Viktor Avdyushko
Also Known As: Виктор Авдюшко, Виктор Антонович Авдюшко, Viktor Avdjushko
Biography: Viktor Antonovich Avdyushko (Russian: Виктор Антонович Авдюшко; January 11, 1925 – November 19, 1975) was a Soviet actor and a People's Artist of the Russian SFSR.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Adult: No
Birthday: January 11, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 19, 1975
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Janus Head
Overview: World-famous geneticist Professor Hülsenbeck is a man of integrity who refuses to mix science and political gain. When his findings are being used to harm humanity, he immigrates to the USA in 1933 in protest against Nazi racial politics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Naked Among Wolves
Overview: Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-04-10
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Пролог
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-12-03
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Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Overview: The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-05-07
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Chudotvornaya
Overview: Rodka Gulyaev is a pupil of the Gumniskii rural secondary school. He on the bank of the river digs out the darkened old icon, and his grandmother Avdotya, an overbearing and cunning old woman, dissolves a rumor that the icon is miraculous, and her granddaughter is a saint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-12-13
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The Rider with Lightning in His Hand
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-08-31
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The Dawns Here Are Quiet
Overview: In a remote village in Karelia, Sergeant Vaskov commands an anti-aircraft unit that protects a rail depot. While his men are transferred to the front line, he is reprimanded for their unruly behavior. He retorts that he wants replacements that aren't drunks or womanizers. In response, he is assigned a unit made up entirely of young women, fresh from training.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-06-06
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The Red and the White
Overview: In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-11-03
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Происшествие
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Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-05
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«Богатырь» идёт в Марто
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Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-10-25
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Peace to Him Who Enters
Overview: The time is World War II. Lidiya Shaporenko plays a pregnant German woman, trapped behind Russian lines. When the woman goes into labor, three loyal Soviets deliver her to a field hospital: a newly graduated officer, an affable truck driver, and a soldier shell-shocked into muteness. The dangerous trip to the hospital ends up a rite of passage for all concerned. The winner of a special gold medal at the Venice Film Festival, Peace to Him Who Enters was originally released in the USSR in 1961 under the title Mir Vkhodyashchemu.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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Hostile Whirlwinds
Overview: About the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky in 1918-1925. The film covers the most important episodes of his biography. In July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, the German ambassador Mirbach was killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky alone goes to the headquarters of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Anarchists, he manages to persuade ordinary soldiers and sailors, participants in the rebellion, who are now cracking down on their leaders. In 1921, Dzerzhinsky was aimed at combating homelessness, as a result of which, by 1925, former homeless children, having completed their studies, were sent to the construction of Yugostal, the largest industrial plant in Ukraine.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-02-19
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Strange People
Overview: A comedy based on three short novels by Vasiliy Shukshin.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-06-06
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A Story About a Simple Thing
Overview: In order to carry out subversive work, the Chekist remains in a city occupied by whites. To do this, he moves into the doctor's apartment a singer, a graduate of the conservatory, who was joyfully welcomed by the doctor's family, and then, after the arrival of the whites, introduces himself as the husband of this singer, a businessman Couturier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-06-24
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The Miners of Donetsk
Overview: A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-05-16
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A Man at His Place
Overview: A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-05-28
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Where Are You Now, Maxim?
Overview: A story of a young man who is returning to his home town after being evacuated as a boy during WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-06-14
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Sun Seekers
Overview: A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-26
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The Lesson of Life
Overview: On falling in love with Sergey, Natasha gives up studies at a pedagogical institute and accompanies him to a construction site. In a course of time she realizes that her husband is interested only in his work. She leaves him, graduates from the institute and works as a teacher. But Sergey is fired for authoritative style of work and Natasha realizes that she must be near to him in his hour of need.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-09-26
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Ordinary Wonder
Overview: In a romantic and philosophical tale of magic and love, a mischievous Sorcerer turns a bear into a young man. Unhappy in his new state, the former bear, with the help of the magician and his beautiful wife, is looking for a princess to kiss in order for his wish to be granted. Certain that all princesses are a vain, spoiled lot, he approaches the first one he sees. But the princess herself is gentle, kind and beautiful, and she and the young man fall in love with each other at the first sight. Unable to bring her pain, he runs away without explaining. As the Princess takes brave actions to find her beloved, new characters enter the story, including the King's ambitious Prime Minister and a hunter looking for a bear fur to complete his collection. How will this complicated plot be resolved?
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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Farewell
Overview: Spring, 1944. The Great Patriotic war. The German fascists are still in Sevastopol. A fierce combat is taking place there. At the same time in Yalta, which has already been freed, life goes on peacefully. People believe that the war has left them, that it is far away and no longer dangerous… But the torpedo motor-boat squadron stationed in Yalta is still having a hard time. Every day Soviet marines undertake dangerous sorties towards the German-occupied Sevastopol.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-12-06
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The End of Ataman
Overview: A Kazakh spy thriller: In 1921, at the height of the civil war, a Soviet officer is assigned to kill the ataman Dutov, a White collaborator. In order to get close to the ataman he infiltrates his gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Worker's Settlement
Overview: Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-04-25
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While the Mountains Still Stand...
