Anatoly Slivnikov
Also Known As: Anatoli Slivnikov
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nikanovo, Vologodskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: February 14, 1950
Age: 75 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 29, 2005
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Viva Castro!
Overview: Young Kolya is in love with his singing teacher, but his life isn't easy. His father skips town after stealing some coins from a museum and his mother is sent to a labor camp as punishment. When the father returns a year later, Kolya becomes involved with the pretty young woman hired to nurse him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-05-30
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Grushko
Overview: A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head of the Mafia Investigations Division of the local police force, facing new challenges as the internicine gang rivalries escalate towards war on the streets.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-24
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Assa
Overview: ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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House Under the Starry Skies
Overview: Old scientist Bashkirtsev is very surprised to discover the possible contacts with other world...
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-07
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Comedy of the Strict Regime
Overview: The action is set in 1970 as the Soviet Union (and the entire progressive world) are preparing to celebrate Lenin's centenary. Not to be outdone, the camp commander decides to have the prisoners put on a play about Lenin's life. However, the ensuing preparations turn everything upside down and seem to offer a God-given chance to plot an escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-11-07
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra
Overview: Holmes and Dr. Watson help a young lady who is receiving anonymous letters 10 years after her father passed away under shady circumstances. They find themselves in an enigma involving a treasure, murder and a love interest for Watson.
Genres: Crime Mystery Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-25
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Emergency Incident of a District Scale
Overview: A few weeks from the life of a Komsomol leaders in Soviet Union.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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A Tale of The Brave Khochbar
Overview: End of XVII century, Dagestan. A young outlaw named Khochbar accompanies the daughter of the nutsal of Khunzakh Khanate, Saadat, who was married for political reasons to the son of the Shamkhal of Tarki. During the long road, the young princess develops feelings towards Khochbar...
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-06-24
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Window to Paris
Overview: Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Feats of Herkules
Overview: Animated actors and vases tell stories from Greek mythology. Part of a 100-film international project on the theme of world culture. (Robert Donn)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-02-17
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Believe It or Not
Overview: Musical comedy based on the story of V.Shishkov "Divers", as well as Russian legends, songs, fairy tales and ditties. A scattering of mischievous jokes, short scenes, aphorisms, silly songs, jokes, ditties, jokes - this is the wealth of funny folklore and became the basis of the film, united by three main characters: a nedotep, an eccentric village inventor Bobyl and a brave Soldier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-06
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Speed
Overview: This story began on the day when an unknown car enthusiast, Grigory Yakovlev, beat famous athletes in a car he had built himself. The head of the design bureau liked his car, who invited the young racing driver to his laboratory...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-05
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The Romanovs: A Crowned Family
Overview: The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-07-19
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Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
Overview: A funny comedy based on famous Brandon Thomas' play "Charley's Aunt".
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-26
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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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Pamiętnik znaleziony w garbie
Overview: A story about the life of a woman, two men of her life and her son, Janek Garbus, seen through the eyes of the latter - "conceived by an NKVD uncle on the night after the Soviet army entered".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-04-27
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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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Anna Pavlova
Overview: The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably difficult, but dreams of a ballerina career make her stubbornly deal with adversity. Anna’s performance and determination does not go unnoticed by the celebrated choreographer Marius Petipa, who helps to stage Pavlova's examination performance. Such a gift becomes a starting point for Ani in the world of big ballet, her fast-paced career, position in high society and world fame make her forget about close friends and especially her faithful Michel Fokine, who invested a lot of energy in the formation of a ballerina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-08-01
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How to Become a Star
Overview: An entertaining show featuring various artists. A wise parrot teaches Maxim Leonidov - the leader of 'Secret', a very popular group at the time - how to become a star.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-03-25
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Rasputin
Overview: Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and mysterious figures in Russian history.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-23
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The Wilderness
Overview: An adaptation of Jesus' life, the film mixes real and imaginary characters, biblical and historical references, to present two worlds condemned to coexist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Spirit
Overview: Tragic circumstances brought the Spirit, a former "Afghan", to a prison cell, where he found himself alone with the German baron Maximilian von Stoltz. The spirit once lived by the sea, in a house where there were a woman and a child. Served as a paratrooper in Afghanistan. Unknown paths led him into the criminal world, he has 11 murders to his name, the prospect of capital punishment.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Without Family
Overview: A story about an orphan boy, abandoned by his family. He was raised by his kind adopted mother, and was sold by his adopted father in hardship to a traveling man who eventually, became his teacher and a father-figure. With his teacher, he learned to play music and perform on the street with 3 intelligent dogs and a monkey. He traveled through the towns of France, and through life twist and turn, eventually, lead to the ultimate search for his real family.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-06-06
