Yevgeni Morgunov
Also Known As: Evgeniy Morgunov, Evgeni Morgunov, Евгений Александрович Моргунов, Евгений Моргунов, Jewgeni Alexandrowitsch Morgunow
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, Soviet Russia
Adult: No
Birthday: April 27, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 25, 1999
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Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
Overview: The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures" was a hit movie and became the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-07-24
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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Overview: Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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A Tale of Lost Times
Overview: Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to their real age.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-02-02
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Сказки русского леса
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Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Северная рапсодия
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Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-11-04
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Спокойствие отменяется
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-20
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The Magic Lantern
Overview: A musical program about the history of the development of the art of cinema.
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Paradise Apple
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Bootleggers
Overview: This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-01-08
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The Pokrovsky Gates
Overview: Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiancé. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-02-11
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New Odeon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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A Funny Dream, or Laughter and Tears
Overview: A student and chess lover Andrey Popov, while getting sick the night before a chess game with a chess world champion Karpov, falls asleep and is having a dream. In this dream, he finds himself in a kingdom ruled by chess figures and playing cards. Chess figures (who are in power) are in a state of sadness due to a misterious disease that struck their young prince. While Andrey attempts to help them, the cards are preparing a coup...
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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Give Me a Complaints Book
Overview: A group of young motivated people are trying to convert old "Oduvanchik" restaurant in to a youth club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Seven Old Men and One Girl
Overview: Lara Velichko is a young coach who's dreaming about coaching world champions but suddenly she's forced to train a group of a very grumpy old men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-06-06
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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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Scarlet Sails
Overview: A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where you will be loved and happy." The neighbours told jokes about her, children teased her, but she waited for her prince. She trusted in the miracles and waited. Arthur Gray's rule was "if you can make a miracle, do it!". And he made a miracle for the wonderful romantic girl.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-06-07
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Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
Overview: This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have a blast! Unfortunately their dog Barbos just loves playing fetch. And this time that stick was used for blast fishing. Barbos saw people throwing a smoking stick in a water, and fetched it right back to his owners. The "unusual cross" part begins when owners try to outrun the dog with dynamite.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-09-18
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The Young Guard
Overview: In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon during the Nazi occupation of Russia. The teens manage to outsmart the Nazis in their fight, and their activity lifts the spirits of the surviving citizens.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-10-11
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Never Guessed and Didn't Expect
Overview: In an ordinary Soviet apartment, where an ordinary Soviet family lives, suddenly ... the donkey breaks in. All attempts to expel the animal end in vain. Neither the police, nor the veterinary service, nor even the local hooligan can help. And only the ubiquitous film-goers, who needed an animal for filming a movie, manage to put the donkey out of the apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-06-06
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Big Attraction
Overview: This is a fun musical film about the circus and a talented girl who dreams of becoming an artist. And although her path will be a lot of obstacles and funny misunderstandings, cheerful heroine still make your fantastic number — "Flight to the stars".
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-12-24
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«Богатырь» идёт в Марто
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Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-10-25
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Sovershenno seryozno
Overview: An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-09-18
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Goodbye, Boys!
Overview: Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. It's summer, and their main goals are swimming in the Black Sea and wooing the girl all three of them love. However, they are asked to become officers in the military, and slowly their worlds begin changing forever. Their parents oppose them, they begin fearing losing each other and their families, and the military tricks and maneuvers them into joining the army instead of the navy
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-01-03
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SuperCop
Overview: An adventurous action-packed story about a police officer nicknamed "Sheriff", who, bravely fighting mafia functionaries, easily and simply takes bribes from its bosses.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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Three Fat Men
Overview: Based on a famous fairytale by Yuri Olesha.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-06-06
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Do It, Manya!
