Aleksandr Khvylya
Also Known As: Aleksandr Khvylya, Александр Хвыля, Олександр Хвиля, Хвиля Олександр Леопольдович, Aleksandr Khvylia
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Aleksandro-Shultino, Russian Empire
Adult: No
Birthday: July 15, 1905
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 17, 1977
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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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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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Breakfast at the Leader's
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1953-12-11
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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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Karmeliuk
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Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-04-19
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Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes
Overview: Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-12-12
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The First Cavalry
Overview: The film tells the of certain events of the Polish-Soviet War as is accepted in Soviet history.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-06-06
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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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Red Tie
Overview: A story about young pioneers life in USSR right after a victory in WWII.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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A Captain at Fifteen
Overview: A classic movie based on a famous "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen" novel by Jules Verne.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-06-06
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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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Over Tissa
Overview: According to the story of the same name by Aleksandr Avdeenko. The end of the 50s. Transcarpathia. Two saboteurs cross the border near Tissa. One dies during detention, and the second, under the guise of a front-line soldier Ivan Belograi, appears at the state farm and begins to look after Theresa, whom he met by correspondence. Frontier guard Andrei Smolyarchuk, in love with Theresa, is the first to suspect a spy and is trying to find out what his purpose is...
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-12-23
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Aleksandr Parkhomenko
Overview: About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Parkhomenko. In 1918, capturing Ukraine, the German occupiers sought to use the Haidamaks, the White Guards and the Greens in their struggle. By order of Voroshilov, Aleksandr Parkhomenko from Lugansk arrives in Tsaritsyn. At the same time, the Germans launched an active offensive. The "red" battalions are poorly armed, however, Parkhomenko manages to raise them to the attack and put the enemy to flight.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-07-20
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It Can Not Be Forgotten
Overview: The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy agents. The story is pertinent due to resurgence of ultra-nationalist underground activity in Western Ukraine after World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-07-05
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Shors
Overview: The year is 1919. German troops retreat from Ukraine. The Directory, the Ukrainian national government lead by Symon Petliura, takes control of Kyiv. Meanwhile, the Bolshevik division commanded by Mykola Shchors is marching on the capital. The Bolsheviks capture the cities of Vinnytsia, Zhmerynka, and others one by one, but lose Berdychiv to Petliura’s forces. They are demoralized by the defeat. By his personal example of courage and military skill, Shchors inspires the retreating Red troops and leads them to victory over the enemy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-05-02
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May Night, or the Drowned Maiden
Overview: The son of an obstinate mayor cannot get his father's consent to wed the beautiful Hanna. He receives unexpected assistance from evil, mysterious forces – Satan, witches, and rusalki – who work together to bring the couple happiness, bringing mayhem and celebration.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1952-10-31
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Flames on the Volga
Overview: Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-02-23
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Road to the Stars
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Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-03-13
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Until The Last Minute
Overview: The prototype of the hero of the film - Soviet Ukrainian writer Yaroslav Galan, who devoted the last years of his life to exposing the Greek Catholic Church and the Ukrainian nationalists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-03-04
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Father Frost
Overview: Ruled by the all powerful Father Frost, the Forest of Enchantment is the most bizarre and remarkable place in the world! Natalie and Ivan's newlywed hopes of living happily ever after are shattered when they stumble into this mysterious and strange forest. The evil witch, Baba Yaga, can't stand love and sets out to curse their marriage. With incredible magical forces against them, the young couple must summon the great power of Father Frost to come to their aid before their love is lost forever.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Мать
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-09-18
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Последняя очередь
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1941-12-01
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Battle on the way
Overview: He was appointed as the new chief engineer of a tractor factory. The presence of this man, direct, hard and uncompromising, creates a lot of conflict - primarily between him and the director of the plant. However, clashes in the production are nothing compared with the pain that causes the loss of the beloved hero ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-09-26
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Cossacks of the Kuban
Overview: In the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Galina, the energetic chairwoman of one of the two kolkhozes, vies with her male counterpart for the best harvest. At the same time Gordey, her rival, a former soldier, is (and has been for ages) in love with her. On her part, Dasha a collective farm worker, has heartbeat for a young technician of the competing kolkhoz...
