Yakov Lents
Also Known As: Я. Ленц, Yakov Lenc
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: January 07, 1891
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Male
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The White Sun of the Desert
Overview: The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, only to be caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander, Rahimov, "convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the protection of abandoned women of the Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, Rahimov and his cavalry unit set out to pursue fleeing Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem return to a nearby shore town. Soon, looking for a seaway across the border, Abdullah and his gang come to the same town...
Genres: Action Drama Romance Comedy Adventure War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-12-14
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Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street
Overview: A married woman fresh from the countryside meets a charming cab driver on her first day in Moscow. They spend the day together and their fondness for each other grows...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-04-29
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We'll Live Till Monday
Overview: Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-07-02
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Give Me a Complaints Book
Overview: A group of young motivated people are trying to convert old "Oduvanchik" restaurant in to a youth club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Seven Old Men and One Girl
Overview: Lara Velichko is a young coach who's dreaming about coaching world champions but suddenly she's forced to train a group of a very grumpy old men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-06-06
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A Great Road Ahead
Overview: About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hašek enters the Red Army and, as a commissar of the international brigade, goes the military way from Samara to Irkutsk.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-04-27
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Summer Is Over
Overview: A family comedy about funny adventures of two six-graders during the summer vacations.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-02-13
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Beware of the Car!
Overview: An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-05-22
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The Man from Planet Earth
Overview: Biographical film story about the first Russian space explorer, inventor scientist, rocket-maker K. E. Tsiolkovsky.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-01-16
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Cheka Employee
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Aleksandr Lukin and Dmitriy Polyanovskiy. Russia, 1919. A young soldier of the First Cavalry Army, Aleksei Mikhalyov, is sent to work in the provincial Cheka. Here in the south of the country there is a large White Guard underground led by the elusive Markov. Aleksei gets into the gang, where he is mistaken for his own. The day of the operation to eliminate the white underground is appointed. But unforeseen circumstances destroy the plans of the Chekists.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-04-27
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Starling and Lyre
Overview: Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.
Genres: Romance Thriller War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-06-16
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Your Son and Brother
Overview: Based on short stories by Vasiliy Shukshin. About the life and people of the modern Soviet village. Old Yermolai lived all his life in one village. He has four sons, each with their own problems. The youngest foolishly ended up in jail and, three months before his release, greatly missing his family, escaped.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-04-18
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The Memory of the Heart
Overview: The story of an English pilot who crashed in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, and whose life is saved by a woman and a boy - two partisans near the enemy lines, Long afterwards in England he remembers the Russians with affection, tells his friends about his experiences, and resolves to go back to find the two partisans his heart remembers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-05-26
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Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
Overview: The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov…
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-08-19
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A Kiss from Mary Pickford
Overview: Goga is a Russian man who has no luck with women. He has a chance meeting with Mary Pickford, and after she kisses him on the cheek, he becomes as irresistible as her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1927-09-08
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