Boris Chirkov
Also Known As: Boris Chirkov, Борис Чирков, B. Chirkov
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lozovaya-Pavlovka, Slavyanoserbsk uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Brianka, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine]
Adult: No
Birthday: July 31, 1901
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 28, 1982
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Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #3
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Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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Seven Old Men and One Girl
Overview: Lara Velichko is a young coach who's dreaming about coaching world champions but suddenly she's forced to train a group of a very grumpy old men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-06-06
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A Wonder Mill
Overview: The greedy king takes away the magic mill from the grandfather and the animals. Cartoon about the joint struggle for justice.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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An Extraordinary Assignment
Overview: The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.
Genres: Adventure Action History
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1966-01-10
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Miraculous Well
Overview: Once upon a time there were two stepsisters. One girl dropped a bucket into a deep wonderful well, and she had to go down into the well for the bucket, to the kingdom of Santa Claus.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-03-24
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The Great Glinka
Overview: About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.
Genres: Music History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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True Friends
Overview: Story about 3 childhood friends who found each other later in life and decided to rafting on one of the Moscovian rivers.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-04-20
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My Dear Fellow
Overview: Military doctor Vladimir Ustimenko is a man of duty and honor, committed to the cause he serves, and one single love that he carries through his whole life: Varvara Stepanova is a whimsical girl who dreamed of becoming a great actress but eventually became a geologist. The war will cruelly interfere in the fate of the heroes and confuse their relationship even more.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-08-07
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Great Citizen
Overview: A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-02-13
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The Youth of Maxim
Overview: A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in realistic performance, photography and movement, plus some musical touches in way of folk songs." Written by Les Adams
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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The Vyborg Side
Overview: The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in charge of the national bank. With great efforts, he learns the complexies of the banking trade and begins to fight off sabotaging underlings. Dymba, now a violent enemy of the Republic, tries to rob a wine store but is arrested with Maksim's help. Maksim also exposes a conspiracy of a group of tsarist officers who prepare an attempt against Lenin. He then joins the Red Army in its fight against the German occupation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-04-01
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The Return of Maxim
Overview: The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of the working-class in the Duma. Maksim, who just returned from exile, calls the workers to strike as a protest against the firing of six of their colleagues. The traitor Platon Dymba assaults Maksim, wounding him severely. When the strike unfolds the workers demonstrate by the thousands, the news of the outbreak of World War I suddenly arrives. Maksim gets drafted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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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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Chapayev
Overview: An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-11-07
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1812
Overview: A biopic about Prince Kutuzov, the defeater of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-06-06
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TsOKS in Alma-Ata
Overview: In August 1941, two largest Soviet film studios Mosfilm and Lenfilm were evacuated to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. There, together with the newly founded Alma-Ata Film Studio, they were merged into TsOKS (Central United Film Studio), which became the main center of film production in the country until 1944. Now Kazakh film industry veterans who worked at the studio during these years recall the dawn of national cinema and years of work with Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Romm and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-24
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The Alive and the Dead
Overview: A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-06-06
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The Girlfriends
Overview: Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-02-19
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Cain the XVIII-th
Overview: A fairytale about homeless musician and his love for the princess.
Genres: Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-08-05
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Aleksandr Parkhomenko
Overview: About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Parkhomenko. In 1918, capturing Ukraine, the German occupiers sought to use the Haidamaks, the White Guards and the Greens in their struggle. By order of Voroshilov, Aleksandr Parkhomenko from Lugansk arrives in Tsaritsyn. At the same time, the Germans launched an active offensive. The "red" battalions are poorly armed, however, Parkhomenko manages to raise them to the attack and put the enemy to flight.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-07-20
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Li-ittle!
