Zinoviy Gerdt
Also Known As: Zinovi Gerdt, Залман Храпинович, Zalman Hrapinovich, Zalman Khrapinovich, З. Гердт
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sebezh, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Pskov Oblast, Russia]
Adult: No
Birthday: September 08, 1916
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 18, 1996
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Costume Designer
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-11-21
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The Wizard of Oz
Overview: A cartoon about a girl, Ellie, of her little dog Totoshka, who, because of the evil Gingema, ended up in the Magic Country, where incredible adventures awaited them.
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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Where Are You, Blue Cinderella?
Overview: One day, an unusual doll appeared among the toys - a blue Cinderella. Everyone treated her with suspicion and considered her an impostor. However, what happiness it is when something unusual and special comes to you.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
Overview: The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will eventually be defeated by the nobility, loyalty and love.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Wonders
Overview: An animated film for children about how a Clown and the guys argued about who is the bigger inventor and entertainer.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-03-11
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The Straw Hat
Overview: A musical comedy based on the classic play by Eugène Labiche.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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Without Family
Overview: A story about an orphan boy, abandoned by his family. He was raised by his kind adopted mother, and was sold by his adopted father in hardship to a traveling man who eventually, became his teacher and a father-figure. With his teacher, he learned to play music and perform on the street with 3 intelligent dogs and a monkey. He traveled through the towns of France, and through life twist and turn, eventually, lead to the ultimate search for his real family.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-06-06
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My Dearly Beloved Detective
Overview: The conceit is that Sherlock Holmes is, as in reality, a fictional creation of Arthur Conan Doyle, but that the place where his office would be is maintained by the brilliant detective Shirley Holmes, who both solves crimes and maintains a museum for people who think Sherlock Holmes is real -- accompanied by a phonograph playing music from the Livanov series which had not long ended. She is accompanied, as might be expected, by a woman Watson, and must fight off the affections of both a Scotland Yard inspector an a parody Latin lover from Spain.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-11-03
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The Golden Calf
Overview: A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-07-08
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The Drayman and the King
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-06-06
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Three Men in a Boat
Overview: Three London gentlemen take vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Overview: Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-11-11
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Seven Babysitters
Overview: A factory crew of seven young people is taking responsibility of a young criminal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-08-04
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And Then Came Bumbo...
Overview: A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-12-06
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Intergirl
Overview: A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl" — a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-01-21
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Adventures of Captain Vrungel
Overview: An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-03-24
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Mary Poppins, Goodbye
Overview: A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers.
Genres: Family Fantasy Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-06
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Tough Kids
Overview: A former athlete runs a camp dedicated to reforming juvenile criminals, a tough job with no quick payoffs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-11-05
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Overview: A sadly humorous story about a Siberian tractor driver, Ivan Rastorguyev, traveling with his wife to a Black Sea resort, and about their first visit to Moscow.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-04-02
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The Story of One Billiard-Room
Overview: The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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Taming of the Fire
Overview: About Russian space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-04-12
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Taimyr Calls You
Overview: A few hotel guests are constantly getting into various funny situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-03
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Kings of Crime
Overview: This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetoric, deaths of innocent people.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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Art of Living in Odessa
Overview: The plot of the movie is based on books of Isaak Babel about Jewish criminals in city of Odessa before and after the Russian revolution.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-07-02
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Lost in Siberia
Overview: The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-04-08
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Practical Joke
Overview: At high school, some pupils decide to play a 'practical joke' on their teacher. On the day of midterm exam all of them say they she had told them the wrong date for the exam. She almost believed them, but then asked a girl known for her honesty and the girl could not lie. As a result everyone in the class gets an F for that midterm. That's a real problem for some of them - with an F they cannot have perfect GPA and will not enter prestige Universities. They want revenge...
