Nikolay Grinko
Birthday: Born in 1920-05-22 in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Deathday: 1989-04-10
Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko or Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko (Ukrainian: Микола Григорович Гринько; Russian: Николай Григорьевич Гринько) was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor. His film debut was in the role of a rebel in the film "Taras Shevchenko" by Igor Savchenko. He is best known for his roles in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, including: Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rubliov, Solaris, Mirror, and Stalker, as well as Sergei Parajanov's "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors".
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Приключения Электроника
Character: Профессор Громов
A Soviet scientist creates a brilliant robot. This is a boy who is able to solve any mathematical problems, he writes the best essays and sings perfectly! And he is also an exact copy of schoolboy Seryozha Syroezhkin. A clever boy quickly shifts all his duties to an electronic double. He does his homework for him, goes to school and does household chores that his parents entrust to Syroezhkin......
Notruf Hafenkante
Character: Waldemar Rebel
Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics....
Чтобы помнили
Character: archivefootage
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Подпольный обком действует
Character: Demyan Sergeyevich Korotchenko
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Приключения Буратино
Character: Папа Карло
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Неизвестный солдат
Character: дедушка «Кроша»
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Andrei Rublev
Character: Daniil Chornyy
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again....
Solaris
Character: Kelvin's Father
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions....
Mirror
Character: Printery Director
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life....
Stalker
Character: Professor
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted....
The Adventures of Buratino
Character: Papa Carlo / Папа Карло
A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise....
Solo
Character: Aleksandr Mihaylovich
Lopushansky's second film focuses on a few hours in the life of a soloist musician during the siege of Leningrad, in WWII. The Leningrad philharmonic is going to play Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, which is to be broadcast to England. The soloist, like his fellow musicians, is weak and half-starved, and doubts whether he will be able to perform well enough....
Ivan's Childhood
Character: Gryaznov
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers....
The Cities and the Years
Character: Лепендин
Soviet war drama....
У самого Чёрного моря
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Ring
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Идущий следом
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Character: Batag
In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul people are as they’ve been since time began. Ivan is drawn to Marichka, the beautiful young daughter of the man who killed his father. But fate tragically decrees that the two lovers will remain apart....
Singing Russia
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The film tells about the founder of the first Russian peasant choir Mitrofan Efimovich Pyatnitskiy, about his life, tragic love and other facts of his biography. The picture reflects the musical life of Russia in the pre-revolutionary period....
Жалоба
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One Day I Came Home
Character: Stetsko (voice)
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Pie With a Laughingstock
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Follows the amazing city of Smekhograd. The day of Laughter and Fun came to Smekhograd and a carnival was announced. All the inhabitants of this magical city began to diligently prepare for the holiday and make funny masks. Only the three-headed Dragon was unhappy with the upcoming holiday and decided to ruin it.…...
Having Lied Once...
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Set in the Soviet Union the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks....
About you
Character: father
The heroine of this not quite serious story was born with extraordinary talent: instead of speaking, she sings - sings always, everywhere and at all....
The Adventures of the Electronic
Character: Professor Gromov
Professor Gromov constructs a robot called Electronic, which looks exactly like Sergey Syroezhkibn, a 6-grader from one of Odessa (USSR) schools. The robot also acts a lot like a human, and its dream is to become a real man. Electronic escapes from the professor's lab and accidentally meets Sergey, his prototype. Meanwhile, a gang lead by Stump is trying to kidnap Electronic to make him steal pictures from museums. For this purpose they send their hitman Urrie....
Car, Violin and Blot the Dog
Character: папа Олега, музыкант на контрабасе
A fantasy story about five-grades - musician and engineer, their friend - the most beautiful girl in the world, her brother who dreams to turn all cats into monkeys, his dog Klyaksa and a lot more stuff…...
War and Peace
Character: Desalles
A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army....
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Character: Desalles
In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of Borodino, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Bolkonsky's unit waits in the reserve, but he is hit by a shell. Both Anatol and Bolkosnky suffer severe wounds. The French Army is victorious and advances on Moscow....
Romashkin Effect
Character: Аристарх Иванович Занозов
A musical comedy about the adventures of four friends who are trying to film a yogurt commercials....
Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...
Character: tovarish Demyan
A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII....