Overview: A young girl lives with an elderly couple in a settlement in a distant Siberian village. They liked her. When she dies unexpectedly, they go many miles to holy places to pray for the salvation of her soul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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Minin and Pozharsky
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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The Kyiv Resident
Overview: The story of the growing up of the orphan Gali between the Revolution and the Great Patriotic War. Large-scale historical drama with Nina Ivanova.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1958-11-03
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Alone
Overview: A young teacher is sent to a remote province, separating her from her lover, and sets about the difficult task of building a school there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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Heirs
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-11-12
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Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #1
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Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-08-02
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Moon on the Left
Overview: The main character, the chairman of the district revolutionary tribunal, Comrade Kovalev, believes that a true revolutionary should have only one love - revolution. And women, especially attractive ones, are a great hindrance to Comrade Kovalev. But he is unable to connect theory with practice. Love overcomes the ridiculous prejudices of the hero, who along the way achieves his real victory - the defeat of the White bandit gang...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-02-02
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Golden Mountains
Overview: Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) from poor village comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory, which is in the throes of a strike organized by the Bolsheviks (communists). The Bolshevik strikers are led by Ivan Shtraukh (brother of the more famous Russian actor Maxim Shtraukh). At first, the deceitful industrialist's son (Fedosev) involves the naive Poslavsky in an attempt to murder Shtraukh, but the attempt only wounds the heroic organizer. Will Poslavsky follow through with the planned killing, or will he redeem himself by going over to the side of the strikers?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1931-11-06
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Brother
Overview: The chairman of the factory committee of one of the Leningrad factories, Fyodor Gorbachev, a weak-willed man who was unable to completely overcome his petty-proprietor psychology, is visited from the village by his brother Sergei, a former kulak and trader. His arrival brings quarrels and discord into the friendly Gorbachev family. At Fyodor's request, the factory director hires Sergei, but demands a favor in return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Song of Happiness
Overview: A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-04-01
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Peasants
Overview: The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-04-01
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The Miners of Donetsk
Overview: A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-05-16
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With your own hands
Overview: The secretary of the district committee Borzov, trying to fulfill the plan, does not care about the rise of the entire economy. The second secretary of the district committee Martynov does not agree with his methods of work...
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-12
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Next to us
Overview: The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just completed the institutions and are confident that the future is in their hands. At the plant, all relations are formed around the dubious glory of the Turner Milovidov. A fresh look, self-confidence and each other help friends to expose the "record holder".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-11-05
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The Anxious Night
Overview: The action takes place on one of the nights in October 1917 and is limited to the walls of a St. Petersburg apartment occupied by the wealthy noble family of the Starodubtsevs. The elder sister Anna (Elena Kuzmina) is a helpless, spoiled woman, far from life. She is unable to understand that her husband, Lieutenant Almazov, is one of the leaders of the counter-revolutionary conspiracy. The younger sister Maria has already chosen her path - she is with the revolutionaries, with the Bolsheviks. The landlord Yarlykov, having lost everything, dreams of running away from Russia, taking with him something more valuable. In the dramatic events taking place in the Starodubtsev family, echoes of the huge, decisive clashes of the revolution are guessed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-11-10
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We Await Your Victorious Return
Overview: The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows soldiers leaving their village for the front; in their absence, the desolate but resolute young women of the village assume responsibility for the business of the farm
Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Своя голова на плечах
Overview: After finishing school in their native village, Tolyasha (Igor Pushkarev) and Valya take exams to enter the pedagogical institute, but both fail. They return to their Green Shores. Valya works on a poultry farm and soon becomes a famous poultry farmer, and Tolyasha works as a driver. After a series of misunderstandings, their personal relationships improve...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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The Blue Cup
Overview: Young family is spending vacations in the summer house.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-15
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Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor
Overview: The story takes place in Summer 1942, when a small force of Black Sea Fleet sailors was surrounded by German troops but broke out the encirclement.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-01-03
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The Lost Photography
Overview: A young boy from Prague is trying to find a Soviet soldier from the old 1945 picture.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-05-12
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Short Stories
Overview: Miniatures of writers from Russia and foreign countries.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-03-30
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Kashtanka
Overview: A cute doggy with gypsy soul found temporary work in a creative environment.
