Nikolai Plotnikov
Also Known As: Николай Плотников
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vyazma, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire
Birthday: October 24, 1897
Deathday: February 03, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Пролог
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-12-03
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Vanka
Overview: 9-year-old boy complains about his hard life in a letter to his grandfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-02-12
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The Seagull
Overview: Based on the play of the same name by Anton Chekhov. About the searches and doubts of the Russian intelligentsia at the end of the 19th century. Events unfold on the estate of Pyotr Sorin, which brought together representatives of secular society - actress Irina Arkadina, the host's sister and her lover, the famous writer Trigorin. Sorin’s nephew, Konstantin Treplev, in love with a neighbor girl Nina Zarechnaya, who dreams of becoming an actress, writes for her a play that she plays in the scenery of Sorin’s garden.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-02-14
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Generation of Victors
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-11-05
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Your Contemporary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-01-22
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Nine Days of One Year
Overview: Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-03-05
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It Can Not Be Forgotten
Overview: The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy agents. The story is pertinent due to resurgence of ultra-nationalist underground activity in Western Ukraine after World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-07-05
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My Apprenticeship
Overview: Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-09-12
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Academician Ivan Pavlov
Overview: Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov’s dismay, he orders the destruction of a beautiful apple orchard. 1894: Experimenting on dogs, Pavlov tries to comprehend the interaction between nerves and external signals governing digestion. In 1904, he formulates the principles of conditional reflexes. When Zvantsev, an opponent of Pavlov’s materialist worldview, leaves the laboratory, the scientist hires Varvara Ivanova who becomes his most reliable assistant. 1912: Pavlov receives an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. 1917: Despite Pavlov’s political scepticism, the Bolshevik administration treats him with great respect.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-02-21
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My Universities
Overview: My Universities (Moi universiteti) is the last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in My Childhood and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Gorki reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom. The "university" of the title is actual the school of Hard Knocks, as Gorky goes to work in the shipyards and commisserates with the hard-drinking, philosophical dockworkers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-03-27
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Wedding
Overview: According to the eponymous vaudeville by A.P. Chekhov. Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov, who has been caring for Dasha all summer, has dined every day with them and has proved himself to be his bridegroom, is not going to marry at all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-06-15
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The Paris Commune
Overview: "Paris Commune," 1870-1871. Poor working class in Paris rises up against their oppressors as France is defeated by Germany in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian war.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-12-20
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Lenin in 1918
Overview: Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in Russia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-04-06
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The Vow
Overview: The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-07-29
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The Fall of Berlin
Overview: Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-01-21
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The Oppenheim Family
Overview: Directed by Grigori Roshal.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-01-02
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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 Lonely White Sail
Overview: Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-11-25
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Paths of Enemies
Overview: In a Kazakh village at the beginning of Soviet power, a wealthy kulak (landowner) voluntarily denounces his opposition to the new regime and hands over his large home to be a new school for the children of the villagers. But three people in the village have difficulty believing that their class enemy is now their friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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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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