Nikolai Gritsenko
Also Known As: Гриценко Микола Олімпійович, Микола Гриценко, Nikolai Grizenko , Mykola Hrytsenko, Николай Олимпиевич Гриценко
Biography: Mykola Hrytsenko was a Soviet Ukrainian theater and film actor. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1942 and 1978.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yasinovataya, Ekaterinoslavskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Birthday: July 24, 1912
Deathday: December 08, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Крыса на подносе
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-03-08
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The Road
Overview: A group of semitrailers is moving through a snow storm - and no one doesn't know that there is a spy between the drivers.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-10-03
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The Lucky Bride
Overview: After the victory on Napoleon a hussar returns to Moscow. He is met by a desperate man who offers him a deal: marry his daughter before she turns 18 and inherit a huge fortune from her rich, eccentric aunt. There is also another condition...
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-06-06
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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 Little Crane
Overview: Based on the novel of Mikhail Alekseyev "Bread — as a Noun." About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life. After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's husband, whom she had been waiting for for so many years, would never return. Marfa, a beautiful and proud woman, remains true to her only love...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-04-07
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Farewell, America!
Overview: An unfinished film by Aleksandr Dovzhenko, the film is a political lampoon based on the book entitled The Truth about US Diplomats, written in 1949 by the American writer Annabel Bukar. It exposes the underhanded actions of US Embassy personnel in Moscow at the onset of the Cold War. Dovzhenko managed to shoot only a half of the film, mainly the scenes that take place in the American Embassy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Father Sergius
Overview: A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film is Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, an ardent, proud young man — a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-09-05
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Marina's Destiny
Overview: Marina's Destiny (Russian: Судьба Марины, Sudba Mariny) is a 1953 Soviet drama film directed by Viktor Ivchenko. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-02-23
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The Sannikov Land
Overview: A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to deal with all the consequences.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-10-01
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The Golden Depths
Overview: The play of the same name by Mamin-Sibiryak, staged by the Vakhtangov State Academic Theater. At the center of the play is the daughter of a bankrupt gold miner, who, faced with cruel morals, herself becomes a predator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-04-03
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Two Years above the Abyss
Overview: A drama about an underground war in the occupied Kiev during WWII.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-04-24
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Gooseberry
Overview: Three interlocutors are having a sedate conversation in a cozy hallway...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Hostile Whirlwinds
Overview: About the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky in 1918-1925. The film covers the most important episodes of his biography. In July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, the German ambassador Mirbach was killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky alone goes to the headquarters of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Anarchists, he manages to persuade ordinary soldiers and sailors, participants in the rebellion, who are now cracking down on their leaders. In 1921, Dzerzhinsky was aimed at combating homelessness, as a result of which, by 1925, former homeless children, having completed their studies, were sent to the construction of Yugostal, the largest industrial plant in Ukraine.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-02-19
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The Barrier of Uncertainty
Overview: The beautiful woman and the brave man disembark the train at the tiny station in the desert. He is the test pilot of the hypersonic nuclear-powered plane called Cyclone, and she is the physicist studying the strange phenomenon encountered by the first flier of the Cyclone jet, named Kazantsev.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-03-29
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The Adjutant of His Excellency
Overview: The Adjutant of His Excellency is a Soviet television mini-series which was produced in 1969 and is set during the Russian civil war
Genres: Romance War Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-04-07
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Преступление: Нетерпимость
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Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-07-12
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Преступление: Обман
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Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-07-19
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The Man with the Gun
Overview: The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-10-03
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Black Prince
Overview: In the second movie colonel Zorin is trying to find a stolen "Black Prince" diamond.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-06-25
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Веселі Жабокричі
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1973-07-16
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Furtuna
Overview: Story depicting the national liberation struggle of the Albanian people against the Italian and German invaders during World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 1959-02-04
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Man Without a Passport
Overview: A group of Soviet counterintelligence officers manage to neutralize spies sent to the territory of the country to obtain secret information about the construction of a large military-industrial complex in Priozersk.
Genres: Thriller Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-08-14
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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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The Year 18th
Overview: Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-04-21
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Mother and Stepmother
Overview: Once, in search of an easy life, Katerina abandoned her daughter, giving her upbringing to an orphanage. Now, many years later, kind and conscientious, she returns to her native village and appears in the house where her daughter grew up ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-07-05
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Mashenka
Overview: Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-04-10
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The Places Here Are Quiet
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Grigory Svirsky. 1942 year. The Great Patriotic War. The navigator Bratnov was shot down during the war, was captured, fled, returned to his people, was demoted and sent to serve in the construction battalion. His old front-line comrade Major Kabarov accidentally met him and took him to his unit. Kabanov, knowing about the lack of experienced navigators, is seeking to transfer Bratnov to his air force in the Northern Fleet, in the Arctic, to a tiny rocky island — "to the ends of the world."
