Aleksey Batalov
Also Known As: Алексей Баталов, Aleksei Batalov, Aleksej Batalov, Alexei Batalov, Aleksei Vladimirovich Batalov, A. Batalov, Alexej Batalow
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov (Russian: Алексе́й Влади́мирович Бата́лов; born 20 November 1928) is a Soviet and Russian actor who has been acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vladimir, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Birthday: November 20, 1928
Deathday: June 15, 2017
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Overview: Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He returns the favour by protecting them from two murderous cobra.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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The First Love
Overview: Based on the story of the same name by I. Turgenev. A story about the romantic feeling of falling in love with a young man for whom everything is for the first time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-04-26
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Overview: This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-02-11
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Profession: Film Actor
Overview: Vyacheslav Tikhonov's roles are discussed by his colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Hedgehog in the Fog
Overview: A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect...
Genres: Animation Adventure Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-10-23
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Слоно-дило-сёнок
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-03-11
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The Cranes Are Flying
Overview: Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-10-12
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Lady with the Dog
Overview: On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair. After a short time, she returns to Saratov, he to Moscow, believing it’s good-by forever. All winter he is miserable, enervated, distracted by tristesse. In desperation, he contrives to go to Saratov, surprising her at a concert. Fearing discovery in her home town, she promises to come to Moscow. Will they cast aside reputation to live together, or will theirs be an affair of infrequent encounters in hotel rooms?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-01-28
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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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The Captivating Star of Happiness
Overview: In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and tyrannical Czar Nikolai I in the wake of his not honoring the drafting of a constitution for the Russian people. The revolution failed miserably and the conspirators (known as the Decembrists) were weeded out by the czar himself. One by one, each of the conspirators confess and are systematically exiled to the harsh winters of Siberia, slated to work and wither in a prison/mine. The wives of the conspirators are faced with the prospect of leaving the bosom of wealth and family (including their own children) to be with their husbands in the brutal Siberian locale. If they agree to this, they face having their illustrious social stations stripped away and certain disdain from everyone around them...
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-11-11
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The Living Corpse
Overview: Based on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he does not have the courage to fight it, and he chooses the third way — to stage suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-07-11
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The Flight
Overview: The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the run" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to Russia. Some of them have understood that they can't live outside Russia and go back maybe to be happy, maybe not, some go back to face sure death for their crimes, some don't go back and know that are going to miss homeland forever, some are comfortably well off (are they?) in exile. Sentimental without syrup, tragic and comical at the same time.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-14
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A Very English Murder
Overview: A classic detective story based on one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare, novel "An English Murder" originally published in 1951. The setting of An English Murder seems, at first, to be a very conventional one. A group of family and friends come together for Christmas at a country house, Warbeck Hall. The house is owned by Lord Warbeck, a dying and impoverished peer who wants to be among loved ones for what he thinks will be his last Christmas. The holiday decorations are up and snow is falling fast outside. The guests range from the Lord's difficult son to a visiting Czech historian. There is, of course, a faithful butler and his ambitious daughter. But when the murders begin, there is nothing at all conventional about them - or the manner of their detection...
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-12-14
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The Fatal Eggs
Overview: Based on the motifs of M. Bulhakow's story with the same title. The thing about the scientist-zoologist Persikow, whose unique invention makes the rate of formation and development of organisms grow thousands of times. The experiment subjects eggs of the anaconda, which by mistake go to the mad director of the model chicken farm, dealing with rebuilding the hen population in the country. Irradiated reptiles, hatching from eggs, start to devour.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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My Dear Fellow
Overview: Military doctor Vladimir Ustimenko is a man of duty and honor, committed to the cause he serves, and one single love that he carries through his whole life: Varvara Stepanova is a whimsical girl who dreamed of becoming a great actress but eventually became a geologist. The war will cruelly interfere in the fate of the heroes and confuse their relationship even more.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-08-07
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Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
Overview: The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive mess in the same House of Culture, where they celebrated the New Year 50 years ago. Now the institution is named after Ogurtsov and is headed by Mr. Kabachkov. A young enthusiast Alyona Krylatova and a young man Denis Kolechkin work in the recreation center. Alyona, as she can, opposes the "arts" of the bureaucrat and opportunist Kabachkov, and Denis helps her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Nine Days of One Year
Overview: Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-03-05
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The Rumyantsev Case
Overview: Sasha Rumyantsev, a long-range driver, becomes an unwitting accomplice in a crime committed by the head of the motor depot where he works. The honest guy is accused of stealing a car of a hard-to-find product. The collective of the motor depot amicably stands up to protect their comrade and helps the investigator, Colonel Afanasyev, to find and expose the true criminals.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-03-08
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The Seventh Companion
Overview: A portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a character study in General Adamov (Andrei Popov), a law professor in the tsarist army, who is incarcerated by the Bolshevik secret police along with many other members of the bourgeoisie. Finally released into the new world of the Soviet Union, the resigned officer finds that he has lost everything from his old life except a mantel clock that he carries through the night from place to place, until he ends up back where he started.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-26
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Rest Time from Saturday Until Monday
Overview: A drama from the life of two generations of a big family from Leningrad. Loosely based on a novel by Yuriy Nagibin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-11-26
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Zoya
Overview: The true story of one of Russia's most beloved national heroines. During the Nazi siege of Moscow, a fearless 18-year-old girl named Zoya risked her life as a partisan fighter. Captured by the Germans, Zoya endured unspeakable tortures at the hands of the Gestapo but still refused to betray her comrades. Even on the gallows, Zoya defiantly spoke out against the Nazis and everything they stood for. In a series of flashbacks, this film re-creates not merely Zoya's death, but also her life.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1944-11-23
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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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Poltergeist-90
Overview: A journalist made a film called "Mafia is immortal", but it was put on the shelf, and the creator was explicitly threatened. He becomes a witness of strange things. He decides to conduct his own investigation along with his friend, a scientist. They find an underground laboratory, generating beams that allow to influence people at a distance ...
