Rolan Bykov
Birthday: Born in 1929-11-13 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Deathday: 1998-10-06
Rolan Antonovich Bykov (Russian: Ролан Антонович Быков; October 12, 1929 – October 6, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director, screenwriter, educator at High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors, poet and song writer, as well as a politician and a banker. He was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.
TV Credits
Большая перемена
Character: Петрыкин Александр Трофимович
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12 стульев
Character: Отец Фёдор
Set in late-1920s Soviet Union, Ostap Bender and Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov are after a stash of diamonds hidden in one of the chairs in 12-chair set. They are forced to go on a cross-country chase when the chairs are auctioned off....
Фитиль
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Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government"....
Приключения Тома Сойера и Гекльберри Финна
Character: Мефф Поттер
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Чтобы помнили
Character: Narrator
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Приключения Буратино
Character: Кот Базилио
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Movie Credits
The Adventures of Buratino
Character: Basilio The Cat / Кот Базилио
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....
About the Little Red Riding Hood
Character: охотник
A sequel to the well-known story about a Little Red Riding Hood (Krasnaya Shapochka). This time, a family of a slain wolf decides to avenge his death. So they falsely inform Little Red Riding Hood that her grandma is sick and prepare to eat her on her way....
Обыкновенная Арктика
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Chegemian Detective
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A story about a countryside detectivean his hunt for the kolkhoz money thief. Based on the Fazil Iskander's novel....
Walking the Streets of Moscow
Character: Man in Park
On a stopover in Moscow, a young writer Volodya makes friends with Kolya, who is returning home from a hard night shift. Just as Kolya is about to take a rest, he is met by his old friend Sasha, who wants help getting a deferral from military service so that he can get married....
The Steel Ring
Character: (voice)
Based on the fairy tale of the same name by K. Paustovsky. About how the girl believed in a miracle, and it happened....
Mukh the Walker
Character: (voice)
Singing dwarf poses himself as a martyr....
Лоскутик и облако
Character: (voice)
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Domestic Circumstances
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Multiply love stories are going around the young family including the newlyweds parnts and even... a grandmother....
Car, Violin and Blot the Dog
Character: Дирижёр, Скрипач, Леонид Ломакин, Житель дома, Глухонемая бабушка, Старушка с кошками
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…...
Aybolit-66
Character: Barmaley
An eccentric musical comedy based on the tale of Korney Chukovsky. In Africa, monkeys fell ill. This news was reported to Dr. Aybolit by the monkey Chichi, who escaped from the robber Barmaley. Aybolit and his assistants — Chichi and the dog Avva — are in a hurry to save the monkeys from the disease. But Barmaley and his robbers are trying to stop them. First, they capture the doctor’s ship at sea and throw Aybolit, Avva and Chichi into the water, but they swim to Africa....
Scarecrow
Character: дирижер оркестра
A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when they were bunking off and going to cinema instead of a literature lesson. The class is penalized for that, not being allowed to go to Moscow for fall holidays with the rest of the school. Lena is being ostracized, "boycotted" however not telling the tru...
The Last Relic
Character: Brother Johannes
A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel....
Soul
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A famous singer is going through the dark period of her life......
Wounded Game
Character: Vladimir Gromov
A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II....
Crown of Russian Empire, or the Elusives Again
Character: Липовый "Романов"
The Russian Civil War is over and the White Guard are all dead or abroad. Some of the exiled nobles are attempting to crown a new Tsar/Emperor abroad, and a couple of impostors are vying for the position. At the same time, some of the Elusive Avengers' old foes are trying to return to Russia, for mysterious reasons. The avengers are assigned the task of finding out what's going on. Turns out the bad guys are after the Russian Crown, which is encrusted with many diamonds and jewels. It is not cle...
Kuda Ischez Fomenko?
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Поняв, что Фоменко сбежал от унылой жизни, семья и товарищи иначе взглянули на отношения между собой......
Two Comrades Were Serving
Character: Ivan Karyakin
Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day....
Записки Пиквикского клуба
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The Commissar
Character: Yefim Mahazannik
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life....
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Character: Lisyutkin
Two reserved people, almost resigned to their loneliness, found each other at the Soviet-era sea resort on the late autumn. Long dinners with senceless conversations transform into a love story....
Trial on the Road
Character: Іван Єгорович Локотков
This distinctly Russian war story takes place in 1942 behind enemy lines. A regiment of partisans captures former Red Army lieutenant Lazarev who is dressed in a German uniform. He’s a Nazi defector and collaborator but now desires to switch back and fight with Russian partisans....
Dead Man's Letters
Character: Professor
In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will never be read....
The Long Recess
Character: Alexander Trofimovich Petrykin
A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school....
