Svetlana Kryuchkova
Also Known As: Svetlana Kryuchkova, Светлана Крючкова, Світлана Крючкова
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kishinyov, Moldavian SSR, USSR
Birthday: June 22, 1950
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Amazon
Overview: The city philistine Domna Platonovna-a merchant of lace, and sometimes... and "live goods" - is engaged in pimping. Fate confronts her with a young intelligent woman-a noblewoman, a colonel, Lekanida Petrovna, whose difficult life trials led to a moral decline. Domna Platonovna tells her tragic story with imperturbable calmness, presenting her own unseemly actions that push the unfortunate woman as the greatest benefits rendered to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-09-09
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Пошехонская старина
Overview: The film consists of three short stories: 'The Unhappy Matryonka', 'Brother Fedos' and 'Vanka-Cain'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Burn, Burn Bright
Overview: Match factory repairman Parfen Loktionov is offered to become a shift foreman. The new position, on the one hand, is associated with increased responsibility, and on the other, with less earnings (the salary is “ten” less). The mother-in-law and wife insist that Parfen, usually submissive to them, refuse the offer made to him. But this time he rebels against domestic tyranny...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-10-11
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First Floor
Overview: Although he is only eighteen, twenty-year-old Nadia permits Sergei to move into her apartment and share her bed. However, his callowness swiftly bores her, and she is unable to hide her increasing disdain for him. Understandably, this is a matter of some distress for him. Her contempt is more difficult for him to bear than she suspects, and one day he is provoked to murder her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Restless
Overview: The old choirmaster Vetlugin falls in love with the young Vera, the owner of a wonderful soprano. Having long dreamed of his choir performing Vivaldi's "Gloria", Vetlugin invites the girl to the leading part.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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Тоталитарный роман
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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It Can't Be!
Overview: The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-10-23
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Scarecrow
Overview: A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when they were bunking off and going to cinema instead of a literature lesson. The class is penalized for that, not being allowed to go to Moscow for fall holidays with the rest of the school. Lena is being ostracized, "boycotted" however not telling the truth, waiting that the boy himself would confess to be guilty.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-09-14
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The Elder Son
Overview: Two students are late for the last commuter train and have to spend a night in a strange town. They rack their brains about where to find shelter and quite by chance they overhear a talk between father and son. The son is an adolescent who is head over heels in love with a girl several years his senior. He is living through the first drama of his life though his love is just puppy love. Then, being resourceful fellows, they think of a plan to pass one of them for the elder son of this family. The reason they give for his unexpected arrival is that he is a child of the father's long-forsaken love. They presume this cock-and-bull story will come off, and right they are!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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Bury Me Behind the Baseboard
Overview: A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to "shelter" her beloved grandson at all cost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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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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The Flood
Overview: This is 1920: Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been living on Vassilievski Island, which is part of Petrograd, for thirteen years. In their house, which looks like a ship wreck, the atmosphere is gloomy. Sophia cannot have children and she is aware that, because of that, she is likely to lose her husband. That is why, when their neighbor dies, she asks Trofim to take in Ganka, his orphaned thirteen-year-old daughter. Trofim agrees and their new life begins...
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-04
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Kin
Overview: The story follows Maria Konovalova who travels from her rural village to visit her daughter Nina in the city. Maria's arrival exposes the stark contrasts between rural and urban lifestyles and reveals deep-seated family tensions. Interestingly, Родня (Rodnya) in Russian sounds very similar to the word Родина (Rodina), which means "Motherland." The film features three generations of women — Maria, her daughter Nina, and her granddaughter Irina — symbolizing three different Russias: one from the past, one modern, and one representing the future.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-12-06
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A Room and a Half
Overview: A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-01-23
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Происшествие
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Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-05
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The Long Recess
Overview: A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-06-06
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Old Hags
Overview: Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family.
Genres: Crime Adventure Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-07-25
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From Hell to Hell
Overview: Focuses on the lives of two married Polish couples (one Jewish, one Catholic) and the personal and social devastation wrought by the Holocaust and its aftermath.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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An Unnamed Star
Overview: "Stars never leave their orbits". The poor astronomy teacher got one more demonstration of this law when he met HER. SHE was "from the another world". SHE was strange and inappropriate in his tiny calm town. Town with slough-like life and citizens who spent all their time gossiping. Once he almost started to believe that the miracle is possible... but "the stars never leave their orbits"
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Snake Catcher
Overview: The former director of a large deli Pavel Shorokhov, having returned from prison and not received the expected reception from his wife, who forbade him to see his son, temporarily settles with Kotov, the owner of the lists of participants in the unaccounted goods movement system. Kotov, who is near death, transfers lists to Shorokhov and thereby puts him at risk from former accomplices. But Shorokhov breaks the pledge circle...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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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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Dark
Overview: This story of the beginning of the century about a terrorist and a prostitute combined the inhumanity and sacrifice of terrorism - a disastrous and noble delusion that originated in Russia and spread throughout the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-07-06
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Marriage
Overview: Based on the comedy of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Succumbing to the persuasion of his friend Kochkaryov, a middle-aged court adviser Podkolyosin wooed to the overripe girl Agafya Tikhonovna, a merchant's daughter. At the very last moment, having gone through a painful period of matchmaking, and bringing the matter to a wedding, indecisive grief — the groom escapes from under the crown, jumping into the window...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-05-22
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According to Lopotukhin...
