Leonid Kuravlyov
Soviet and Russian film actor. He became a People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1976. Kuravlyov was born in Moscow into a working-class family. His father Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Kuravlyov (1909–1979) worked as a locksmith at the Salyut Machine-Building Association and his mother Valentina Dmitriyevna Kuravlyova (1916–1993) was a hairdresser. In 1941 with the start of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War) his mother was arrested on false report, accused of counter-revolutionary activity (Article 58) and exiled to Karaganda, Kazakh SSR to work at the local plant. In five years she was freed without a right to live in Moscow and sent to Zasheyek, Murmansk Oblast in the Russian far north where she continued working as a hairdresser. In 1948 she managed to get a permission to see her son who spent a year with her at Zasheyek, and in 1951 she finally returned to Moscow. In 1955 Kuravlyov entered VGIK to study acting under Boris Bibikov. He graduated in 1960 and joined the Theater Studio of Film Actors. He made his first movie appearances while still a student. In 1960 he was noted by Vasily Shukshin and took part in his diploma film Reported From Lebyazhye. In 1961 they both starred in the popular melodrama When the Trees Were Tall, and in 1964 Shukshin gave him the leading role in his comedy movie There Is Such a Lad which brought Kuravlyov true fame and which he considered to be the start of his successful movie career. He also acted in Your Son and Brother (1965) and felt so grateful for what the director did for him that he later named his son after Shukshin. The role of Shura Balaganov in Mikhail Schweitzer’s comedy The Little Golden Calf based on the book by Ilf and Petrov was one of his first successful roles: he managed to create an image of a brash yet charming petty thief. His other notable roles of that period include Khoma Brut in one of the first Soviet horror movies Viy (1967), antagonist Sorokin in a psychological melodrama Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969), Robinson Crusoe in Stanislav Govorukhin’s Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1972), a Nazi officer Kurt Eismann in Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) and Lavr Mironovich in Pyotr Todorovsky’s The Last Victim (1975). In the 1970s he appeared in three to four films per year. Even though Kuravlyov was adept at playing serious dramatic roles, he is still best known for his leading roles in top-grossing comedy movies such as Afonya (1975) by Georgiy Daneliya (11th highest-grossing Soviet film, highest grossing film of the year, 62.2 mln viewers), Leonid Gaidai’s Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973, 17th highest-grossing film, 60 mln viewers) and It Can’t Be! (1975, 46th highest-grossing film with 46.9 mln viewers), The Most Charming and Attractive (1985) by Gerald Bezhanov (the highest-grossing film of 1985, 44.9 mln viewers) and others. During the late 1990s he hosted a popular TV programme The World of Books with Leonid Kuravlyov where he talked about new book releases. In two years it was closed and then relaunched with new hosts. In 2012 he was awarded the IV class Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Barber of Siberia
as Vakhmistr BukinDouglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new,...
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Viy
as Khoma BrutusA young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village....
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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
as Жорж Милославский / князь МилославскийA scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches
as Von BorkIn addition to the two-part television version of the film, a shorter version was installed to...
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Afonya
as Борщов Афанасий Николаевич (Афоня)The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main...
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It Can't Be!
as Vladimir ZavitushkinThe film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and...
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Mimino
as Professor KhachikyanGeorgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines,...
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What a Mess!
as USA ambassadorThe story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it...
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It
as Vasilisk BorodavkinThe bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a...
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
as "Smoked"Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning...
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The Most Charming and Attractive
as Pasha DyatlovNadya Klyueva is a single woman. Persuaded by her friend, she decides to charm her co-worker...
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The Turkish Gambit
as majorThe film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of...
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The Golden Calf
as Shura BalaganovA crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs,"...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins, Part 2
as Von BorkThe final film of the television series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson." It...
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The Book of Masters
as BarinA beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in...
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There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
as Mikhail GorbachevWhen mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor...
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Snake Catcher
as KonstantinThe former director of a large deli Pavel Shorokhov, having returned from prison and not...
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Liberation: The Last Assault
as Chuikov's signalerIn Berlin, Lieutenant Yartsev's infantry and Tzvetaev's battery fight their way in the U-Bahn....
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Look for a Woman
as Henri GrandenThe story begins when Alice Postique, who had to stay late at work, discovers her boss Roche...
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Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
as RobinsonIn the seventeenth century, Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on a desert island and is the only...
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The Beginning
as ArkadiyA talented girl from the provincial Russian town Pasha Stroganova dreams of becoming an actress....
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The Roundabout
as Nikolai TimofeyevichSatirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance...