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Character: Mef Potter
Without a book about the adventures of Tom and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher, one can not imagine the childhood of a child! The small but brave heroes Tom and Huck search for the treasure, become "pirates", enter into a dangerous battle with the Indian Joe....
The Marriage of Balzaminov
Character: Chebakov
Based on the trilogy of Aleksandr Ostrovsky. Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even a king — rich and domineering. And in reality, poor Balzaminov is haunted by setbacks......
What a Mess!
Character: Head of Mafia / Brilliant's buyer
The story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national debt, but also allow every Russian citizen to move to the Canary Islands. However, Mafia plans to steal the massive gem but a notorious thief, Vasia, ruins their plans. Mafia and militia begin chasing him, but soon Vasia learns that he has brothers as between the chase he runs into well known Jewish conductor and a gypsy baron who are triplet brothers....
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
Character:
A story about a good doctor - surgeon Mishkin who works in a countryside hospital....
Duck Village
Character: Shishok
In the village called Utka (Duck), in an old larder, there lived a house sprite, Shishok. A real one, with horns and in a fur coat, jolly and mischievous. He could walk through walls and find lost things. The only thing distressing Shishok was that the children stopped seeing him when they grew up. Everything had changed with the arrival of an 8-year-old girl, Olya, who came to the village for vacations…...
The Wave Runner
Character: Captain Chez
A pianist named Garvey, while traveling on a tour, gets off the train to buy cigarettes, and learns from a salesgirl that the cities imagined by Grin really exist. Forgetting about his tour, he goes to one of these cities, where he meets the captain of “The Waverunner”…...
Hello, It's Me!
Character: Oleg Ponomaryov
Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the emerging beauty. This is the big-screen debut of Margarita Terekhova in the popular film that was seen by over 20 million in the USSR....
Andrei Rublev
Character: Buffoon
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....
The Dead Season
Character: Ivan Savushkin
Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development of which he began during WW2 experimenting on war prisoners. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who during the war escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together they must identify and stop him bef...
The Overcoat
Character: Акакий Акакиевич
A story about a government clerk who has his precious new overcoat stolen. No-one seems willing to help him retrieve his prized possession, a fact that continues to concern him even when he is beyond the grave....
Start All Over Again
Character:
A story about a life of a young musician in the USSR....
The Girl and the Bugler
Character: The Bugler
It is a story about 12 or 13 years old girl in the middle of 60-th in USSR. She is a pioneer. She is in love with her pioneer leader - 16-17 years old boy, who doesn't even notice her. In order to impress him she tries to find someone, who was a member of pioneer squad in 1923 - one of the first Soviet pioneers......
The Gray Wolves
Character: Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchyov
The film depicts the events of 1964 when Nikita Khrushchyov was forcibly replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as a head of USSR....
Arbiter
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The city "N" seized by chaos and lawlessness. A hitman nicknamed "The Arbiter" accomplishes justice. Experienced investigator and his partner, a young police lieutenant, decided to catch the mysterious killer. During the investigation, it turns out that the killer is a man who were a victim once....
Cabaret
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Loosely inspired in some plays from the Spanish author Federico Garcia Lorca("The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal", "The Billy-Club Puppets" and "Doña Rosita the Spinster"), this short does an incredibly job capturing all the poetry from those literary works, adding a new level of beauty to them by the art of puppetry and stop-motion animation. "Cabaret" starts as a bizarre comedy filled with many extravagances, then, it quickly evolves into a heart-breaking (But at the same time, captivating) tra...
Road to Life
Character: Stepan Perets
Road to Life (Russian: Педагогическая поэма, translit. Pedagogicheskaya poema) is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Maslyukov and Mechislava Mayevskaya and based on the book by Anton Makarenko. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival....
Forest Captain
Character: Admiral
Sailing to South America, the sailing ship "Fortuna" gets stuck in a calm in the middle of the Atlantic. Heat and thirst drive the team crazy, knives are already flashing and the wind is being conjured in the darkness of the night. Captain Kihnu Jõnn has to tame desperate men and trade with heavenly forces in order to bring the ship's crew to the destination port, who want to leave him there....
Landing
Character: Koklov
Reet loves her long-distance coxswain husband Rein, but the long separations have tortured her. It seems to her that the man cares more about his work than about her. Rein really loves his work, but his wife just as passionately. He does not understand how loneliness can overwhelm Reet, when women have always been waiting for men from far away. Their family friend Mart loves Reet and cannot see her suffer. It is in Marti's power to offer Reet a safe life, and the woman plagued by internal strugg...
Chicherin
Character: D'Annunzio
Chicherin - Russian revolutionary, Soviet diplomat, first People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR and the USSR. Member of the USSR Central Executive Committee of 1-5 convocations, member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party. Musicologist, author of a book about Mozart. In memory of Chicherin....
