Mariya Barabanova
Also Known As: Мария Барабанова
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Birthday: November 03, 1911
Deathday: March 16, 1993
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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About the Little Red Riding Hood
Overview: A sequel to the well-known story about a Little Red Riding Hood (Krasnaya Shapochka). This time, a family of a slain wolf decides to avenge his death. So they falsely inform Little Red Riding Hood that her grandma is sick and prepare to eat her on her way.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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Youth of Commanders
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-05-13
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Швейк готовится к бою
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Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Katenka
Overview: A very old man comes to the provincial town where he spent his youth. The flood of memories takes him far from reality, to which a little girl returns him, like two peas in a pod like his first love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-11-01
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New Adventures of Puss in Boots
Overview: Lyuba, a daughter of King of Chess is kidnapped by playing Cards... Young Vanya and his best friend - Puss in the boots - are trying to rescue Lyuba.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-05-27
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Hunting for a Pimp
Overview: Двое приятелей Вова и Боб ограбили квартиру Нины - любовницы директора рынка. Всю вину молодчики свалили на бывшего любовника и сутенера Нины Стаса Шапкина. Шеф не стал впутывать в эту историю милицию, он поручил заняться этим делом своим людям. Бандиты пытают Стаса, требуют отдать пропавшую сумму. В конце концов, бедняге приходится занять деньги у всех своих проституток и отдать вымогателям.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-04-07
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How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder
Overview: A story about Ivanushka the Fool based on classic Russian fairytales.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-01-03
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Arinka
Overview: Arinka, a young girl who lives near the railroad, discovers a ring of spies who are preparing the terror act.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-12-06
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Doktor Kalyuzhnyy
Overview: По мотивам пьесы Юрия Германа «Сын народа». Молодой врач после окончания института, оставив в городе любимую девушку, возвращается в родной поселок и энергично берется за дело. Больница в полном запустении. Но герой не отчаивается, и даже делает научное открытие, которое помогает вернуть зрение старому учителю и сестренке бывшей невесты.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-06-06
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Vassilisa the Beautiful
Overview: Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the youngest brother, Ivanushka, brings home a frog from the marshes. His father finds this most curious, but what he does not know was that the frog was actually a beautiful girl named Vasilisa who was cursed by a magical serpent whom she refused to marry. Now Ivanushka must overcome tremendous obstacles to restore Vasilisa to her true form and free her from the serpent's spell.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-05-13
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Finest, the Brave Falcon
Overview: This fairy tale film is dedicated to the memory of the great film director Alexander Row, the founder of the genre. Once upon a time there lived a brave and kind hero named Finist the Bright Falcon. He was famous for his strength, courage and a heart of gold. But one day the Russian land was attacked by an evil enemy, Kartaus, who turned our hero into a forest monster. This spell was cast on a condition that Finist might become a man again, should a beautiful girl, Alyonushka, fall in love with him while he was a beast.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-30
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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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One, two - woe, never mind
Overview: Defeating the terrible dragon, the soldier Ivan returns from the war. The Far Far Away rejoices. The king, also Ivan, is very pleased. He awards the namesake with an order with pearls, appoints a field marshal and offers his wife his own daughter Maria Louise. But the soldier suddenly refuses everything.
Genres: Fantasy Music Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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After the Rain, on Thursday
Overview: A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-05-12
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The New Moscow
Overview: A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Shakh's Diamonds
Overview: A criminal story which started when a young bartender Mikhail lost all his money and decided to robe a private diamonds collection.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-11-11
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This Scoundrel Sidorov
Overview: A funny adventures of Alyosha Sidorov in summer camp.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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The Russian Question
Overview: The film is based on the play by K. Simonov. It is the story of an American journalist who spends time in Russia and sees socialism in action. Upon his return to the U.S., a prestigious editor asks him to write a book about his experience. He receives a handsome advance for the project and he and his fiancée are able to buy a house, a car, and other symbols of the American dream. But the editor’s generosity comes with a caveat: the book must present a negative picture of Soviet society. Will he simply keep the money and do what is expected of him, or will he instead tell the truth?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-03-08
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How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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Late for a Date
Overview: Arriving on a resort muscovites - circus artist Gurov and professor Fedorov are forget the houses of passport. Girl-dispatch on mail, hurrying on an appointment, mixes up envelopes, that entails the row of the comic misunderstanding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-08-23
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Secret of the Blackbirds
Overview: Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-11-21
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We from the Urals
Overview: A story about two teenagers and their life during WWII in Urals district of Russia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-12-30
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Tale about the enamored painter
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Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Imaginary Invalid
Overview: The hypochondriac Argan wants his daughter to marry a doctor so he can save on his medical bills.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-07-03
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While the Clocks Are Ticking
Overview: Schoolgirl Masha gets into the fabulous city cheerful workers, which with the help of servants and cap of invisibility inhibits the evil Korol Kropodin I. Before the townspeople finally get rid of oppressors, Masha is a party to the exciting events and adventures.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-09-12
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The Adventures of a Little Dad
Overview: A little girl is dreaming about what would happen if her dad would be her age...
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-12-02
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Accept a Telegram for Credit
Overview: A young boy is trying to arrange money in order to build aircraft.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-12-27
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The Prince and the Pauper
Overview: Two look-alike boys, one a poor street kid and the other a prince, exchange places to see what the other's life is like.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-12-03
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Adolescence
Overview: Olga is a seventh-grader who has a brilliant gift - she writes a beautiful poems...
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-12-27
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Organized Trip to the Theatre
Overview: A lot of funny stuff is going on in a far way village located between forests and lakes.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-24
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Swindlers
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Everything for You
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-06-14
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Defence Counsel Sedov
Overview: Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks upon a succession of encounters with increasingly powerful officials, gradually persuading them to look at the case anew. But the highest authorities are not so easily outmanoeuvered, and Sedov becomes canonised as a Stalinist zealot, with the film building inexorably to its chilling triple climax.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-01-02
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The Nightingale
Overview: Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes are integrated in this marvelous Russian adaptation by fairytale master Nadezhda Kosheverova.
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-06-01
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С весельем и отвагой
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-04-29
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The Woman in White
Overview: A detective-mystery film based on the novel of the same name by Wilkie Collins, which takes place in the middle of the last century in Victorian England. The young aspiring artist gets a place as a teacher of painting on the estate of land-owner Fairlie, where his sisters Marian and Laura become his students. Returning home late in the evening, he unexpectedly meets a strange woman, dressed head-to-toe in white on a deserted road...
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-02-15
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Galya
Overview: During the "Winter War" between Finland and the USSR, Galya's father goes to the front and she's left behind to take care of grandma and the house. Despite toeing the party line, the film was still banned by censors for being insufficiently patriotic.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-04-01
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