Vasili Lanovoy
Also Known As: Vasily Lanovoy, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Василий Лановой, В. Лановой, Vasily Semyonovich Lanovoy
Biography: Lanovoy came to prominence through playing bold, dashing characters, combining heroic bravado with a sensitivity typical of Russian heroes, a tendency evident in many of his early features, however, he is best known for his roles in iconic 1970s World War II-themed films. In 2000s, Lanovoy appeared primarily in the roles of Soviet-era party bosses, such as Yuri Andropov in the 2005 TV film Brezhnev. In 2013, he played the role of Cardinal Richelieu in Russian movie The Three Musketeers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Birthday: January 16, 1934
Deathday: January 28, 2021
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Gender: Male
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Shares in Murder
Overview: Beth Tyson is murdered in her mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell and Detective Philbert present three different versions of this crime.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Здравствуйте, доктор!
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-06-28
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Irkutsk Story
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-06-07
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Бой на перекрестке
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Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-16
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Александр Белявский. Личное дело Фокса
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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War and Peace
Overview: A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Genres: History Drama War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-04-28
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The Leader
Overview: The leader of a flock of geese talks about the cruelty of people, but not all of them.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1978-02-04
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Tear of the Prince of Darkness
Overview: Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to find Tear of the Prince of Darkness, a legendary ring which can bring Satan’s rule over the world.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-03-06
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Officers
Overview: Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-07-26
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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Overview: The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-03-14
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A Strange Woman
Overview: Irina Kupchenko stars in this psychological drama by the renowned director/writer team of Yuli Raizman and Yevgeny Gabrilovich. In the story, she is the entirely respectable wife of a career diplomat, with a teenaged son. Suddenly one day, she decides to leave her marriage and go live with her lover.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-09-11
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Pier
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ru
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Scarlet Sails
Overview: A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where you will be loved and happy." The neighbours told jokes about her, children teased her, but she waited for her prince. She trusted in the miracles and waited. Arthur Gray's rule was "if you can make a miracle, do it!". And he made a miracle for the wonderful romantic girl.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-06-07
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Dark Sun
Overview: A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Black Square
Overview: While investigating an ordinary homicide a group of detectives suddenly find a connection to a very first faces of USSR government.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Days of the Turbins
Overview: Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins".
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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The Golden Head on a Scaffold
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-05-29
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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Overview: In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of Borodino, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Bolkonsky's unit waits in the reserve, but he is hit by a shell. Both Anatol and Bolkosnky suffer severe wounds. The French Army is victorious and advances on Moscow.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-07-21
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Anna Karenina
Overview: The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei Vronsky. Anna leaves the family in search of happiness to her beloved person. She has to take a very serious step in her life - to part with her son. The attitude of the high society towards her is changing. All this brings a lot of pain and humiliation to the main character. The tragic story of love and betrayal, the fate of a woman, for the sake of passion who decided to change her life irrevocably.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-06
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Lady Into Lassie
Overview: Based on a famous short story by Pushkin, this film tells of a youthful, innocent and pure love story that begins as a girlish joke. Liza is eager to get to know her young neighbor but cannot do so as their fathers are not on speaking terms. Her response is simple and direct. With the help of her loyal servant Nastya, she dresses up as a peasant girl and goes pick mushrooms in the nearby woods....
