Yury Eller
Also Known As: Юрий Эллер
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ishim, Tyumenskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: December 14, 1943
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 04, 1994
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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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Drumroll
Overview: A tragicomic grotesque fantasy about the adventures of a drum and its owner in a country once called the Soviet Union.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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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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Forget the Word 'Death'
Overview: 1920. Russian Civil War. Operation of GubCheka (Soviet police) to destroy one of the bands in Ukraine.
Genres: Adventure Action War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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A Visitor to a Museum
Overview: It is the future, the world is in ruins and a large portion of the population consists of deformed mutants living in reservations. In this world a man decides to spend his vacation visiting the ruins of a museum that is now buried under the sea.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-12-19
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Having Lied Once...
Overview: Set in the Soviet Union the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-02-02
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Air Pirates
Overview: The chief of the airline agency gives the command to the special team not to drink, not to stand in the drafts and not to have contact with the girls, as these guys will have to hijack their own plane ... In order to identify weaknesses in the aviation services. During its implementation, our heroes are faced with real terrorists - this was not taken into account.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Living With an Idiot
Overview: The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idiot. Vova isn't interested anymore, when she gets pregnant and doesn't keep the baby. The idiot goes now to the intellectual for his sexual needs. The wife can't take this anymore and forces her man to take a choice: Vova out, or she will go.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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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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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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The Castle
Overview: Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job that no one seems to have ordered. Once there, he takes up the struggle against bureaucracy emanating from the castle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-12-26
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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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Mortal Fight
Overview: After upsetting the criminal underground in 'the Master Blackmailer' case, Sherlock Holmes has to face his archenemy: Prof. Moriarty.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-09-09
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Through the Fire
Overview: The war caught Pavlik and his mother far from Leningrad, where they lived. Soon they found themselves in the territory occupied by the Nazis. When his mother was arrested on the traitor's denunciation, Pavlik went on foot to Leningrad. The partisan scout Savely brought the boy to his house, and two winters later Pavel, having matured, became a soldier and returned to Leningrad with a partisan supply train.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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