the Kuban
Overview: In the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Galina, the energetic chairwoman of one of the two kolkhozes, vies with her male counterpart for the best harvest. At the same time Gordey, her rival, a former soldier, is (and has been for ages) in love with her. On her part, Dasha a collective farm worker, has heartbeat for a young technician of the competing kolkhoz...
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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Our Heart
Overview: A story about a creation of a new Soviet Jet during WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-04-15
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The City Turns the Lights On
Overview: Former front-line intelligence officer, captain Nikolai Mityasov, after being wounded, returns to the destroyed city and learns the sad news: his wife Shura cheated on him. Bitterness and confusion gave way to hope. But peace has come, demobilization has begun, it is necessary to restore the homeland. Nikolai finds the strength to continue living, enters a construction institute, meets Valya and begins a new happy life without war...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-07-21
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Farewell, America!
Overview: An unfinished film by Aleksandr Dovzhenko, the film is a political lampoon based on the book entitled The Truth about US Diplomats, written in 1949 by the American writer Annabel Bukar. It exposes the underhanded actions of US Embassy personnel in Moscow at the onset of the Cold War. Dovzhenko managed to shoot only a half of the film, mainly the scenes that take place in the American Embassy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Days and Nights
Overview: This literary adaptation was the first Soviet feature length dramatization, as opposed to documentary film, on the momentous Battle of Stalingrad.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-08-28
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Boy from the outskirts
Overview: In the family of the driver Skvortsov on one of the outskirts of Moscow growing son Andrew, the future designer of high-speed firearms, but for now — inquisitive and hard-working boy, dreaming of studying. Ahead of the revolution and the Great Patriotic war…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-04-15
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Yegor Bulychyov and Others
Overview: Major timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov is terminally ill. In his house, he is surrounded by insignificant and greedy people, impatiently waiting for his death. Clever and insightful Yegor understands that he lived his whole life with strangers. He protests in his own way against the dissimulation and hypocrisy of the "masters" - the clergy, liberals, against the foundations of the bourgeois society that is going to collapse. Bulychyov's dying curse drowns his class in the powerful sounds of a revolutionary song.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-08-01
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The Man from Planet Earth
Overview: Biographical film story about the first Russian space explorer, inventor scientist, rocket-maker K. E. Tsiolkovsky.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-01-16
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-08-08
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Life in Bloom
Overview: About the life of the Russian biologist Ivan Michurin. 1912 year. Having rejected American offers to work abroad, Michurin continues his research in the Russian Empire, despite the fact that his ideas are not perceived by the tsarist government, the church and idealistic science. Michurin is supported by prominent scientists of the country and he continues to work hard. After the October Revolution, a small Michurin garden in the city of Kozlov (the biologist's homeland) becomes a large state nursery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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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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Farm in the Steppe
Overview: Young friends participate in the Odessa Bolshevik underground's activity in the pre-revolutionary years (1910-1912).
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-05-14
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The Heart of the Brave
Overview: Indiga needs to overcome her fears in order to save her brother.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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