Overview: A movie about very strange events which happened in the ordinary school after Vasya Lopotukhin got late to a math lesson because of his meeting with aliens.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-06
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The Admirer
Overview: A story based on love between Anton Chekhov and a young writer Lidiya Avilova.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-24
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Светлая личность
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-09-01
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Eyes
Overview: They can't see, but they really must... Because they love each other!
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-06-06
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Thumbelina
Overview: Based on famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
Genres: Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-27
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There Were Three Bachelors
Overview: A funny story about three best friends - young scientists who swear to not get married and concentrate only on science.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-12-30
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The Royal Hunt
Overview: Russian general have to find and bring back to St. Petersburg girl claiming her right to the throne...
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-06-06
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To Marry the Captain
Overview: Captain Alexander Blinov goes on vacation and has to give a package to Lena. Lena is freelance photo journalist who runs from job to job. She also has a long conflicting relationship with her retired neighbor who thinks that people like her shouldn't live. Somehow, Blinov get's involved in that conflict and all other Lena's crazy adventures, and falls in love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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The Bonus
Overview: A small construction team led by Potapov suddenly refuses to receive a bonus payment from their company for exceeding performance targets. The team accuses its construction company HQ with artificially reducing the targets, so they can be easily exceeded. It makes the management looks good, yet leads to frequent downtime reducing earnings for common construction workers even with fake bonuses. On a hastily organized meeting the management tries to subdue the "unruly" gang leader charging that he cannot know all details. It turned out that Potapov and his team prepared a detailed business analysis, which proved their point. Managers, who had different interests and positions, have to decide how to deal with the real problem leading to unexpected results.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Secrets Shared with a Stranger
Overview: In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1996-06-14
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In That Region of Heaven…
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Prince Udacha Andreyevich
Overview: Two young boys are trying to prevent a massive antiquities theft.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-06-01
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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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F 63.9 Love Sickness
Overview: A comedy about the love between a doctor who specializes in sexually transmitted diseases and an astronaut, and a covert space experiment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 2013-07-01
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Phenomenon
Overview: One soviet programmer has problems in his job. He is laughed at by women, they think he is too awkward. His chiefs are giving no rest to him. In addition to that they give him very difficult project to be done very soon. Overcoming himself he does impossible. After closing away in his office and spending there several days and nights without sleep he finds some solution and immediately fells asleep. After waking up after very surrealistic dream he surprises of what has happened while he was asleep. And the miracles have just started for him…
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-09-06
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My Husband Is an Alien
Overview: An ordinary family is a faithful wife, a walking husband. One night, Victor tells his wife that he is an alien and disappears. For a long time, the inconsolable Lucy waited for the return of the faithful, until one day she met a man in the subway who, like two peas in a pod, looked like Victor.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Flight Is Postponed
Overview: During the WWII, Olga and Sergey loved each other, but after the war ended Sergey did not want to bind himself with responsibilities of a married life and lied to Olga to make her believe that their marriage is impossible. Years passed by and they met accidentally at an airport.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-02
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And Always Come Back...
Overview: About the post-war years in a small town in the Urals, where fate brought the Kalmyk boy Jirgalu. He will soon have to face the hatred of war-bitten locals. Hungry times force the boy to look for money for food, not disdaining theft. But a friend appears, nicknamed Bee. Possessing the talent of a painter, Bee opens the world of beauty to her friend. But an early death cut short his existence on earth, leaving a permanent mark in Jirgala’s memory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-06-01
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It
Overview: The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Town". In a metaphorical and grotesque form, the film conveys the history of Russia from the calling of the Varangians until the end of the 20th century. The film traces the change of the “chiefs” of the county town of Glupov, which differ in varying degrees of tyranny and the corresponding total number of “killed” city residents. The heads of the city easily guess the former heads of the Russian state and the USSR.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-02-05
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Seven-Forty
Overview: The group of immigrants who depart to the United States, by chance finds itself in a deserted forest. Cut off from the civilized world, they begin to build their "own America".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Trouble
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-03-13
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Wagon-Lit
Overview: A story of a four seemingly random vagon lit passengers whose fates are unexpectedly interwoven.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-08-14
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Long Miles of War
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-05-04
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My Friends
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-10-07
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Olga and Konstantin
Overview: A Georgian truck driver falls in love with Olga. The film follows their adventures and misadventures as they try to overcome the obstacles of distance, culture, and bureaucracy to be together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-08-06
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Двое в пути
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-03-11
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Killer
Overview: In a sudden rush Smirnovyh family tragedy: their underage daughter Tanyu raped three guys. One of them - the son of director of the factory where his father Thani. The investigator refuses to parents, girls in the criminal complaint: the body has no signs of violence, there are no witnesses of crime. The next day, Tanya povesilas. Her father is desperate solves ...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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It Happened Near the Sea
Overview: The events of the film take place in a resort area South of the seaside city, beautiful and alien. The heroine of the film - girls orphanage for children with a sick spine, physical energy of the characters looking out in painfully cruel scheme of mutual relations. And finds cruel and unfair to the weaker......