Overview: The plot of the film, which tends more towards a psychological drama than a sports and adventure film, is based on a mountain climbing trip, where the essence of everyone will soon manifest itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-04-01
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Thirty-three
Overview: The dentist of the provincial town of Upper Yamki made an unexpected scientific discovery by finding the thirty-third tooth in the patient’s oral cavity, Ivan Sergeyevich Travkin. Travkin, exhausted from pain, was taken to Moscow. Ivan Sergeyevich first becomes a patient of a madhouse (thanks to envious persons), and then — a hero of a scientific international conference and, finally, a patient of a dentist professor Bruk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-04-22
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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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Heroes of Shipka
Overview: Heroes of Shipka was the first solo effort for Soviet director Sergei Vasilyev, who had previously collaborated with his late brother Georgi. As head of the Leningrad Film Studios, Vasilyev was obliged to traffic in propaganda, but he never forgot how to make his material entertaining. The film is set in 1887 during the pivotal battle between the Russians and the Turks at the Shipka Pass. Stressing the solidarity of the Soviet states, tribute is paid to the courageous Bulgarian volunteers who helped the Russians fend off their mutual enemy. American critics were impressed by Heroes of Shipka, but felt that the film would have been twice as effective had it been lensed in Cinemascope rather than "standard aspect."
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-11-09
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Everything Begins with Hitting the Road
Overview: On the eve of departure to the Siberian shock construction site, the famous builder and installer Stepan Bobkov throws his wife. However, on the train he meets Annushka, a young concrete worker who also travels to Siberia on a Komsomol ticket. Sympathy arises between the heroes, which is also reinforced by the coincidence of the so-called “production interests”.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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A Day and the Whole Life
Overview: A story about a woman who raised her son alone during the difficult war and post-war years. She lives with her memories and hopes and does not demand much from life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-05-25
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Hard Happiness
Overview: A young Gipsy boy is growing up in a Russian village during the Civil War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-10-27
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The Life and Ascension of Yuras Bratchik
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-02-01
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The Year 18th
Overview: Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-04-21
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While Defending the Front Line
Overview: Volkhov Front in 1942. The young political instructor of the counter-propaganda department of the headquarters of the division Rusanov is torn to the forefront. Together with an experienced warrior — captain Shaternikov — the hero gets to the forefront and transmits from the sound transmission programs addressed to German soldiers. And in the hours of calm passes several kilometers in order to see Katya, the signal woman of a neighboring sector of the front.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-05-31
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Наш общий друг
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-03-12
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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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Subject for a Short Story
Overview: The film tells about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. October 17, 1896. On the facade of the Alexandrinsky Theater — a poster about the premiere of "The Seagull". A few hours are left before the performance. Chekhov and his sister Masha are expecting Lika Mizinova from Moscow station to arrive from Moscow. Chekhov is alarmed by the upcoming premiere, excited by the meeting with love, which never took place. Memories of acquaintance with Lika, of the experiences caused by the rude scolding of newspaper men who predicted the young writer the inglorious "death under the fence", about the unexpected decision for everyone to go to Sakhalin...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-10-06
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Gloomy Morning
Overview: The third film in the trilogy ("The Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", "The Gloomy Morning") based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy "The Road to Calvary". About the fate of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the collapse of the Russian Empire and the civil war, which turned the lives of all the heroes of the film narration. Defending Tsaritsyn, the red commander Telegin was seriously wounded. At the hospital, he meets Dasha. After his recovery, the young spouses go together to the Red Army.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-04-26
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Jarosław Dąbrowski
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-26
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Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Overview: This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-10-21
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A Traveller with Luggage
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Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-08-29
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Russia's Heart
Overview: Reminiscing the 1917 Russian October Revolution, a time when the films' director was 14 years old.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Wedding Day
Overview: Mikhail and Nyura are getting ready for the wedding. Suddenly, Klava returns to the city, Mikhail’s first love...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-06-24
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Когда расходится туман
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Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-07-17
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They Have Met on the Way
Overview: Two young people from the country arrive to Leningrad hoping to get into university. She succeeds, and he fails but stays in the city to try again in the next year. She helps him but starts having troubles with her own studies...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-09-06
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Fathers and Sons
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-05-04
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The Song of Manshuk
Overview: The story of the hero of the Soviet Union, Manshuk Mametova, machine-gunner of the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rd shock army of the Kalinin Front, the guards sergeant in charge. The first woman awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery. The film recreates the past and shows a day of combat life Manshuk and her comrades, who took unequal battle with German tanks.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-12-20
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Russkiy Suvenir
Overview: The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thunderstorm and makes an emergency landing in the Baikal region. In addition to the Soviet citizen Varvara Komarova, all other passengers are foreigners. Using a stop, they explore new cities and get acquainted with the life, work and rest of Soviet people.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-06-27
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Motherland
Overview: A decade after having been reported missing, war veteran Vladimir goes back to his village. Now back home, he finally realizes how much his family and country mean to him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-05-05
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At the Beginning of the Century
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Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-04-21
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Ambush
Overview: A Kirghiz adventure film combining documentary and fictional elements.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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I Don't Want to Make You Wait
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-07-23
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My Son is Somewhere
Overview: An old fisherman spends his days waiting to hear from his son who left the village long time ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-11-11
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Steppe Roar
Overview: The film is dedicated to the events of the Civil War, the offensive of Denikin and Kolchak's troops on Uralsk, and the defense of the city. Historical facts are presented in it on a significant scale, through the personalities and fates of many characters, with a wide introduction of mass and battle scenes.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: kk
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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First Passengers
Overview: The hero of the film is one of the leaders of the construction of the first Tashkent metro in Central Asia, who proved himself not only a good specialist, but also a skilled organizer...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-06-24
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The Alive and the Dead
Overview: A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-06-06
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