Bruno Frejndlikh
Also Known As: Bruno Frejndlikh, Бруно Фрейндлих
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Birthday: October 10, 1909
Deathday: July 07, 2002
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Опознание
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-12-02
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Cement
Overview: About the restoration of a cement plant destroyed during the Civil War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-07
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The House is Being Built
Overview: The plot is based on a conflict that arose at the architectural design institute.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Two Chapters from the Family Chronicle
Overview: Before leaving for the USSR, a West German journalist meets his father, who was in Russia in 1922, where he met, fell in love with and lost forever a Russian translator. Sixty years later, the son follows his father's route...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-03-07
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Soviet adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-06-02
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Twelfth Night
Overview: Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-11-21
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Sofya Kovalevskaya
Overview: Follows the life of the Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-11-05
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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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Don Quixote
Overview: Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-05-23
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A Declaration of Love
Overview: The main character is a talented, but timid writer of the Filippok experiencing with his country the difficult years of revolution, devastation and war. Adversity helps him overcome the unrequited and faithful love for the widow of Commissioner Zinochka, who bossily manages his career, not hesitating to start novels with other men. Filippok will describe the story of his life in a book that at the end of days will be presented by a terminally ill, but still dearly beloved wife, with gratitude for the experience.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-08-15
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The Flight
Overview: The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the run" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to Russia. Some of them have understood that they can't live outside Russia and go back maybe to be happy, maybe not, some go back to face sure death for their crimes, some don't go back and know that are going to miss homeland forever, some are comfortably well off (are they?) in exile. Sentimental without syrup, tragic and comical at the same time.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-14
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Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show
Overview: Young detective investigates a complex crime starting with a two movie tickets found in the pocket of one of the criminals.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-05-22
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Stalingrad
Overview: The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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The Dead Season
Overview: Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development of which he began during WW2 experimenting on war prisoners. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who during the war escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together they must identify and stop him before he finishes and unleashes his weapon of mass destruction.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Young Russia
Overview: The film is set in the era of Peter I The Great, on the Russian North. The plot revolves around the fate of three people: Captain-Commander Sylvester Ievlev, customs army lieutenant Athanasius Krykov vaster and-White Sea Ivan Ryabov. Ivan Ryabov - a real historical character. In 1701, during the defense of Arkhangelsk from the Swedish military squadron of Charles XII, accomplished the feat as a vaster under the guise of traitors planted swedish flagship aground under fire from shore batteries.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-01-04
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Different Fortunes
Overview: Young Leningraders, yesterday’s schoolchildren, are entering adulthood. Sonya is in love with Styopa, but he loves Tanya, and Tanya prefers Fedya. The rejected Styopa leaves for a distant Siberian city and starts working at the factory, studying at the evening institute. Sonya leaves after him and gets a job at the same factory. Tanya and Fedya, having married, go to college, and the young husband has to earn some money as a driver to support his family. The selfish nature of Tanya refuses to put up with the modest position in which the newlyweds are forced to be, and she starts an affair with an elderly composer...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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Affairs of the Past
Overview: A finding of an old briefcase in a ruined house in 1970s leads to a treasure, hidden in the 1920s.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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The End of 'Saturn'
Overview: A second part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.
Genres: War Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-05-10
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Timur and His Team
Overview: A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-05-01
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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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Tchaikovsky
Overview: The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, of his friendship with Baroness von Meck, an outstanding woman of her time, who for many years was Tchaikovsky’s guardian angel. The film also includes retrospections of the composer’s childhood and adolescent years, with Tchaikovsky’s life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-08-31
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They Knew Mayakovsky
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-06-19
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State Offender
Overview: A young detective is trying to find a hiding Nazi collaborationist who is responsible for deaths of a hundreds of people during WWII.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-11-09
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The Cutlass
Overview: The teenager Misha Polyakov, being with his mother in a Ukrainian village on vacation with his grandmother and about to return home to Petrograd, offers his best friend Genka to go with him. Suddenly, a white gang of Nikitsky bursts into the village and attacks Misha’s house, where Commissioner Polevoy lives. The purpose of Nikitskiy (aka Nikolskiy) is a dagger located at Polevoy. Saving the commissioner, Misha learns from him the history and secret of the weapon, and receives it for storage with a request to solve the secret. Having returned with adventures to Petrograd, Misha Polyakov with friends begins to unravel the riddle of the dagger, in the handle of which is encrypted text.
Genres: Mystery Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-11-26
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Heroes of Shipka
Overview: Heroes of Shipka was the first solo effort for Soviet director Sergei Vasilyev, who had previously collaborated with his late brother Georgi. As head of the Leningrad Film Studios, Vasilyev was obliged to traffic in propaganda, but he never forgot how to make his material entertaining. The film is set in 1887 during the pivotal battle between the Russians and the Turks at the Shipka Pass. Stressing the solidarity of the Soviet states, tribute is paid to the courageous Bulgarian volunteers who helped the Russians fend off their mutual enemy. American critics were impressed by Heroes of Shipka, but felt that the film would have been twice as effective had it been lensed in Cinemascope rather than "standard aspect."
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-11-09
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It Doesn't Concern Me
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Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-12-12
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Time to Fly
Overview: Nothing like this has ever happened and could not happen in any of the airports. However, according to the authors of the film-parable, this tragicomic story is directly related to reality. It turns out that in order to properly fly airplanes, sometimes it is enough to fly to one chief. Of course with his seats. However, it does not prevent that the passengers themselves are very eager to go on a flight…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-18
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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 Living Corpse
Overview: Based on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The Russian nobleman Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov cannot put up with the hypocrisy of his environment, but is powerless to fight it. He begins to drink, leaves the house and gradually falls. The behavior of Protasov helps to bring his wife Liza closer to a longtime friend of the family, Viktor Karenin. Unable to endure the lies and humiliation associated with the upcoming divorce proceedings, Fedya pretends to commit suicide and seemed to forever leave his family. It is only due to the accident that it becomes known that Fedor Protasov is alive. Liza, reconciled with the death of her husband and became the wife of Karenin, is summoned to court on charges of duality. To stop the stupid and deceitful comedy of the court and rid the shame of innocent people, Protasov shoots himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1952-06-16
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Fathers and Sons
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-05-04
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Esop
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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While a Person is Alive
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-02-08
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Two Captains
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Veniamin Kaverin. From childhood, Sanya Grigoryev was able to achieve success in any business. He grew up a courageous and brave man. The dream of finding the remnants of Captain Tatarinov’s expedition led him to the ranks of polar explorers. The life of Captain Grigoryev is full of heroic events: he flew over the Arctic, fought against the Nazis. He was in danger, had to endure temporary defeats, but the hero’s persistent and purposeful character helps him to keep his vow made to himself in childhood: “Fight and seek, find and not give up.”
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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Thunderstorm Over Belaya
Overview: The film is set in 1919. The film tells about an episode of the Civil War, when the troops under the command of M. V. Frunze took Ufa away from the White Guards.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-11-04
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Nikolay Simonov's World
Overview: The film is a monograph about the life and work of the great Russian actor. Actors, theater figures, relatives and friends remember working with him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-02-24
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The Life of Beethoven
Overview: A biographical film about the life and work of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-05-08
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