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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Taras Shevchenko
Overview: Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people. The poems of Shevchenko are imbued with love for the common people. Fiery freedom-loving creativity of Taras Shevchenko is known throughout Russia. Nicholas I exiles the poet to the distant Caspian fort where he is to serve as an ordinary soldier and is banned from writing or drawing. In the poet's difficult days he has the support of Ukrainian soldier Skobelev, Polish revolutionary Sierakowski, captain Kosarev and the commandant of the fortress, Uskov. For the sake of his release Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov are hard at work. And so, the sick and aged Shevchenko is finally free. Together with Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, he dreams of a bright future of the motherland, when the Russian and Ukrainian peoples throw off the chains of slavery.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-12-17
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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 Invincible
Overview: The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest possible time combat vehicles are tested directly on battlefields, fighting with fascists in the outskirts of the city. The first feature film about the heroic everyday life of city defenders was shot directly in assembly shops of plants and in the streets of Leningrad when the city was fighting against the enemy
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-01-21
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Kingfisher
Overview: A group of children are trying to find a war hero known by a code name "Kingfisher".
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-04
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The Vow
Overview: The story of Stalin and the Soviet people.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1946-07-29
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Konstantin Zaslonov
Overview: Young railroad worker, seemingly accommodating to Nazi overlords at a captured rural depot, secretly spearheads acts of sabotage against the evil occupying forces.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1949-09-12
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Gas Station Queen
Overview: Lyudmila doesn't have any luck in finding the perfect job. She tried to be an air hostess, newscaster, model, ice skater, but fate had something else in store for her - a petrol station, where her incredible positivity and fiery personality charm everyone around her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-02-18
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Resurrection
Overview: Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-11-20
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Years of Young
Overview: A musical comedy about students and graduates of a theater school - about young people who have just graduated from school and decided to go “to the artists” ... Sergey decides to live his whole life and live his life in a big city. He is going to Kiev! On the way, he meets on the roof of the train Lesik, who actually turns out to be a charming girl named Natasha ...
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-03-08
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Duel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-05-22
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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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Native Shores
Overview: Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1943-07-05
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The Ivanov Family
Overview: Aleksei comes to Chelyabinsk from Moscow — a young student who proclaims a free lifestyle, not constrained by everyday hard labor. Aleksei falls in love with a young singer Lyudmila, the daughter of hereditary workers. When a Moscow student enters the family of noble steelworkers — people who are proud of their working roots, his self-identity changes. From now on, to Aleksei idleness already seems shameful, and idleness is shameful. To be worthy of such highly respected people as the Ivanov family, Aleksei goes to work as a steelworker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-10-13
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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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Declaration of Love to G.T.
Overview: Dr. Gisa Tonius, a physicist in her thirties who has a nearly adult stepdaughter, cherishes the desire to have her own child. Suddenly, a big interdisciplinary research project threatens to significantly change Gisa′s life. Uncertain whether to look for professional or private fulfillment she asks her family and friends for their opinions. They all have different views on the point at issue. While her husband is afraid of losing her to her profession, her professor thinks that because of her talent she has an obligation towards science. In the end, Gisa reaches a decision: She wants to have a baby as well as take on the research project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-02
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Daughter of the Sun
Overview: A never ending polar night reigns. The agitated residents of a village truns to a shaman but he won't help them. A brave young hunter goes in search for the sun.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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How the Steel Was Tempered
Overview: This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-09-28
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The End of Chirva-Kozyr
Overview: In order not to hand over grain to the state at fixed prices, a rich peasant (kulak) buries 600 pounds of grain in the ground. Meanwhile, a communist worker arrives in the village of Gorbani to organize grain procurements. In the fight against kulaks, he manages to win over the poor villagers to his side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1957-09-23
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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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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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The Boys
Overview: Three boys live in the same house and go to the same school in Kiev. After one of the boys gets in trouble, their friendship is put to a serious test for the first time in their lives.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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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 Tale of the Old Cedar
Overview: The grandchildren of the Old Cedar - cones and young shoots - fight the forest fire, protecting their grandfather, and defeat the fire.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-02-09
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The Conscience
Overview: Engineer Martyanov fights corruption and old methods of working at his institute after electing the secretary of the party committee. His clashes with the director of Proshin lead to serious troubles. Martyanov fights for the truth, refusing compromises, and although he loses his post, he receives support from friends and wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-06-06
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