Anzhelika Nevolina
Also Known As: Анжелика Неволина
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Birthday: April 02, 1962
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Gender: Female
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Cargo 200
Overview: While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom's car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated farmhouse occupied by Alexey, his wife, a Vietnamese laborer, and a stranger who wanders around the farm. When his car is repaired, Artyom leaves, drunk on moonshine, and students Valera and Angelika arrive. After Valera gets drunk, the stranger abducts Angelika.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-06-14
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We Will Meet in the Metro
Overview: The film is dedicated to the first builders of the Leningrad metro, who began their work before the war, survived the blockade and in 1955 delivered the first stage to the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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Vanishing August
Overview: Sometimes he allowed himself to drink for real. One morning after a night of drinking, having found a woman in his bed, whom, as it turned out, had prevented from leaving for Odessa, he proposed to her and invited the girl on a road trip…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-11-01
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Точка возврата
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Genres: Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-14
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Earthly Joys
Overview: The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-19
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Shamara
Overview: Industrial Soviet town in 1970s suffering from cholera epidemic. Zina Shamarina nicknamed Shamara is a rebel-spirited woman who lives in factory dormitory and is desperately in love with Ustin, the man who was one of the bunch that raped her years ago and then married her only to avoid prosecution. When Ustin commences affair with the new girl in town, Shamara is challenged to regain herself and her place in this community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Classic's Head
Overview: A mystery around a search for a lost skull of Nikolay Gogol.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-06-06
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Myths of My Childhood
Overview: The story takes place in a small village on the beach of Sea of Azov at the beginning of 1960s. Adolescents passionately dream of love about which they have heard from their elder experienced friends. 16 year-old Ignat is the first to find out what the real feeling is. His love for an adventuress who pretends to be a singer from capital becomes destructive.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-06-06
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Myth About Leonid
Overview: A retro-journalistic drama based on one of the versions of Kirov’s murder, proposed by former NKVD general Orlov, who managed to escape death during the “purge” in the “Kirov” case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-06-20
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Creation of Adam
Overview: On the same day, Andrei's wife Nina asks for a divorce, his colleague Natasha tells him she's attracted to him, he's assigned a new project under the direction of Philip (a well-dressed, authoritative, and even arrogant stranger who keeps touching him), and he fights a gang of homophobes to protect a young gay man, Oleg. The next day, Philip takes Andrei away from the office on an odyssey into a space that is charged with spirituality and homoeroticism. Philip is no businessman, and the disclosure of who he really is forces Andrei into a series of choices that involve Natasha, Nina, belief, and love.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Шпильки
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-06-05
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A Friend of the Deceased
Overview: Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1997-09-10
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Love and Other Nightmares
Overview: Alex is creating a databank of dreams, claming he knows how to digitise the dreamimage. It is just a self publicity ploy and Alex is soon woken up to the reality of underprivilege, corruption and state terror by an ex-convict Lubov, with whom Alex has an unlikely love affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2001-06-06
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Delirium
Overview: Having reached her forty-fifth birthday, the disappointed female choreographer Agnes, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, realizes that her life is nothing more than an uninterrupted chain of artificial, far—fetched episodes. Agnes decides to go all in to create the production of her whole life. However, in order to achieve her goal, she must come face to face with her own ego, irrevocably absorbed by a dark and bloody Persona.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
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Of Freaks and Men
Overview: St. Petersburg, early 20th century. The handsome and secretive Johann specializes in shooting erotic pictures depicting the floggings of bare-bottomed women. With the help of his assistants, the photographic creations gradually penetrate the peaceful households of two upper-class Russian families.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-05-20
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Decease
Overview: The life story of two fellow villagers in the period 1920–50s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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I Won't Let You Go Anywhere
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-11-13
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Pasternak
Overview: Boris Pasternak, creator of the immortal Dr Zhivago, discredited by Stalin and denied the Nobel Literature Prize by Khrushev, Pasternak's Dr Zhivago was banned in the USSR until 1988. Only now in the new spirit of freedom and reconciliation that exists the story of Pasternak can be told. The words of Pasternak are spoken by Robert Powell, with Imogen Stubbs as Lara and Olga.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-07
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Living With an Idiot
Overview: The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idiot. Vova isn't interested anymore, when she gets pregnant and doesn't keep the baby. The idiot goes now to the intellectual for his sexual needs. The wife can't take this anymore and forces her man to take a choice: Vova out, or she will go.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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Happy Days
Overview: An unnamed hero roaming the streets of St Petersburg is befriended by a beggar with a donkey and a slightly deranged prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-06-22
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A Sentimental Trip to Potatoes
Overview: Having entered the institute, the hero of the film, along with his new comrades, goes to the village "for potatoes". A month spent in the "open air" not only fills the life of a spoiled urban youth with interesting acquaintances and impressions, but also gives him his first love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-08-06
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House on the Dunes
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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Heart of a Dog
Overview: "Heart of a Dog" is a Soviet film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novella. Set in 1920s Moscow, it tells the satirical and darkly humorous story of a stray dog named Sharik, who is transformed into a human by Professor Preobrazhensky through a daring medical experiment. The resulting man, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, embodies the social and ideological tensions of early Soviet society. With its sharp critique of class struggle, human nature, and the perils of radical change, the film is celebrated for its faithful adaptation, brilliant performances, and rich allegorical depth.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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I'm Declaring War on You
Overview: A former army officer is trying to find crime in his home town.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Lucky Loser
Overview: A 1993 Russian comedy film directed by Valeri Bychenkov, based on Vadim Shefner's poetry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-12-31
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Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Whit Monday
Overview: Ivan Khristoforov discovers the strange property of foreseeing explosions. Trying to understand the reason and meaning of this unusual ability, he turns to family history. The attention of the secret public service doesn't bode well for Khristoforov. The imaginary journey of the hero in his past, bearing the imprint of a children's worldview, and the present, at times just like a dream.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Pavlov's Dog
Overview: Two twenty-year-olds meet each other in the sanatorium and fall in love. Ksenia is an alchoholic, Maxim is suicidal. Gradually it becomes clear that the characters, betrayed by their relatives, kept inside the sanatorium, constrained by regimes and the cult of work therapy, are healthier and freer than many of those who live outside.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-12-01
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Parade of the Planets
Overview: A rare astronomical phenomenon — the parade of planets — has a strange effect on several men. The heroes of the film — an astrophysicist, locksmith, salesman, architect, loader, trolley bus driver — are called up for military training, which ends ahead of time. There is a strange pause in their life — no one knows where they are, no one is waiting for them, and they themselves can not rush anywhere. This short respite in a hasty and busy life gives the heroes the opportunity to experience strong and very important feelings for them.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-12-15
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Provincial Benefit
Overview: Life in art based on the plays of A. Ostrovsky: "Talents and Admirers", "Forest", etc.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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По прямой
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-05-30
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Viktoriya
Overview: In 1947, a post-war year, Semyon Chizhov, a student of a naval representation school, and Victoria, a young woman who works at the school as a senior pioneer instructor, meet by chance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-02-25
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Pussycat
Overview: A cool superman with a bag of money rents the most luxurious room in a seaside hotel. He can buy everything, but he only needs one thing-her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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