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Shine, Shine, My Star
as Red comissarThis late 60s Russian films is set in 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution. Folks had...
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Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
as DobrynyaThe second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars"....
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There Will Be No Leave Today
as MorozovSoldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells...
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Circus in the Circus
as GrishaTo Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists...
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The Master and Margarita
as Nikanor Ivanovich BosoyMaster is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and...
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Lady Into Lassie
as Grigoriy MuromskiyBased on a famous short story by Pushkin, this film tells of a youthful, innocent and pure love...
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Holy Moly!
as uncreditedYevgeny Yevstigneyev, Georgy Burkov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Galina Polskikh in a sad comedy by Sergey...
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We're from Jazz
as SamsonovA music student is expeled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents...
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Martinko
as uncreditedMartynko, while in the guardhouse, found a deck of magic cards with which he could easily beat...
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For the Matches
as PeasantIn Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get...
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Time, Forward!
as KorneyevThe film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of...
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You to Me, Me to You
as Ivan Kashkin / Sergei KashkinIvan Sergeevich Kashkin — the bath attendant of the most prestigious metropolitan bath. It’s not...
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Sentence
as Лео ХарманIn one of the American States committed a major Bank robbery, which killed two guards. Jim...
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Entrance to Labyrinth
as Oleg KhlebnikovThe actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists'...
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The Invisible Man
as MarvelBased upon the famous novel by H.G.Wells. A poor scientist named Griffin discovers a way to make...
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The Last Sacrifice
as Lavr MironychBased on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky. The rich merchant widow...
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Incognito from St.Petersburg
as ShpekinA comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.
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Don't Leave Your Lovers
as ВалераSometimes divorce process could be really painful. This is exactly the case for the heroes of...
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Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
as EditorThe first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad...
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Dangerous for Your Life!
as Spartak MolodtsovA funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible...
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We, the Undersigned
as Lyonya ShindinThe main events unfold in the train. The acceptance committee from Moscow, revealing...
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When the Trees Were Tall
as LenkaThe story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days...
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Young People
as new settlerShe is smart, surrounded by parental attention and therefore not completely independent, and he...
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Live in Joy
as Митяй Пряжкин (Дмитрий Петрович)A kolkhoz machine-operator is a local inventor who has tensions with his wife over his hobby. He...
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Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
as Михаил (новелла «Мы едем, едем, едем...»)An omnibus of comical shorts.
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The Stairway
as дядя МишаHaving his life come to a dead end, Vladimir is thinking about suicide. He is saved by a girl...
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Sincerely Yours...
as EmtsovA young astronomer is becoming more of administrator instead of concentrating on science.
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Before We Part
as BadarinStuck due to bad weather at a tiny Far Eastern airport, several random travel companions become...
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There Is Such a Lad
as PashkaA story about Pashka, a really decent, honest guy, even though he lies a lot, who is looking for...
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Defeat
as uncreditedA 4-partmade-for-television feature film. Two young physicists, engaged in the problems of...
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Little Tragedies
as Адриан Прохоров/ЛепореллоA feature film based on the three-part adaptation of the poetic and dramatic cycle of Alexander...
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Ladies Invite Gentlemen
as SanyaAnna Pozdnyakova is already over 30 years old and, despite the fact that she is kind and pretty,...
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Fuss of the Fusses
as VolodyaA comedy about a civil registry official whose job is to register newlyweds and who just...
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Russian Account
as Иван Сидоров, майорDangerous repeat offenders Cabinet and Corkscrew arrive in Dagomys with the aim of abducting the...
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Midshipman Panin
as Pyotr KamushkinIt is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt....
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The Stringer
as uncreditedVadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a...
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Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
as ArkadyVitya Glushakov is a perfect high school student. He even writes a novel about the Apache tribe....
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Your Son and Brother
as StepanBased on short stories by Vasiliy Shukshin. About the life and people of the modern Soviet...
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Two Days of Wonders
as зав. терапевическим отделением Мурашев Вадим ЛеонидовичFather and son exchange the bodies using the help of two student fairies.
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Russian miracle
as СеняThe enterprising Ivan decides to organize a tour in America of the famous Russian psychic Yuri...
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Railway Romance
as PetrovichDuring the New Year eve Alexey is trying to get back his first love.
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Take Care of the Men!
as Vladimir RodionovShe is a business, courageous and energetic woman. He is spineless, awkward and also not...
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Nylon 100%
as работник скупки Веня ГурьяновAn adventures of a 100% nylon "fur" coat traveling between various people.
