Leonid Kanevsky
Also Known As: Leonid Kanevskyi, Leonid Kanevskiy, Leonid Kanevskii, Л. Каневский, Leonid Kanewskyj
Biography: Soviet, Russian and Israeli theater, film and dubbing actor, TV presenter; Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984). Member of the Public Council of the Russian Jewish Congress. Leonid Semenovich Kanevsky was born on May 2, 1939 in Kiev in a Jewish family. My mother studied piano at the Kiev Conservatory, graduated from the 2nd year, got married at the age of 19, left the conservatory and went with her husband to the Caucasus, where he worked. In 1933, the elder brother Alexander was born, 6 years later Leonid was born. At the age of 17, he left for Moscow and entered the Shchukin College for the course of Vera Konstantinovna Lvova. From 1960 to 1967, he was an actor of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater. From 1967 to 1991 — actor of the Moscow Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. His film debut was a cameo role in the film "Forty Minutes before Dawn" (1963). The actor was widely known for the role of police major Alexander Tomin in the TV series "The Investigation is conducted by Experts", as well as the role of a smuggler in the comedy "Diamond Hand" and haberdasher Bonacieux in the mini-series "D'Artagnan and Three the Musketeer." In 1991, he repatriated to Israel, where, together with director Eugene Arie, he created the Gesher Drama Theater in Tel Aviv (translated from Hebrew - "bridge"); the basis of his troupe are Russian actors who played on the stages of Moscow and Leningrad theaters. In 2003, he was the host of the TV game "The Ninth Shaft" on the Israeli Channel 9. From January 2006 to the present — presenter of the documentary TV show "The investigation was conducted ..." on "NTV". In 2009, he starred in the TV series "Semin" and "Semin. Retribution." He also took part in the dubbing of the cartoon "Cars 2" in the role of scout Finn Mcmistle. Over the years of his creative activity, the actor has starred in more than fifty films and television series. Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
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Birthday: May 02, 1939
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
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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 Magic Skin
Overview: Struggling with financial loss, a poet receives a shagreen leather from an antiquities shop, fulfilling his wishes
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Roots
Overview: Shameless slimeball Eduard "Edik" Letov - clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt - puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors' long-lost relatives. Complications abound when Letov attempts to pass off an entire village under the guise of a community wiped out during the Second World War. The arrival of a group of trouble-causing misfits, among them mobster Barukh - who wishes to bury his mother's remains, only to discover that someone keeps exhuming them - and the lech Simon - a Canadian with an insatiable fetish for his sexy translator - turn Letov's latest scheme into a veritable cat's cradle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-10-05
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Candidate
Overview: Based on novel "The Great Man" by Al Morgan. Ted Stevens receives a task to prepare a TV special about his colleague Tony Bradley, recently died in car accident. But the further he studies this case, the more suspicious this accident is becoming.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-08-04
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Vaudeville On Vaudeville
Overview: Lost comedy, something like a stylization of an old Russian musical.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-12-01
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The Wizard of Oz
Overview: A cartoon about a girl, Ellie, of her little dog Totoshka, who, because of the evil Gingema, ended up in the Magic Country, where incredible adventures awaited them.
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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Записки Пиквикского клуба
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Overview: The thirty-year-old decathlete leaves the big sport and becomes a stunt performer in the cinema. About how the movie is shot, and about the development of personal relationships between the main characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-06-06
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Taste of Khalva
Overview: For many years the great Emir of Bukhara has not known happiness - he has lost the taste to delightful khalva, and now life is as sour as a lemon for him. The house of poor pot-maker Shir-Mamed, however, is full of happiness - his little son Hodzha Nasreddin has been born. Rumours have spread about his unusual abilities - maybe he will be able to make the Emir happy again?
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-08-30
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Pippi Longstocking
Overview: Peppi-the-Longstocking, a super-strong redheaded little girl, moves into her father's cottage Villa Villekulla, and has adventures with her next-door neighbors Tommy and Annika...
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-06-06
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The Master and Margarita
Overview: Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by their harassment, Master throws his manuscript into the fire, before he is locked up in a mental clinic. His assistant and Muse Margarita tries to help Master using the supernatural powers she got from the devil - Woland who is visiting Moscow..
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-06-06
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The City of Masters
Overview: After their town is occupied the citizens are trying to fight the enemy. Based on Tamara Gabbe fairy tale.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-12-12
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Along Unknown Paths
Overview: Going to vacation at his grandmother’s in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine that he would become a participant of the extraordinary adventures in a fairy-tale land.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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Hot!
Overview: Russian pop stars are flying to Baku for the "Heat" festival. Among them is Dasha Steklova, a talented debutante whose fame began with a victory in a popular musical TV show. Dasha doesn't want to play by the rules and craves creative freedom. In Baku, having quarreled with her producer (and also a young man), the girl runs away. In a fabulous city breathing music and sunshine, she is waiting for a lot of adventures and romantic encounters that will help Dasha fulfill her dream and become truly happy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-09-05
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Monsieur Lenoir, who...
