Ivan Zhevago
Also Known As: Иван Жеваго, И. Жеваго, I. Zhevago, I. Zevago, P. Zhevago, V. Zhevago, Zh. Zhevago, I. Zhivago, Жеваго Иван Семёнович
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ивановка, Российская империя (Украина)
Adult: No
Birthday: October 16, 1912
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 07, 1986
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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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Little Tragedies
Overview: A feature film based on the three-part adaptation of the poetic and dramatic cycle of Alexander Pushkin
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-06-30
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The Long Recess
Overview: A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-06-06
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"Margarita" is Raging
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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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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Rasplyuev's Days of Fun
Overview: A clerk fakes his own death in order to get a big fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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Заблудший
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-04-01
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Until the Thunder Breaks
Overview: Fedor Ivanovich purchased a Moskvich. Together with his wife, he was planning to go to a picturesque lake in the Moscow region. On the way, we picked up my mother-in-law in a new Moscow district and left the car at the entrance. Suddenly, shouts were heard from the street: “There’s an accident!” Fyodor Ivanovich, feeling cold, leaned out of the window and was stunned - his car was crushed by a dump truck...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Unbidden Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-03-15
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Story of an Unknown Actor
Overview: The of an actor in a provincial theatre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Light of a Distant Star
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-09-13
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Flames on the Volga
Overview: Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-02-23
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Boys from Our Courtyard
Overview: A short film about young delinquents terrorizing a neighbourhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-01-10
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The Mystery of the Eternal Night
Overview: At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, an explosion occurred, as a result the underwater vegetation started to grow rapidly in size and a part of the coast was flooded by a tsunami.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-04-13
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Vremya letnikh otpuskov
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-04-17
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Alyonka
Overview: Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alenka Muratova (Ovodova) is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alenka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-03-22
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The Tight Knot
Overview: The farm's chairman took the late secretary's teenage son into his house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-10-21
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Resurrection
Overview: Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-11-20
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What Is It, the Sea?
Overview: An adventures of a young boy in a fishermen village on a sea coast.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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Young-Green
Overview: The beginning of the 1950s. Nikolai Babushkin, a young specialist in one of the taiga construction sites, who had just been elected a deputy of the district council, was sent behind a brick to the city of Dzhegor. He is already familiar with the bold project of the engineer Cheremnykh, according to which one of the shops of the brick factory can be transferred to the production of expanded clay blocks in a short time. To provide the construction site with the necessary material, Nikolai gathers a team and helps the inventor to implement the project. There, in Dzhegor, he meets Irina, a graduate of the architectural institute …
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-11-13
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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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A Simple Story
Overview: The war was over. Like many of her female friends, Sasha Potapova was left a widow. It was hard living without a man’s shoulder to lean on, without love and affection, yet no one had ever seen her crying or despairing. For her strong character, the fellow-villagers elected her a collective farm chairwoman. The work, with its cares and worries, helped all but forget about her personal misfortune and woman’s loneliness. And then she fell in love – a bittersweet, unshared love, but happy anyway…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-09-24
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An Optimistic Tragedy
Overview: 1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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The Elusive Revengers
Overview: Dan'ka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge they join forces with an intellectual from the city Valerka and jipsy Yashka, but before they get close to their enemy they have to help their village and advancing Red Army.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Journey Beyond Three Seas
Overview: This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade way from Europe to India. The film is based on Nikitin’s travel notes. Starring in the film are popular Russian actor Oleg Strizhenov and India’s 1950s movie star Nargis.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1957-12-13
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An Easy Life
Overview: A chemist by training, Alexandr Bochkin manages a Moscow dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise," run in conjunction with "Queen Margot". But when his old friend from the chemical institute, Yuri Lebedev arrives in Moscow from the Siberian city of Dalnegorsk, along with a traveling companion, Olga, Bochkin becomes uncomfortable with his job title.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-08-24
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The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers
Overview: The action takes place in 1920 during the Civil War. Crimea on the eve of complete liberation from the White Guards. Returning from patrol, the four brave “elusive” knocked down an airplane. In the field bag of the captured pilot, they find a secret report, which speaks of the existence of defensive fortifications around the coastal city, which the Reds have yet to take. Young heroes get the task to get a map of fortifications and go to the city...
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-11-04
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The Guarneri Quartet
Overview: A group of musicians are trying to prevent the stealing of rare musical instruments in Russia during the twenties.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-12-26
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12 Chairs
Overview: A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-06-21
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And on the Pacific Ocean...
