Ivars Kalnins
Also Known As: Ивар Калныньш, Ивар Калнынш, Ivars Kalniņš
Biography: His father worked as a car mechanic, his mother maintained a household. Parents wanted his son to choose a reliable male profession, and from about the age of 14 Ivar began to combine his studies with work. Mastered the plumbing, then the repair of computer equipment. In 1974 he graduated from the Theatrical Department of the Latvian Conservatory. Vitola. After graduating from the conservatory, Ivar Kalnins settled in the Art Academic Theater named after Rainis. Theatrical salaries were insignificant, and Ivar was supposed to feed his family — his wife and two daughters. In the end, I had to remember youth and pick up a guitar. Currently, at home in Latvia, Ivar Kalnins plays in two theaters in Riga: the Small and the New. The Latvian cinema, which showed the world more than one masterpiece, you just need to remember. But Russian viewers can enjoy the new work of the actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]
Adult: No
Birthday: August 01, 1948
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Male
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Known For:
White Dance
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Идущий следом
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-03-01
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Избранник судьбы
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Софья Ковалевская
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Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-03-12
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Ночь вопросов
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Soul
Overview: A famous singer is going through the dark period of her life...
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-06-06
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The Arrows of Robin Hood
Overview: With a traditional archery contest, the winner wins a silver arrow with gold lace and gold feathers. Even Robin Hood, although unrecognizable, takes part in this competition. As more and more participants are losing and Robin Hood eventually wins the award, his masquerade reveals. For none of the participants is as handy with a bow and an arrow like Robin Hood. With the help of his coolness and his friends Robin Hood may escape the dangerous situation.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-10-04
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Mirror Wars: Reflection One
Overview: Mirror Wars: Reflection One is a post-cold-war thriller from the Russian point of view. Bad-guy British arms dealer Murdock (Malcolm McDowell) and numerous mercenaries and clandestine agents tries to steal a new Russian stealth fighter. Murdock is foiled by the hero, a patriotic Russian fighter-jet pilot who was recently branded a potential traitor because of his romantic fling with an alleged American ecologist. She was actually a shadowy intelligence operative before her untimely assassination in her lover's arms.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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Siwa legenda
Overview: Two noblemen from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania clash because one refuses to free his servant - a girl. The second joins a peasant revolt and takes over the castle.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-09-03
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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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Unfinnished Dinner
Overview: In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests . Case is lead by Criminal Investigation Officer Pierre Monson with his assistants. Suspect can be easily intercepted if only miserably lazy police officers Kvant and Kristiansson instead of catching criminal would not argue with father of little 3 years old boy who yelled: "Police, police, mashed potatoes" when they ate hot dogs. Help comes from capital in form of the famous Commissioner Martin Beck, who discovers that murdered industrialist was involved in illegal activities and had many enemies. The case is linked as well with government's "higher ends".
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1979-09-08
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A Show for a Single Man
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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Silva
Overview: Silva Varescu, a self-sufficient and professionally successful cabaret performer from Budapest, is about to embark on a tour of America. Three of her aristocratic admirers, named Edwin, Feri and Boni, prefer her to stay. Edwin, unaware that his parents have already arranged a marriage for him back home in Vienna, orders a notary to prepare a promissory note of his expected marriage to Silva within ten weeks.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-09-01
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Winter Cherries
Overview: Olga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-10-21
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Entrance to Labyrinth
Overview: The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-05-01
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The Duel of Kings
Overview: When the leader of a brutal criminal community violates the rules of historical regulations for 15 years, a hostile chess player hits through a dozen bodyguards and begins a fight to restore justice.
Genres: Action
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Тайна виллы
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Удар Лотоса 3: Загадка Сфинкса
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Genres: Action Crime Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Cry of a Dolphin
Overview: The crew of the new American strategic missile submarine "Archelon" is struck by an unknown virus. The command must decide on removing the submarine from combat duty and sending the crew to quarantine.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-04-13
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Rabid Bus
Overview: Action drama about a terrorists who kidnapped bus full of children in USSR.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-06-15
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Theatre
Overview: Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-10-15
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European Story
Overview: Two candidates are vying for the post of mayor of one of the major Western European cities - the Social Democrat Dr. Hayden and the "free nationalist" Alden. On the eve of the election, an independent journalist receives documents confirming Alden's connection with the secret services. He becomes the object of blackmail, but does not change his intentions to expose Alden.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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Inspector Goole
Overview: Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have contributed to the recent suicide of an impoverished young woman.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-09-13
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Gifts over the Phone
Overview: After the train conductor Pētersons receives money transfer from an unknown source, he suspects foul play involving the cargo he's transporting. He decides to do his own investigation into the matter, not realizing that he's putting himself and those around him in danger.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-08-14
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The Enticement of Don Juan
Overview: Based on Lesya Ukrainka's drama "The Stone Master". Without the permission of the king, in Seville, under the pretext of meeting his fiancée Dolores, returns the disgraced Don Juan, a thunderstorm of husbands and grooms. The loveable protagonist gained fame as a ladies man and a wild tempest of female reputations. But for Don Juan there are no barriers to the desired goal. This time he laid eyes on the lovely Donna Anna. Obsessed with a passion for her, the hero protects her ancestral castle from the Portuguese invading the country ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-02-06
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The Secret of Gretha Villa
Overview: Members of the Shield and Helmet Masonic Lodge, sent by the CIA, are preparing a coup in one of the western countries. The criminal chronicle reporter manages to infiltrate the headquarters of the conspirators. The information he produces will play a decisive role in preventing the putsch. However, the successful journalist soon became convinced that he had discovered only the tip of the iceberg...