Overview: To fight mafia, a biologist and a programmer create a superman robot. An unexpected amendment to the calculations of one of the creators is made by erotic fantasies: superman turned out to be an exact copy of a photo model from a poster.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-07-05
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Premiere in Sosnivka
Overview: Institute of Culture graduate, a young film director Konstantin Sirotkin, arrives in the village Sosnovka and in the local country club he is trying to put the Schiller's drama "Intrigue and Love". This young director’s work has identified villagers’ talents, their genuine love for the arts and discovered their spiritual beauty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Kyiv Resident
Overview: The story of the growing up of the orphan Gali between the Revolution and the Great Patriotic War. Large-scale historical drama with Nina Ivanova.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1958-11-03
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We're Sitting Good!
Overview: Five best friends have only one problem to deal with: where to get something to drink...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-01-07
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Vasily Surikov
Overview: Biopic of the Russian painter Vasiliy Surikov (1848 - 1916), who is best known for his depictions of historical scenes.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-11-10
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A Comedy of Days Gone By
Overview: An adventures of the famous movies characters in the movies archive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-12-29
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Thirst
Overview: Based on real events. Vyacheslav Tikhonov, in the first of his spy roles, portrays a scout in an operation to free an Odessa water plant from the Nazis.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-12-17
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Shot in the Coffin
Overview: Three recently released criminals are trying to start anti-government organization... But KGB never sleep.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-06-18
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Little Bugger
Overview: Bolshevik Foma Korshunov returns to his village. Soon his son, seven-year old Mishka gets a new nickname - "little communist". When bandits come to the village Mishka, knowing that the reds are close, saddles his horse and hurry to warn them about the danger.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-11-07
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It's Just Awful!
Overview: A bodies of a six-grader and his father are interchanges with the help of the magic machine invented by father.
Genres: Science Fiction Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-08-03
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Circus in the Circus
Overview: To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1976-02-13
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Mother
Overview: Timid old woman Pelageya Nilovna observes the revolutionary activities of her son Pavel Vlasov and gradually comes to realize that his cause is a great and noble one. She involves herself in the movement and finds joy and great courage in her new life as a revolutionary. Based on Gorky's novel, filmed in the silent era by Pudovkin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-02-14
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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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Pavel Korchagin
Overview: A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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Rodnye polya
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Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-02-07
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Страницы былого
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Ladies' Man 2
Overview: Two young friends are looking for adventures and women during New Year night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-09-14
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The Actors
Overview: A young man follows a theatre troupe during their tour.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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It Happened in the Donbass
Overview: The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbass and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-07-11
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Swamp Street, or the Cure Against Sex
Overview: A high-rise building's residents and firefighters who arrived to extinguish the house, which broke out from a “love” spark...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-14
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Brave Guys
Overview: Four veteran pilots were invited by the leadership of the military unit to perform a special task. And it does not matter that they haggle in the market, because everything that happens — it's just a dream…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-05-14
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The Grandmothers Told in Two...
Overview: About the adventures of pop artists Boris Vladimirov and Vadim Tonkov, who met during the tour with their heroes, popular characters of the Soviet stage of the 70s — Veronika Mavrikievna and Avdotya Nikitichna.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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A Boulevard Romance
Overview: The film was shot on the story of Valentin Pikul “Go and do not sin”, which tells about the real events that took place in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The story of the young beauty Olga Palem from a poor large family is replete with tragic events. Olga's passionate disinterested love for student Alexander Zapolsky becomes her evil rock. Spoiled and selfish, Alexander is not able to appreciate her feelings. Exhausted by humiliation, a young woman kills her lover. The high-profile trial of Olga Pale becomes a sensation that stirred up the whole of Russia ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-04-10
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Days and Nights