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Presumption of Innocence
as Bondarev - nachalnik poezdaAfter the concert, the popular singer, having boarded the train, discovers that her jacket is...
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First Encounter - Last Encounter
as CountThe story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private...
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Destroy the Thirtieth!
as uncreditedWhen a man is forced to return to a secret Russian training camp, he decides to plan his escape,...
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Lev Gurych Sinichkin
as князь ВетренскийThe old actor dreams of a leading role for his young talented daughter. However, she is opposed...
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The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
as uncreditedThe story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering.
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Elder Sister
as VolodyaA drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and...
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Ау-у! (Киноальманах)
as Пташук Геннадий Иванович («Что наша жизнь?! Или что наша жизнь?!»)
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
as Игорь Иванович СтепановA love story between a mythical Russian minister and an opportunist TV series actress.
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The Twelve Months
as Old soldierA poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter...
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Five Minutes of Fear
as Леонид Каретников (свидетель)On the way for fishing Leonid Karetnikov finds the body of a man on the roadside and admit a car...
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Third Time
as Lyonya FokinThe film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a...
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Aibolit and Barmaley
as ТолстыйAbout the adventures of the good doctor Aibolit and the evil robber Barmalei.
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A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
as uncreditedThe 16-year-old Tanya Canareykina decided to drastically change her life. For starters she fell...
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Made in USSR
as Ivan MoiseyevichAn ordinary high school turns into an ordinary model of a totalitarian state. The trivial story...
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One Time Deal
as Fedor RomanovA crew of builders in charge of demolition of old buildings in Moscow find hidden treasure...
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A Day and the Whole Life
as uncreditedA story about a woman who raised her son alone during the difficult war and post-war years. She...
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The Heirs
as глава администрацииThe plot focuses on an ordinary family living in one village in the taiga. Father works as a...
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The Trust That Has Burst
as Ezra PlunkettA witty comedy, that has fun and philosophy in one. Inspired by short stories of O`Henry.
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Escape of Mr. McKinley
as мистер ДроотA man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling...
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Ultimatum
as LeonidThe patients of the big hospital are fighting for their rights during Perestroyka times.
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Gangsters in the Ocean
as SobakinA modern pirates attack Russian ship and imprison the sailors on the inhabited island.
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The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
as uncreditedThe first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars"....
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KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
as uncreditedA Russian agent is sent to a mission in Chile as a punishment. While there, he continues his...
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While the Dream is Mad
as uncreditedYura Otvertkin, a romantic from Tsarevo-Kokshaisk, is obsessively in love with aeronautics. In...
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Late Child
as uncreditedA boy suffers from excessive care of his family, cause he wants them to reckon with him as an...
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Timur and His Team
as uncreditedA story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the...
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May I die, Lord
as uncreditedBefore the demolition of the orphanage, almost all the children were transferred to other...
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Seventh Skies
as uncreditedLife in a distant south town become to difficult for the young girl Ksana from Moscow...
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The Devil's Puppets
as uncreditedA young Frenchman receives a royal award for his scientific discovery. The new laureate agrees...
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This Merry Planet
as Игрек - член экипажа летающей тарелкиThree cynical and emotionally detached aliens arrive on earth on New Year's eve with the mission...
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Provincial Benefit
as uncreditedLife in art based on the plays of A. Ostrovsky: "Talents and Admirers", "Forest", etc.
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Crazy Money
as VasiliyMoscow mid-XIX century. Middle-aged provincial businessman Savva Gennadievich Vasilkov falls in...
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It's Just Awful!
as Ruslan IvanovichA bodies of a six-grader and his father are interchanges with the help of the magic machine...
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The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
as PriestAfter a photo of Konstantin Zbruyev got published in the magazine he got a lot of letters. So...
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Homeboy
as FedorA young girl known for being "Homeboy" for everybody is dreaming to become more feminine.
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Sitting on the Golden Porch
as Kороль АмфибрахийTwo kings: Fedot and Amphibrachiy have been adjoining peacefully for many years. But once...
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Such a Big Boy
as VasiliyIn the first days of the Second World War, a young woman with three children is evacuated from...
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Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
as Ivan ShponkaBased on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan...
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Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика
as uncredited
Hope
as StepanAt only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in...
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Tailcoat for an Idler
as uncreditedTwelve years old boy escapes summer camp in order to meet his brother currently serving in the army.
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Not Under the Jurisdiction
as SorokinIn a training flight, the Il-28 plane crashes. Shooter-radio operator Sorokin without an order...