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-04-23
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Faithful Friend Sancho
Overview: Ten year old Sancho arrives to Leningrad and starts looking for friends.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1974-11-26
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Apple in the River
Overview: A feature shot as a documentary, with minimal interference in the surrounding action. The resulting film is a truthful and innocent portrayal of the era with no imitations or conscious borrowings but with its own avant-garde experiments.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1974-01-03
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Do Not Shoot at White Swans
Overview: Egor Polushkin (Stanislav Lyubshin) is a kind-hearted, nature loving, artistic family man who is living in a small village. To his neighbors and even his wife (Nina Ruslanova) he is a walking disaster, so they frown at him and call him Bedonosec (engl. misfortune bearer). Only Egors son (Viktor Anisimov) shares his enthusiasm for the beautiful things of live. As Egor becomes the new forest ranger, this new position brings him not only joy, but it is also the source of great suffering to come, as his fondness for the living nature and especially the newly acquired white swans is in conflict with the interests of others...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-06-11
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The Mills of Fate
Overview: Melodramatic movie with colorful elements of comedy and songs that have deeply rooted in the Latvian folklore. Love triangle - terminally ill university teacher, blind girl and young bard. In the background - wild arrival of the capitalism, political conflicts, city life and beautiful nature of Latvia. In the end love conquers everything though not everybody lives to witness that.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1997-11-21
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Year of the Horse - Constellation Scorpio
Overview: In the past, the famous circus rider Maria learns that her favorite horse Senator, with whom she spoke, want to send to the slaughter. Then Mary decides to take a risky step and steals the horse from the circus.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-04-08
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Incident at Map-Grid 36-80
Overview: Russian naval pilots risk death to help stop a American Submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-07
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Right to Jump
Overview: The hero of the film, the world record holder in the high jump, after a car accident according to the conclusion of doctors, should forever leave the sport. But against all odds, he is doing everything possible to return to the national team. Chance brings him together with a surgeon, also fanatically devoted to his work - and the hero again wins international competitions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-04-30
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Peterss
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1973-05-21
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Two Under One Umbrella
Overview: Juggler Dan is beautiful and carefree and not too eager to become the circus main star. However, the meeting with Olga, who has no doubts about his talent, makes Dan think about a creation of anew circus show.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-20
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Short Waves
Overview: Five novels about a radio network in our life. Someone use it as a tool for influence, someone for an expression of feelings and someone just for cynical calculation.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-04-11
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The Photo of a Woman with a Boar
Overview: The 1980s. Kārlis did his military service in Afghanistan and is now confined to a wheelchair. Before he left, he had fallen in love with the teacher Judīte, but she has now married a rich man...and poses nude for Kārlis' neighbour, the cynical photographer Rūdofs. Soon Rūdolfs is found dead, and Kārlis admits to having murdered him. But investigator Konrāds suspects that Kārlis is incriminating himself.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1987-07-12
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Under the Upturned Moon
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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The Price of Head
Overview: Commissioner Maigret's new case. At the rate of his further service in the police.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1992-10-15
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Загадки Рихарда Зорге
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Genres: Documentary War History TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-11-06
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Рэкет
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Skydrivers
Overview: At the flying club Zina met a cameraman aerial filming Sergey Leninym, very seriously engaged in parachuting and after a while in international competitions has become one of the contenders for the gold medal. But soon fell into the gorge, the helicopter in which there was Sergey. And then Zina firmly decided to leave the sport…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-12-01
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Fairfax's Millions
Overview: As the classic rightly noted, it is customary to treat the diseases of wealthy people with respect. Only a heart transplant can save the dying life of a millionaire Ferfax. In search of a suitable donor for his best client, Dr. Jones makes a series of killings. But he still does not know what reward awaits him for the services rendered ...