Only the Statues Are Silent
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One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...
Character: Полковник
The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle....
Two Long Hoots in the Fog
Character: Fyodor Kalashnikov
In a deserted tundra on the lake, a seaplane makes an emergency landing, on board of which bank collectors carry a large amount of money. A storm begins and the plane relates to the river delta. An unknown person steals money from an airplane and kills a geologist, an accidental witness. And a few days later the ship departs from the northern port for the last navigation voyage, where a recidivist hides among the motley company of passengers, and the captain begins his own investigation......
Buryan
Character: Mironov, secretary of the Party Committee
David Motuzka, demobilized Red Army soldier, returns to his native village, hoping to see the changes caused by the revolutionary events. But he cannot see no improvement. The village is ruled by the kulaks and David's childhood friend Kornii Matiukha helps them....
The Lost Expedition
Character: Аркадий Николаевич Смелков (профессор)
An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918....
One Chance in One Thousand
Character: Denis Korneyevich Prokhorenko
In German-occupied Crimea during WWII, a group of Russian soldiers employ unusual tactics to steal classified documents from their enemies....
Accidental Passengers
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A truck driver meets a bunch of orphan children during his night trip. Suddenly his life start changing....
Dangerous Tour
Character: Andrei Maksimovich / Viscount de Cordel
Based on the events that took place in Odessa in 1910, when, on the instructions of the Foreign Bureau of the RSDLP, a prominent Bolshevik underground worker arrived in the city under the guise of a French timber merchant, who was to organize the delivery of illegal literature to Russia through the Odessa port. The task can be completed. In Odessa, a variety show theater was created, which, having gained fame, toured Russia and received "theater props" from France......
Такая она игра
Character: Лавров Валерий — дирек. фут. клуба высшей лиги
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Starling and Lyre
Character: "Uncle Vanya"
Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work....
No Right to Fail
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Based on the stories of G.Seversky. Events taking place in the besieged Sevastopol during the WWII....
Romance for Lovers
Character: Vice-Admiral
Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania waits for his return. Sergei's division is abandoned in favor of helping local residents in distress. During the operation, his armored personnel gets carried into the sea. His relatives receive a notice of his death. Tanya's loving childhood friend, a hockey player, helps her to cope with misfortune and she marries him. But it turned out that Sergei did not perish. He, together with a wounded friend...
The Order: Do Not Open Fire
Character: Razin
A movie about a Soviet soldiers on the Japanese borders during 1941....
The Youth of Peter
Character: Nektaryi
The years of the tsar’s adolescence and youth were permeated with deadly danger coming from some of the Boyars, the rebellious Streltsy and Tsarevna Sophia who aspired for power. But already at that early time Peter demonstrates a profound, bright intellect, a strong will and the sense of purpose, which help him disarm both his open and secret enemies....
At the Beginning of Glorious Days
Character: Nektaryi
Late 17th century. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries to capture the Turkish fortress of Azov, but with no success: he can win only if he has a fleet. Peter’s ukases provoke the Boyars’ indignation. Europe looks in amazement: the Russian tsar begins to work at a Dutch shipyard learning the subtleties of shipbuilding?! But his training is cut short. Peter has to return to Russia in order to brutally suppress the Streltsy rebellion organized by his...
Timur and His Team
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A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII....
Эквилибрист
Character: конюх Василий
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The Unknown Soldier
Character: Grandfather
A third part of the adventures of Krosh and his friends....
Twenty Days Without War
Character: Vyacheslav
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war....
Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches
Character: Father
A young boy grapples with first love and his ambitions as a drummer during an eventful summer holiday....
Meetings and Partings
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Uzbek young man Rustam, a helicopter co-pilot, is participating in the construction of a high-voltage line in the Alps. One day in West Germany, where he was sent on a long business trip, the hero meets Uzbek emigrants. The external well-being of the new friends very soon revealed the catastrophic nature of everyone’s destinies. These meetings contribute to Rustam’s spiritual and civic maturity; the hero rediscovers the necessity and significance of his homeland, where his family and friends hav...
Adventures in the City which Doesn't Exist
Character: Don Quixote
Young schoolboy Slava Kurochkin suddenly finds himself in a town where books characters live....
Good luck!