Overview: This literary adaptation was the first Soviet feature length dramatization, as opposed to documentary film, on the momentous Battle of Stalingrad.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-08-28
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Going Places, Maybe
Overview: Max (Maxim Voronkov) and Bolshoy (Evgeny Tetervov) are two crazy friends who completely trust their luck. Life for them does not present any difficulties, because any problem can be solved in no time if you want to. I've run out of money – I can plunder a little, I don't want to walk – they have plenty of free cars parked on the street. But on the love front, things are not going well for the characters.…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Летние гастроли
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-11-30
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White Nights
Overview: Based on the short story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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The Mexican
Overview: Based on the short story by Jack London. 1910 year. Mexican patriots are preparing an uprising against the dictatorship of Diaz. Young Felipe Rivera joins the revolutionary junta, whose father and mother were shot by dictators. The hour of rebellion is near, but the heroes lack weapons. To get the necessary amount of money, Rivera decides to perform in the ring against Ward, America’s strongest boxer...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-04-13
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Hostile Whirlwinds
Overview: About the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsky in 1918-1925. The film covers the most important episodes of his biography. In July 1918, as a result of a revolt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, the German ambassador Mirbach was killed. Feliks Dzerzhinsky alone goes to the headquarters of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Anarchists, he manages to persuade ordinary soldiers and sailors, participants in the rebellion, who are now cracking down on their leaders. In 1921, Dzerzhinsky was aimed at combating homelessness, as a result of which, by 1925, former homeless children, having completed their studies, were sent to the construction of Yugostal, the largest industrial plant in Ukraine.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-02-19
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Annushka
Overview: The main character, Anna Denisova, is a simple Russian woman, on whose shoulders all the hardships of wartime fell. Like all her compatriots, Annushka did everything in her power to bring Victory Day closer. In this war, she lost her husband, Pyotr, but managed to save the lives of her three children — Sasha, Nina and Granata. The trials of Annushka didn't end with the end of the war. In the first years of peace, all survivors had to survive the famine and spend their last strength on rebuilding the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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The Star of the Ballet
Overview: Engineer Stepan Mitin, having arrived in Kiev on business, accidentally gets to the performance "Ukrainian Ballet on Ice" and falls in love with the soloist Viktoriya Chaika. Delighted with the prima, Stepan doesn't notice that the draftsman Varya is working with him on the refrigerator project — the same girl to whom in the evenings he unsuccessfully tries to convey a bouquet of flowers with a note. The business trip ends — and Stepan, collecting in Primorsk, invites Varya to his plant. They agree to meet at the airport, but on the way, the ballet administrator intercepts the girl. Stepan flies away alone. One day, the Ukrainian Ballet on Ice comes to Primorsk. Stepan Mitin, the best refrigeration specialist, is asked to help create artificial ice. Stepan gladly accepts the offer and soon meets Viktoriya Chaika...
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-07-19
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Eugénie Grandet
Overview: Eugénie Grandet is set in the town of Saumur. Eugénie's father Felix is a former cooper who has become wealthy through both business ventures and inheritance (having inherited the estates of his mother-in-law, grandfather-in-law, and grandmother all in one year). However, he is very miserly, and he, his wife, daughter, and their servant Nanon live in a run-down old house which he is too miserly to repair. His banker des Grassins wants Eugénie to marry his son Adolphe, and his lawyer Cruchot wants Eugénie to marry his nephew President Cruchot des Bonfons, both parties eyeing the inheritance from Felix. The two families constantly visit the Grandets to get Felix's favour, and Felix in turn plays them off against each other for his own advantage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-05-25
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Путешествие в молодость
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-06-26
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My Family Treasure
Overview: A US mother goes to the USSR, just before its dissolution, to find the priceless Fabergé egg that the Russian Tsar left to her peasant father 70 years ago when the Russian Revolution hit, but the egg got lost in the commotion.
Genres: Adventure Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-23
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It Also Happens
Overview: The film consists of three short stories: "The Runaway Car," "Apollo's Skeleton," and "Night Show."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-01-24
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Морские рассказы
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-09-18
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Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
Overview: The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov…
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-08-19
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Fate of a Man
Overview: The story of a man whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-04-12
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See Our People!
Overview: In 1904, the Kazakh wrestler Hajja Mukan, inspired by the successes of the Russian hero Ivan Poddubny, the world champion in French wrestling, decided to perform on the big stage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-12-22
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