Vladimir Salnikov
Also Known As: Сальников Владимир Александрович, Владимир Сальников
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: February 15, 1940
Age: 85 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 07, 2010
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Roots
Overview: Shameless slimeball Eduard "Edik" Letov - clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt - puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors' long-lost relatives. Complications abound when Letov attempts to pass off an entire village under the guise of a community wiped out during the Second World War. The arrival of a group of trouble-causing misfits, among them mobster Barukh - who wishes to bury his mother's remains, only to discover that someone keeps exhuming them - and the lech Simon - a Canadian with an insatiable fetish for his sexy translator - turn Letov's latest scheme into a veritable cat's cradle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-10-05
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Tycoon
Overview: During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-06-06
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The Wedding
Overview: The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-05-14
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The Leg
Overview: The film's protagonist Valera - cheerful guy from Moscow, who at age 19 learned a whole hell of war in Afghanistan, where he lost a leg. Returning from the war, he had no idea what a nightmare for him is just beginning.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-10-23
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Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
Overview: The Russians seek help in dealing with the Mafia from the veterans of the Police Academy. They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantin Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is playing.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-09
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The Russian Game
Overview: Italian gambler who is well-skilled in the card trade owes people in authority, and leaves his country to win the money. Arriving in a small Russian town, he tries to show off his tricks to the local card swindlers but is caught and ends up agreeing to a friendship and a cooperation. It is hard not to find oneself liking the gallant Italian.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-10-04
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Spring Voices
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-12-02
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This Fantastic World 14
Overview: A completely ordinary person, Kolenkin, is experimentally injected into his blood with a drug that makes him unusually accurate when throwing a ball. Having received such opportunities, he gets into the basketball team and participates in important competitions...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-01-06
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The Taiga Troopers
Overview: Based on the novel by Vladimir Orlov "Salty Watermelon". About the youth team of builders laying in the taiga railway Abakan-Tayshet. In the taiga, on the site of the future route, the youth team of Nikolai Bondarenko works. The people in the brigade are very different: the educated muscovite Vitaly, the resourceful Boris, the scribe and the romantic "Bukvar", but everyone lives together. They dream of a future route that will open the way to the Sayan Mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-05-16
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Viy
Overview: A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-27
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Our Calling
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-04-24
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In a Hard Hour
Overview: 1941 year. The Siberian carpenter Kuzma Kroykov arrived in Moscow as part of a rifle company. In a line of fighters, he walked through the streets of Moscow at night and in a village near Moscow met Varvara Oknova. Resolute, tall and beautiful, she won his heart. But soon the protracted terrible battles for Moscow began...
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-10-09
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Happy Birthday
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-09-17
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The Mistress of the Inn
Overview: Mirandolina is the mistress of a small Florentine hotel. An attractive and intelligent young woman easily manipulates the hotel guests.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-29
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