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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A Hedgehog Came Out of the Fog
Overview: Norstein conquered the world 36 years ago with the creation of the legendary Hedgehog in the Fog. It was recognized as the best cartoon of all times and peoples according to a survey of film critics and animators from different countries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-09-15
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Late Meeting
Overview: The film takes place in Leningrad and Sverdlovsk, in 1970 and 1979. Arriving on a business trip from Sverdlovsk in the Lenfilm, engineer catapults Sergei Gushchin meets a young actress Natasha. She invites him to show Leningrad, but Gushchin and he knows the city - he served here during the war. They are looking for an excuse for further meetings, but he always finds a reason to not to meet with the woman who is many years younger than him and with whom he has fallen in love with. Natasha understands too that she loves this man, but Gushchin leaves, and not daring to associate with her fate. In the end he leaves and only returns to Leningrad nine years later and then he tries to find Natasha again.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-04-24
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The Films of Yuri Norstein
Overview: 6 Films of legendary russian animation master Yuriy Norshteyn are now fully 2K restored in Steelbook! Blu-ray&DVD
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-05-26
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The Little Princess
Overview: The film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a boarding school in London. Sarah was lonely, but she made some good friends at school. Suddenly her father was announced dead in a mine accident and Sarah became an orphan. Now she goes on a long and dangerous journey to find her father, who loved her and called her a "little princess".
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-06-06
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A Film About Mikhail Kalatozov
Overview: The career of revered Russian filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov is explored in this documentary film comprised of rare behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with French director Claude Lelouch, and conversations with some of the biggest names in contemporary Russian cinema. Kalatozov's grandson Mikhail Kalatozishvili pays tribute to the director of such timeless classics as I Am Cuba, Salt for Svanetia, and The Cranes are Flying as such notable fans as Andrei Konchalovsky, Sergei Solovyov, and Alexei Batalov discuss the remarkable influence Kalatozov had on their own film careers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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An Umbrella for Lovers
Overview: Kraskov and Vera have long loved each other. They are unable to part, however, and connect their destinies can not and have already accepted the circumstances of life: he has a family, three children. A chance meeting in Moscow with a young couple, familiar with the rest in the South, pushes them to a decisive step…
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-10-13
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Crococat
Overview: This story is about how the ability to read books helped rescue a friend from trouble. So, one day Drakosha lit lanterns in the city, and the evil Trapper caught him and put him in an iron cage. Girl, Owlet and Cat decided to free their friend.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Girl and the Dragon
Overview: Every evening night came to one small town, and with it - peace and sleep. Only the lamplighter did not sleep - he lit up the city. A little owlet helped him light the lanterns - all the same, owls do not sleep at night. And in the morning, the main person in the city - the mayor - made sure that the lamplighter put out all the lights on time - after all, it was already light during the day. In the morning the lamplighter was resting, and the owlet flew to sleep on the roof, and every time he woke Drakosha up. Drakosha was a dragon and lived in a garbage can.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Iron Curtain
Overview: 1947 ... The Savchenko family returns to Moscow from evacuation - husband and wife with Kostya's little son. They settle with Grandma Kostya in a huge communal apartment. Street meets the boy with a flock of local boys. Then there were: the division of the territory with the "Sretensky"; trophy movie “Girl of my dreams”; a school with separate education, camp discipline and essays about the border guard Karatsyup. And the monetary reform of 1947, when all of their savings depreciated in an instant, and the boys let out boats from banknotes in puddles.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-06-06
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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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A Day of Happiness
Overview: As a rule, a person’s life is a swimming flowing from one to another. Radically changes the direction of this size. In an ambulance, he was riding a bus and met a beautiful stranger. They turned out to be Alexandra Nikolaevna, he - Alexander Nikolaevich, lost in the crowd. The outstanding geophysicist, the husband of Alexandra Nikolaevna, did not go on another expedition, stayed at home with his wife, arranged for himself “a day of happiness,” and lost his job ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-06-27
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In the Town of S.
