Yakov Shamshin
Also Known As: Яков Шамшин, Ya. Shamshin
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Volgograd, RSFSR, USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: March 07, 1985
Age: 40 years old
Gender: Male
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Major Grom: Plague Doctor
Overview: In present day St. Petersburg, police major Igor Grom, an honest and skilled cop with unconventional methods, pursues a vigilante murderer in the mask of a plague doctor.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-04-01
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I Am
Overview: The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen conflict, where he meets his own apparent death. He recalls his life and realizes it mirrors that of his whole generation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-09-15
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Kalashnikov AK-47
Overview: Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-02-20
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In The Port of Cape Town
Overview: Sailor, Tillage and Salazhonok. They met only once, in the summer of 1945, in the Far East, in arms and with serious intentions. Everything ended in a firefight, and each of the participants is sure that he killed the other two. However, fate gave them all a long, eventful life. It will take more than half a century and in one of the days in different parts of the Earth there will be events associated with that fateful meeting of the summer of 1945, and the viewer will learn how she has drastically changed the life of each hero and not only.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-08-29
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Once There Was a Woman
Overview: A chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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The Role
Overview: The Role is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life - the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt… even when the play of the life he is writing heads towards a tragic finale. Based on true incidents in the lives of Russia’s symbolists, this gripping film explores how far one man will go for the role of a lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-02-10
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Paper Soldier
Overview: In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-11-13
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Cold Gold
Overview: There is no escape from the war... 1942. While all the forces of the country are thrown into the fight against fascist Germany, in the southern part of Yakutia there are gangs robbing gold mines. The largest of them is the elusive and brutal Popov gang, which collects stolen gold to organize a military coup in the Far East. In their footsteps, a small detachment of the NKVD under the leadership of Senior Lieutenant Karasev is sent through the snow-covered endless taiga.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-11-04
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Immortals
Overview: The story of four friends, former fellow soldiers from Afghanistan, who meet on the eve of Victory Day to see off a comrade on his last journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2022-02-23
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The Battalion
Overview: Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.
Genres: War Action Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-02-20
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We Are from the Future
Overview: Four present-day Russian men dig for Nazi memorabilia at a WWII battlefield. A wormhole lake sends them back to a battle in 1942 USSR.
Genres: War Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-02-21
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The Riot
Overview: The film’s plot is based on a true story about a 10-year-old boy from a village, Ilya,whose father is killed. The criminal remains unpunished. Nobody around this situation is particularly worried, except the child, who arranges a real hunt for the murderer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2022-04-14
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Wings Above Berlin
Overview: The year is 1941. Nazi Germany has declared war on the USSR and begins launching air assaults on Moscow and St. Petersburg. Stalin immediately orders a retaliatory air campaign under the code name “Wings over Berlin.” The closest entry point to Berlin from the USSR border was an airfield on the Estonian island Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea. It would be a 7-hour flight over enemy territory in outdated aircraft leaving no chance of survival for the tail crew members in case of attack. Despite overwhelming odds, the first units completed the mission and made it back to base safely, unlike many others that followed.
Genres: Romance History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2022-04-28
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Клубничная поляна
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-06-01
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Степные боги
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Original Language: ru
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Riorita
Overview: The former supervisor of the camp of political prisoners, Barkhatov, turned out to be an ordinary corporal in the war, failed, and did not want to change in the new circumstances and remained a camp "turntable". And during the war, being together with naive village people, he arranged a small "puppet" theater, where he became the main "puppeteer".
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-05-10
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The Beginning
Overview: A failed suicide attempt became the beginning of a long and happy life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-04-20
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Vacation
Overview: Ivan, the police captain, on his day off, which, incidentally, doesn’t often happen to him, went with his wife Sveta to the cinema. Khan, Anna and Sergey also decided to spend the day together. Only they are not going to the movies or just taking a walk. Their time is scheduled in minutes, each step is verified - they intend to rob the collectors. It all started well for the robbers, and everything would have gone as planned if Ivan had not met in the way of the robbers. Khan and Sergey are arrested. But moving away from the persecution, Khan shot Ivan's wife, Sveta. Anna manages to leave.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-11-30
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The Ninth
Overview: Petersburg at the end of the 19th century was embraced by a massive enthusiasm for the occult sciences and esotericism. British medium Olivia Reed arrives in the capital of the Russian Empire on tour and gathers crowds of people at her public spiritualistic sessions. At this time, a series of ritual mysterious murders takes place in the city. Girls are abducted on the streets, their mutilated bodies are found in various parts of the city. The investigation is carried out by a young police officer Rostov and his assistant Ganin. With each new victim, things are becoming more confused. Suspicion leads Rostov to Olivia, and he decides to turn to her in the hope that her genuine or imaginary ability to summon the spirits of the dead can help to get on the trail of the killer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-11-07
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Love Without Rules
Overview: He is a star of theater and cinema, his day is scheduled by the minute – shooting in blockbusters, starring roles on the stage, broadcasts of central channels, photo shoots for the covers of glamorous magazines. She is a modest girl from the province, her fate is to be a concierge in the house of stars and look at the passing heroes of the gossip columns from her corner. It seems that everything is with Vera, as with people - a young husband with a Moscow residence permit, a child. It seemed that she would like to live and rejoice, but to her misfortune she meets Him. This is not a commercial calculation, this is not a momentary passion, but a deep, sacrificial love.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-11-11
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Vnutrenniy ogon
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Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-05-25
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Loner
Overview: KGB agent film about Gromova. Illegally sentenced to 12 years. His fight for justice interpretation.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-12-12
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7 Days
Overview: It is the story of seven days in the life of the 70-year-old Peter who learns that he has lung sarcoma and that there is a faint hope that in a week the diagnosis may be ruled out by a medical luminary from Moscow. Peter spends the seven days summing up the results of his life which he considers worthless, in which he could not start a family, earn money, save his reputation. But time and again the events in which he becomes involved and which are filled with smiles, sadness, human destinies, let the viewer realize that the protagonist’s life is far from worthless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2025-04-23
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