Overview: Teleplay based on the play by Armand Salacrou.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Pippi Longstocking
Overview: “Pippi Longstocking” is a Soviet two-part musical children’s television film based on the story “Pippi Longstocking” (1945) by Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-04-29
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The Red Tent
Overview: Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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Jewish Vendetta
Overview: Russian immigrant Natan finds out that his wife had an affair with his best friend. He travels to Russia intending to kill his friend and regain his honor, but his son and the local “mafia” bring it all to a romantic end.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1999-01-21
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Mary Poppins, Goodbye
Overview: A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers.
Genres: Family Fantasy Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-06
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Adventures in the City which Doesn't Exist
Overview: Young schoolboy Slava Kurochkin suddenly finds himself in a town where books characters live.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-06-01
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Ish HaHashmal
Overview: Cohen takes an elliptical approach in telling the story of Pinchas Rutenberg, a visionary, complex, and larger-than-life figure, who, amongst other things, brought electricity to Jewish Palestine in the early 20th century by building a hydroelectric power station in Nahararyim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2003-01-02
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Mitya
Overview: The chief engineer of a large enterprise is waiting for a meeting with the minister on an important issue and at the same time is trying to return the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Commandant of Lauterburg
Overview: Follows the service of Lieutenant Colonel Lubentsov as commandant of the German city of Lauterburg in the first days after the end of the Great Patriotic War.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-05-01
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Death in Cinema
Overview: Ex-Gulag prison guard investigates murder on the movie set.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-09-02
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Summer Is Gone ...
Overview: This is a last day before starting a first grade so seven year old Tyoma has a lot of important things to do.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-10-21
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Land, Poste Restante
Overview: Based on a true story about Soviet spy Lev Manevich. He lives in Italy and operates in the Nazi Germany and Austria. Manevich, who is posing as a businessman, collects information about the latest German airplanes made by Messerschmitt for Luftwaffe. On his spying trip to Berlin, Manevich noticed that a stranger was following him. Now his life is in danger, but he must do something to complete his mission...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-03-26
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Punisher
Overview: A sad story about a series of tragic events which happened in Greece during the seventies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-08-04
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Almanzor's Rings
Overview: The queen of a magic kingdom is trying to marry her two daughters...
Genres: Romance Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-06-09
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Amazing Berendeev
Overview: After starting learning in a technical school a young student Sergey Berendeev proves to everybody that he's a real inventor.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-08-23
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The Amazing Boy
Overview: After professor creates a robot who looks like blue-eyed boy the criminals become very interested in the invention.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-09-01
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Late Marriage
Overview: Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2001-10-24
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Сергеев ищет Сергеева
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Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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What Men Talk About 3
Overview: This time Lesha, Slava, Kamil and Sasha go to St. Petersburg. And three of the four do not even know why they go there. But at some point it becomes clear that it does not matter - why. It is important that they go.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-02-22
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Nylon 100%
Overview: An adventures of a 100% nylon "fur" coat traveling between various people.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-12-17
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New Year's Abduction
Overview: The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert. A police captain investigates the kidnapping and listens to complaints from the “unkidnapped” artists.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-01-13
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Homeboy
Overview: A young girl known for being "Homeboy" for everybody is dreaming to become more feminine.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-10-28
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The Victims Have No Grievance
Overview: A man was killed in the fight, another was seriously injured. The perpetrators confessed to what they had done. The investigator of the prosecutor's office Ilyas Sadykov had only to issue documents. But something in the testimony of the defendants alerted him, and Sadykov started the investigation anew...
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-12-29
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The Train Stops for Two Minutes
Overview: A doctor arrives from work in a provincial town from Moscow. At first, he yearns for the capital and friends. In addition, there are no patients. Igor decides to return to Moscow, but getting to know the locals, and even more the feeling that arose between him and nurse Alyona, forces him to change his decision.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-31
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Night of the Mistakes
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière
Overview: Episodes from the life of Molière with scenes from his play, revealing the tragic picture of the confrontation between the great playwright and the authorities.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-05-01
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Когда играет клавесин
Overview: A student falls in love with a girl detained on a false suspicion of speculation.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-06-21
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Ilfipetrov
Overview: To ensure that the viewer guessed in the name of Ilfipetrov that Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov were separate, the authors collected an impressive evidence base: live testimonies were obtained in Moscow, Odessa, Yaroslavl, Paris, New York; in the exact repetition of the route of "One-storied America", in miraculously preserved family archives.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-09-12
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Give Me Back My Rex
Overview: The doctor hides the death of the dog from Serezha and gives the boy a new friend. A poignant story of loyalty and friendship.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-04-21
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Physics at Half Past Nine
Overview: A physicist, a director of popular-science films, and a sports fan talk about the structure of the atom between periods of a hockey game they watch on TV.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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