Genres: Family Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-01-10
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Doctor Aybolit
Overview: A funny comedy about doctor Aybolit and his assistants and patients - all animals.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit, Across the Wild Land, Through the Dark Forest, Beyond the Misty Mountains. There and Back Again
Overview: The Author, i.e. J. R. R. Tolkien himself (played by Zinovij Gerdt), tells "his" story: the life of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and enjoyable hobbit, is turned upside down when he decides to join the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves in an attempt to regain a treasure stolen from the latter. [Soviet television movie adaptation of "The Hobbit"]
Genres: Adventure Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-12-31
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A Step from the Roof
Overview: Funny adventures of fifth-grader Vitka Paramonov across different times and places.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-08-31
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Zinoviy Gerdt. Zyama
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1996-01-21
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Urban Romance
Overview: A young student Masha and doctor Zhenya found each other in the city. But their way to love was not so easy...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-06-06
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Sport, Sport, Sport
Overview: A half-fiction half-documentary story about sport and it's importance in everyday life.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-06
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Sitting on the Golden Porch
Overview: Two kings: Fedot and Amphibrachiy have been adjoining peacefully for many years. But once Amphibrachiy disappeared, and it became difficult for queen to cope with affairs. The state began to fall into decay. Also daughter Alyona absolutely got out of control. So mother decided to marry her. The king Fedot had three sons: Paul-tsarevitch, Peter-tsarevitch and Ivan-tsarevitch, whom everybody considered to be a fool. But he managed to gain Alyona's heart and, having won Kashchei the Immortal, set free the king Amphibrachiy.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-12-30
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The Key That Should Not Be Handed On
Overview: AKirill Sergeyevich, a retired Army officer, becomes the new school Headmaster. Used to a strict and orderly routine, he at first finds the chaotic bustle of everyday school life hard... It is not easy to deal with both the children and the teachers, especially with the students' favorite Marina Maximovna who teaches Literature. Well then, wasn't Marina surprised to discover the "martinet" Nazarov to be a perceptive and tactful person and an experienced tutor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-05-10
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The City of Masters
Overview: After their town is occupied the citizens are trying to fight the enemy. Based on Tamara Gabbe fairy tale.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-12-12
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Car, Violin and Blot the Dog
Overview: A fantasy story about five-grades - musician and engineer, their friend - the most beautiful girl in the world, her brother who dreams to turn all cats into monkeys, his dog Klyaksa and a lot more stuff…
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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The Divine Comedy
Overview: God created Adam and Eve and placed them in Paradise. They lived well in Paradise, but that was boring. All birds, bees have children, but they do not, because they are sinless. So, they ate the forbidden apple, and God expelled them from Paradise. What if Adam and Eve had not tasted the forbidden fruit, if they had been afraid of God’s wrath?!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-03-27
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Yurka, the Pantsless Team
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Piggy Bank
Overview: A musical screen comedy based on the French play La Cagnotte (The Piggy Bank in English) by Eugène Marin Labiche. A group of provincial Bourgeois decide to spend savings they accumulated for a year of playing cards together on a memorable deed. After humorous strategizing and alliance forming, Leonida, the unmarried sister and Blanche, the engaged daughter, of Monsieur Champbourcy, entice the group to spend the money on what they imagine a luxurious journey to a capital city. A very memorable event indeed it was.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Labyrinth
Overview: Police are detaining an opposition newspaper journalist on suspicion of murder. The prosecution's evidence is scanty and fragile. But a dirty political fuss has developed around this case. The fate and life of a person become the stake in the struggle for power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Adam Marries Eve
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Moomintroll and the Comet: The Way Home
Overview: Stop motion animation. Part 3 in a series. A comet is on a collision course with Earth. The oceans have dried up, and Moomintroll and friends need to make their way through raging sandstorms to get home to their parents.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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Moomintroll and the Comet
Overview: Stop-motion animation. A comet is hurtling towards Earth. Moomintroll and friends travel to a mountaintop observatory to investigate.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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War-Time Romance
Overview: This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-11-07
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Stories... Stories... Stories from the Old Arbat
Overview: Based on a play of the same name by Aleksei Arbuzov.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Ivan & Abraham
Overview: In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying together, they demonstrate their inseparability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-26
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Obstacle Course
Overview: After a demobilization Vladimir starts working in a little porcelain shop as a repairer - but soon gets involved in criminal activity - so he desperately needs help from army friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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My Wife Became a Grandmother
Overview: A middle-aged literature teacher who devotes his free time to poetry is used to being the center of admiration for his family, especially his wife. One day, however, a grandchild arrives at the house, who immediately grabs the full attention of all those around him. The fresh grandfather turns out to be excluded and decides to leave the house, confident that it will restore him to his former position. This is followed by a day full of surprising encounters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1977-07-25
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Mother For Baby Mammoth
Overview: Baby Mammoth is looking for his Mom.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-06-01
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A Trip to Wiesbaden
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-06-01
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Simple - Minded
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Genres: Music Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-06-09
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Break!
