Konstantin Adashevsky
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
Deathday: June 01, 1987
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Tambu-Lambu
Overview: The adventures of two guys looking for a man who left his address book in a telephone booth.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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Russian Ballerina
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Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1947-01-28
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The Rivals
Overview: A young talented athlete Natalia Ozernikova, having retired from swimming due to age, began to practice single kayaking. She loves her job, devoting many hours of grueling training to it. But at the competitions she does not manage to rise above the second place in any way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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The Twelve Months
Overview: A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Chief of Chukotka
Overview: Young patriotic young man ends up in the on Chukotka right after the civil war, where he intends to spread ideas of justice and equality among the natives. As it happens, instead he learn the local capitalist ways, and he start profitable fur trading with US, Japanese and other merchants.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-04-22
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The Boys from Leningrad
Overview: Comedy about brothers Vesnushkin, Sasha and Vasya, who are playing for one team in a National Soccer Competition. However, Sasha falls in love with a beautiful girl and loses his confidence just before the final game, so his brother has to take the lead on the field in order to save the game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-06-06
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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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Bracelet-2
Overview: Bracelet-2 is a grey trotter at a Russian race track stable. Daily beatings from a cold-hearted trainer turns him into an unreliable emotional wreck, and in race after race he breaks his trot and finishes at a gallop, resulting in disqualification. To the trainer Bracelet is worthless, so when World War II breaks out and Soviet Army representatives come to the track to requisition horses for the front, the trainer is only too happy to be rid of him. Now, instead of a racing sulky, Bracelet is forced to pull heavy carts and sleighs laden with munitions. Gradually he resigns to his fate...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-06-06
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All the Evidence is Against Him
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-05-12
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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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Dead Souls
Overview: In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-12-10
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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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Царевич Проша
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Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-18
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Man in a Shell
Overview: The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a case, on the principle: “no matter what happens”. By this principle, he literally "terrorized" the gymnasium and the villagers. Hope appeared when Varenka arrived in the village - “not a girl, but marmalade”, although she was already aged, and “did not mind being married, even if only to a teacher of the Greek language”.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-05-25
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Let the Fireweed Bloom!..
Overview: A touching story about the friendship of guys who help two lonely old people meet after almost half a century of separation.
Genres: Family Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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Simple People
Overview: A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-12-31
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Moonstone
Overview: Geological expedition is looking for a rare element in Pamir mountains.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-11-05
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Musicians of the Same Regiment
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Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-09-13
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This is the Music...
Overview: A young graduate of a Musical teacher's training school, having got an allocation to one of the collective farms of Nonblack Soil Zone, she goes there with one desire return to city as soon as possible and continue her career of pop singer. Villagers are rejoiced by arrival of a new club head, and do all their best to make her stay: give good lodging, telephone, color TV-set, and even accordion. And the farms head (B.Nevzorov) is not intended to let her go before the set date, moreover, he falls in love with her. A skeptical modern city girl, mixing with villagers and step-by-step delving into their routine life and chores, gets filled with local beauties and engulfing feeling towards a young farms head, starts hesitating.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-06-06
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The Nightingale
Overview: Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes are integrated in this marvelous Russian adaptation by fairytale master Nadezhda Kosheverova.
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-06-01
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Fear of Misery - No Happiness
Overview: A musical based on Russian folklore and fairytales.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-12-25
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The Gadfly
Overview: Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization “Young Italy”, envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and is jealous of his bride Gemma. He talks about this at a confession to a priest, as a result of which gendarmes take revolutionaries under arrest...
Genres: Drama Action War Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-04-12
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Mikhail Lomonosov
Overview: A biopic about the life of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Russian polymath, scientist and writer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-05-05
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Ten
Overview: The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king. But unlike many “suitors”, selfish thoughts are alien to Christian-Theodore. He is sincerely fascinated by her beauty and releases his Shadow, hoping to get a faithful helper in his quest to marry the Princess. But the Shadow is the embodiment of egoism, greed and meanness. Quickly betraying the scholar, he marries the Princess himself and takes the royal throne.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-09-18
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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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12 Chairs
Overview: Who was the first to bring the great novel "12 Chairs" to the screen? You say "Leonid Gaidai" - and it will be a mistake. In our country, the first director was Alexander Belinsky (Leningrad television, 1966). Filming the favorite books of millions is a difficult task. The audience knows the plot in detail. Winged phrases have long gone to the people. Everyone has their own idea of the main characters. In general, dissatisfied will be sure. So the version of "12 chairs", proposed by Alexander Belinsky, of course, will not suit everyone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-12-31
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I'm an Actress
Overview: A film about the great Russian actress Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya (1864–1910).
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-12-01
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The Girl from Leningrad
Overview: 1939-1940 Finnish war. In the very first days, a group of female volunteers goes to the front. Young nurses and nurses in the hospital and on the front line selflessly help doctors to save the wounded soldiers, with weapons in their hands, take part in the fight against the enemy. In severe trials, the friendship and love of the film's characters is tempered and strengthened.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-05-19
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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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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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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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The Girlfriends
Overview: Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-02-19
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Street Is Full of Surprises
Overview: Chief accountant Porfiry Petrovich Smirnov-Alyansky, who took a good walk on the anniversary of his colleague cashier Ivan Zakharovich Vodnev, climbs into the traffic controller's booth and disrupts traffic on one of the streets of Leningrad. However, the guard Vasiliy Shaneshkin mistakenly delivers to the police station not an escaped offender, but a quite decent cashier. In addition, Vodnev, offended by the police, turns out to be the father of the bride Shaneshkin — Katya. Vasiliy admits his guilt, but, not daring to explain himself, leaves the angry Ivan Zakharovich with bad thoughts about the Soviet police. Fortunately, the young sergeant will soon have an opportunity to prove to others the responsibility and conscientiousness of the police officers.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-01-21
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Zhambyl
Overview: The film tells about the life and work of the famous singer of the Kazakh people akyn Dzhambul Dzhabayev.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-05-25
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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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His Time Will Come
Overview: Kazakh scientist and traveler, Chokan Valikhanov studied at St. Petersburg University and was well known in Russia. When sent to war against the Kazakhs, Valikhanov was forced to make a choice between Tzar and native land.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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Rebellious Outpost
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-06
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Angle of Incidence
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-11-01
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The Red Diplomat
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Хозяин
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-09-06
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Katerina Izmailova
Overview: Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a younger woman. Banned by Stalin for its bleak portrait of Soviet life, Katerina Izmailova was not given a Russian staging for over 40 years; its Metropolitan Opera debut did not occur until 1994. Dmitri Shostakovich also wrote the screenplay for the screen version of Katerina Izmailova.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-11-19
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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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