Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Also Known As: Александр Кайдановский, Aleksandr Kaydanovsky, Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Кайдановский Александр Леонидович, Alexander Kaidanovsky
Biography: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (23 July 1946 — 2 December 1995) was a Soviet actor and film director. His best known roles are in films such as Stalker, At Home Among Strangers, and The Bodyguard. Prior to pursuing an acting career, Kaydanovskiy attended technical college where he trained to become a welder. In 1965 he started studying acting at The Rostov Theatre School and the Shchukin theatrical school in Moscow. Before completing the course he took his first part in the film The Mysterious Wall and upon graduation in 1969, he worked as stage actor, making his debut at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1969. In 1971, he was invited to join the prestigious Moscow Arts Theatre, a rare privilege for a 25-year-old graduate. He made his major film debut in At Home Among Strangers, and over the next few years appeared in some two dozen films, including the satirical comedy Diamonds for Dictatorship of the Proletariat and The Life of Beethoven. At his peak in the '70s Kaidanovsky was among the USSR’s most popular actors, and it was at this point that famed Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, impressed by the looks and the acting technique of Kaidanovsky in Diamonds, invited him to play the title role in his new film, Stalker. The role earned Kaydanovskiy international acclaim. In 1985 he directed A Simple Death, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. In 1993 he directed Just Death, which was about the death of Leo Tolstoy.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: July 23, 1946
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 03, 1995
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Stalker
Overview: Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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The Theater Is My House
Overview: A.N. Ostrovsky recalls the first period of his creative work (1849–1859), when he began collaborating with the Maly Theatre and with masters of the Russian stage such as L.P. Kositskaya, M.S. Shchepkin, and P.M. Sadovsky. Almost every character in this film is a real historical figure.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-04-01
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The Devil's Breath
Overview: A small family of travelers arrives after a long journey at a village hut, which they claim as home. The family consists of Damian, a mute but skilled hunter, his wife Priscila, and their two children, a mute son named Pablo and a beautiful daughter named Agueda. Before long, Don Rodrigo, the feudal lord of the village, sets his sights on both Priscila and Agueda.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-10-29
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At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Overview: Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was entrusted with is stolen, initially by a group of assassins and then by a group of bandits. In tracking the gold’s whereabouts, Shilov’s motives are questioned and he is suspected of treason, in part because his brother was a devoted White. In an effort to clear his name, Shilov locates the gold, but he also discovers rampant greed and corruption.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-11
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Golden River
Overview: The continuation of the story started by adventure movie "The Lost Expedition" set in 1923.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-01-03
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The Lost Expedition
Overview: An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.
Genres: Adventure Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-29
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New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Overview: The plane of the American pilot Hank Morgan got lost in time. The pilot falls into temporary loop and finds himself at the era of the glorious King Arthur. Here he is destined to meet the legendary knights of the Round Table and the insidious Queen Morgana - the sister of the king, the beautiful Sandy and the wise Wizard. He will find himself in the rags of a slave and in knightly armor, to witness the greatness and death of the kingdom.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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The Rescuer
Overview: A story about a high school student Asya and her complicated relationship with literature teacher Larikov.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-10-27
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The Pass
Overview: A starship crashed on an uninhabited planet and its crew had to abandon it. Years later the survivors and their children try to return to the ship and send a distress signal. But for that they must go through a very dangerous mountain passage.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-09-01
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Pilot Pirx's Inquest
Overview: Pirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some 'nonlinears' (an experimental model of android) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and this intriguing crew are sent out to launch two satellites into the rings of Saturn, but he is determined to find out and identify a hostile unhuman coworker among them.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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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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Failure of Engineer Garin
Overview: A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-10-15
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The Gambler
Overview: This lavish Soviet/Czech co-production is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel, The Gambler, which tells the story of a Russian living in Germany, in a gambling resort. This film is set at the turn of the century, and was filmed in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia. Played by Nikolai Burlyayev, the gambler succumbs completely to his addiction, using up every resource he has (human, spiritual and financial) in his wagering, finally becoming a rootless drifter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1972-11-17
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That Was in Kokand
Overview: About the formation of Soviet power in Uzbekistan, the fight against the “Kokand Autonomy” and the Basmachi.
Genres: History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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Magic Hunter
Overview: A battle-scarred, has-been Hungarian cop, tormented by his memories of nearly killing an innocent woman in his custody, enters into a Faustian pact in which he trades his soul for a handful of "magic" bullets that always hit the mark. A mysterious and mythical story.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1994-10-23
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Ten Little Indians
Overview: A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-12-28
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The Mathematician and the Devil
Overview: A mathematician offers to sell his soul to the devil for a proof or disproof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Based on "The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur Porges.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-06-06
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The Turning Point
Overview: The newlyweds return to Moscow after a wonderful sea cruise on the Black Sea. It seems that they will have a happy life ahead, their beloved job, but chance rudely cuts off all dreams: Viktor doesn't have time to slow down and knocks down an elderly woman with his Zhiguli. His desire to evade responsibility is replaced by repentance and a decision to accept the burden of guilt upon himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-04-09
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Two Tickets to India
Overview: Two aliens are landing on the earth. One looks like a Bigfoot, the other has the appearance of a tiger. The problem is that they landed one in the USSR, the other in India. Soviet pioneers help them meet.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-06-04
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Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Overview: In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.
Genres: Crime Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-06-21
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Дети Ванюшина
Overview: Feature film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-02-11
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The Fourth
Overview: American journalist gets a sensational material but is afraid to publish it...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-11
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The Fifteenth Spring
Overview: Fifteen years old Sasha is dreaming about adventures, falling in love and doesn't know that WWII is approaching...
