Ivan Turchenkov
Also Known As: Иван Турченков, I. Turchenkov, И. Турченков
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Novye Lazinki, Spas-Demenskiy uezd, Kaluzhskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Adult: No
Birthday: May 30, 1914
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 27, 1993
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Beginning of an Unknown Era
Overview: Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era: 'Angel' speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, and 'The Homeland of Electricity' captures its haunting grotesquery.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-12-31
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Overview: This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-02-11
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The Bursa
Overview: Drama set in a strict seminary where a new teacher attempts to abolish corporal punishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-04-01
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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Overview: The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-03-14
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War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Overview: As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he is marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party. The French are defeated by Kutuzov in the Battle of Krasnoi. Andrei is recognized and is brought to his estate. He forgives Natasha on his deathbed. She reunites with Pierre and they marry as Moscow is being rebuilt.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-04
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War and Peace
Overview: A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Genres: History Drama War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-04-28
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Andrei Rublev
Overview: An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-12-16
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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Overview: In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of Borodino, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Bolkonsky's unit waits in the reserve, but he is hit by a shell. Both Anatol and Bolkosnky suffer severe wounds. The French Army is victorious and advances on Moscow.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-07-21
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Incognito from St.Petersburg
Overview: A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-07-17
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Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
Overview: The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures" was a hit movie and became the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-07-24
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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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Take Me With You
Overview: The village orphan, Dunyasha first sight fell in love with the buffoon-bully Mitrokha. Love was unhappy, because Mitrokha was rude. For that and was expelled from the village. Dunyasha felt sorry for Mitrokha, and she went after her lover…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-07-07
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The Mysterious Monk
Overview: Ukraine, 1920. Two White Guards are escaping from Red Army captivity - Vorontsov and Stronsky. They get to the monastery, where a White Guard detachment is hiding under the guise of monks. Vorontsov leads it and waits for a signal to move to the settlements occupied by the Red Army soldiers. He does not suspect that his friend, the “former journalist” Stronsky, is a security officer...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-09-30
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Looking for My Fate
Overview: There were three sisters — Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Vera, having survived unhappy love, goes to the monastery, where she gives birth to a child. The child dies, Vera commits suicide. Lyuba and grandmother attend church and maintain relations with priest Aleksandr. To Nadezhda that condemns their religiosity, it seems that Lyuba is in love with father Aleksandr. She comes home to him and demands that he stop dating Lyuba. However, it turns out that Aleksandr is in love with Nadezhda. Knowing him better, she reciprocates him, facing a difficult choice, Aleksandr breaks with religion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-09-08
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You to Me, Me to You
Overview: Ivan Sergeevich Kashkin — the bath attendant of the most prestigious metropolitan bath. It’s not easy to get to him: reputable diplomats, well-known footballers, and the heads of the ministry are seeking the honor to steam. But Kashkin himself does not need to achieve anything, everything is at his service — from black caviar to tickets to the conservatory. And the hero’s cloudless life would have flowed, but then his twin brother Sergei fell ill and asked Ivan to replace him in his equally strange work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-05-31
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Fun for Old People
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-02-07
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Girl without an Address
Overview: The amusing adventures of the young builder Pasha Gusarov began from the moment when he met and fell in love with Katya on the train, who was going to conquer Moscow. Happiness makes a person careless, and the station is just the place where you can lose it. But it is at the station after all kinds of adventures that they meet again and now they will never part.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-03-08
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Когда играет клавесин
Overview: A student falls in love with a girl detained on a false suspicion of speculation.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-06-21
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The Homeland of Electricity
Overview: The Homeland of Electricity, Larisa Shepitko's adaptation of an Andrei Platonov story, was one of three short films collected in an omnibus work (Beginning of an Unknown Era) commissioned to honor the 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution. Censors eventually shelved the film and it would not see the light of day until well after Shepitko's death, during Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-06-22
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По следу властелина
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-04-01
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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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Wings
Overview: After WWII, a Soviet pilot returns to civilian life and struggles in her roles as school principal and mother, and with her memories of the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-08-15
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