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The Most Beautiful Horse
as uncreditedA serious passion for equestrian sports helped the F student become one of the best in the class.
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The Left-Hander
as император Александр ПавловичWhen the British, wanting to surprise the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich, presented a clockwork...
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Without Father
as uncreditedAfter the death of her husband, Tamara gave her daughter Olya to an orphanage and left for the...
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In Search of the Golden Phallus
as руководитель круизаThe priceless treasure “The Golden Phallus” - a unique work of art of the ancient civilization...
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Kysh and TwoBriefcases
as папа Алёши, Дмитрий ЭдуардовичThe heroes of the film are first-graders Snezhana and Alyosha Seroglazov, who received the...
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Restricted Area
as uncreditedCentral Russia. The deputy chairman of the district executive committee, Tretyakova, was...
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The Night Before Christmas
as uncredited"The Night Before Christmas" is a Russian puppet cartoon that was created by director Ekaterina...
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Esli Nevesta Vedma
as uncreditedИзвестный профессор нетрадиционных наук узнает, что на его «малой родине» в далекой деревушке...
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Detonator
as uncreditedA strange object falls to the ground from space. His fall is accompanied by a strong explosion,...
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To Dream and to Live
as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёрThe script about loneliness, conformity and the impossibility of creative realization scared the...
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Three on the Red Carpet
as Михаил Иванович СошкинThree candidates for deputies of the republican and local Soviets are awaiting the election...
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Men's Talk
as AlexeySasha Larionov, is in the eighth grade and still doesn't know that his mother has left the...
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Crash
as СыроежкинThe GPU secret service develops and conducts in 1923-24 an operational game aimed at the...
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Chekhov's Vaudevilles
as uncreditedMusical teleplay based on A.P. Chekhov's vaudevilles "The Proposal" and "The Bear".
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New Year's Story
as Ded MorozA secret unit to combat aliens has been operating since the Second World War, as we learn from...
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The Suicide
as заведующий тиром Александр Лукьянович КалабушкинAs Soviet Russia enters the era of the New Economic Policy, Semyon Podsekalnikov decides to stop...
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Facts of the Past Day
as GrininThe action takes place in the early 1980s, in the Arctic, at a mining plant. The long-overdue...
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Traces of Rain
as uncreditedLove overtook the famous conductor in Russia, which he had once abandoned. But the young...
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Copper Angel
as ЛарсенAn international geological expedition led by a Russian engineer works in an inaccessible area...
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A Man for a Young Girl
as uncreditedAfter falling in love with a much younger girl a rich businessman is trying to find an ancient...
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Dozhd'
as Trenka, journeyman (voice)In one of the Russian cities, where local tailors have long sold their fabrics and clothes from...
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Enclosure
as uncreditedIn one of the developing countries, local and Soviet geologists discovered a tantalum ore...
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The Adventures of Travka
as uncreditedA story of a little boy nicknamed Travka who got lost for a whole day.
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Across Red Nights
as uncreditedMoscow, the years of perestroika. The quiet life of Eduard and Pavla turns into a nightmare one...
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Karpusha
as Karpusha (voice)The strong man tries to help the old people, but only ruins everything.
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Fuse
as uncreditedFitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for...
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Streets of Broken Lights
as Андрей Петрович Ершов, "Дед"Russian detectives unwind the ball of the most intricate and cruel crimes. They are consummate...
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Brigada
as Петр ЧуйковA quartet of childhood pals who create a business together find themselves at the core of a...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
as Von BorkThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm...
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Seventeen Moments of Spring
as Kurt Eismann - SS ObersturmbannfuehrerA Soviet spy is tasked with disrupting the negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles...
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TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
as Андрей Андреевич Зотов, инженер-корабелThe struggle of Soviet and American intelligence agencies during the Cold War era
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
as «Копчёный» (вор-чердачник Валентин Бисяев)After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR -...
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Memories of Sherlock Holmes
as Von BorkDetective television series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Five films about Sherlock...
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Entrance to the Maze
as Oleg Khlebnikov - doktor neyrofiziologA Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika.
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The Turkish Gambit
as Artillery majorTitular Advisor Erast Fandorin took part in military operations during the Russian-Turkish War...
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Little Tragedies
as Адриан Прохоров/ЛепореллоHow far can a man overcome by a destructive passion go? And does he realize that slavish worship...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
as von BorkThe fifth and final part of the cycle of Soviet television feature films, filmed by director...
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