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The Blonde Around the Corner
Overview: An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-06
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Hard to Be a God
Overview: Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-25
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Exceptions Without Rules
Overview: An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-05-03
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Music Games
Overview: A fantastic show with chases and alien spies and famous Soviet pop artists.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Viva Stalin
Overview: A village meeting in communist Russia to pay homage to Stalin leads to a gossip marathon, which develops into an endurance test for the participants.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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Proving Ground 1
Overview: About the incredible adventures of hallucinating teenagers from a children's colony, who, as a result of a scientific experiment by their teachers, end up in the "Wild West", among space monsters, in a world of fantastic nature and all sorts of political situations. Some become a cowboy, some become Hitler, some become Emperor Paul I, etc. Three colonists, with the assistance of one of the teachers, actively resist these experiments...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-03-01
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Midnight in Saint Petersburg
Overview: Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky. They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-17
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The Stray White and the Speckled
Overview: In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant plots… One of the most vivid staples of the postwar childhood were pigeons. They could be bought, sold or stolen. One day a beautiful white dove appeared over the town. Risking his life, Ivan caught the White. And immediately became the target of the "pigeon" mafia…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-10-30
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Overview: Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-03
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The Tale About the Enamored Painter
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Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Left-Hander
Overview: When the British, wanting to surprise the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich, presented a clockwork miracle flea, they did not know into the hands of which craftsman it would fall on Russian soil.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-03-16
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Fan
Overview: Malysh (Kid), a karate fan in late Soviets, tries hard to beat his way to the top.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Varenyi's Last Job
Overview: After four years, a young freight forwarder Sizuhin suddenly learns that under the guise of shipments of baby food his firm is involved in drug smuggling. Deciding to understand this case, he begins to fight the mafia and seeks help from a professional thief named "Varyoniy".
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-06-06
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Морской волк
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Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-06-25
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Evil Spirit
Overview: A junior employee of the Forest Research Institute is sent to collect mushrooms. In the forest, he meets a strange old woman, receives a silver horn and a magic club as a gift from her, and after some time ends up in prison as a counterfeiter. His connections with the mysterious old woman do not end there.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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Name-Day
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-06-07
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Heart of a Dog
Overview: "Heart of a Dog" is a Soviet film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novella. Set in 1920s Moscow, it tells the satirical and darkly humorous story of a stray dog named Sharik, who is transformed into a human by Professor Preobrazhensky through a daring medical experiment. The resulting man, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, embodies the social and ideological tensions of early Soviet society. With its sharp critique of class struggle, human nature, and the perils of radical change, the film is celebrated for its faithful adaptation, brilliant performances, and rich allegorical depth.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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The Siege of Venice
Overview: Venice, eighteenth century. The young Rosanna, widowed on her wedding day, discovers that she is the sole heir to an enormous patrimony, becoming in this way the most coveted party of the Serenissima.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-11-14
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Whit Monday
Overview: Ivan Khristoforov discovers the strange property of foreseeing explosions. Trying to understand the reason and meaning of this unusual ability, he turns to family history. The attention of the secret public service doesn't bode well for Khristoforov. The imaginary journey of the hero in his past, bearing the imprint of a children's worldview, and the present, at times just like a dream.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Come and See
Overview: The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-10-17
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra - Part 1
Overview: A girl named Mary Morsten comes to Sherlock Holmes, who asks him and the doctor to help solve the annual receipt of one pearl by her parcel and in the search for her father, who disappeared many years ago. Holmes and Watson do not refuse her help and find out that Miss Mary is the heiress of a huge fortune — the treasures of Agra, which are also claimed by the sons of Major Sholto and Jonathan Small — an escaped convict with a wooden prosthesis instead of a leg, whom the elder Morsten and Sholto deceived (while Sholto also deceived Morsten).
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-25
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Short Breath of Love
Overview: Having been captured, an Afghan officer decided not to return to his homeland. He settled in Finland, met Rita, a tourist from St. Petersburg, and lost his peace. Everything was against him: his beloved was older than him, had a sick son, the doctor treating his son loved her, and he himself, on top of everything else, was the son of this doctor...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-12-12
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The Successor
Overview: Eight years after his family was murdered he has returned home to bury his past and discover his future.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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