Overview: This cartoon is directed against the brutality of professional Boxing. In parody form it ridiculed unworthy methods and means used to achieve victory.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-08-07
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Taming the Bicycle
Overview: Based on the short story of the same name by Mark Twain.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-03-11
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Story of One Crime
Overview: The story about an everyman who one morning suddenly leaps out on the courtyard and bludgeons two conversing housewives to death with a frying pan.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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Donkey's Hide
Overview: At the festivities marking the christening of princess Theresa, daughter of King Gaston IX, a wicked fairy made a mysterious prophecy about the girl's life. Seventeen years later, Theresa falls in love with a poor prince named Jacques. Then the prophecy starts coming true...
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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In the Thirteenth Hour of the Night
Overview: Various dwellers of the Russian forest: Leshiy (forest goblin), Vodyanoy (water spirit), Ovinni (barn spirit) Domovoy (house spirit), Anchutka (gremlin) and Rusalka (mermaid) meet at Baba Yaga's chicken-legged hut and receive an esteemed guest who appears from nowhere. They gather around one table to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new, that is until the guest grows bored with their antics and seeks fun elsewhere.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Tyoma's Childhood
Overview: A story about an adolescent years of Tyoma - a young boy from Russian countryside...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-03-02
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The Magician
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-03-18
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Wind Over the City
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-11-16
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Roll over Your Head
Overview: Heroes of this movie are cat, dog, two birds, snake and also ten years old girl named Anya...
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-12-14
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Salty Dog
Overview: A dog survives a bad master and finds a good one - a sailor from a Soviet ship.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-12-23
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The Grey Robber
Overview: A Soviet Union film from 1957.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-01-25
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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Overview: Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-20
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The Nightingale
Overview: Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes are integrated in this marvelous Russian adaptation by fairytale master Nadezhda Kosheverova.
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-06-01
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I'll Wait for You
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Genres: War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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The Wife Has Left
Overview: He considered his family life perfect. Normal, and sometimes big wages quite satisfied a beautiful and gentle wife. The child didn't cause much trouble. All that was needed for his happiness was available. But the wife is gone. She left not to another, but left, so as not to be unhappy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-04-01
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Especially dangerous
Overview: One of the southern cities of Russia during the NEP. The famous doctor and his wife are killed, the person living opposite Schwartz is kidnapped. The bandits were looking for gold. Then there is a diversion at the factory. The Chekists find out that a man is implicated in everything, posing as a businessman Bespaly, he is Lieutenant Voronov, aka “Chaly” - the leader of the gang. With the selfless efforts of the operatives, the gang manages to neutralize.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-06-04
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An Unusual Concert
Overview: An unusual concert is a puppet show that makes fun of pop genres, performers who spoil these genres due to poor performance and poor taste.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-09-27
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Strange Adults
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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Moomintroll and the others
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-01-31
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About a Puppy
Overview: The puppy learns from animals and birds why you need to bite.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-02-08
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Black Chicken
Overview: Kind boy Alyosha saves a black hen from a bird of prey. The black chicken takes on a human form and takes Alyosha to a magical underground kingdom.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-03-11
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Avdotya Pavlovna
Overview: The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediately convinced of the anti-science of the official Lysenkov direction in biology. But making sure leaving the farm as an ordinary agriculturist, where he works on breeding new wheat varieties on the basis of the persecuted Lysenkova chromosome theory of heredity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-03-07
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Meeting at high snows
Overview: Juma Saidov fault of the rich Appanbay got to prison. Years later he returned to his native place and took part in the fight against robber bands. Suddenly it became clear that the leader of the gang Hudayberdi his son, born while Juma was in prison, and brought up Appanbay.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-02-05
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Cousin Pons
Overview: The lack of spirituality and the limitations of the “respectable” bourgeois turn the values of art into a means of profit, into an object of vanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-01-28
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Орех Кракатук