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-03-22
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Uncle Au in the City
Overview: Uncle Au is an usual wood goblin loving to frighten and misbehave. Once he woke up and surprised, how the world changed around. And even children now are not afraid of him.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-12-11
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The Hen
Overview: Alla, the wife of the chief administrator, came to the young artist Nona, nicknamed "The Hen," to "catch" her husband, but in bed with her she finds the chief director, who is going to marry her. Soon her best friend Diana and everyone else will find out about this. And now it’s clear why she, an aspiring actress, received the best roles! Both men, in love with the pretty Nonochka, are no longer in their first or second youth, and they fell seriously in love...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-12-01
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Always with me
Overview: The famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage staff the harsh trials of the Leningrad blockade, returned to his hometown after many years. The whole life of Ilyin is connected with Leningrad. A life that in the distant years of World War II would have seemed to have no future, but which, despite the unbearable horror of hunger and devastation, continued only in the name of the future ...
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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Brezhnev
Overview: A biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-03-28
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Sinful Love
Overview: The ancient northern monastery has a guide Tatyana. Two former classmates seek her favors: medical student Ivan and young businessman Yves (that is, also Ivan). As a result of a fall from a balloon, the girl is in a coma. Only Ivan Voronov can deduce from this state if he is near. He decides to help his beloved by entering into intimacy with her. The nurse who discovered them reports to the police. Ivan was arrested as a "maniac", and the life of TANI is under threat again ... "
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-06-10
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Pani Mariya
Overview: English: 1944 - The Great Patriotic War. Fierce fighting is underway in the Warsaw area. In a provincial rear town, soldier Ivan and merchant Marya meet, unaware that this meeting will change their destinies...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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Odessa Steamboat
Overview: Based on the works of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. The plot of the new comedy is based on the famous miniatures “Odessa Steamboat”, “Two Apples”, “Meeting at the Distillery” and other works by one of the country's most famous humor writers Mikhail Zhvanetsky. In total - 13 miniatures. The fates of the heroes of each story are intertwined, and the viewer will see a panorama of life in which the head of the transport department could not be heard, the plane’s crew wonders if passengers can land the plane, the barmaid stands at the helm of the ship, and the father teaches his son arithmetic, destroying all the apples in the house...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-12-24
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I Hate You
Overview: The plot is based on the story of a meeting and reconciliation after many years of separation of the Mikhailovs, the realization of a mistake they made in their youth. Once they were too lazy to understand each other. He left for the construction site in a hurry, and she, having accepted his departure, did not forget the offense. A few years later, the hero came to his wife and grown-up daughter
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-08-10
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Burnt by the Sun
Overview: Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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A Second Spring
Overview: The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. These searches began his friend before the war, in remote taiga places. Yevdokiya Perevalova — the widow of a deceased friend decides to help Nesterov get to those deaf places...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: King of Blackmailers
Overview: Mycroft Holmes hands Sherlock Holmes the case of the Master Blackmailer.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-09-08
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 2
Overview: The second part of the Russian TV adaption.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-07-25
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 1
Overview: The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.
Genres: Mystery Adventure Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-07-25
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A Declaration of Love
Overview: The main character is a talented, but timid writer of the Filippok experiencing with his country the difficult years of revolution, devastation and war. Adversity helps him overcome the unrequited and faithful love for the widow of Commissioner Zinochka, who bossily manages his career, not hesitating to start novels with other men. Filippok will describe the story of his life in a book that at the end of days will be presented by a terminally ill, but still dearly beloved wife, with gratitude for the experience.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-08-15
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Ba
Overview: Five-year-old Sasha often listens to the opera Madame Butterfly. It is shown on TV and broadcast on the radio. The story of Madame Butterfly becomes for Sasha the key to the dramas that take place in the family, but which she still cannot understand.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-12-11
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Comrade Innokenti
Overview: About the initial period of the revolutionary activity of the Russian revolutionary Joseph Dubrovinsky (1877-1913, Innokenty is one of the underground nicknames of the Bolshevik), about the years of active propaganda work, a duel with the "king of the Okhrana" Zubatov, exile and the resumption of work underground.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-11-02
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Am I Guilty?..
Overview: About the family, where both husband and wife are alcoholics. He trades stolen plumbing, she is experiencing his moral decline.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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Reserve Officer
Overview: About the concerns of the reserve officer, and now the secretary of the district committee Kirill Buzhor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-05-22
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The Music of Life
Overview: Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-01
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