Character: Ivan Kuzmich
The film is based on the story "Hunter's Smiles" by writer Ostap Vishnya. Once a year, it would seem, normal, even very respectable people are turning into children who have received a long-awaited toy, or to some kind of "barons of münchhausen". Famous singers, famous surgeons, pensioners, peaceful accountants - all fall into childhood: they store up with waders, dry gunpowder, clean hunting rifles. And from their conversations trembling takes: one tells how he hunted immediately after two bea...
Be My Husband
Character: курортник
The children's doctor is sent on leave to the south where its services in quality "husband" were necessary for young and very beautiful woman....
The Liberation of Prague
Character: General Bradley
On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) discusses with his commanders how to transform the city into an impregnable fortress, but the Praguers do not intend to wait any longer. From the early hours of 4th of May people start assembling in the streets and tearing down German signs. On the ne...
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Character: Ivan Ivanovich
Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich', 'Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt'....
Subject for a Short Story
Character: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The film tells about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. October 17, 1896. On the facade of the Alexandrinsky Theater — a poster about the premiere of "The Seagull". A few hours are left before the performance. Chekhov and his sister Masha are expecting Lika Mizinova from Moscow station to arrive from Moscow. Chekhov is alarmed by the upcoming premiere, excited by the meeting with love, which never took place. Memories of acquaintance with Lika, of the experiences caused by the rude scolding of newspaper m...
The Commissars
Character: Arefiev
This ideologically charged film as a typical sample of Soviet version of history portrays the events in Ukraine in 1921 after the defeat of Ukrainian liberation struggle and the occupation of the country by invading Bolshevik hordes. The Bolsheviks are good guys and Ukrainian rebels refusing to submit to a new, this time Soviet, slavery are portrayed as bandits and brigands fighting against their own people....
Meaning of Life
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Follows the construction of the Fergana Canal, which employed 170 thousand people, and Usman Yusupov was given a very specific task - in 45 days, a 270-kilometer-long canal should provide water to the cotton fields....
Smiles of Nechiporovka
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A long time ago, in a certain village, a tired traveler was resting. His name was Nechipor. And then Nechipor saw in a dream how the girls gave him a box. And along the box there was a treble clef. He became the symbol of Nechiporovka. And the village was named in honor of its creator - Nechiporovka......
Birthday
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Follows the grandson minds his own business, forgetting about his grandmother....
Behind the Old Fence
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Based on Galina Demykina’s story “The Girl Got Lost.”...
Last Hunt
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1920s. A schooner manned by foreign pirates reaches the coast of Northern Ocean near Russian Eastern Siberian Community that cheaply buys expensive furs and gold from locals....
A Dream
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Poetic treatment of the early life of Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko. A biopic made on the occasion of his 150th anniversary. It dwells on the first part of the Shevchenko's life leading up to the writing of his rebellious poem "A Dream" (A comedy). The film features the first appearance on the silver screen of the iconic Ukrainian actor Ivan Mykolaichuk (as Taras Shevchenko)....
Funny Stories
Character: дядя Боря
Funny stories about four friends and their adventures in a big city....
Vesenniye perevyortyshi
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A story of a thirteen year old boy who lives in North Russia and is forced to make some difficult decisions....
Under a Stone Sky
Character: Старостин
In the autumn of 1944, contrary to the order of the Nazi command to evacuate to the south, residents of the Norwegian town of Kirkenes took refuge in an abandoned mine. The command of the Soviet Army became aware of the intentions of the Nazis to blow up the old tunnels of the city, but the Soviet soldiers managed to prevent the tragedy....
We Are Russian People
Character: Ivan Chortomlyk
Based on a novel by Vsevolod Vishnevsky. January 1917. The workers and peasants of Russia, hunted by the tsarist government in the trenches, forced to defend alien interests of the king, the landowners and exploiters-capitalists. Bolshevik worker Yakov Orel, selflessly performing party mission, said the soldiers the truth about war, about revolution, about what the overthrow of the autocracy does not mean the liberation of the workers from the yoke of landlords and capitalists exploitation. For ...
A Million in a Wedding Basket
Character: Del Simone
In the densely populated slums live large but poor family of charming and talented signor Leonido Popogatto. Under the guise of an important person he enters the secular parties and steals drinks and food from the tables....