Genres: Family Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Frog Princess
Overview: A prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by Koschei the Immortal. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Townspeople
Overview: The hero of the film is an ordinary driver of a Moscow taxi, a kind and decent man. Each new working day promises him new meetings, acquaintances — sometimes joyful and pleasant, and sometimes demanding from him severe determination and courage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-02-09
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We Are Taking All The Fire
Overview: Mini-series set in times of WW II about Soviet underground fighters led by brave Anna Morozova. They are establishing connection with Polish people who work on German airfield. And even small victories cost a lot sometimes.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-02-18
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Dream of a Cossack
Overview: Soviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values in Dream of a Cossack (aka Cavalier of the Golden Star). The title character, played by future director Sergei Bondarchuk (and billed for obscure reasons as Semyon Bondarchuk), is an ex-soldier who returns home to the Kuban region, there to take up life as a farmer. Instead, he galvanizes the local citizenry into participating in a massive construction project, which will result in a new power station and canal. Thus does Raisman offer an prime example of Russian collectivism while making it seem as though it had sprung from individual initiative. Dream of a Cossack is based on a popular novel by S. Babayefsky.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-07-09
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For the Power of the Soviets
Overview: Petya meets his father from a partisan detachment in the Odessa Catacombs.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-08-02
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Мечты сбываются
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-07-12
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My Son
Overview: A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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A Trip Without a Load
Overview: Based on the story of the same name by Sergei Antonov. The young journalist of the central newspaper Sirotkin came to the Siberian timber industry to write an essay about the glorious driver Khromov. But soon Sirotkin’s inquiring mind calculated the trick of Khromov, who, noting one kilometer in the vouchers, traveled a short route he knew only, draining the remaining gasoline from the curbside. Having revealed yet another fraud, in which the director was also involved, Sirotkin realized that he would not write an essay, but that he would be lucky with materials for the trial. This was announced by the authorities of the timber industry. Khromov himself took the journalist on the return trip...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-02-11
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The Island of Miracles
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1964-06-06
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Izhora Battalion
Overview: The film is about the fate of the soldiers of the Izhora battalion. Formed from the factory’s workers, the battalion took part in decisive battles against the regular units of the Nazi army and ended its heroic journey on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-11-04
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Musicians of the Same Regiment
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Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-09-13
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Guerrillas in the steppes of Ukraine
Overview: The film tells about the heroic struggle of Ukrainian farmers-partisans with nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-03-02
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Our Friend Maxim
Overview: The film Our Friend Maxim is devoted to the life and work of actor and National Artist of the USSR Boris Petrovich Chirkov. This film includes excerpts from his Maxim trilogy, and significant focus is placed on Chirkov’s role as a pedagogue and mentor to young actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Sud chesti
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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The Defense of Volotchayevsk
Overview: Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far Eastern Republic and partisans in the struggle against the intervention and White army.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-01-20
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The Tale of the Fisherman and the Goldfish
Overview: The tale about an old, henpecked man whose new friend fulfills all desires of his wife.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-03-04
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Little Filip
Overview: Filip, also called "Filipok" due to being small, dreams of being able to fly. He also wants to go to school, but his mother won't let him because he's too young. But one day, he's running to the school anyway.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-03-11
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The Man with the Gun
Overview: The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Bonivur's Heart
Overview: A young Komsomol member Vitaly Bonivur is fighting for Soviet power in the Far East and Primorye. Red underground workers are not the first day want to arrange an escape of their fellow prisoners. And the brave Bonivur takes part in the organization of the getaway, but for counterintelligence he remains elusive. Vitaly Bonivur's aspiration for justice, heroism and determination — courage and bravery of a young man who fights for a bright future.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-10-21
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Antosha Rybkin
Overview: Before the attack on the village, captured by the Nazis, the commander decides to carry out a distraction — a concert of the front-line brigade of artists. Chef Antosha Rybkin is assigned to play the role of... a German corporal. Dressed in an enemy uniform, he gets to the rear of the enemy and helps his liberate the village.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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The Parasite
Overview: After a long absence from St. Petersburg, a young landowner Yeletskaya comes to her estate with her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-04-09
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Helen and Grapes
Overview: The second part of pretending schoolgirl's adventures, wine's prenatal stage and two scarecrows running on Sommera street.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-06-16
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По собственному желанию
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Фронт
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-02-01
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The Strogovs
Overview: In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Anna and his parents. Through the fate of this peasant family, a picture of the life of the Siberian region during major historical events — the Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War is outlined.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-02-10
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People of Dimitrovgrad
Overview: The construction of the first socialist town in Bulgaria - Dimitrovgrad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1956-04-30
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Are You Kidding?
Overview: The film almanac of VGIK's graduates, consisting of films for children: "Otherwise We Are Lost," "Vanderbul Runs Over the Horizon," and "Are You Kidding?"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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The New Teacher
Overview: A young teacher comes to work in his native village, plans to build a new school. The arrival of the teacher causes confusion in the soul of the young neighbor Agrafena Shumilina.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-12-10
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A Sinful Angel
Overview: Fourteen-year-old Vera Telegina sees the sea, which she had dreamed of since childhood. She is here only because her parents were repressed and she is left alone. The police chief Stavridi, having learned about the girl's misfortune, places her in a boarding school. Vera has to go through a lot. But with the concernment of new friends and sympathy of adults Vera survives until the spring of 1953, when the long-awaited telegram from her parents arrives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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Three Encounters
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-11-17
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Horizon
Overview: Twelve graduates of the tenth "A" arrive to the virgin lands. Freed from childhood illusions, yesterday's schoolchildren get used to the unsettled life, to hard work on combines, tractors, on the threshing floor. Soon other difficulties are discovered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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First Visitor
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-10-31
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Rebellious Outpost
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-06
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Spring Tale
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-03-14
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Dew
Overview: About village schoolchildren-pathfinders, who were busy restoring the memory of the heroic past of their fellow villagers during the Great Patriotic War.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-05-01
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