Pyotr Merkuryev
Also Known As: Pyotr Merkuryev, Pyotr Merkurev, Петр Меркурьев, Пётр Меркурьев
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: June 17, 1943
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 27, 2010
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Moscow-Cassiopeia
Overview: Start of interstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts).
Genres: Science Fiction Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-09-23
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The Man from the Dump
Overview: A former boxing champion returns to his native town and takes to drink, but finds the strength to stop: he marries and gets a job at a factory. During perestroika he joins the democratic movement. The authorities declare him a rapist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Operatsiya 'Eniki-Beniki'
Overview: Seven years old Fedya lives in a beautiful town on the sea shore. His life is always full of funny adventures.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-06
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Long Farewell
Overview: After a young actress finds herself in a love triangle, she has to choose between a hapless writer and a successful playwright.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-06-06
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Prince Igor
Overview: Based on opera "Prince Igor" by Borodin.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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We're from Jazz
Overview: A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-06
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Trips on an Old Car
Overview: What should you do if you have lost the opportunity to see your only grandson? A young charming grandmother, hoping to influence her former daughter-in-law, meets her new father-in-law... This is how an amazing love story begins.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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What a Mess!
Overview: The story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national debt, but also allow every Russian citizen to move to the Canary Islands. However, Mafia plans to steal the massive gem but a notorious thief, Vasia, ruins their plans. Mafia and militia begin chasing him, but soon Vasia learns that he has brothers as between the chase he runs into well known Jewish conductor and a gypsy baron who are triplet brothers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-03-30
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Hard to Be a God
Overview: A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-02-27
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Accelerate
Overview: Young girl is dreaming to become a cop - so she starts her own investigation into a group of car thieves.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-08-08
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Dreams
Overview: Russian countess in 1893 has strange dreams about herself living a life as a dishwasher in 1993' Moscow after dissolution of the USSR.
Genres: Fantasy History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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Philipp Traum
Overview: A story based on "The Mysterious Stranger" novel by Mark Twain.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-06-06
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Forgotten Tune for the Flute
Overview: A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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The Dreamer
Overview: A musical-plastic film based on the jazz opera "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin is a dramatic story of the unhappy love of the legless Porgy and the young beauty Bess.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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We'll Be Waiting, Come Back
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Cinderella 4x4. Everything Starts with Desires
Overview: Dasha is in the eighth grade. She is a very ordinary girl, she has no mother, she lives with her father and younger sister Ulyana. Her father works as a car mechanic and communicates with eccentric clients, and Dasha has to take care of her sister, in which her elderly neighbor Pavel sometimes helps her. Dasha loves to dream. She imagines that she lives in a fairy tale, and the people around her are her fairy tale characters. Once, lost in her dreams and telling her sister a fairy tale at night, she imagined everything so clearly that the fairy tale "came to life": Dasha became Cinderella, and Ulyana became Thumbelina.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-09-21
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The Last Train
Overview: A fat middle-aged man in German officer's uniform gets off a train somewhere in Russia in winter. He is a doctor who has just been called up we learn eventually. This is the end of the line- the Germans are about to retreat. He goes to a hospital which is being evacuated and is thrown out. Kicked out he wanders with another conscript- a failed actor turned postman. The postman is deafened by a shell explosion. They meet their Russian equivalents, others as bad at killing as they are, while other Russians and Germans kill one another around them.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2004-02-05
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Forget the Word 'Death'
Overview: 1920. Russian Civil War. Operation of GubCheka (Soviet police) to destroy one of the bands in Ukraine.
Genres: Adventure Action War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-11-01
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Don't Forget... Lugovaya Station
Overview: During WWII a troop train is stuck at a small railway station. A young lieutenant gets close to a local girl, then the war separates them. Twenty years later he happens to arrive at the same station and finds out that she'd waited for him for many years.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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Dead Souls
Overview: Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners. These landowners are revealed to be so petty and avaricious that not even Chichikov’s amazing offer can be worked to his advantage on them. Some stall, some refuse for no obvious reasons, some promise and then renege, and others want “in on the deal.” In the end, Chichikov, having concluded that the landowners are a hopeless lot, leaves for other regions.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-11-19
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During a Beautiful Childhood
Overview: A musical comedy about one day from the life of five year old Petya's grandfather.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-07-01
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Affairs of the Past
Overview: A finding of an old briefcase in a ruined house in 1970s leads to a treasure, hidden in the 1920s.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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Why Wouldn't We Send... a Messenger?