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-05-26
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The Mystery of Snow Queen
Overview: A new interpretation of the most known and beloved fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen - "Snow Queen"
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-06-30
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Start Liquidation
Overview: Army and police are trying to fight crime in West Belarus during Spring of 1945.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-03-12
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Defeat
Overview: A 4-partmade-for-television feature film. Two young physicists, engaged in the problems of atmospheric electricity and the study of thunderstorm phenomena, both disciples of Professor Dankevich, a talented, straightforward, incorruptible man, unwavering in his principles. Dankevich endeavored to instill this uncompromising fight for honesty in science to the young scientists. And one of them, Sergey Krylov, lives up to the professor's expectations by continuing his work...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-05-17
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Ogaryova Street, Number 6
Overview: Detective Kostenko is traveling between Moscow and Sukhumi trying to find the responsible for double homicide.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-12-01
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: Young d'Artagnan comes to Paris to be a musketeer. There, he meets three old musketeers, members of the glorious King's Guard, but actually realizes that they are not the great fighters who he thinks they are. While joining the musketeers he is faced with the hidden plots of Cardinal Richelieu, his spy Milady de Winter, and a possible war against England.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-11-13
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Problem Child
Overview: A drama about a high school conflict based on the novel by Liya Geraskina.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-06-21
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Fifty-Fifty
Overview: A Soviet KGB agents are trying to prevent British-American operation of stealing information about an important scientific project from USSR.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-06-06
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Collegues
Overview: A drama about the group of young people starting their adult lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-12-18
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Pavel Korchagin
Overview: A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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Night on the Cordon
Overview: A grandfather tells his grandson about the events of 1942 that he experienced as a child.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2001-12-31
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The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
Overview: The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tells the story of pagan Rus' during the time of Prince Igor, his murder by the Drevlyans, Olga's revenge, Olga's repentance and adoption of Christianity.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-31
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Antony and Cleopatra
Overview: The love story of the great Roman commander Anthony and the oriental beauty Cleopatra, the tragic suicide of both, is recreated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-08-09
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Comrade Song
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Meeting on a Distant Meridian
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Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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North-West of Berlin
Overview: A military unit freed a soldier from captivity. It turned out that his fiancee serves as a nurse in this unit. But the soldier, whose face was disfigured by the Nazis, didn't dare to meet her.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Solaris
Overview: Kris Kelvin joins the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to find its two crew members plagued by "phantoms," creations of Solaris. Kelvin is soon confronted with his own phantom, taking the shape of his dead wife Hari.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-10-08
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Anna and Commander
Overview: Researching for a script about a famous scientist who tragically passed away, a writer meets his wife Anna who's been struggling with the loss. A tale of the couple's life and love unfolds.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-11-28
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The Last Moons
Overview: Old age knows no national boundaries or geographical limits. She can be peaceful and happy in the circle of loved ones and become a disaster if you are abandoned by people dear to you. Man is the only living creature in the world who knows that he will die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-12-17
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Thirteenth Chairman
Overview: The trial of the collective farm chairman Sagdaev, who deviated from some outdated rules of law in order to develop collective farm production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-03-12
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The Man with the Gun
Overview: The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-10-03
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Martha's Line
Overview: Moving to a new place of residence, to an old apartment in the slums of St. Petersburg, Olga and her daughter Natasha accidentally discover a letter from the distant blockade of the forty-second year. A letter from the boy Yura for the girl Martha, whom he unwittingly offended before he had time to confess his love… The search for Marta becomes Olga and Natasha's salvation from pain and true self-discovery...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-01-29
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The Sixth of July
Overview: Political thriller based on a story of coup against Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party in Moscow on 6–7 July 1918. They assassinate German ambassador in Moscow in hope of gaining public support and dragging the country into new war with Germany.
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-10-14
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Офицеры
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-04-30
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Soldiers of Freedom
Overview: A World War II historical drama and the sequel to the 1970-71's film series Liberation. The film reflects the following events of World War II: the capitulation of Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army as a result of the failed assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942; the preparation for revolt in Slovakia; negotiations of the Polish communists with Władysław Sikorski's government over their joint struggle against fascism; the creation of a National Committee of the Domestic Front in Bulgaria and preparation by underground workers-communists for armed revolt; expansion of the guerrilla (partisan) movement; the failure of a German attempt to destroy People's Liberation Army of Josip Broz Tito; one of the largest military operations, Bagration; the beginning of the liberation of Poland; creation of the Polish National Government in Lublin; the Warsaw Uprising; the capitulation of Bór-Komorowski and defeat of the Polish patriots; the entry of Soviet and Polish armies into Warsaw.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-05-31
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The Falling
Overview: A detective investigates the sudden suicide of his father who was one of a responsible for hiding Communist Party money persons.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-07-25
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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Overview: In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets of Andrei. At the last minute, she regrets and abandons her plans to elope with Anatol. Bolkonsky hears of this and declares their betrothal is over. Pierre, trying to calm her down, suddenly announces he loves her.
