Tamara Makarova
Also Known As: Тамара Макарова, Тамара Федоровна Макарова, Т. Макарова
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sankt Petersburg, Russian Empire
Adult: No
Birthday: August 12, 1907
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 18, 1997
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The Stone Flower
Overview: This remarkable film is based on P. Bazhov’s fairy tale “The Malachite Box”. Little Danila was the most inquisitive apprentice of old Prokopich, a famous stone-carving master. Years passed… Like his teacher, the grown-up Danila has learned to feel the soul of his material and became an expert in handling rare precious stones found in the Ural Mountains. One day he met the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, a fairy who ordered for herself an unusual stone flower.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-04-28
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First-Year Student
Overview: Marina Orlova couldn't even imagine how many adventures are expecting to her in a first grade...
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-03-22
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Daughters-Mothers
Overview: The young girl Olga Vasilyeva grew up in an orphanage. She never knew her mother and wants to find her. The only trace she has is a preserved letter from her mother from her personal file, which she managed to get from the administration of the orphanage. For a short vacation at her factory school, she travels from Sverdlovsk to Moscow following the unreliable traces of this letter. Yelena Alekseyevna — the woman she finds when she arrives at the address turns out to be a teacher in a ballet school, the wife of an ordinary senior teacher at the Moscow Technical Institute (who didn't defend his dissertation and is complacent about this) and an old-Moscow intellectual. She kindly meets her, but she is not the person Olga is looking for, she only has the same last name and first name and consonant middle name. She is kind and hospitable, ready to help the girl find her real mother and offers Olga to visit her house during a short stay in Moscow.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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The Young Guard
Overview: In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon during the Nazi occupation of Russia. The teens manage to outsmart the Nazis in their fight, and their activity lifts the spirits of the surviving citizens.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-10-11
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Story of a Real Man
Overview: Alexey Meresyev was a fighter pilot during the war. One day he was shot down by Nazis, and because of his wounds both of his legs had to be cut off up to his knees. Because of his spirit and courage, Alexey was able to overcome his disability. He learned not only to walk on his artificial limps, but even dance and fly the plane again. Based on a real-life story.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-10-21
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The Brave Seven
Overview: Six polar explorers arrives to a remote island in Arctic for a year-long scientific expedition. When their ship departs, they unpack only to find a young stowaway, who romanticized Arctic heroes, and tried to join them on multiple occasions finally succeeding. That's how six became seven. Life of polar explorers is tough, and full of danger. During one year they are largely isolated from the mainland, and should survive using their resourcefulness, smarts, knowledge, and existing supplies with occasional unreliable radio communications. The Seven are resilient, cheerful, they forged a true friendship. Now they are ready to face the unforgiving Arctic.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-03-04
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The Youth of Peter
Overview: The years of the tsar’s adolescence and youth were permeated with deadly danger coming from some of the Boyars, the rebellious Streltsy and Tsarevna Sophia who aspired for power. But already at that early time Peter demonstrates a profound, bright intellect, a strong will and the sense of purpose, which help him disarm both his open and secret enemies.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-03-02
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The Ural Front
Overview: August 1941. Residents of the Ural town escorted to the front of men. Left alone, women take on the most difficult cases, showing outstanding organizational skills and will. Together with the evacuated plant, refugees arrive in the town. The heroine of the Film Anna takes to her house a woman with children — her example is followed by the rest…
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-08-06
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The Great Dawn
Overview: In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1938-11-06
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Lev Tolstoy
Overview: The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. We shall hear “the voice of his thoughts”. In his sleepless nights, we shall follow his memory of the happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. We shall witness Tolstoy’s tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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The Memory of the Heart
Overview: The story of an English pilot who crashed in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, and whose life is saved by a woman and a boy - two partisans near the enemy lines, Long afterwards in England he remembers the Russians with affection, tells his friends about his experiences, and resolves to go back to find the two partisans his heart remembers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-05-26
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Masquerade
Overview: Taken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov's Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing whose bracelet it belongs to, she gives it to an ardent Calvary officer admirer at the ball. This leads to deeper and deeper incisions upon the urbane social body of Tsarist Russia. A drama of pride, marital distrust, gambling, infidelity and humiliation twirls around the decaying corpse of a perverted social class.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-09-16
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The Invincible
Overview: The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest possible time combat vehicles are tested directly on battlefields, fighting with fascists in the outskirts of the city. The first feature film about the heroic everyday life of city defenders was shot directly in assembly shops of plants and in the streets of Leningrad when the city was fighting against the enemy
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-01-21
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The Love of Mankind
Overview: A film about young architects who are building a new city in Siberia (Norilsk), their anxieties, concerns, and victories. Story of subtle psychology of love and personal happiness experienced men and women, behind the shoulders of which the pain of the past
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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The Vow
Overview: The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-07-29
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The Journalist
Overview: A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of responsibility to those whom he was obliged to protect...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-09-23
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The Country Doctor
Overview: A young woman is going to the village to start working as doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1952-01-12
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Komsomolsk
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-10-26
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Men and Beasts
Overview: The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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The New Teacher
Overview: A young teacher comes to work in his native village, plans to build a new school. The arrival of the teacher causes confusion in the soul of the young neighbor Agrafena Shumilina.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-12-10
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Do I Love You?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-04-19
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Conveyor of Death
Overview: Directed by Ivan Pyryev.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1933-11-06
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Road of Truth
Overview: An optimistic drama about an ordinary Moscow worker who, thanks to her integrity, intelligence and justice, won everyone’s trust and was elected as a people’s judge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-09-13
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Three Encounters
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-11-17
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Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Overview: A semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov. Includes newsreels from the 1930s, footage from films featuring Aleynikov and interviews with his closest friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-02-02
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Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-05-21
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VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Overview: The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-03-22
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