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-07-12
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The Safety Match
Overview: A man of big status disappears in a small provincial town. An old bored investigator and his young hyperactive assistant are on a trail of a bloody murderer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-08-10
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Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man
Overview: TV version of the Vakhtangov's Theater play. The plot makes fun of secular society and shows what can turn cynical attempts to deceive people if they want to get to power and money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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The Russian Forest
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Leonid Leonov. Young Polya comes to Moscow: she wants to find her father, Professor Vikhrov, and try to understand why her mother broke up with him. Vikhrov is a prominent scientist who has defended the forest from barbaric destruction all his life. The war begins. Professor Vikhrov continues to lecture, proving to students the need to protect the forest. Polya is trying to find out the reasons for the long-standing feud between her father and academician Gratsianskiy. Now, when Vikhrov is already not young and lonely, the professor mentally returns to the past...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-11-09
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Intern
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-07-04
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Gloomy Morning
Overview: The third film in the trilogy ("The Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", "The Gloomy Morning") based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy "The Road to Calvary". About the fate of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the collapse of the Russian Empire and the civil war, which turned the lives of all the heroes of the film narration. Defending Tsaritsyn, the red commander Telegin was seriously wounded. At the hospital, he meets Dasha. After his recovery, the young spouses go together to the Red Army.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-04-26
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The Sisters
Overview: Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-09-24
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Тысяча душ
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-05-12
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Enemies
Overview: Drama based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-12-18
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Человек в штатском
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Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Wind of Freedom
Overview: Based on the operetta of the same name by Isaak Dunayevsky. The port town of one of the small southern countries. After the Nazi occupiers left, the port's berths were empty, the steamers did not smoke, cargo cranes stood. Fearing retaliation for collaborating with enemies, port owner Georg Stan fled the city. After waiting a while and securing the support of local authorities, Stan nonetheless returns - and loading operations begin in the port. While loading oranges, the sailor Yango and the beautiful Stella are preparing for the wedding. Suddenly, Stan makes a proposal to the girl and tricks her into agreeing. Upon learning of the deception, the girl runs away to Yango. Having discovered weapons intended to support fascism in the drawer of the hold, the heroes do everything possible to make the boxes fall to the bottom of the sea.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-07-03
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Anna's Happiness
Overview: Communist Anna Dronova, a participant in the civil war, returns to her native village. Having become the chairman of the village council, Anna rallies the poor around her and fiercely fights with the kulaks for a new life. Meanwhile, a gang of Pantelei Lychkov successfully operates in the vicinity. By killing his own brother Yakov, who took Anna's side, he makes it clear to everyone and especially Anna that nothing wouldn't stop him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-07-19
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A Big Family
Overview: Drama based on the novel by Vsevolod Kochetov “The Zhurbin Family”. The characters of the picture are a large family of hereditary shipbuilders. Three generations of the Zhurbin live under one roof: grandfather Matvei, his son Ilya, three sons of Ilya — Aleksei, Anton and Viktor. In a short time, representatives of the fourth generation are born. The share of the youngest son of Aleksei fall the most severe life tests. The background for family conflicts is the reorganization of production. All Zhurbin's have to change their profession to move on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-11-05
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Martin Iden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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Princess Turandot
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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A Hard Day's Monday
Overview: Having very skillfully organized the food production of "worse quality, but more quantity", the Tonap share partnership began to gain power. Khristoforov, the underground organization's head, is concerned about the spoiled products' sale, and he developed an operation to get closer to the city industrial council: asked for a meeting, and by Monday he ordered Stryapkov to find a gift. However, an incident occurred: the crown from the gold watch of Evlampius Kokin, a master of the sausage shop, was found in the sausage. Kokin, who had long been tormented by fear, without consulting with the leadership, came to the police himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-06-06
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Family Happiness
Overview: Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-06-08
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The Night Before Christmas
Overview: Based on the work of Mykola Hohol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can present his sweetheart.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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There Lived Once a Man
Overview: Old village doctor Ruben Azaryan is going to operate a sick child, although he feels bad. Perhaps this is the last operation in his life. He remembers his youth, the institute, the student Maro in love with him, the war, the front and the first love - nurse Svetlana, who died during a raid on their hospital. Then marriage to Maro, a difficult job as a village doctor. One day he refuses to have an abortion for one widow. The widow commits suicide from shame. Her death still torments Azaryan. But hundreds of people he saved are also remembered, which means that life was not lived in vain ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1968-06-04
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Talents and Admirers
Overview: Negina, a popular but poor actress, receives lessons from her fiancé Meluzov. Prince Dulebov, intending to take advantage of the girl's dire circumstances, suggests sponsorship, gets refused and becomes spiteful. Despite the latter's intrigues, Negina's benefice performance is triumphant and she receives a large sum of money, part of which Dulebov himself has to provide to keep his face. Still, the entrepreneur refuses to prolong her contract. One after another ecstatic admires come to her expressing their affection, among them Narokov, Naluzov and Velikatov. She leaves honest but dull Meluzov and goes away with rich Velikatov, motivated not by greed but by the desire to work on stage, the only thing she is really in love with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-04-20
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The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce
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Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-02-07
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Denouement
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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Me, Francysk Skaryna
Overview: A film about the Belarusian publisher and educator Francis (Georgy) Skaryna, who lived in the first half of the 16th century, the founder of the first Belarusian printing house in Vilnius and the author of fundamental research in the field of linguistics.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-11-30
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Interview with Spring
Overview: Announcer Aza Likhitchenko interviews the heroes of this season's premiere performances.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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My Heart Is in the Highlands
Overview: Screen version of William Saroyan's play about a family of Armenian immigrants during the Great Depression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1976-04-22
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