Evgeniy Merkurev
Also Known As: Евгений Меркурьев, Evgeniy Merkurev
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Birthday: January 02, 1936
Deathday: March 27, 2007
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Socrates
Overview: The long-term war with Sparta ends. The power and prosperity of Athens has sunk into the past; in an atmosphere of general despair and irritation, democracy, tyranny, and oligarchy replace each other. Against this background, the last, tragic period of Socrates’ life takes place.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Не делайте бисквиты в плохом настроении
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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A Savage
Overview: A new screen version of the play of the same name, written by Aleksandar Ostrovski. After a long time spent traveling abroad, the aging landowner Aleksandar Ashmetev returns to his mansion. He soon informs his spouse Maria Petrova (whom he doesn't love) that intends to leave again for Paris, away from dull provincial life. In despair, Maria thinks up a cunning plan. She introduces Aleksandar to Varya Zubareva, a young beauty from the neighboring mansion, in the hope that she will keep him there for longer. But, the mock intrigue takes a serious turn when it becomes obvious that Aleksandar has become seriously interested in Varya. Aleksandar now begins to think about how he can turn his passion into a real romance with the young temptress.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-06-06
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The Black Veil
Overview: A rich, smart, charming philanthropist from Saint-Petersburg Andrei Rokshin is found dead at home. The culprit is a woman wearing a black veil. Investigator Sinev takes the case.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-03-02
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White Lilacs
Overview: From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer Serguei Rachmaninov. This film is based on the legend that Rachmaninoff received a bouquet of lilacs from an unknown admirer after every performance. He emigrated to the United States, and after an interval, began to receive the mysterious lilacs again.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-06-22
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Twilight
Overview: In the last winter of WWII a group of captive German soldiers is brought to a remote Russian village, where widows, a child and a crippled are the only ones left. This is a military drama about those, who can love and forgive.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-11-10
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The Garden Was Full of Moon
Overview: Vera Andreyevna and Grigory Petrovich are an elderly couple who have had a long and happy life together. One day in the market Vera Andreyevna runs into an untidy and half-drunk old man whom she recognizes with difficulty. It is Alyosha, who was in the same orphanage with her and who had been her first love. Reminiscences overwhelm them and stir their hearts. Alexei Ivanovich, who had lived a far from easy life, undergoes an amazing change. He begins to look younger and more orderly. Vera Andreyevna feels she is a woman again, a woman who has to make her choice.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-07-01
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Crime & Punishment
Overview: Upon killing an old pawnbroker, a former student must confront the ensuing conflict between logic and emotion within him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-12-03
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Sensation
Overview: Forester Yuri Savushkin has been protecting nature and animals for several years now. But “seekers” of zoological rarities (junior children, a scientist from America, an academic zoologist) burst into his usual, measured life, because it turns out that Glazyuk’s animal lives in the Ugryumovsky Nature Reserve...
Genres: Family Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Mystery of Zaborsky Lake
Overview: Two teenagers are investigating a mystery of a possible monster living in the lake near their home town of Zaborsk.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-01-22
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Happy Days
Overview: An unnamed hero roaming the streets of St Petersburg is befriended by a beggar with a donkey and a slightly deranged prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-06-22
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Guide
Overview: Pavel Shnyrev is a professional killer. He has a lot of enemies and a lot of problems. He is rushing, he is driven... Pavel's mother goes to the hospital, from her he learns that his father is alive. Pavel goes to a distant village and finds his father. Pavel's father has been blind for a long time, but this does not prevent him from living. He is always accompanied by a faithful assistant – a guide dog. Another life opens up to Pavel - the villagers, their simple way of life, the cares of the father. The mother also arrives, pursued by Paul's enemies, to take her son to a quiet place to "sit out". But Pavel does not leave the old man like a blind man, having felt a guide in him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-06-12
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Shawls
Overview: When an American of Russian descent arrived at the dawn of perestroika in the Russian hinterland, in the town of Pavlovsky Posad, where old Russian shawls are made, a lover in love with these shawls, seen only in pictures, licked no one thought that drama would break out in the provincial silence ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-07-18
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A Room and a Half
Overview: A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-01-23
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