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-07-13
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Golden heaven
Overview: Dasha’s whole life is one big love. Love for the only daughter with the strange name of Iya. “The name is from only vowels - and there will be no core in the character” - warned Dasha ... The heroine remembered these words when one day Iya simply left her mother. Gone from poverty and problems in a new beautiful life. Gone behind the golden skies from her children's drawing ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-08-14
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I Don't Guarantee Personal Safety
Overview: In March 1946, Andrei Bologov, a graduate of the Leningrad Party School, arrived in one of the western regions of the country to build a peaceful life on earth, where unfinished fascist gangs continued to rage. Andrei was given the task of organizing the removal of harvested wood from distant plots, but barely left the claws of the "forest brothers" of Krakowski. The trainee from the party school and the local chairman of the village council, together with the residents, had to fight one of the many fascist detachments, consisting of traitors, deserters and ideological fighters against the Soviet regime ...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-09-14
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The Aunties
Overview: The action of the story takes place around the Christmas time, when, as usually, the most unbelievable miracles come to life. The story starts with Masha - future doctor and meanwhile an eager student of medical university, her best friend Lilka - a colorful and charismatic young lady who is always in search of man of her life, and Masha's grandfather, Andrei Ivanovich, who is her only relative - a kind but deeply sad amateur painter. The heroes live their ordinary lifes with their worries and laughs until at Christmas Eve they receive a phone call... Three Aunties, who named them self as distant relatives, announce their arrival within an hour. With their arrival the story becomes dashing and somehow magical.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-01-09
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Капитан Фракасс
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Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-03-22
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The Mystery of the Old Parish House
Overview: In this movie (based on a true story) within a movie, a director tries to film the tale of an old KGB activist living in a parish house. In the summer of 1941 the activist tortured and killed Latvians in the cellar of the house. Although the old man hires others to brick over the cellar door, the murdered people keep coming through the stones and never leave him in peace. Unbeknownst to the film makers, the "real" KGB activist, now an aged drunk, is milling about the film set. Moreover, the director and lead actor are competing for the love of the lead actress, and the film's producer wants the director to re-shoot parts of the movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2000-07-11
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Ilga-Ivolga
Overview: The wounded Russian soldier Fyodor, risking his life, was sheltered on a Latvian farm by his grandfather and granddaughter. Ilga fell in love with him, but the war separated them. Fedor went to the partisans, and Ilga is killed by the Nazis. Only many years later Fedor came again. Here he meets a young woman very similar to Ilga.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1974-05-10
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Virgins of Riga
Overview: An easy-going, Blue-eyed Norwegian businessman seeking fame and fortune in the post-cold-war Riga. His involvment with a beautiful young Latvian girl, get's him tangled into obscure business with the mafia, the Russian fleet and the 'Sons of Norway'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1996-05-26
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Hide-and-seek
Overview: A young woman, Regina, has been killed in her apartment. Investigator Anderson holds Regina’s husband as a suspect for a murder because he is unable to remember his location at the time of the fateful event. Gradually, Anderson is convinced that Oto has not only killed his wife, but he also tries to hide his true identity – notorious criminal Schmit.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Investigation of Related Events
Overview: The movie shows a young man's life dramatically changed after his friend is murdered. It is ironic - if to look with today's eyes - and nostalgia evoking portrait of marginal society and environment in the early 1990s with allusions to the western cinema - film noir related themes, surrealistic features, avantgard cinema stylization and formal aesthetics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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Male Games in the Open Air
Overview: Relations of two sportsmen who often forget that they are not the only ones in the stadium.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1978-07-13
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Early Rust
Overview: Poor countryside girl Elza has been unsuccessfully looking for a job in Riga before she gets help from an acquantance. After that, fortune seems to turn and rich aged factory owner Ķikulis wants to marry Elza. Reluctant at first, she finally agrees but the marriage doesn't go smoothly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1980-11-17
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Raspberry Wine
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Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1984-12-02
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Secrets of the De Granshan Family
Overview: A story of love, jealousy and betrayal. But always, even under fatal circumstances, nobility will find its way to the light. Gertrude, a former governess, marries the count and cheats on him. She has long been in love with the count's business manager and hopes to marry him eventually. But her stepdaughter is growing up...
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1993-07-11
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Maritime Climates
Overview: The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power hadn’t got worried by the rushes they saw, which lead them to terminate the production. In 1992, Rolands Kalniņš made this edit of the remaining material – an elegy to lost hopes and illusions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Королева льда
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-06-04
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