Aleksandr Borisov
Also Known As: Aleksandr Borisov, Александр Борисов, A. Borisov, А. Борисов
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Birthday: May 01, 1905
Deathday: May 19, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Abyss
Overview: Family troubles, reproaches from acquaintances for stupidity and inability to live, illness of children, death of his wife brought Kirill Kiselnikov down. Flattered by a bribe, he commits a forgery. Betrayal of ideals is costly: the unfortunate person loses his mind. And that is not all…
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-05-04
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War and Peace
Overview: A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Genres: History Drama War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-04-28
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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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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Overview: In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets of Andrei. At the last minute, she regrets and abandons her plans to elope with Anatol. Bolkonsky hears of this and declares their betrothal is over. Pierre, trying to calm her down, suddenly announces he loves her.
Genres: History Romance Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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Одна ночь
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-05-06
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Green carriage
Overview: Varvara Aksenkova - the great Russian actress of the first half of the XIX century. Her tragic creative fate and early death served as the basis for this film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-06-06
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Mussorgsky
Overview: Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-11-27
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Rimsky-Korsakov
Overview: Biographical film about the composer Rimskiy-Korsakov. Belongs to the gallery of costume historical and biographical films of the postwar cinema of the Soviet Union. The film tells about the last two decades in the life of Russian composer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-08-24
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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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The Station Master
Overview: In the early 19th century a traveler returns to the remote outpost he’d visited years before, anxious to see the station master’s lovely daughter once again. There the brokenhearted old man tells him the story of the dashing fellow from Petersburg who whisked her away one winter morning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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Maksim Perepelitsa
Overview: Maxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-12-12
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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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Vanyushin's Children
Overview: Based on the play of the same name by Sergei Naydenov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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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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Invitation to Life
Overview: About the forestry scientist Ivan Vikhrov, who devoted his life to the forest and the fight against the fact that “forestry is turning into ordinary forest management.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-03-03
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Fortune's Fool
Overview: Performance by the Leningrad Academic Theater named after. A.S. Pushkin based on the comedy by I.S. Turgenev.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Here Is Our House
Overview: A young and ambitious engineer comes into conflict with old-fashioned structures that don't acknowledge his honesty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-02-04
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Hot Heart
Overview: A love story based on a classic play by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-02-20
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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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Spring Chores
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-03-03
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Belinsky
Overview: A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production of the film was completed in 1951, but it was not released until 1953, following the reshooting of various scenes demanded by Stalin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-06-04
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In the Town of S.
Overview: A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-10-15
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New Year's Abduction
Overview: The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert. A police captain investigates the kidnapping and listens to complaints from the “unkidnapped” artists.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-13
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Alexander Popov
Overview: A biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer, inventor of radio communications Alexander Semenovich Popov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-05-03
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The Forest
Overview: Based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Ostrovsky. Two poor actors, Neschastlivtsev and Schastlivtsev, — no money, no work, no tobacco and that, having put on fake orders, armed with a pistol and a guitar, decide to visit the rich Neschastlivtsev's aunt — the landowner Gurmyzhskaya...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-05-04
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Karpukhin
Overview: The driver Karpukhin came under investigation because of a tragic accident, as a result of which a person died. The young investigator, believing Karpukhin, undertook to defend the defendant, but at some point yielded to someone else's opinion, after which the accused had to prove his innocence himself...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-15
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The Soul Calls
Overview: Two old Leningrad workers, Sukhov and Solyanov, have a long-standing friendship — they worked at the same plant, lived in the neighborhood. Now Solyanov, at the insistence of his son, decides to retire. But it is not so easy to part with his native plant, which, as it turned out, still needs an old personnel officer...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-10-30
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Road of Truth
Overview: An optimistic drama about an ordinary Moscow worker who, thanks to her integrity, intelligence and justice, won everyone’s trust and was elected as a people’s judge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-09-13
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Знойный июль
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-12-27
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They Live Nearby
Overview: Once upon a time, young scientists Kalitin and Danilov were friends, but a quarrel separated them. The circumstances of the quarrel remained unclear to everyone until the end. But everyone thought they were right. Years have passed. Professor Kalitin’s son, working under his leadership, moves to the institute headed by Danilov. Kalitin learns about this decision of Igor on the day of the arrival of his friend and colleague Vasin. On this occasion, old friends gather at the professor’s house, including Luzgin, Kalitin’s boss. Reflections on his life help the professor understand his son’s choice, oppose the unprincipled careerist Luzgin and make peace with Danilov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-05-06
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Yesterday, Today and Always
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Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-05
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The Stone Guest
Overview: A TV play based on A.S. Pushkin's play "The Stone Guest" staged by the Leningrad State Academic Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-02-04
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