Andrei Abrikosov
Also Known As: А. Абрикосов
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andrei Lvovich Abrikosov (14 November 1906 – 21 October 1973) was a Soviet stage and film actor. In 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize. He appeared in 39 films between 1931 and 1972. His son, Grigori Abrikosov, also was a film actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrei Abrikosov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Simferopol, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Birthday: November 14, 1906
Deathday: October 21, 1973
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Gender: Male
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Alexander Nevsky
Overview: When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-11-24
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The Drummer's Fate
Overview: A young boy is trying to find his family and fights enemies of the state.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-12-06
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Anna
Overview: Yasha, who likes Anna, accomodates siberian Pavel Kuganov, which later becomes a class-conscious worker in a factory. Anna refuses Yasha's offer of marriage and he therefore runs off to Siberia. After Pavel is hailed as a hero because he survives a fire accident in factory (which is in fact effect of his sabotage), Anna marries him. Pavel then becomes a reckless communist careerist, but only on surface. In fact, he is a traitor of the country and a spy, and gives Anna's party ID card to anti-communist movement. In spite of that, Anna is expelled from the communist party. Yasha returns from Siberia, only to find her love Anna desperate. They reveal the truth about Pavel (that he is a kulak who killed a kolchoz co-op leader), which means an end for Pavel.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-04-07
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The Sword and the Dragon
Overview: Paralyzed since birth, Ilya can only watch helplessly as his village is plundered by barbarians. But when a mysterious traveler arrives with a magic elixir that restores him to full health, Ilya begins an adventure to protect the village and the royal family from harm.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-09-09
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Ruslan and Ludmila
Overview: The film is based on the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s poem of the same name. In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, daughter of Prince Vladimir, the girl is kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Chernomor and the witch Naina. Three former suitors for her hand set out, as does Ruslan, to rescue Ludmila...
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-10-12
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The Tale of Chapayev
Overview: According to legend, Chapaev does not die, but with the help of magical powers, fairy-tale animals and plants, he becomes a real hero.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-05-06
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Heart Beats Again
Overview: A drama about a daily life of a doctors in a military hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-11-21
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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Overview: This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-10-10
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Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Overview: Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-11-11
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Virgin Soil Upturned
Overview: The movie is based on the the same name novel of the Nobel Prize In Literature Winner Mikhail Sholokhov. The action is taken place in 20-30-s years of the XX century in the Russian countryside going through an uneasy process of collectivization.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-06
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Wedding in Malinovka
Overview: The movie takes place during Russia's civil war between the Reds (Bolsheviks) and the Whites (Mensheviks). Andrejka and Yarinka are a young betrothed couple in the village of Malinovka, caught between the battle lines. Gritsian is the leader of a Menshevik band who are planning to attack the village. Yarinka appeals to the local Bolshevik commander for his faction's help. The Bolsheviks quickly come up with a plan to save the village... but the plan requires Yarinka to enter into a pretend marriage with Gritsian.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-06-06
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The Brothers Karamazov
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The tragic story of the Karamazov family takes place in a Russian province in the late 19th century. The relations of their father and three brothers are very complicated and contradictory. One of the brothers is accused of killing his father, whom he did not commit. The brothers are unable to help him, and only a loving girl follows him to hard labour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-10
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Stepan Razin
Overview: Don Cossack Stepan Razin boyars vowed revenge for his friends tortured torture. As head of the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of the whole army. With all the Russian land flock to him humiliated and oskorblennye.Tsar Alexey concerned the growing power Ataman. Church anathematizes Stepan collected in the march on Moscow. Regular king's troops manage to stop rebel forces near the walls Simbirska.Spodvizhniki perish, and the chieftain captured. Severe torture did not break the will of Razin.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-02-09
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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 Paris Commune
Overview: "Paris Commune," 1870-1871. Poor working class in Paris rises up against their oppressors as France is defeated by Germany in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian war.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1936-12-20
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The Prince and the Pauper
Overview: Two look-alike boys, one a poor street kid and the other a prince, exchange places to see what the other's life is like.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-12-03
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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 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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Love and Hate
Overview: A group of Ukrainian women are forced to work in the mine under the supervision of cruel enemy soldiers. When the soldiers are forced to retreat and decide to blow up the mine, the women organize a guerrilla action to stop them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-03-03
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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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Naval Battalion
Overview: Soviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Fifth Ocean
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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City at Dawn
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-05-10
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Light of a Distant Star
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-09-13
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Confession
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-08-20
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Loneliness
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-03
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Peasant woman
Overview: Collective farmers of the Volga region decide to create the first female fishing team. Her hardworking and neat Varvara Kladova, a quiet and gentle woman suffering from adultery with Stepan's husband, becomes her head. Having overcome the first difficulties, women are ahead of the brigade of men. And this makes Stepan look at his wife with different eyes.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-07-27
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The Turning Point
Overview: A Soviet 1945 film directed by Fridrikh Ermler based on a screenplay by Boris Chirskov. The film was one of the Cannes top prize winners of 1946.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-07-19
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The Purpose of His Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-01-18
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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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And Quiet Flows the Don
Overview: The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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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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General and Daisies
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Секретарь обкома
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-09-28
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The Four Visits of Samuel Wolfe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-11-13
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Threesome
Overview: The childhood of three friends, Ilya, Yacob, and Pavel, was spent in the innkeeper's house. Their three destinies are similarly unhappy. Yakob died of tuberculosis, Ilya, after robbing a merchant, committed suicide. And Pavel, who let the woman he loved join a brothel, can no longer be happy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-03-24
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