Genres: War Drama Family Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-05-10
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Contract
Overview: Bearded contract employee goes on a "giant bouquet of flowers" planet and prefers friendship with the robot because all inhabitants are creepy psychos.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-05-31
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Under the Roofs of Montmartre
Overview: A story of three struggling artists: a painter, a poet, and a composer, living in a bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. They help a poor flower girl, Violette, to find shelter, when she is thrown out by her landlord.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-01-03
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Tear of the Prince of Darkness
Overview: Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to find Tear of the Prince of Darkness, a legendary ring which can bring Satan’s rule over the world.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-03-06
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And I'm With You Again...
Overview: The film illustrates individual episodes showing the life of Alexander Pushkin. The script is based on the testimonies of contemporaries, as well as on poems, drawings, and letters of the poet.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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A Quiet Day at the End of the War
Overview: As WWII comes to a close, a wounded Soviet soldier and a Kazak woman seek refuge in a church. In this holy place, they take time to rest and appreciate the beauty of their surroundings, as the interior of the building is lined with ornate works of art. A group of Nazi soldiers eventually disrupts this moment of peace, as they enter the church and defile the sacred works within. Undetected, the original occupants witness this atrocity and the proud Russian feels compelled to fight in an effort to preserve his country’s history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-04-01
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Who Will go to Truskavets?
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-05-26
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And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-03-02
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The Mysterious Wall
Overview: The action takes place in Siberia where a mysterious wall appears from time to time. Scientists are dispatched to study it and some of them believe that the wall is produced by some sort of alien intelligence, "the Martians", as they call them. The scientists attempt to communicate with the Wall, but all they experience in return are hallucinations about their past experiences. In those visions they are faced with some unresolved issues, repressed memories, and absurd dream-like situations. They meet people – messengers – from their past who reveal to them some simple truths about their own lives, which may be hard to accept, so they dismiss those messengers as the Martians and stubbornly continue attempting to "understand" the Mysterious Wall using their rational minds.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Forward March, Time!
Overview: Soviet animation from Vladimir Tarasov.
Genres: History Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-05-27
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Rafferty
Overview: The story of the trial of the trade union boss Jack Rafferty. With great force and astute critical insight, corruption and crime are exposed, accompanying the advancement of Western leaders to power.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-03-19
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Kafedra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-07-06
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Следую своим курсом
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Genres: War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-06-09
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The Arrival of a Train
Overview: Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1996-10-08
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Parajanov: The Last Spring
Overview: Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the height of his fame ". Vartanov resurrects the riveting scenes from his banned 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land, where Paradjanov concocts the chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - then reveals the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from Ukrainian prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's staggering last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - which survives in The Last Spring - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical film. The foremost achievement of The Last Spring, emphasized by critics, is Vartanov's exquisite wordless montage that "evoked the very soul" of Parajanov and earned the praise of many of cinema's greatest masters, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-12-30
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The Bodyguard
Overview: The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "fully in the hands of the workers and peasants", but the fight against the Basmachi rebels was in full swing. When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Mazar, the brains behind the Bazmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolutionary called Mirzo. His expertise is essential to traverse the precarious paths and steep mountain ridges along the way, impossible terrain for the inexperienced. A group consisting of Mirzo, his brother Kova, the Sultan, his daughter Zaranghis and slave Saifulla set off on this journey. They are forced to fight on the mountain ridges as well as negotiate the natural dangers and harsh elements.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Return
Overview: A Space travel comes to an end and before the landing the Cosmonaut falls asleep. He does not hear signals from the Earth. The disaster approaches. When the ship flies over the native house of the Cosmonaut, the ring of the alarm clock which the Grandfather winded up sounds and the Cosmonaut wakes up.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Мое дело
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-08-15
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Story of an Unknown Man
Overview: Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the tragedy of a star-crossed love. After a general ruins some men under him in punishment for a rebellion, a friend of the broken men vows revenge. The friend, a naval officer, takes a job as a valet in the general's son's house. While he plots his revenge, the son has an affair with a woman whom the valet begins to love. She is discarded after becoming pregnant, and the valet has his own troubles; he has contracted tuberculosis. Sick and unable to follow through on his plans for vengeance, he leaves for France with the pregnant woman hoping to declare his love and seek a cure for his illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Drama on the Hunt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Overview: When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-12-31
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Anna Karenina
Overview: The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei Vronsky. Anna leaves the family in search of happiness to her beloved person. She has to take a very serious step in her life - to part with her son. The attitude of the high society towards her is changing. All this brings a lot of pain and humiliation to the main character. The tragic story of love and betrayal, the fate of a woman, for the sake of passion who decided to change her life irrevocably.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-06
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A Nest of Gentry
Overview: A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The film portrays the life of Russian landed gentry in the 1840s. After a long travel in Europe, nobleman Lavretsky returns back home. Everything in his estate is so familiar and dear to his heart. On his first visit to his neighbors, the Kalitins, he meets Lisa. He forgets his wife, left in Paris, forgets all his past. He desires only one thing – to always be with Lisa who is so unlike the women he used to know.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-08-25
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I'm Sorry
Overview: Pranas, now a celebrity singer, returns to his homeland from a big city. He is greeted at the airport and driven to his native village by a childhood friend Jonas, who works there as a doctor.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1982-12-05
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Overview: An animated short film based on the 1877 short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing to live for in the world, and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl changes his mind.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-10-07
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First Love
Overview: First Love is based on the eponymous novella by Ivan Turgenev set in the first third of the 19th century. It follows a 16-year old boy who becomes infatuated with a next door neighbor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-02-09
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Fact
Overview: Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1981-06-04
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Fiery Bridge
Overview: On the participation of the intelligentsia in the revolution and post-revolutionary transformations of the Soviet country.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-09-28
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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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