Sergey Batalov
Also Known As: Сергей Баталов
Biography: In 1980 he graduated from the acting department of GITIS (Andreev's workshop). Since 1982, for several years, he played at the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. In 1990-1992 - actor of the Studio Theater "Man". In 1992 he returned to the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, where he worked until 1998, after which he devoted himself completely to cinema. He began acting in films since 1979, making his debut in the television movie “Vataga“ Seven Winds. ”Honored Artist of Russia (2005).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Irbit, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Birthday: April 19, 1957
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Prisoners of fortune
Overview: An attempt at a parody comprehension of the clichés and techniques of the Soviet adventurous comedy genre of the 50s-70s. This is a story about three heroes who return to their home city after escaping from prison. Truthfulness and sincerity help the characters find their place in the changed system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Passenger
Overview: A beautiful Russian widow in San Francisco wishes to return to Russia after her American husband loses everything in a speculation and shoots his brains out. Along with her personal maid she is given passage to Hong Kong aboard a Russian naval vessel.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-06-06
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The House of Sun
Overview: The whole world of a young girl Sasha is changing after she meets Sun - a hippie leader.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-06-06
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Six Degrees of Celebration 1914
Overview: 100 years ago, the Russian Empire ... Christmas Eve. December plugs, holiday celebrations, balls and modest luxury holidays, titled nobles and ordinary peasants, the royal family and the soldiers of the First World War, progressive poets and the first skaters - everything was different, except ... the holiday. People prepared, lived, believed dreaming and waiting for this miracle - Christmas!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-12-25
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Kolya - Rolling Stone
Overview: After a few years in a big world Kolya is returning to his village and life in the village is going wild.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-10-13
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Life By Surprise
Overview: Masha, a naive 18-year-old creature from the Moscow region, gets into the world of dreams - on television. Her chance to become famous is the reality show "Maiden's Room", a project of foreign producers, in whose work such concepts as morality and decency are not key. They place hidden TV cameras in Masha's apartment, but the girl herself does not know about it...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-07-26
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An Essay on Victory Day
Overview: On the eve of the Victory Day celebrations, three old wartime friends reunite in Moscow. But they don’t get a chance to sit and recall their long-forgotten exploits. Chairman of the Veterans Foundation Kilovatov (O. Yefremov) is accused of dealings with the criminal world and put behind the bars. Former dissident Morgulis (V. Tikhonov), now residing abroad, and participant of protest rallies Dyakov (M. Ulyanov) organize the release of their friend from prison. Confronted with the cruelty of their enemies who masterminded the arrest of their wartime buddy, our heroes involve mafia and security service in the release operation, and then decide to hijack a plane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1999-01-21
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Old Bigwigs
Overview: In the nursing home "Bumps" every day is similar to the previous one. Old people set fire to napkins in the dining room, the manager paints the walls herself, and the benefactor gives coffins instead of medicines. Everything changes when a friend, nicknamed the Joker, comes to one of the guests. He decides to prove to everyone that it's too early to die, but to shake the old days is the very thing. Together with a former theater actress, the trio comes up with an unusual business and quickly comes to success: life in the "Cones" becomes a resort! That's just energetic pensioners have become competitors of local bandits…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-12-31
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Cloud Heaven
Overview: In this gentle comedy, an unpopular resident in a Russian village has his life completely changed when he announces, entirely on a whim and just to upset things a bit, that he's moving to the Pacific coast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-12-04
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The House of Sun
Overview: The whole world of a young girl Sasha is changing after she meets Sun - a hippie leader.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-06-06
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Likes or Dislikes
Overview: Aleksey must decide what's better for him - a regular life with his fiancé Alyona or adventurous life with a famous journalist Irina.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-12-04
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Under the North Star
Overview: The events take place in the 70s of the last century, in the real country of the USSR and with real Soviet people: workers and state leaders. A patriotic film telling about how and how the country lived in those years, telling with love about the generation of fathers, about their working days and holidays.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-06-15
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What a Mess!
