Vera Altayskaya
Also Known As: Вера Алтайская, Wera Altaiskaja
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Petrograd, Russian SFSR
Adult: No
Birthday: May 21, 1919
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 28, 1978
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Maria, the Wonderful Weaver
Overview: An old soldier helps a young boy find his mother, who's been kidnapped to the magical underwater kingdom in a remote Russian lake.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-06-07
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Father Frost
Overview: A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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A Snow Fairy Tale
Overview: New Year's Eve. The boy Mitya, who loves to fantasize, jokingly tells his comrades at school that his children's toy watch with painted hands is magical and can stop all the clocks in the world, stop time, or even revive a snowman.
Genres: Fantasy Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-03-20
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Novelly
Overview: The composition includes two short stories: "The Swineherd" (based on the fairy tale by H.C. Andersen) and "Heaven and Hell" (based on the short story by P. Merime).
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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Son of Tajikistan
Overview: The film tells about the front-line friendship between the sons of two people- Gafiz and Ivan.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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A Collar for Marquis
Overview: A family drama about a friendship between horse and 10 years old boy.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-06-06
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Land and People
Overview: A progressive agronomist fights with a conservative collective farm chairman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-02-10
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Once Upon a Girl
Overview: Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.
Genres: Family Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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Liberated Earth
Overview: After the liberation of the Kuban by the Soviet Army troops, farmers return home and begin to restore the destroyed economy. Under the leadership of the young chairman, Nadiezdha Pritulyak, growers are working with great enthusiasm.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-02-02
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The Shining Path
Overview: Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-10-07
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Adolescence
Overview: Olga is a seventh-grader who has a brilliant gift - she writes a beautiful poems...
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-12-27
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Yevdokiya
Overview: On the outskirts of the provincial town, Yevdokim and Yevdokiya live, raising foster children. Yevdokim works at a factory, Yevdokiya is a housewife. The family seems to be safe and happy: the only trouble is that Yevdokiya cannot forget the love of her youth. This Yevdokim cannot stand and offers Yevdokiya freedom, while he will remain with the children. But all these contradictions are drowned in mutual love for children and for each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-04-03
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The House with the Mezzanine
Overview: A famous painter lives in idleness in the estate of the landlord Belokurov. Once he meets a family of Volchaninov's living in the neighborhood, in which there are two daughters: the eldest (Lydia), a serious and strict girl with convictions, who tries to help ordinary people and doesn't like the artist very much for his idleness, and the youngest (Zhenya or Misyus), which soon takes a great interest in the artist. The painter also falls in love with Zhenya, but Lydia destroys their happiness ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-05-04
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The Ural Front
Overview: August 1941. Residents of the Ural town escorted to the front of men. Left alone, women take on the most difficult cases, showing outstanding organizational skills and will. Together with the evacuated plant, refugees arrive in the town. The heroine of the Film Anna takes to her house a woman with children — her example is followed by the rest…
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-08-06
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Заблудший
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-04-01
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The Beginning of the Legend
Overview: The film tells about the childhood of Yuri Gagarin, about that time of life, which, in his own words, played an important role in shaping his character: war, the occupation of their villages by the Germans, famine, the theft of the elder brother and sister to Germany, the expulsion of the Nazis from Smolensk, moving family in the city of Gzhatsk.
Genres: War Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-04-11
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Our Correspondent
Overview: The journalist of the village newspaper Tatyana Nikitina was published in a large metropolitan newspaper, but no one from the villagers believes her, because the article itself was published under her creative pseudonym. Tatyana, offended at everyone, packed her things and left for Moscow, where she was willingly hired for a job in a central newspaper. Traveling throughout the country, she writes feuilletons and notes, finds friends and enemies, finds and does not lose loved ones...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-02-02
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Mashenka
Overview: Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-04-10
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Poet
Overview: Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-02-09
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Birds Over the City
Overview: Andryusha and his fifth-grade comrades in a pile of scrap raw materials found poorly bound typewritten pages with the inscription "Attack." The guys enthusiastically read this collection of frontline stories. Their author Bukin, it turns out, lives nearby, in the next quarter. The man is middle-aged and sickly; however, he does not succumb to the blows of fate. He devotes all his strength to the preservation of forest wealth, and in his free time from these worries he continues to write stories, recalling certain episodes of a rich front-line life ...
