Nina Menshikova
Also Known As: Меньшикова Нина Евгеньевна
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, USSR
Adult: No
Birthday: August 08, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 26, 2007
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The Girls
Overview: A graduate of the culinary technical school of the cook, Tosya Kislitsyna, a naive and eccentric girl, came to the village lost in the northern forests. She sticks her nose in all affairs, seeks to help everyone. She met Ilya on the day of arrival: the "first guy in the village" fell upon her indignantly, and in the evening, to brighten up an unpleasant meeting, she decided to "make happy" with an invitation to a dance and was refused. Not accustomed to refusals, Ilya argues with Filya that during the week he will fall in love with Tosya...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Chudotvornaya
Overview: Rodka Gulyaev is a pupil of the Gumniskii rural secondary school. He on the bank of the river digs out the darkened old icon, and his grandmother Avdotya, an overbearing and cunning old woman, dissolves a rumor that the icon is miraculous, and her granddaughter is a saint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-12-13
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Waiting for a Miracle
Overview: On the advice of his teacher, young mathematician Sasha Shmagin went to Moscow to show the solution of an interesting and difficult problem to scientists. However, the boy did not make it to the professorship.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Steep Field
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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Open Heart
Overview: A film about the all-encompassing maternal love that lives in every woman. One day, out of the kindness of her heart, Lyuba sheltered a pregnant woman.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Loan for a Marriage
Overview: The reason for serious reflection by the staff of one of the typical enterprises in the country was the lack of powder necessary for production and the money to purchase it. The employees came up with a reason to get money from the director’s fund. Having issued a loan for a fictitious marriage between the only man in the department and an unmarried employee, the team thereby organized a completely happy marriage...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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And All the Love
Overview: Agricultural technical school graduate Valya Didenko, having become a production leader and then a people's deputy, fell in love with her patron - the chairman of the collective farm. However, happiness was not destined to happen. Having deliberately violated long-outdated instructions, the chairman was accused of fraud and brought to trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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Night Witches
Overview: Film will be based on the female flying unit that fought in the Battle of Moscow. They were dubbed "Night Witches" by the frightened German soldiers because of the deadly stealth of their light planes.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-06-06
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Ballad of a Soldier
Overview: During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Mr. Student
Overview: The adventures of a high school student Igor who is helping Reds during the October Revolution in Russia.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-10
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The Poseidon Rushes to Help
Overview: О юных выпускниках мореходного училища и их первом выходе в море. О трудном жизненном экзамене на профессиональную и человеческую прочность, который пришлось выдержать как команде траулера «Кайра», потерпевшего бедствие во время шторма, так и коллективу спасателя «Посейдон» под командованием капитана Чигринова, где проходил свою службу герой фильма Славка Чигринов, сумевший во время опасности проявить находчивость, мужество, отвагу.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-06-06
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We'll Live Till Monday
Overview: Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-07-02
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The School Waltz
Overview: The ten-graders Gosha and Zosya are in love with each other. The last school waltz has been played and it seems nothing stands any longer in the way of the young people being together. However, getting the news that he’s going to be a father soon, Gosha chooses a “free life” and… marries Dina who has long been in love with him, though with no reciprocity. But already at the registry office, the lucky winner realizes that getting Gosha as her husband doesn’t mean getting his love, that unintentionally she made her loved one unhappy and they have no future together…
Genres: Family Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-06-26
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One Hundred Days After Childhood
Overview: A group of Russian teenagers spend their summer at a summer camp. Mitia falls in love and gets so occupied with his own problems that he forgets about everything else.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-12-01
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A Man at His Place
Overview: A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-05-28
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Where Are You Now, Maxim?
Overview: A story of a young man who is returning to his home town after being evacuated as a boy during WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-06-14
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The Man of No Return
Overview: Lives of several families dramatically cross in a small suburban town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-06-05
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The Sixth
Overview: The Civil War in Russia has just finished. The sixth chief of militia came to a small town in the south. Five Glodov’s predecessors had been killed by a gang of elusive Vakhromeyev. Now Glodov and his crew are going to have a mortal combat with the smart gangsters…
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-04-12
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Clean Ponds
Overview: A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events …
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-08-30
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The Return of the Violin
Overview: During the WWII a group of children are trying to save Stradivarius violin from Nazis.
