Vera Sotnikova
Also Known As: Vera Sotnykova, Vera Mikhaylovna Sotnikova, Vera Mikhailovna Sotnikova, Вера Михайловна Сотникова
Biography: Vera Mikhailovna Sotnikova is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, TV presenter. Repeatedly she starred in television movies and television series. She graduated from Moscow Theater Actor's School under Oleg Yefremov and became a notable Soviet actress appearing in more than 40 movie productions between 1983 and 2008. She was involved with a Soviet rocker Vladimir Kuzmin for 7 years, producing a number of video clips for him. She is currently working in various theatres in Russia and is quite active in the movie business as well. She is a virtual unknown in the West, however, since all her movie and television work targeted Russian audiences.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Volgograd, Russia]
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Courier
Overview: Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and works as a courier at a Russian newspaper. Through his job, he meets patronizing Professor Kuznetzov and his rebellious daughter Katya. To annoy the professor, Ivan claims to have an affair with Katya. To his surprise, Katya backs his story up.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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Klinika
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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Tango of Love
Overview: Katya and her husband Alexey had a quiet normal life until the picture of Katya suddenly made a magazine front cover.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-03-08
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First Express
Overview: New Year's Eve 2006. Our days, the place is a certain town, where famous artists are brought by chance. The film is based on sketches from popular films.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Tevye the Milkman
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Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-12-31
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Drums of Fire
Overview: In 1568, Saadi prince Abdelmalek is exiled from Morocco by his brothers, an event that is only the beginning of his adventures: fighting the Spanish Inquisition, taking part in the Battle of Lepanto, being incarcerated in Alicante prison, and assist in the Conquest of Tunis. Eventually, he returns to Morocco to fulfill his destiny.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Screw
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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A Chivalrous Romance
Overview: The action of the movie is set in the late 11th century Constantinople during the time of the 1st Crusade. The crusaders need the help of the emperor Alexius to get to Jerusalem while the latter tries to do his best to get rid of the unwelcome guests. At the same time Caesar Nicephorus plays his own game and betrays his royal fiancée Anna Comnena while trying to win the heart of the beautiful countess Brigitta.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-03-06
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Plead Guilty
Overview: Criminal Investigation Officer Sergei Voronin takes his position by vocation. He created a club of young friends of the police, in which the guys go in for sports and meet interesting people. But he is worried about the company of guys who fell under the influence of a cynical high school student Nikolai Boyko, who "confuses robbery with prank."
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-04-02
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Breakfast with a View to the Elbrus Mountains
Overview: After a painful break up a journalist is traveling to the Elbrus mountains where he meets another woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-08-17
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Ten Years Without Right to Write Letters
Overview: After the war, the hero of the film comes to Moscow to take revenge on the scammer, through whose fault his father died in the 37th. He carries out his sentence and is ready to answer for it according to the law. His girlfriend becomes an involuntary participant in the drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Hunting for a Pimp
Overview: Двое приятелей Вова и Боб ограбили квартиру Нины - любовницы директора рынка. Всю вину молодчики свалили на бывшего любовника и сутенера Нины Стаса Шапкина. Шеф не стал впутывать в эту историю милицию, он поручил заняться этим делом своим людям. Бандиты пытают Стаса, требуют отдать пропавшую сумму. В конце концов, бедняге приходится занять деньги у всех своих проституток и отдать вымогателям.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-04-07
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Maritza
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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I want to go to America
Overview: The spicy story of a modest Russian guy drawn into the incessant sexual marathon by the will of rival intelligence agencies. The victims of such an incredible love contest are charming ladies - from an opera singer to an overseas prostitute - and even the wife of an intelligence general. However, the love that has happened violates the plans of the rival intelligence agencies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Právo na minulosť
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 1989-10-23
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The End of Eternity
Overview: Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and Boris Ivanov.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-06-18
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Love Songs
Overview: Russian remake of a famous French movie.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-09-09
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The Most Charming and Attractive
Overview: Nadya Klyueva is a single woman. Persuaded by her friend, she decides to charm her co-worker whom she doesn't really love, but who is the most popular man around.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-11-10
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Gu-Ga
Overview: A story about the soldiers of Soviet punishment battalion during WWII. Month of service in a punishment battalion was equated to ten years in prison...
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-08-23
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Attention, All Posts!
Overview: A former army paratrooper starts working in the police and almost immediately is forced to fight a dangerous criminal.
Genres: Mystery Action Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-08-26
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Black Sea 213
Overview: Mercenaries selling nuclear arms on the black market pose as models so they can set up an innocent photographer to take the blame.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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State Border: Vol. 6. Beyond the Threshold of Victory
Overview: In the border zone of the Soviet-Polish state border, gangs of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists operated. Captain Olkhovik was given the task of infiltrating the OUN gang.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-05-27
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State Border: Vol. 5. Year Forty-One
Overview: About the heroism of the border guards who took upon themselves the full brunt of the blow of the Nazi hordes on the first day of the Great Patriotic War.
Genres: War Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-05-28
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