Vladimir Balashov
Also Known As: Vladimir Pavlovich Balashov, V. Balashov, В. Балашов
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Izhevskoye, Ryazan Governorate, RSFSR [now Ryazan Oblast, Russia]
Birthday: July 10, 1920
Deathday: December 23, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Костёр бессмертия
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-08-22
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Silver Strings
Overview: A film based on the biography of the famous Russian balalaika player Vasili Vasilevich Andreev (1867-1918), a self-taught virtuoso musician, who brought balalaika to the concert stage.
Genres: History Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Песенка в лесу
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-02-05
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Overview: Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-11-11
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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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Ivan Franko
Overview: Historical and biographical film about the life and work of Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Oppenheim Family
Overview: Directed by Grigori Roshal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-01-02
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Toktogul
Overview: About the life of the famous Kyrgyz akyn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-11-01
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A Noisy Household
Overview: A comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-05-15
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The Most, the Most, the Most
Overview: Many different birds and animals have long settled on the shores of Lake Chad. One day they decided to choose a king for themselves and chose Lion. They called him the bravest, the strongest, the wisest and the most beautiful. Then a son was born to the Lion and the Lioness - a little Lion Cub. When the Lion Cub could walk by himself, he met a hyena who told the Lion Cub that he was a Lion, which means he was the king of animals, which means he was the bravest, strongest, wisest, most beautiful.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-04-23
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Carnival
Overview: A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-11-08
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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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Flames on the Volga
Overview: Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-02-23
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My Destiny
Overview: Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-05-02
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No Margin for Error
Overview: A criminal story which happened in a small Russian town.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-10-06
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Girl No. 217
Overview: A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-04-09
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Exodus
Overview: It shows how the October Revolution affected the hearts of the Mongolian people, and how they defeated the white bandit Baron Ungern at the beginning of the revolution and put an end to his evil activities.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-02-19
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The Trial of Madmen
Overview: Germany, the 1930s. A young scientist, Professor Johannes Werner discovers rays of life-giving power. The scientist refuses to give up his invention for military use and, breaking the equipment, runs to the USA, where he hides for a long time under the name of Martini. One day, after being invited to a military industrial concern to see a new European invention, Werner meets his former pupil Huber. Huber, a traitor and fascist, has restored the professor's apparatus according to stolen plans and is demonstrating it as his own invention. Werner rejects the proposal for joint cooperation and, at a meeting in the hall of scientific associations, reveals his real name and resolutely reveals the criminal intentions of the revanchists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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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 Shadow Near the Pier
Overview: In one of the southern ports, state security authorities detained a spy with a plan for the object of sabotage — a floating dock, prepared for towing to a remote port. Major Lyudov, according to a number of signs, realizes that a whole group of enemies is operating in the city. With the help of Rakitina, the librarian of the floating dock, Lyudov and his assistant state security lieutenant Savelyev, they manage to unravel the tangle of espionage ties and prevent the crime.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-12-12
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The Magic Treasure
Overview: Based on the Buryats - Mongolian fairy tale by Malyarevsky. Once a brave and honest shepherd Bair rescued from the claws of a black vulture a magic bird. The bird thanked the shepherd by presenting him with a magic chest. All that fell into this chest, it became new and doubled. The greedy merchant Galsan heard about the wonderful gift of the bird and deceived the chest from Bair.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-03-14
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Maximka
Overview: Saved by Russian sailors black boy turned out to be the smart and kind nipper.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1952-06-19
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The Ship Commander
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-04-05
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The Artamonov Case
Overview: Fabrikant, Ilya Artamonov of the former serfs. His desire to strengthen and develop the business knows no obstacles. He is still associated with the peasants and craftsmen, but with his death, this relationship ends. Between Peter Artamonov, his son, who became the owner of the factory, and the workers grows a wall of enmity. The first political speeches are brewing. On the side of the proletariat becomes the heir artemovskogo case Ilya Artamonov, Jr.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Мечты сбываются
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-07-12
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The Invasion
Overview: A Russian village struggles through the German occupation during World War II in this tense drama from the Soviet Union. As the town doctor finds his home has been taken by German troops, his daughter becomes involved in the anti-Axis resistance, and his son -- confined to a mental hospital -- escapes to fight the invading armies.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-02-22
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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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First Trials
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-07-28
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Страницы былого
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Storm on the Land
Overview: A story about a group of children and their life set at the small Russian seashore town in the year of 1913.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-02-05
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It Happened in the Donbass
Overview: The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbass and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-07-11
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The Path of the Golden Beasts
Overview: The gold treasure found during archaeological excavations on the Tsarsky Kurgans in Kazakhstan was stolen. Fearing that unique things will be melted into ingots, the museum curator Georgy Zimin himself begins an investigation, but as a result of a non-professional investigation loses his beloved woman.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-03-19
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Wreck of the emirate
Overview: 1920. Western countries are trying to use the Bukhara khanate — a former protectorate of tsarist Russia — to fight the Soviet regime. Arrived in Tashkent by M. V. Frunze and V. V. Kuibyshev to organize the masses to fight counter-revolutionaries and agents of foreign intelligence services.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-06-20
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Loneliness
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-03
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Discovery
Overview: This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. The events in it are developing in 20 years during the Civil war, when he sent a geologist searching for copper in the coal mines of the merchant Stasova, and in the 70s, when the head of the Institute. His thoughts and actions as if he reconciles his past, revolutionary romanticism 20-h his life's work was the discovery of a new chemical element. He believes in getting it even when the explosion in the laboratory takes the life of his closest friend and colleague, when his grown-up adopted son, becoming also a chemist, suffered during the experiments. Believe when testing on military ground again fail…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-06-22
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How the Steel Was Tempered
Overview: This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-09-28
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New Attraction
Overview: The little boy dreams of devoting himself to a circus, which struck him with the fearlessness of artists working with wild animals, and, despite the constant risk and disorder of this profession, is achieving its goal.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-05-13
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Private Aleksandr Matrosov
Overview: The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy's bunker with his body.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-05-12
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Year as Long as Life
Overview: The film takes place in Europe in the 19th century. The film shows the popular uprisings that took place there, as well as the search for truth and the confrontation of Karl Marx and opponents of the revolution.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-07-16
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The Man from Planet Earth
Overview: Biographical film story about the first Russian space explorer, inventor scientist, rocket-maker K. E. Tsiolkovsky.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-01-16
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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Overview: This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-10-10
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Капитан «Старой черепахи»
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Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-12-25
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Крутые ступени
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-07-25
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Have You Forgotten What We Used to Play?
Overview: This short film tells the story of a childhood, of a friendship and of growing up. A young man returns to the village where he grew up and discovers that both he and the place have changed. Yet, he soon finds himself immersed in his memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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Anomaly
Overview: Based on Clifford Simak's story "All Flesh is Grass". In the small settlement strange things lately are created, and soon the settlement is cut off from the outside world by an insuperable wall. The scientist Alexander Kartin tries to investigate the unusual phenomenon.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-06-01
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Чужое имя
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Genres: Drama Mystery War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-06-20
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Let's Remember This Day
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Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-02-26
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Морские рассказы
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-09-18
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Silver Trumpets
Overview: The former Red Army commander begins by reading the first manuscripts to his friends, and soon becomes a famous children's writer.
Genres: Family History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-03-22
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