Genres: War Family Adventure Action
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1973-01-22
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A Mother's Heart
Overview: Family drama centering on the childhood of Vladimir Lenin, then Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, in the city of Simbirsk, and his relationship with his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-03-23
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The Memory of the Heart
Overview: The story of an English pilot who crashed in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, and whose life is saved by a woman and a boy - two partisans near the enemy lines, Long afterwards in England he remembers the Russians with affection, tells his friends about his experiences, and resolves to go back to find the two partisans his heart remembers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-05-26
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The Day the War Ended
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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Серафим Полубес и другие жители земли
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-07-02
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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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Ваши права?
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Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-02-14
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My Anfisa
Overview: The love of brigadier-painter Anfisa and the student of philology Nicholas resulted in a storm of indignation of his parents. Separation followed. And for separation - and the search for lost love ...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-11-09
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Storm on the Land
Overview: A story about a group of children and their life set at the small Russian seashore town in the year of 1913.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-02-05
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The First Date
Overview: Alexey and Valentina met in the tourist camp on Seliger, and after two weeks they celebrated their wedding. Returning to the family, the young couple faced the first difficulties. Both parents didn't like the willfulness of the young - and there were problems with housing. They started a constant quarrels. The young soon agreed that their wedding was premature ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-06-13
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The Ghosts of the Green Room
Overview: According to the story of JB Prestley "Jenny Villiers." Actors of the London Theater gathered in the Green Room of Barton Spa, a kind of theater museum. The playwright Martin Civerell expresses his doubts that the theater is able to regain its former charm. Left alone in the Green Room, Civerell sees the actors of the last century and becomes a witness to the drama that happened here a hundred years ago...
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-08-01
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No Return
Overview: According to the story of the same name by Anatoli Kalinin. The love story of Antonina and the battalion commander Nikitin, whom she sheltered after a severe wound. Antonina Kashirina is wanted to be excluded from the party, accusing the Don Cossack woman living in the territory occupied by the Germans during the war. They don't believe that she hid and treated a wounded Soviet officer. Unable to withstand insulting suspicions, she leaves the party committee bureau. On the way home, Tonya recalls how she picked up a bleeding artillery — the battalion commander Nikitin, she hid him and treated him as she fell in love...
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-04-08
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The Hat
Overview: The story is about how a metropolitan writer, concerned about the “fifth point of his questionnaire,” instead of the noble or, at worst, rabbit fur assigned to him by rank, was given a “medium fluffy domestic cat” at the Literary Fund, and how he, previously quiet and inconspicuous, ventured to a “mutiny on a ship” confidently cutting through the waters of “socialist realism.”
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Man from Planet Earth
Overview: Biographical film story about the first Russian space explorer, inventor scientist, rocket-maker K. E. Tsiolkovsky.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-01-16
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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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The Secret Agent’s End
Overview: Operation "Resident", which lasted 15 years, is coming to an end. But the indestructible agent of "Nadezhda" has one important mission left. Agent Carl Brockmann, who intends to steal the work of Academician Nikolai Nesterov in the defense sector, has been abandoned in the USSR. KGB leadership asks Mikhail Tulyev to return to the Soviet Union to find the spy. Meanwhile, Brockmann recruits former fascist collaborator Mikhail Kutepov for involvement in a dangerous operation.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-05-12
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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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Gloomy Morning
Overview: The third film in the trilogy ("The Sisters", "The Eighteenth Year", "The Gloomy Morning") based on the novel by Aleksei Tolstoy "The Road to Calvary". About the fate of the Russian intelligentsia against the background of the collapse of the Russian Empire and the civil war, which turned the lives of all the heroes of the film narration. Defending Tsaritsyn, the red commander Telegin was seriously wounded. At the hospital, he meets Dasha. After his recovery, the young spouses go together to the Red Army.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-04-26
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Adults and Children
Overview: Several short stories tell the story of the complex relationships between difficult children and their parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-07-20
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Верность матери
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-16
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Farm in the Steppe
Overview: Young friends participate in the Odessa Bolshevik underground's activity in the pre-revolutionary years (1910-1912).
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-05-14
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A Trip to the Caucasus Mountains
Overview: The story of six-year-old Bobka, a kind and cheerful man who lives in Leningrad and desperately dreams of unexpectedly visiting his dad, who serves in the distant Caucasus Mountains. This is his most cherished dream, and it will certainly come true, but only after some adventures that are quite normal for this tomboy.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-03-24
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Nikolai Podvoysky
Overview: On the life and activities of N.I. Podvoysky (1880-1948), a professional revolutionary and commander of the Red Army.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-11-01
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