Overview: A farmer who has been bankrupted by bankers goes to Moscow in search for the truth.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-07-06
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Forgive Me, Alyosha
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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Sentence
Overview: In one of the American States committed a major Bank robbery, which killed two guards. Jim Conley, a Bank employee, is charged with the murder. With irrefutable evidence, attorney General Ted Talbot is seeking a death sentence for Conley. A day later, one of the witnesses confesses to the murder, a little later they find his corpse. Bolbat's career comes to an end. His friend and assistant, Leo Harman, knowing that Talbot cleverly framed, begins a full investigation into unthinkable intrigue.
Genres: Action Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Defence Counsel Sedov
Overview: Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks upon a succession of encounters with increasingly powerful officials, gradually persuading them to look at the case anew. But the highest authorities are not so easily outmanoeuvered, and Sedov becomes canonised as a Stalinist zealot, with the film building inexorably to its chilling triple climax.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-01-02
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The Orlovs
Overview: The drunkard and his wife become orderlies in a cholera barracks during the outbreak.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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Drama from the Old Life
Overview: A love story between a barber and a serf actress who find themselves in an environment that combines savagery with a veneer of enlightenment. Based on Nikolai Leskov's short story "The Toupee Artist".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-08-12
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Veronica will not come
Overview: Just a bet in a gamble called life. The cynical rebel is trying his fate over and over again, not considering that this is a dangerous rival. Once the game ends in defeat: the arrogant beauty loses everything at once. A successful journalist turns into a desperate old woman and ends up in a nursing home ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-06-27
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Temptation
Overview: Andrey's stepbrother Sasha dies, with whom he was destined to meet only once. With a heavy heart, Andrei goes to a funeral and finds himself in an ominous atmosphere of a complete stranger and, in general, a family alien to him. Trying to figure out the strange circumstances of his brother’s death, Andrey re-experiences the events of a seemingly long forgotten and painful past, because it seems that only it can tell where the truth is and what really happened to Sasha - an accident or suicide?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-08-16
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Forget-Me-Nots
Overview: A story about the fate of several generations of an old Moscow family. The life of these people, full of drama, fatally intersects with the historical fate of Russia. The plot focuses on the love of a young officer and a girl against the background of Stalinist socialism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-06-18
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They Fought for Their Motherland
Overview: In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-11-05
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Shores
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-12-03
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I'm an Actress
Overview: A film about the great Russian actress Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya (1864–1910).
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-12-01
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The Road to Rübezahl
Overview: The German anti-fascist Max in 1939 emigrated to the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought in the Soviet partisan detachment and died, performing a responsible mission. After many years, her companion in guerrilla warfare, Lyudmila, was able to realize their common dream — to climb to the top of Mount Rübezahl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-07-26
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The Property of Republic
Overview: Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid Keshka, is stealing a collection of paintings and sculptures from the abandoned estate owners. Hoping to transport her abroad, criminals wander with a circus troupe, and in their wake goes a tireless criminal investigator — Makar Ovchinnikov.
Genres: Adventure Crime Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-04-24
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Are You Kidding?
Overview: The film almanac of VGIK's graduates, consisting of films for children: "Otherwise We Are Lost," "Vanderbul Runs Over the Horizon," and "Are You Kidding?"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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Come and See
Overview: The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-10-17
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Ревизор
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1996-10-08
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Nevsky Melodies
Overview: A young designer Alyosha (Alexey Kozhevnikov) decided to write a musical review. He had already decided that the characters in this review would look like his friends Vasya and Masha, but what kind of plot should he come up with? And, reflecting on this, the author wanders through the streets of Leningrad. Vasya and Masha recently got married, and from the outside it seems that they have cloudless happiness. Meanwhile, a conflict is brewing in the newlyweds' family.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-06-22
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It's Not Always Summer in Crimea
Overview: The film is dedicated to Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, the younger brother of V.I. Lenin, a professional revolutionary, doctor and creator of the first Soviet sanatoriums and rest homes in the Crimea.
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-06-01
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The Duenna
Overview: A funny musical based on the comedy "The Duenna" by British dramatist Richard B. Sheridan.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-06
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