Lev Polyakov
Also Known As: Лев Поляков, L. Polyakov, Л. Поляков, 列夫·波利亚科夫
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Morshansk, Tambovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: April 24, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 26, 2001
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Misty Shores
Overview: Fall, 1921. Wrangel's army, defeated in Crimea after a short stay in Turkey, found refuge in Bulgaria. White Guard Colonel lives here with his son and daughter, while his wife and youngest daughter were sheltered by the family of the Bolshevik, who've been sent to Bulgaria for propaganda work among Russian soldiers.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-02-01
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Bespredel
Overview: Using an elaborate system of denunciation, the chief of the Zone keeps his prisoners in check. A new inmate, allegedly imprisoned for speculating on postage stamps, tries to rebel against the system.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-06-06
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Kreutzer Sonata
Overview: A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-07-22
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How Is It Going, Crucians?
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Air Pirates
Overview: The chief of the airline agency gives the command to the special team not to drink, not to stand in the drafts and not to have contact with the girls, as these guys will have to hijack their own plane ... In order to identify weaknesses in the aviation services. During its implementation, our heroes are faced with real terrorists - this was not taken into account.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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War and Peace
Overview: A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Genres: History Drama War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-04-28
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War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Overview: As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he is marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party. The French are defeated by Kutuzov in the Battle of Krasnoi. Andrei is recognized and is brought to his estate. He forgives Natasha on his deathbed. She reunites with Pierre and they marry as Moscow is being rebuilt.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-04
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The Rockets Should Not Fly Up
Overview: Germany, 1944. A group of international soldiers are trying to prevent Germans from finalizing research and development of FAU-2 rockets.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-06-06
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One Chance in One Thousand
Overview: In German-occupied Crimea during WWII, a group of Russian soldiers employ unusual tactics to steal classified documents from their enemies.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Dangerous for Your Life!
Overview: A funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible youn man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-08-12
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Waterloo
Overview: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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Little Tragedies
Overview: A feature film based on the three-part adaptation of the poetic and dramatic cycle of Alexander Pushkin
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-06-30
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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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Shine, Shine, My Star
Overview: This late 60s Russian films is set in 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution. Folks had the choice between red and white, revolution and contra revolution. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but social life and art. While others just want to wash away their gloom, he reflects on the everyday sorrows and the role of art in that time of changes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-06-06
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Front in the Rear of the Enemy
Overview: A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. Colonel Mlynsky is now in charge of an international clandestine operation. He is the commander of the special group of partisan-fighters. Mlynsky is organizing the Russian, Polish and Czechoslovakian partisans to join forces for an attack behind the enemy lines.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-12-20
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Incognito from St.Petersburg
Overview: A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-07-17
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European Story
Overview: Two candidates are vying for the post of mayor of one of the major Western European cities - the Social Democrat Dr. Hayden and the "free nationalist" Alden. On the eve of the election, an independent journalist receives documents confirming Alden's connection with the secret services. He becomes the object of blackmail, but does not change his intentions to expose Alden.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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The Time of Sons
Overview: About a family of metallurgical scientists, the head of which is Academician Cordin, having survived a difficult crisis, and ultimately agrees with the ideas of his two sons...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-04-01
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Midshipman Panin
Overview: It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasily Panin, a junker of a school of naval engineers, is one of those entrusted with this dangerous task.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-05-23
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Ballad of a Hussar
Overview: A young girl decides to join a Hussar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man, she proves herself an excellent, even heroic soldier, but complications ensue when her real identity is revealed.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-11-11
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What Taiga Was Silent About
Overview: Ad ventures of a few brave boys deep in Russian taiga.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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The Evening Labyrinth
Overview: A funny comedy about a group of inspectors preparing to build a labyrinth in a small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Velvet Season
Overview: In the fall of 1938, three former fighters of the international brigade — russian Shukhov, frenchman Henri and american Liz — fall into a resort town on the border of Spain and France. Having met a nurse who is supposed to send Spanish children to Corsica, they decide to help her. However, a fascist rebellion suddenly breaks out in the city, and the children are held hostage to criminals.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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How Do I Call You Now?..
Overview: A story about a brave Soviet spy working behind the enemy lines during WWII.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-06-01
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The Casket of Maria Medici
Overview: While investigating a murder the police captain discovers a relation with the events of a medieval times...
Genres: Mystery Action History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-12-06
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Stories About Lenin
Overview: A few stories about Vladimir Lenin.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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Boys
Overview: A story based on a few chapters from the classical "The Brothers Karamazov" novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-06-27
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The Variegateds Case
Overview: Sergey's girlfriend desperately wants him to quit dangerous police job. But Sergey doesn't want to abandon his new case which proves to be quite difficult.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-04-21
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Rasplyuev's Days of Fun
Overview: A clerk fakes his own death in order to get a big fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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And on the Pacific Ocean...
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-14
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Расставания
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-02-11
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Two Lives
Overview: In the center of the film - two lives, two destinies. A simple, illiterate soldier Vostrikov of the Tsar's Army during the years of Soviet power grew into a devoted fighter of the revolution, he became a general of the Soviet Army, respected by all. A guards officer, a brilliant prince Naschyokin, who fought against Soviet power, emigrated from his native country and eventually became a lackey in a port restaurant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-10-16
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Escape of Mr. McKinley
Overview: A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it?
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-15
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The Outlaw Ballad
Overview: 1830s, Moldavia. The groom Todor fell in love with his master's maid, Yustinia. Having found himself in hard labor, Todor organized an escape and, with a group of like-minded people, took refuge in the codry. So, under the leadership of Ataman Todor Tobultok, the Moldavian rebels, who called themselves haiduks, began to fight against the tyranny of the landowners.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: mo
Release Date: 1959-03-21
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The Roundabout
Overview: Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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It Can't Be!
Overview: The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-10-23
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The Ocean
Overview: Three classmates of the naval school met many years later in the Northern Fleet. Their fates were different. One of them became the commander of a cruiser, while the other two had complex personal problems. In these circumstances, everyone behaves differently, sometimes not opening up from the best side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-07-22
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The Places Here Are Quiet
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Grigory Svirsky. 1942 year. The Great Patriotic War. The navigator Bratnov was shot down during the war, was captured, fled, returned to his people, was demoted and sent to serve in the construction battalion. His old front-line comrade Major Kabarov accidentally met him and took him to his unit. Kabanov, knowing about the lack of experienced navigators, is seeking to transfer Bratnov to his air force in the Northern Fleet, in the Arctic, to a tiny rocky island — "to the ends of the world."
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-07-12
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The Diamond Arm
Overview: A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-05-23
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The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers
Overview: The action takes place in 1920 during the Civil War. Crimea on the eve of complete liberation from the White Guards. Returning from patrol, the four brave “elusive” knocked down an airplane. In the field bag of the captured pilot, they find a secret report, which speaks of the existence of defensive fortifications around the coastal city, which the Reds have yet to take. Young heroes get the task to get a map of fortifications and go to the city...
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-11-04
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Wild Honey
Overview: 1943 year. On the instructions of the military newspaper, the photojournalist Varvara Knyazhich goes to the front line to take some pictures of the knocked-down powerful German tank "Tiger". In a combat situation, she has to face a difficult relationship between officers and subordinates. During the execution of a journalistic assignment, Varya is literally two steps from death. But it is here that she is destined to find her love...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-07-10
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