Genres: History Romance Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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A Chivalrous Romance
Overview: The action of the movie is set in the late 11th century Constantinople during the time of the 1st Crusade. The crusaders need the help of the emperor Alexius to get to Jerusalem while the latter tries to do his best to get rid of the unwelcome guests. At the same time Caesar Nicephorus plays his own game and betrays his royal fiancée Anna Comnena while trying to win the heart of the beautiful countess Brigitta.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-03-06
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Sea Cadet of Northern Fleet
Overview: The screen story of four teenagers, on whom the horrors of war had left an indelible mark. Their relatives’ deaths and their yearning for fighting the Nazis led them, one way or another, to a sea cadet school that had been opened on Solovetski Islands at the start of the war. This film tells of men’s friendship, the boys’ first baptism of fire, and the victory…
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-12-16
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An Unfamiliar Weapon, or Crusader 2
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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No Password Necessary
Overview: A spy game between Reds and Whites is in full motion during Russian Civil War.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-13
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Мещанин во дворянстве
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-04-11
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Striped Trip
Overview: A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his post out of fear, and the monkey takes over the captain's post. The ship gets under total control by the tigers and lions. Only one lady is standing up to the challenge. Her name is Marianna, she loves animals, and she takes the situation under control.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-06-06
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Going Inside a Storm
Overview: Sergei Krylov and Oleg Tulin, are promising young physicists in the field of thunderstorms. They dream of weather control. But later their ways in science parted - Oleg is ready to tradeoff his standpoints for personal success, but Sergei knows that the truth is more critical.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-11-15
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Тысяча душ
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-05-12
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Stronger Than a Hurricane
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-03-24
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Invisible Traveller
Overview: At the heart of the picture is a common legend about the last days of Emperor Alexander the First Blessed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-12-24
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Error of investigation
Overview: Retired investigator Klimov comes with his granddaughter to his country house to rest before a complicated heart operation. In the country, he finds a fugitive convict Andrei Shilin, whom he had once planted for the murder of his wife Jeanne
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-11-10
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Brezhnev
Overview: A biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-03-28
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Princess Turandot
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
Overview: The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". The film depicts the life and reign of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich of Kiev, known in legends as Vladimir the Red Sun. The story begins in 972 AD, after the death of his father, Grand Prince Svyatoslav, which ignites a power struggle among Vladimir and his brothers. The film emphasizes that Russian princes only succeeded when they maintained good relations with the Bulgars and other steppe nations. It also depicts Vladimir's reflection on his rise to power upon receiving the book "The Ladder" in 1005, ten years after his conversion to Christianity.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-12-31
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Interviews with Filmmakers: Vasiliy Lanovoy
Overview: Actor Vasili Lanovoy, talks about his early encounters with Tolstoy and Russian literature, landing the role of Anatole Kuragin in the film War and Peace, the reaction to the film on its release, and even recalls a couple of anecdotes about the filming.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-06-03
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Three Hundred Years Ago...
Overview: In the middle of the 17th century, Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks rose up to fight against the Polish gentry rule. About the events of the National Liberation War in Ukraine under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who with a firm hand led the insurgent masses to an alliance with Russia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Бес в ребро
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Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-12-12
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Lyubov Yarovaya
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Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-11-04
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One Love of My Soul
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Petrovka Street, Number 38
Overview: According to the story of the same name by Yulian Semyonov. Employees of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department - Colonel Alexei Pavlovich Sadchikov, Major Vladislav Nikolaevich Kostenko and Senior Lieutenant Valentin Roslyakov are investigating the impudent robberies carried out by a group wearing dark glasses criminals. The City Savings Bank was robbed. The investigation of the crime indicated the involvement of a teenager, who soon came to the criminal investigation himself. With his help, the robbers who were preparing the next raid were caught. But the most dangerous criminal — "Prokhor" — is still free...
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-07-28
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Чужой дед
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-02-26
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Nutcracker. Anniversary Evening of Ballet Legend Galina Ulanova
Overview: Anniversary evening of the legend of the Soviet ballet, People's Artist of the USSR Galina Ulanova. It is dedicated to the actress' 70th anniversary and was held at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, in 1980.
Genres: TV Movie Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-08
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