Serafima Birman
Also Known As: Серафима Бирман
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kishinyov, Russian Empire [now Chisinau, Moldova]
Adult: No
Birthday: July 28, 1890
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 11, 1976
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The Tailor from Torzhok
Overview: A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky), bought a lottery ticket and handed it to his landlord, widow Shirinkina (Deykun) who wants to marry him. Petya is a hard-working tailor trying to start his own business. He is also in love with Katya (Maretskaya), whom he wants to marry. He has to survive a cascade of funny situations in the unstable Soviet reality, before his romance with Katya comes to a happy ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1925-04-09
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Overview: Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-11-11
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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Overview: This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-10-10
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The Girl with the Hat Box
Overview: A Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for university and takes pity on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-04-19
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Overview: A valiant mongoose enters into an unequal battle with two snakes while tries to protect a human family.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-12-31
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The Case of the Three Million
Overview: History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a religious community.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1926-04-28
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Friends
Overview: The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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An Ordinary Man
Overview: Based on the play of the same name by Leonid Leonov. The famous singer Ladygin, who has won success and fame, lives in a spacious apartment furnished with paintings and luxury goods. Suddenly, an old front-line friend, a prominent scientist Svekolkin, comes to Ladygin. Realizing that for Ladygin, ranks and titles are more valuable than human qualities, Svekolkin tells his friend that he works as a simple cashier. This leads to a number of misunderstandings and comic situations...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Wings of Victory
Overview: The film is based on the biography of Valeri Chkalov (1904 - 1938), a Russian pilot, who set several long distance flight records. Chkalov and his co-pilots Baidukov and Belyakov together had accomplished several non-stop long-distance flights. In June of 1937 Chkalov set the world record, covering 12000 kilometers in 63 hours of non-stop flight from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, flying over the North Pole.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-03-12
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Don Quixote
Overview: Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-05-23
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New Year's Abduction
Overview: The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert. A police captain investigates the kidnapping and listens to complaints from the “unkidnapped” artists.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-13
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Island of Mistakes
Overview: A short animated film about poor student Kolya Sorokin, who is dragged by two swans to the island of errors. On the island, incorrect solutions cause a lot of problems for Kolya. These trials force the hero to approach his responsibilities in a different way.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-03-23
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The Man with the Gun
Overview: The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Crazy Day
Overview: A funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-07-10
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