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-14
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The Only Road
Overview: Partisans attack a column of hundred german trucks cisterns, that carry fuel to the front. However, their action is difficult, as Germans have chained Soviet prisoners to the driving wheels. The mission is to stop and destroy the column and save the lives of the prisoners.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-01-10
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The Diamond Arm
Overview: A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-05-23
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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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White Bim Black Ear
Overview: A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite the dog's black ear being a "shame of nature" to his breed. The man always took his dog, whom he called Bim or Bimka, to hunting in country. Later, however Ivan Ivanovich began to have problems with heart and when the disease became worse was taken to a hospital. His dog couldn't bear waiting for the only person that ever cared for him and set out to find his master. Thus began the story of a homeless dog and his many breathtaking and exciting adventures, encounters of many people, kind and evil, and leads to an unexpected and heart-rending end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-09-15
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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Overview: A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-09-17
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Строгая женщина
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-06-01
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Gutta-Percha Boy
Overview: The end of the XIX century. Petya, an eight-year orphan who has been cast in training German acrobat Karl Becker, who curses and beatings would incorporate the new assistant to the circus profession and ruthlessly exploited child in their speeches. The only consolation, brightens the harsh life gutta-percha boy, as referred to Petya on the posters, is the concern of the carpet clown Edwards, who regretted the fatherless and secretly taught him this circus arts...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-08-26
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They Were Actors
Overview: The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from Soviet Information Bureau, compiled maps showing the strategic objects of the enemy, and supplied the partisans with medicines. On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground members died from enemy bullets — they were shot on the outskirts of the city.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-12-12
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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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The Paradise Apples
Overview: Political pamphlet based on the story of the Finnish writer Martti Larni "Socrates in Helsinki". Spring of 1944. In the paradise, which has long been settled by the philosopher Socrates, a fired soldier Vittori Virten arrives. The philosopher respected the newcomer with great respect, and they even became friends. Once having distinguished himself before God, the heroes get a vacation on Earth and go on a journey: the soldier decides to visit his family in Laconia, and the sage just wanted to see the world — did he think it once, and decided to join the soldier...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-12-09
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100 grams for Bravery
Overview: The movie consists of three short stories that share a common satirical theme: alcoholism and drunkenness. The stories are "Such an imprudence!," "According to the laws of hospitality," "100 grams for bravery".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-05-23
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The Enchanted Desna
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.
Genres: Drama War Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-07
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Belated Flowers
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Anton Chekhov. Princess Mariya fell in love with doctor Toporkov, who was treating her, in the recent past the serf of her family. Now he has become a celebrity and is only concerned about buying a new home profitably. He does not notice her love and marries a rich merchant. The princess in love comes to see Toporkov and opens to him. Her strong feeling touches Toporkov’s hardened heart, he leaves his wife and leaves the princess abroad.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-19
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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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The Stars of the Day
Overview: A female poet and author faces the harsh realities of a besieged Leningrad. Based on Olga Berggolts' memoir of the same name.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-02-08
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People are Like Rivers...
Overview: Praskovya Ivanovna works as a postman, helps everyone who needs her. Pasha, finding himself in the hospital, accidentally meets Grigory. She will soon be discharged, but she, sympathizing with him, continues to visit her new acquaintance. A friendship began. But then one day Grigory turns to her with a strange request, to go to his home on an overnight boat and see if his wife is cheating on him...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-02-13
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I Am Bereza
Overview: About the scout girl "Bereza", her dangerous work behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Twenty years later, a journalist is looking for the heroine and interviews her...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-05-09
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Sorcerer Island
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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Про Клаву Иванову
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-03-08
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At the Breaking Point
Overview: After his father's death, teenager Viktor Tsaplin was sent by his stepmother, who suspected the boy of stealing watches, to an Odessa orphanage. The guys met the new guy unfriendly, and when the teacher's antique watch was missing, Victor was considered the culprit. After enrolling in a nautical school and once going to sea with tipsy fishermen, Victor crashes a boat. He is being expelled from the college. Deciding to start a new life and in a new place, Victor leaves to work as a fireman in Kamchatka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-12-09
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Adventures of Nuki
Overview: The adventures of the little monkey Nuki, who was brought from Italy as a gift to a fat, spoiled boy. Having escaped from an unpleasant house, the monkey gets to a kind girl. But then it turns out that Nuka has been stolen, and her real mistress is a little sick girl suffering from the loss of her pet.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-12-19
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