Boris Tenin
Also Known As: Boris Mikhailovich Tenin, B. Tenin, Борис Тенин, Борис Михайлович Тенин, Б. Тенин
Biography: In the years 1937-1946 - artist of the Leningrad Comedy Theater. Since 1946 - actor of the Studio Theater of the film actor in Moscow. In the years 1955-1962 - actor of the Moscow Theater of Satire. Since 1962 - actor of the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Since 1974 - actor of the Academic Theater named after Vladimir Mayakovsky. In 1933, he taught clowning at the Moscow Circus College, in 1935 he acted as a clown in the arena of the Moscow Circus. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the Tajik SSR (05.01.1944) (from 1941 to 1944, the troupe of the Leningrad Comedy Theater worked in evacuation in Tajikistan). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/06/1950). People's Artist of the USSR (10/22/1981). Boris Mikhailovich was married to actresses Olga Ivanova (first wife of Grigory Alexandrov) and Lydia Sukharevskaya. Boris Tenin suddenly died in Moscow on September 8, 1990, one second from a cardiac arrest. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery. The actor died a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and in October 1991 his wife, Lydia Sukharevskaya, passed away.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kuznetsk, Penzenskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Birthday: March 23, 1905
Deathday: September 08, 1990
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Gender: Male
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The Nice Life
Overview: Fred, a young British sailor who accidentually finds himself in the USSR and after a number of comic adventures he, attracted by Soviet youth enthusiazm, goes to take part in Dneprostroy (building of Dnepr power station).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1932-03-17
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Швейк готовится к бою
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Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Kilometer Zero
Overview: A young music video director, a ballet dancer and a dolce vita seeker - they come to Moscow to conquer the city, but each of them goes their own way. Sooner or later the three of them realize: to get what you are striving for you might risk many things, but friendship and love.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-10-25
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Let's Remember, Comrades
Overview: The story of the oldest director of Lenfilm about the work of the studio.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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Hello, Moscow!
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Genres: Music History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-06-06
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Behind Show Windows
Overview: A funny story about a life of a big department store and its employees and customers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-04-29
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Without Dowry
Overview: Ogudolova, unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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Golden Mountains
Overview: Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) from poor village comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory, which is in the throes of a strike organized by the Bolsheviks (communists). The Bolshevik strikers are led by Ivan Shtraukh (brother of the more famous Russian actor Maxim Shtraukh). At first, the deceitful industrialist's son (Fedosev) involves the naive Poslavsky in an attempt to murder Shtraukh, but the attempt only wounds the heroic organizer. Will Poslavsky follow through with the planned killing, or will he redeem himself by going over to the side of the strikers?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1931-11-06
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The Russian Question
Overview: The film is based on the play by K. Simonov. It is the story of an American journalist who spends time in Russia and sees socialism in action. Upon his return to the U.S., a prestigious editor asks him to write a book about his experience. He receives a handsome advance for the project and he and his fiancée are able to buy a house, a car, and other symbols of the American dream. But the editor’s generosity comes with a caveat: the book must present a negative picture of Soviet society. Will he simply keep the money and do what is expected of him, or will he instead tell the truth?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-03-08
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Shame
Overview: Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s. This film could be considered as a Stalin propaganda film. The plot involves an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1932-11-07
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The Man with the Gun
Overview: The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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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 New Adventures of Schweik
Overview: The New Adventures of Schweik adopted to the WWII reality.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-11-22
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For the Power of the Soviets
Overview: Petya meets his father from a partisan detachment in the Odessa Catacombs.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-08-02
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Lermontov
Overview: Chronicle of the life of Russian poet Michail Lermontov, from the final days of Alexandr Pushkin to the fatal destiny of the poet himself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-07-07
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Nesterka
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Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-09-05
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Alitet Leaves for the Hills
Overview: Mark Donskoy went to the wilds of Siberia to film this Soviet movie about a community that resists the temptations of a wicked American capitalist who wants to exploit their lands.
Genres: War Drama History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-04-10
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Przhevalsky
Overview: A Russian scientist spends a year documenting the natural world in Central Asia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-07-18
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Lace
Overview: Since director Sergei Yutkevich was a longtime lover of American slapstick, his first films were imbued with a playfulness and cheeriness not typical of Russian cinema. And Kruzheva is a good example of that as he illustrates the friendly rivalries between the youths on village in both a very rough and clowning way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-06-01
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The Paradise Apples
Overview: Political pamphlet based on the story of the Finnish writer Martti Larni "Socrates in Helsinki". Spring of 1944. In the paradise, which has long been settled by the philosopher Socrates, a fired soldier Vittori Virten arrives. The philosopher respected the newcomer with great respect, and they even became friends. Once having distinguished himself before God, the heroes get a vacation on Earth and go on a journey: the soldier decides to visit his family in Laconia, and the sage just wanted to see the world — did he think it once, and decided to join the soldier...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-12-09
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Cecile is Dead
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Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-10
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Yakov Sverdlov
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Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-12-12
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Maigret and the Man on the Bench
Overview: Investigating the murder of a resident of the suburbs Louis Touré, Maigret faces the indifference and cruelty of the people surrounding Louis in recent years. The diagnosis and the verdict — all guilty.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-10-29
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Maigret and the Old Lady
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Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-12-01
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Maigret Hesitates
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Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-12-13
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The Death of "Appy Niebuhr"
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Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-12-03
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Life of Klim Samgin
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-11-03
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Yabloko razdora
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Drama
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Song of Happiness
Overview: A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-04-01
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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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