How I Was a Prodigy
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Seva, a young schoolboy, is fighting his parents and especially grandmother who want to make child prodigy out of him....
A Mystery Known to All
Character: старший пират Толстяк
Children from in a summer camp decided to invite a group of famous actors to visit them....
Vesnukhin's Fantasies
Character: Uncle Styopa, Militiaman
A first-grader dreams to perform with his cat in the circus....
A Great Road Ahead
Character: brigade commander
About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hašek enters the Red Army and, as a commissar of the international brigade, goes the military way from Samara to Irkutsk....
Who Will go to Truskavets?
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While the Dream is Mad
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Yura Otvertkin, a romantic from Tsarevo-Kokshaisk, is obsessively in love with aeronautics. In St. Petersburg, disguised, he pretends to be the ace Ivan Piramida. He has to perform at the festival, but he only knows how to fly "according to the books", but he manages not to lose face. After a lot of ups and downs associated with his similarity in makeup with a famous criminal, Yura confesses everything to his beloved and flies already under his real name....
Only Three Nights
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The love story in the remote village. Lyuba has a child, Nikolai has a wife. Nikolay, having become a projectionist, now, once a week, brings cinema to the village of Babino, where Lyuba lives. Once they loved each other, but Nikolai, unexpectedly for everyone, married another and since then tried not to be in this village. And now feelings have surged again, and both are unable to resist this love....
Here is your front
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During the Second World War a big plant in Urals region gets an order from the State Defence Committee: to double the output of the tanks T-34 within 24 hours. All physical and emotional strength of all plant workers needs to be exerted to fulfill the plan. The workers labor heroism is revealed through the story of a hereditary worker's family. His shoulders are burdened not only with a physical job, but also with responsibility for his younger son, who runs to the front without permission, not ...
Peace to Him Who Enters
Character: американец
The time is World War II. Lidiya Shaporenko plays a pregnant German woman, trapped behind Russian lines. When the woman goes into labor, three loyal Soviets deliver her to a field hospital: a newly graduated officer, an affable truck driver, and a soldier shell-shocked into muteness. The dangerous trip to the hospital ends up a rite of passage for all concerned. The winner of a special gold medal at the Venice Film Festival, Peace to Him Who Enters was originally released in the USSR in 1961 und...
Последнее дело комиссара Берлаха
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Housewarming
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The story of the life of the Podolsk village and what the inhabitants of the village had to go through during the years of Soviet power. Through the fate of the heroes, the film tells about the events of collectivization in the village, where for centuries, everyone used to work only on his own farm, about the war years, when many quiet people showed miracles of heroism, and universal favorites became nazi puppets....
Nochnoy mototsiklist
Character: Boris Mikhaylovich Komarovskiy
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Море в огне
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Deer Hunting
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Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. To find the people's avengers, the Nazis decide to use children....
I'm Offering My Hand and Heart
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Pavel Korchagin
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A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered"....
Поездка через город
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The Golden Gates
Character: Bishop
The film-remembrance of the creative fate of the Ukrainian Soviet film director Alexander Dovzhenko, shot on his diaries. It has his statements about his work, about the role of the artist in society, his plans and sources of inspiration, his artistic style and the peculiarities of his worldview. Used excerpts from his films and documentary footage taken during the director's life, as well as filmed fragments of the unfinished scripts " The Death of the Gods” and “Tsar”....
Black Sun
Character: Jean Barthes
The life and death of Robert Moussombe, the leader of an unnamed African state. Moussombe is a fictionalized portrait of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and the film's events are a pastiche of the Congo Crisis in 1960s....
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Character: Savashevich
The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya, one of the first Petersburg beauties. The events of the movie take place during the Russian-Turkish war for the liberation of the Bulgarian people from the Turkish yoke. An early widowed baroness, having left Petersburg, and having invested all her money in organizing a volunteer sanitary detachment, she becomes a sister of mercy on the front of the Bulgarian war with the Ott...
Ginger Fairy
Character: Grandfather
11-year-old Minko is forced to move from a decaying village to the city with his father, mother and sick grandfather. New apartment, school and classmates greet the boy with hostility. This only strengthens his desire to return home, where there is a forest and his friends. But what Minko misses the most is Ginger Fairy, a tame moose he once saved and which disappeared the day he left....