Overview: The story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national debt, but also allow every Russian citizen to move to the Canary Islands. However, Mafia plans to steal the massive gem but a notorious thief, Vasia, ruins their plans. Mafia and militia begin chasing him, but soon Vasia learns that he has brothers as between the chase he runs into well known Jewish conductor and a gypsy baron who are triplet brothers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-06-06
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Under the North Star 2
Overview: The film takes place in the seventies of the XX century, in a real country of the USSR and with real Soviet people of various levels: from workers to the leaders of the country. This is a patriotic film, with love (the authors especially insist on this) telling about our homeland, about our people, about the generation of our fathers, about their achievements and defeats, everyday life and holidays, joys and sorrows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-07-12
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Gentlemen Officers: Save the Emperor
Overview: During the Civil War in Russia a group of White Guard officers is trying to rescue the family of the tsar Nicholas II captured by Bolsheviks. The officers face betrayal and fight a Red Army detachment sent to eliminate them. It is the Red Army commander against the head of the White Guard group. The only thing that matters is who will be the first to reach the tsar placed under arrest in Yekaterinburg...
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-04-17
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Vanechka
Overview: A young girl dreaming to become an actress goes through hell with an orphan baby on her hands. The whole world seems to be against her. She meets the love of her life when there is no one to stand by her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-11-08
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1993
Overview: 1993 - the story of one family suddenly turns out to be the history of the whole country. The relationship of painfully and inextricably linked husband and wife, emergency workers, and the growing up of their daughter against the backdrop of global change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-09-21
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The Spacewalker
Overview: March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown. They were supposed to do what no man has done before—and no man imagined what would happen next.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-04-06
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Celebration
Overview: To mark the 60 years since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The film is set in a small village in western Russia. It is a story about two days from the life of an ordinary family: a father, a mother and their five-year-old daughter. That’s what Garik Sukachyov says about his film: “On June 22, 1941, a family is celebrating the daughter’s birthday. It is a beautiful sunny day, full of joy and merriment. For the girl, it is filled with important events and adventure – her birthday is celebrated by the whole village, not just by her family. And no one yet knows that tomorrow her father will leave for his work in a district center and come back a few hours later in a home guard uniform only to say goodbye to his family. And that at the moment of their leave-taking the Germans already will be entering the village. And that they will be shot by the river, on the same bank where only yesterday the carefree, happy family was sunbathing and having fun…”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2001-08-17
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A Golden Ring, a Bouquet of Scarlet Roses
Overview: The eldest son, who left for St. Petersburg, where he works as a detective, comes to the family of a crooked merchant and shopkeeper Grigory Tsybukin. Parents decide to marry him - his son is already 28 years old. They find a poor, but beautiful, clean and modest girl who meekly marries an already worn-out and balding man from the city, decently "laying by the collar". There is a merry wedding, and the husband leaves, leaving another worker in the family...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-04-13
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Шуб - баба Люба!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-07-08
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Артек. Большое путешествие. 1812
Overview: Mitya Neverovsky is a descendant of the famous Lieutenant General Dmitry Neverovsky. However, for his parents, Mitya is a complete headache. He does not show any interest in studying, does not want to become anyone, and the phrase "it will do!" could easily be his motto. Having made his cherished wish at the magic Tree in the Artek camp, Mitya is transported back to 1812. In the past, he meets his great-grandfather many times, the famous Lieutenant General Dmitry Neverovsky, takes part in the Battle of Borodino and makes friends with the young Sasha Pushkin.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2025-06-12
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Classic's Head
Overview: A mystery around a search for a lost skull of Nikolay Gogol.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-06-06
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30 Dates
Overview: Unlucky Dasha believes that it will help the online training - for a month visit the 30 dates, and then the man of her dreams will find her. Just to stay alive after a meeting with crazy cavalry and try to discern among them the perfect man.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-02-11
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When the Echoes Will
Overview: In the fall of 1945, former front-line soldier Umar Badalov makes his way into a deserted village. He honestly fulfilled his military duty, now he has been commissioned and here he is in his village. Autumn dying nature and a devastated village, painted with tragedy, in which he did not meet a soul, except for one dead dog.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Extraterrestrial
Overview: A young man who lives in a small village finds a corpse of extraterrestrial creature. Or at least he thinks so...
