Vasiliy Shukshin
Also Known As: Vasili Shukshin, Василий Шукшин, Vasiliy Shukshin, Vasily Shukshin, Василий Макарович Шукшин
Biography: Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Srostki, Srostinskiy rayon, Sibirskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR
Adult: No
Deathday: October 02, 1974
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And in the Morning They Woke Up
Overview: Eight men, eight stories about the morning after party...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-08-15
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The Red Snowball Tree
Overview: A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-03-25
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The Commissar
Overview: Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-06-06
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When the Trees Were Tall
Overview: The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-12-25
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They Fought for Their Motherland
Overview: In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-11-05
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We, Two Men
Overview: The village teacher asks the driver Gorlov to take her son, a first-grader, to the city and buy him a school suit. Reluctantly yielding to the woman, the driver will make friends with the boy during the trip. He will change the attitude not only towards this boy, but also towards people in general...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-12-03
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Overview: A sadly humorous story about a Siberian tractor driver, Ivan Rastorguyev, traveling with his wife to a Black Sea resort, and about their first visit to Moscow.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-04-02
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By the Lake
Overview: The film is a reflection on the responsibility of man to other people, native nature and the world around us, the problem of preserving Lake Baikal, on the banks of which a large construction project has unfolded. The first half of the 60s of the XX century, the story of the love of young Lena Barmina to an adult respectable person, bearing on his shoulders a heavy burden of responsibility for the activities of a huge enterprise. Construction engineer Chernykh and Lena, the daughter of a scientist, are doing everything to save the lake from harmful and unjustified plums. A difficult relationship develops between them and soon Lena realizes that she is in love. But after learning that Chernykh is married, the girl leaves...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-04-13
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The Two Fedors
Overview: At the end of the Second World War, Fedor is demobilized and returns home where he meets a homeless boy, small Fedor. They decide to live together. The adult works in the building trade and the boy goes to school and looks after the house. They get on very well until Natacha arrives in big Fedor's life. After marrying big Fedor, Natacha tries to win the child's love. But he remains hostile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-12-29
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Yurka, the Pantsless Team
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Dauria
Overview: A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old foundations are crumbling, the process of social stratification is underway and, as a result, some people go to defend the revolution, and others - to fight against it. The main hero is the young Cossack Roman Ulybin. At first, this carefree daredevil is preoccupied only with one problem: whether his sweetheart, Dashutka, is to marry him or a merchant’s son, Alyoshka. Roman is killing time fist-fighting with his rival. But little by little, the young man realizes that the world around him has changed, that people are fighting for equality and social justice, and, being a real Cossack, he can’t remain on the sidelines…
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-05-08
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I Wish to Speak
Overview: The mayor of a village sees her son killed in a gun accident. A successful, dedicated bureuacrat, she must reconcile her desire to build a bridge - and the new housing that will come with it - with the reality of resistance from the townspeople and her own grief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-11-29
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Alyonka
Overview: Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alenka Muratova (Ovodova) is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alenka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-03-22
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The Killers
Overview: The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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What Is It, the Sea?
Overview: An adventures of a young boy in a fishermen village on a sea coast.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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Three Days of Viktor Chernyshyov
Overview: Mid 20th century. Industry is developing rapidly and the need for workers in factories is growing. After graduating from the tenth year, Viktor Chernyshyov, now a city dweller, did not bother to continue his education and went to the plant as a turner. He considered it quite normal that the guys enthusiastically listened to the stories of his peer Kolya, a lounger who boasted of victories over women, and participated in his dubious amusements. Only one of them, Pyotr — a real worker, a doctor, tried to reason with Kolya and the others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-06-03
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A Simple Story
Overview: The war was over. Like many of her female friends, Sasha Potapova was left a widow. It was hard living without a man’s shoulder to lean on, without love and affection, yet no one had ever seen her crying or despairing. For her strong character, the fellow-villagers elected her a collective farm chairwoman. The work, with its cares and worries, helped all but forget about her personal misfortune and woman’s loneliness. And then she fell in love – a bittersweet, unshared love, but happy anyway…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-09-24
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Men's Talk
Overview: Sasha Larionov, is in the eighth grade and still doesn't know that his mother has left the family. Sasha's father, a decent and very honest person, was used to telling people only the truth. But here he doesn't now how to tell his son that the mother left them for another man and therefore explains her long absence from a long business trip. However, soon Sasha finds out the truth and decides to go after his mom, hoping to get her back
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-02-17
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Mishka, Seryoga and I
Overview: Three friends are bored in eighth grade but everything changes after a new teacher arrives to the class.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-12-02
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Liberation: Battle for Berlin
Overview: In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-11-04
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If You Want To Be Happy
Overview: Andrei and Tanya love each other, which is why frequent partings are so difficult for them: Andrei is a test pilot, and Tanya works on television, and both are constantly on business trips. They have two sons — twins. For eight years of marriage, they cannot count a total of three when they were together. And yet they are happy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-04
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Mission
Overview: Agricultural machinery design engineer Mikhail Shcherbakov goes to the countryside instead of taking a vacation. The tractor designed by him does not work in one of the collective farms. Circumstances force him to stay much longer than he expected. Here he meets Klava, who works in the apiary. And far from being on official business, the engineer remains on the collective farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-06-04
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The Golden Echelon
Overview: 1919 year. There is a civil war in Siberia. Taking advantage of the complete confusion, Admiral Kolchak wants to export part of the country's gold reserves abroad. At the very last moment the Bolsheviks find out about it. They decide to intercept the train, but do not have time to properly prepare the operation... The girl Nadya, in whom the head of the train is passionately in love, can save the situation. Several kilometers of railway tracks to the border become a battlefield between white and red.
Genres: War Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-11-04
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The Journalist
Overview: A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of responsibility to those whom he was obliged to protect...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-09-23
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Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Overview: This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-10-21
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Liberation: The Break Through
Overview: A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of the Great Patriotic War from the Battle of the Kursk Bulge to the installation of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag - "Liberation".
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-05-08
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Из Лебяжьего сообщают
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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Эхо далёких снегов
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-02-16
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Lyubov Yarovaya
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Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-11-04
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The Silence of Pelešjan
Overview: A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-09-05
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