Overview: A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-10-15
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Speed
Overview: This story began on the day when an unknown car enthusiast, Grigory Yakovlev, beat famous athletes in a car he had built himself. The head of the design bureau liked his car, who invited the young racing driver to his laboratory...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-05
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Light of a Distant Star
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-09-13
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Vrednyuga - The Mischievous
Overview: One morning, the Girl, the Cat and Drakosha wanted to go to the sea, but they noticed that something strange is happening in the city: bright colors disappear everywhere, birds stop singing, posters fade. Friends decided to deal with Wreck, who stole the rainbow and wants to deprive the world of joy.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-02-02
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Snowfall from the Fridge
Overview: Once Drakosha forgot to close the refrigerator, snow formed, from which he and his friends molded the Snowman. When the Snowman began to melt, they threw him to the moon, where, in their opinion, it is always cold. Cartoon based on the tales of the English writer Donald Bisset.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-02-02
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The Music Lesson
Overview: About how the Maestro toured cities with concerts, and Drakoshi’s grandmother recalled the music of her childhood and shared her impressions with her grandson and his friends.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-02-02
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Mysterious Planet
Overview: A boy, who every night admired the beauty of the starry sky, noticed through his telescope that ominous-looking spots appeared on one beautiful and rainbow planet. He immediately realized that this was not good, and sent a self-constructed robot to the aid of the inhabitants of the mysterious planet.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-02-12
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Stalin's Funeral
Overview: 1953 year. Moscow says goodbye to the leader. In the funeral crowd, Eugene met with Elya. During the long hours spent in the funeral procession, they managed to learn a lot about each other ... But Elia absurdly dies. So Zhenya begins another, adult life ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-04-21
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Mikhail Lomonosov
Overview: A biopic about the life of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Russian polymath, scientist and writer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-05-05
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Faithful Ruslan: History of the Guard Dog
Overview: A Russian made-for-TV film about a guard dog named Ruslan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Mercedes Man File
Overview: A professional intelligence officer Ingmar Ross, an employee of one of the embassies, is tasked with recruiting a specialist from a Moscow classified company. But, having fallen in love with a Russian woman
Genres: Drama Mystery Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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A Big Family
Overview: Drama based on the novel by Vsevolod Kochetov “The Zhurbin Family”. The characters of the picture are a large family of hereditary shipbuilders. Three generations of the Zhurbin live under one roof: grandfather Matvei, his son Ilya, three sons of Ilya — Aleksei, Anton and Viktor. In a short time, representatives of the fourth generation are born. The share of the youngest son of Aleksei fall the most severe life tests. The background for family conflicts is the reorganization of production. All Zhurbin's have to change their profession to move on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-11-05
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Attention, Turtle!
Overview: Two curious first-graders decide to steal a turtle named Rocket from a living corner to conduct a risky experiment — they want to put it under the tank in order to check the carrying capacity and strength of the shell. But their classmate Tanya is smarter than her friends: with the help of adults, she manages to organize the rescue of the unfortunate turtle.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-11-05
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Yuri Olesha, nicknamed "The Writer"
Overview: Animated documentary film about the fate of the writer - Yuri Olesha. About how he was strangled by the grip of the era that fell to him, and in such an embrace he was forced to live not his life. Created on the basis of the writer's diaries, the film tells about the inner throwing of a talented man who died in literature thirty years before his physical death.
Genres: Documentary Animation TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-04-13
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The Red Diplomat
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Overview: A semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov. Includes newsreels from the 1930s, footage from films featuring Aleynikov and interviews with his closest friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-02-02
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Pages From The Autobiography
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-04-30
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Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director
Overview: A film about the life and work of the famous film director Mikhail Romm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-01-24
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The Fir
Overview: An exquisite little fir tree is curious about what he will become later. Based on the tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Overview: The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-03-22
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Of People and Atoms
Overview: A film about the history of the development and problems of nuclear physics.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-03-01
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Cinematographer Andrey Moskvin
Overview: Biography of cinematographer Andrey Nikolaevich Moskvin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-05-01
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