Гибель эскадры
Character: Артём
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От Буга до Вислы
Character: Коротченко
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To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing
Character: учитель
Two men wander a Kazakh forest in search of mushrooms, whilst reflecting on their philosophies and memories....
Colonel Shaligin's Waiting
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Summer 1944, Belarus. A group of Soviet soldiers was tasked with urgently delivering our scout from the German rear across the front line. Of the three attendants, not everyone was able to stay alive and complete the task....
The Bodyguard
Character: Nikolai Grigorievich
The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "fully in the hands of the workers and peasants", but the fight against the Basmachi rebels was in full swing. When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Mazar, the brains behind the Bazmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and consc...
Avdotya Pavlovna
Character: Иван (директор школы)
The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediately convinced of the anti-science of the official Lysenkov direction in biology. But making sure leaving the farm as an ordinary agriculturist, where he works on breeding new wheat varieties on the basis of the persecuted Lysenkova chromosome theory of heredity....
Citizen Lyoshka
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The young lumberjack foreman Leshka Ignatov bitterly sees for himself that the huge stocks of forest, extracted by hard work, rot on the side of the road due to simple mismanagement. Raising the alarm at the timber industry farm and not receiving support in the area, he flies to Moscow ......
The Wedding Is Accused
Character: Ivan Timofeevich
The wedding turns into a crime scene. The wedding is like the apotheosis of meaninglessness, a metaphor for society. The story of the generation of the eighties with a tragic ending. The film uses the true facts of the criminal case....
To proceed with the investigation. Movie 2: Slander
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For several years, the head of a major construction trust Melnikov was accused of embezzlement, bribe-taking and immoral behavior in anonymous letters. As a result of inspections by numerous commissions, all these “signals” were not confirmed. Melnikov, unable to withstand the attacks and slander, died of a heart attack. Investigator Dzhangirov manages to expose the slanderer ......
Space for Maneuver
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A new manager comes to the design bureau, he thinks outside the box, rejects routine......
Some Guy
Character: рабочий Сарафанов
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Лада из страны берендеев
Character: министр
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My Sister Lucy
Character: Ilya Lyova
The film is a recollection of an adult about the unforgettable days of the first post-war year. Klava, who lost her husband at the front, with her 12-year-old daughter Lyusya sheltered Aygul with a seven-year-old boy in her house. Aygul's son - the main character, now became a pilot, recalls his childhood in a small Kazakh city, which fell on a difficult post-war time. Flying high above the Earth, he thinks of the Russian girl Lyusya, from his distant past....
Afonya
Character: дядя Егор
The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achi...
100 grams for Bravery
Character: Nikitin
The movie consists of three short stories that share a common satirical theme: alcoholism and drunkenness. The stories are "Such an imprudence!," "According to the laws of hospitality," "100 grams for bravery"....
I'm Staying with You
Character: Горелов
The last years of writer Arkady Gaidar's life....
One of Us
Character: Keller
April 1941. According to intelligence received by the Chekists, a fascist sabotage group plans to blow up one of Moscow's defense plants. To find out the plans of saboteurs working under the auspices of the German embassy, the NKVD sends one of its best employees, Sergei Biryukov, to the plant. He finds contact with the fascist agent Keller and finds out that the explosion is scheduled for June 21......
Rudobel Republic
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Former Wachmister Alexander Solovey receives a task from the Bobruisk Revolutionary Committee to organize the defense of Soviet power in the village of Rudobelka (Polesie) from the onslaught of Germans, Poles and White Guards......
Each Evening After Work
Character: head teacher
School of working youth. A new teacher of Russian language and literature comes here. Soon, Yelena Nikolayevna realizes that it is impossible to make concessions to adult students who are tired after work, but you need to interest them, awaken in them a desire to learn....
Тихая Одесса
Character: Zolotarenko
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No Unknown Soldiers
Character: Military physician
A story about a few days during the defense of Kiev at the beginning of WWII....
Teheran '43
Character: Ermolin - resident of the NKGB USSR
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni...
Happiness of Nikifor Bubnov
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Peasant Nikifor Bubnov goes to the mining regions of Donbass to earn money for a horse. People working nearby become his friends - with them he supports and develops the Stakhanov movement....