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-06-03
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I Give You My Word 2
Overview: A continuation of the adventures of Mishka, Dimka and Lenka - this time in a summer camp.
Genres: Romance Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-03-23
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The Night of a Lifetime
Overview: A dramatic story of a girl whose love and happiness were taken away by the war. Two guys were in love with Zinka. Both went to the front, she worked in the hospital.
Genres: War Drama History Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-12-07
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The Lord of the Puddles
Overview: Funny adventures of a young computers genius Romka and his two friends in a virtual world.
Genres: Science Fiction Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-05-02
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Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Overview: Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1994-10-20
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Арифметика любви
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-07-13
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I Want To Go To Prison
Overview: A nugget from Russia is hiding from the police in a Dutch prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-12-31
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Cynics
Overview: 1918, Petrograd. The young historian Vladimir meets Olga, the daughter of the wealthy parents who have emigrated from the country after the first decrees of the Soviet power. Olga both hates revolution, and is fascinated by her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Go!
Overview: The villager - excavator Peter Gavrilin - once realized that he had lost all meaning. Despising the bustle, Peter left the family and lay on the rails ... A simple story is tragicomic and sentimental. All you need is a breath of clean air ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-02-07
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Little Devil
Overview: A small provincial town. The inhabitants are bored, apathetic and bitter... Peredonov, a modest high school teacher, dreams about a promotion and moving to the capital. Gradually his dream becomes an obsession. Varvara, his second cousin who dreams about marrying him, writes a promising letter about an invitation to Saint-Petersburg on behalf of the capital's princess. But the teacher's dreams aren't meant to come true: he becomes a victim of his own insanity and kills his friend and the hateful Varvara...
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-02-15
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I Saw You First
Overview: A fourth-grader is looking for her father with the help of a friend.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-06-21
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Open, Santa Claus!
Overview: Young unmarried Zhenya and her little son Grisha are preparing for the New Year. Grisha really hopes that Santa Claus will come to visit them. Zhenya also has a dream that sooner or later she will meet a man whom she will love and who will be her son’s father. On New Year's Eve, old friends come to Zhenya — the Ogurtsov couple and the Kalinkin couple. They noisily see off the old year, after which Zhenya tries to put her son to bed. But Grisha does not want to sleep - he was determined to wait for Santa Claus. And, to mom’s great surprise, Santa Claus comes! Although no one called him ...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-10-23
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Guilty Without Guilt
Overview: In a small provincial town, a famous actress comes on tour, who once fled from here from the shame of unhappy love. Many years ago, she was forced to leave her illegitimate son to raise strangers. Therefore, when a talented and reckless young actor appears on the way of a now rich and famous woman, she certainly wants to help him. The actress begins to take an active part in the fate of the young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-10-05
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Fortune
Overview: Old skipper travels with his old ship called "Fortune" on the Russian river.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-02-26
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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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Heavenly Team
Overview: As long as the fans live, hope won't die. They are fans of the hockey Lokomotiv from Yaroslavl. People forever loyal to the club. Hockey players' wives, stadium staff, young athletes and fan movement veterans who have been singing in the stands for several decades. In honor of the opening of the new season of the Kontinental Hockey League, the army of Lokomotiv fans is sent to Minsk for the first match of the tournament to support the team. None of them knows that this trip will change everyone's life forever, and the tragedy that will happen to Lokomotiv will divide the sports world into “before” and “after”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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The Policemen and the Thieves
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Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-12-12
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Fierce Town
Overview: By the middle of the 12th century, the borders of the Mongolian Empire stretched from the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas in the west to the southern lands of China in the east. The Mongolian army, under Khan Batu’s command, was known for its invisibility, destroying anyone who dared to challenge them. Yet, even within their central territories, some areas refused to bow to the Genghisids. Kozelsk was one of them. The Mongolian armies bypassed the high walls of this small town, considering that "the skin of the wolf was not worth the risk of encountering its teeth".However, one of the Khan’s commanders harbored a grudge against the town's citizens. Now, the people of Kozelsk must face a battle against the strongest army in the world, with no hope of victory. This is a story about people facing their death. Some try to escape, others are willing to do anything to survive, but most are prepared to protect their city from the relentless storms of the Mongolian hordes.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2025-01-30
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