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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A Zebra Was Stolen
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-30
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Ten
Overview: The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king. But unlike many “suitors”, selfish thoughts are alien to Christian-Theodore. He is sincerely fascinated by her beauty and releases his Shadow, hoping to get a faithful helper in his quest to marry the Princess. But the Shadow is the embodiment of egoism, greed and meanness. Quickly betraying the scholar, he marries the Princess himself and takes the royal throne.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-09-18
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Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Overview: During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalist, and his friends came to the USSR to make a report and find Boris in the meantime. In Moscow he doesn't found, and for the sake of meeting with a friend, Garros has to travel around the country by car... The foreigners are accompanied by Nikolai, the translator, who, in turn, is looking for his brother's runaway bride, Natasha.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-01-13
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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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The Man from Planet Earth
Overview: Biographical film story about the first Russian space explorer, inventor scientist, rocket-maker K. E. Tsiolkovsky.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-01-16
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I Am Returning Your Portrait
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Cheers, My Dear!
Overview: Four novels "Dinner", "Secret", "business Trip" and "Mozart", United by a common theme of kindness and attention to the surrounding people, tell about the adventures of two elderly, but not lost the taste for life of Georgians!
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1981-12-30
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If You Want - Believe It, If You Want - Don't
Overview: Roman Kurykin, an amateur jazzman and the owner of an absolute ear for music, cannot reconcile himself to the idea that his son Edik does not show any interest in music. The dejected father, in desperation, suspected that the child could have been replaced in the maternity hospital by mistake. He got the addresses of two families where the sons were born at the same time as the younger Kurykin. Kurykin reports his suspicions to two other fathers, Shulgin and Sazonov. In secret from their wives, husbands begin their investigation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Улица Ньютона, дом 1
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-10-21
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Olympians
Overview: This is a somewhat ironic, but very informative story about the origin, development and decline of the Greek Olympiad tradition, set out with the help of an off-screen commentary read by Z. Gerdt. Ancient history is described in great detail and exciting. In the graphic decision, artists were guided by the ancient Greek monuments, first of all - vase paintings, stylized for them and characters, and decorations, up to imitation cracks. In the film there are a lot of full-scale shots, and in particular it is interesting to frame the photographs of the bas-reliefs of the Pergamon altar shot by Yuriy Norshtein. The film ends with documentary shots of the opening of the Olympics-80 in Moscow.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-02-09
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Returned Music
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-04-20
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Ревизор
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1996-10-08
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King Lear
Overview: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-12-15
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Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
Overview: The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov…
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-08-19
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July Rain
Overview: Lena, a woman in her late twenties, loves her boyfriend, but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-08-07
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Война окончена. Забудьте...
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Monday is A Normal Day
Overview: Follows the usual working day of the chairman of the city Executive Committee Ramaz Pavlovich Avaliani. Different people come to his office with different goals, and he tries to help everyone, understand all requests, and resolve all disputes.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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50 Years of Sergei Obraztsov's Puppet Theater
Overview: Anniversary evening dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the founding of the State Academic Puppet Theater under the direction of S.Obraztsov and the 80th anniversary of Sergei Obraztsov.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-09-01
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The Manuscript
Overview: The year is 1949. One of the last outbreaks of Stalinist terror was a bloody buffoonery under the auspices of the fight against cosmopolitanism. In the Writers' House near Moscow, where a young writer finishes her story about her husband's arrest and death, there is a painful atmosphere of fear, suspicion, suspiciousness and foreboding that can drive you crazy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-05-01
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The Life of Beethoven
Overview: A biographical film about the life and work of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-05-08
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A Place Under the Sun
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Genres: Family Romance
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1975-09-28
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Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Deniska-Denis
Overview: About the behavior of a three-year-old child in the family - for 20 days, the film crew observed the process of learning about the world around the baby. The film was shot with a hidden camera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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