Ivan Agafonov
Also Known As: Иван Агафонов, I. Agafonov
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 15, 1933
Deathday: September 04, 2005
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Scenes from Family Life
Overview: Katya's life is darkened by a tragic secret: her mother died when her daughter was very young. Suddenly, the girl learns the shocking truth: her mother is alive. The meeting between mother and daughter becomes an emotional challenge for both. On the one hand, intense feelings of joy and love. On the other hand, there is burden and resentment that has accumulated over many years of separation.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-07-01
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Makarov
Overview: "Makarov" both a popular Russian name, and also slang for the word "gun," serves as a metaphor for the brutal reality of life in a post-totalitarian society. The story's protagonist, Makarov, embodies this struggle as he becomes more mechanical and less spiritual upon acquiring a gun.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-02-28
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Shukshin's Stories
Overview: Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people “of the people”, contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life’s ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - the Soviet Union of the 60s-70s. The main thing that unites both the works themselves and the films made is a whole gallery of the brightest images and characters, a story about such different destinies and differently meaningful lives, a story in the center of which is invariably Man, with his love, quests, weaknesses and victories.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-04-12
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Until the Thunder Strikes
Overview: Few months before collapse of USSR. Villages and collective farms are facing with problem: young and working age people leaving countryside for better life in cities. Same problem in collapsing collective farm near Moscow - the only mechanic and harvester driver decides to leave his native village because he feels deeply offended for being severely punished for breakdown harvester. But his countrymen disagree with his decision and try to prevent his escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-06-01
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Swarm
Overview: The story of the Siberian Zavarzin family, which has long lived by bee trade. After an incomprehensible virus entered the hives one day, accusations between two neighboring farms reached the intensity of a real war. After all, if there are no bees, then there is no life, and you have to go to the city. The village began to empty before our eyes. The disintegration also occurs within the Zavarzin family: the eldest son gets drunk, the middle one is going to emigrate, the younger one goes crazy, the uncle rages with fat, not knowing where to put his money. And nothing can unite the once strong family anymore.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-02-24
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The Defendant
Overview: Anton Skulov, a war invalid, shot a drunk young man with a hunting rifle who climbed into his garden and ruined rare flowers that his wife, a war veteran, had grown before her death. The investigation was short-lived, the accused immediately admitted his guilt and was ready to stand trial, having already convicted himself of the murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Start All Over Again
Overview: A story about a life of a young musician in the USSR.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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Tower
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-03-16
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Earthly Joys
Overview: The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-19
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The Soldier's Caftan
Overview: One day two foreign military men arrived to serve the Russian Tsar Peter. They were dressed in luxurious kaftans. Peter appreciated the beauty of their uniforms, but noted that it would not be easy for them to endure different weather conditions in them. This angered the guests. Thus began a dispute between the admiral, the general and a simple Russian soldier. The one who can withstand both cold and heat in his attire is destined to win.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-02-09
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Via Gobi and Khingan
Overview: About the events of the final stage of the Second World War — the defeat by Soviet and Mongolian troops of the selected Kwantung army. Bacteriological weapons were created in the laboratory of Japanese General Ishii Shiro. Experiments were conducted on prisoners of war and political prisoners. Epidemiologist Dmitry Sokolov was assigned to solve the mystery of this laboratory. At the cost of his own life, he completed the task. The march of Soviet and Mongolian formations through the Gobi sands and the Khingan spurs was not only a brilliant military operation, but also a warning of the use of bacteriological weapons by Japan.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-10-06
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Three Times About Love
Overview: Former soldier returns to his village only to discover that his girlfriend married another man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-09-11
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The Highway
Overview: The film takes place during one day of operation of a railway line, the capacity of which is lower than necessary. A disaster occurs: a passenger train crashes into a tank train, the driver's assistant is killed, and traffic on the section is delayed. The film explores the patterns that led to the accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-08-08
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In the Shooting Solitude
Overview: 1918. A Red Army soldier Fyodor Krohov, authorized to withdraw farmers corn surpluses, comes to a small village, where White Guard can show up any day. He must persuade peasants to hand over the surpluses. But men are hesitating, some lend an ear to a wealthy peasant Mokey Zhlobin, unwilling to give away his hided corn. The only one person, backing up Fyodor is a local self-made inventor, living in the outskirts with his beloved beauty-wife, having equipped his house with electricity, power-saw bench and other gimmicks. The inventor takes him as a close friend and his young wife falls in love with Fyodor. The love triangle appears, but their ideals are above all. Together they manage to find the hidden corn and survive in uneven battle with bandits who rushed into a village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-02-28
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A Secret Walk in the Woods
Overview: Niyole, a Red Army spy is sent behind the enemy lines in order to hunt German general.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-07-26
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Hop: Exodus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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The Outburst
Overview: The film is based on real events and tells about a major accident that occurred during the construction of another Leningrad metro station in the spring of 1974.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-09-10
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Time to Fly
Overview: Nothing like this has ever happened and could not happen in any of the airports. However, according to the authors of the film-parable, this tragicomic story is directly related to reality. It turns out that in order to properly fly airplanes, sometimes it is enough to fly to one chief. Of course with his seats. However, it does not prevent that the passengers themselves are very eager to go on a flight…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-18
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The Big Gold of Mr. Greenwood
Overview: Three seekers set off in search of a treasure that was hidden in the taiga by a hunter from Alaska, Mr. Greenwood. And in the footsteps of a friendly trinity are bandits ...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-03-08
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Races Without a Finish
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-09-27
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Our Armoured Train
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-12-31
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