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-08-19
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Bread and Roses
Overview: Feature film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Grey Illness
Overview: One day, doctors Speransky and Nikulin made an outstanding scientific discovery: they discovered the bacillus of indifference and ignorance. To describe its action, one of them selflessly instills it in himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-12-27
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The Secret of Beauty
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-07-18
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Golden Horns
Overview: A long time ago a splendid deer with golden antlers lived in the woods, always protecting the poor and weak and disdaining evil. In a little village nearby the woods widow Yevdokya lived with her twin daughters Mashenka and Dashenka, her son and her old father. One day the girls observe robbers hunting the deer. Shortly after they are lured into the woods by forest spirits. Infuriated about their presence, witch Baba Yaga turns them into fawns. Meanwhile, Yevdokya searches for her daughters. For protecting the deer of robbers she gets a magical ring to protect her from danger. The deer advises her to set off to the red sun or the clear moon. But both cannot reach the magic woods with their light. Finally, the boy accompanied by his cat goes in search for sisters and mother.
Genres: Fantasy Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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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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Men's Talk
Overview: Sasha Larionov, is in the eighth grade and still doesn't know that his mother has left the family. Sasha's father, a decent and very honest person, was used to telling people only the truth. But here he doesn't now how to tell his son that the mother left them for another man and therefore explains her long absence from a long business trip. However, soon Sasha finds out the truth and decides to go after his mom, hoping to get her back
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-02-17
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Looking for My Fate
Overview: There were three sisters — Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Vera, having survived unhappy love, goes to the monastery, where she gives birth to a child. The child dies, Vera commits suicide. Lyuba and grandmother attend church and maintain relations with priest Aleksandr. To Nadezhda that condemns their religiosity, it seems that Lyuba is in love with father Aleksandr. She comes home to him and demands that he stop dating Lyuba. However, it turns out that Aleksandr is in love with Nadezhda. Knowing him better, she reciprocates him, facing a difficult choice, Aleksandr breaks with religion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-09-08
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Seaman's daughter
Overview: Together with other graduates of the Maritime Institute, Irina Zakharova returns to her native Odessa. At the distribution commission, she seeks the appointment of the first assistant to the captain on the infamous Pobeda vessel, with the most loosened crew. Carrying a personal example of sailors, Irina successfully fights for a turning point in the mood of sailors, and when the ship gets into a storm, she shows the outstanding qualities of a real sailor. Against the background of these events, the theme of lyrical relationships between Irina and the navigator of the red-flagged ship "Abkhazia" Vasily in love with her is unfolding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-02-03
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В нашем городе
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-07-23
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On the Other Side
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Viktor Kin. 1921, Far East. Two Komsomol members, Matveyev and Bezais, must cross the front line near Khabarovsk to give the partisans money and a coded message. In Khabarovsk, Matveyev wants to meet a girl, Liza, with whom he is in love, but a serious injury disrupts his plans...
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-10-20
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Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
Overview: The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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The Man Who Doubts
Overview: A police detective arrives in a Siberian town to reopen the investigation of the murder of a schoolgirl, as he has some doubts about the culpability of the man who was convicted.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair
Overview: One day, King Yeremei decides to go on a long hike in order to consider all his areas and compile their register. A well appears on his way home, but as soon as the sovereign bent over him, he was seized by the underwater king Chudo-Yudo and demanded an unusual ransom for his release — that which is in the state of Yeremei, but which he does not know about. The tsar is forced to agree to these conditions, because he thinks that each blade of grass was taken into account in the inventory — he still does not suspect that in his absence the Queen gave birth to him an heir.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-12-30
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A Groom from the Right Society
Overview: Semyon Danilovich Petukhov was very surprised to found upon returning from vacation that he was declared dead and... buried.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-09-22
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Главный свидетель
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-09-22
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Boys
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Genres: Drama Music Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-10-02
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The Great Count
Overview: A feature film that depicts scenes from the census of Imperial Russia in 1882 and the upcoming census of the Soviet Union as of January 17, 1939. The census takers interview citizens, fill out census forms in the homes of urban residents, collective farmers, and among the guests of the "Moscow" hotel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-01-09
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