Be Careful, Grandma!
Character: Librarian
Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her grandmother and her 'old guards'. Look out Lena's enemies. Here's her grandma coming!...
Deary
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A story of a woman trying to find her happiness through a difficult life....
Roads and Destinies
Character: Венник
Rural doctor Ivan Boyko receives an invitation to a clinic in the capital. Here the hero meets an institute friend, Dmitry Kostenko, a successful associate professor. Very soon Ivan becomes convinced of the moral dishonesty of Dmitry, who appropriated the scientific work of his modest colleague Vennik. Boyko exposes the dishonest candidate of sciences to the team....
Ivan & Abraham
Character: Nachman
In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying together, they demonstrate their inseparability....
Golden Bottom
Character: Dima
The film takes place today in a small settlement in Kolyma. A few years ago, the authorities decided that state gold mining was no longer profitable. Those who try to act on their own are persecuted....
Nose
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A fantasy about an official whose nose has escaped....
It
Character: Pyotr Petrovich Ferdyshchenko
The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Town". In a metaphorical and grotesque form, the film conveys the history of Russia from the calling of the Varangians until the end of the 20th century. The film traces the change of the “chiefs” of the county town of Glupov, which differ in varying degrees of tyranny and the corresponding total number of “killed” city residents. The heads of the city easily guess the former heads of the Russian st...
Sincerely Yours...
Character: Postnikov
A young astronomer is becoming more of administrator instead of concentrating on science....
Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Character: участковый врач (новелла «Вредная работа»)
An omnibus of comical shorts....
Tracer Element
Character: проводник Пчёлкин
KGB agents are organizing the disinformation campaign for a western spy....
Непридуманная история
Character: парень на брусьях
Feature film....
The Executive
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The film shows the daily life of an architecture studio, where a young student comes to work on his dissertation....
The Imaginary Invalid
Character: врач господин Диафуарус
The hypochondriac Argan wants his daughter to marry a doctor so he can save on his medical bills....
Telegram
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Six-graders Tosha and Kostya are trying to deliver the pre-WWII telegram they accidentally find....
Journey into April
Character: виноторговец
A journalism student Kostika is travelling, by river steamer, to the place of his internship in the village of Lower Lazureny, but by mistake he goes ashore at Upper Lazureny. While Kostika is trying to get out of the village and get to his destination, wonderful adventures happen....
We Are Taking All The Fire
Character: Tereh
Mini-series set in times of WW II about Soviet underground fighters led by brave Anna Morozova. They are establishing connection with Polish people who work on German airfield. And even small victories cost a lot sometimes....
Wait For Me, Anna
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A love story during wartime....
There Was a Tuner
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The film tells about two days in the life of a modest, a little eccentric tuner of musical instruments....
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....
Na yasnyy ogon
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Our Correspondent
Character: Nikolai Uvarov
The journalist of the village newspaper Tatyana Nikitina was published in a large metropolitan newspaper, but no one from the villagers believes her, because the article itself was published under her creative pseudonym. Tatyana, offended at everyone, packed her things and left for Moscow, where she was willingly hired for a job in a central newspaper. Traveling throughout the country, she writes feuilletons and notes, finds friends and enemies, finds and does not lose loved ones......
Amnesty
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Subject for a Short Story
Character: Mikhail 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...
Peterss
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Requiem for a Fillet
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The modest notary at the symphony orchestra of Gen Munkin did not like his mother-in-law. She was especially repelled by his work. Having identified her son-in-law as a loader in a butcher shop, she did not expect that the first piece of meat taken out by Gena from the store would end up in the circus......
Summer Is Over
Character:
A family comedy about funny adventures of two six-graders during the summer vacations....
Rudin
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Свадебный подарок
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Yuliya Vrevskaya
Character: Brofft
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...
The Prince and the Pauper
Character: сэр Вильям, церемониймейстер
A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well....
The Little Elephant Got Sick
Character: cat (voice) / кот (голос)
The baby elephant fell ill, his tooth ached and he did not go to school, but remained at home with a bandage. Camel comes to visit a friend, and then a cunning cat....
Rostik and Kesha
Character: (voice)
About the friendship between the boy Rostik and the puppy Kesha....
Raspberry Jam
Character: narrator / рассказчик
Based on the tales of the English writer Donald Bisset....
Pif-paf, oy-oy-oy!
Character: Opera composer / охотник, автор оперы, лидер ВИА
A parody of the theatre world. The same piece is played out in a few different theatre styles: opera, avant garde, children's theatre, vaudeville etc....
Maigret and the Man on the Bench
Character: Fred the Clown
Investigating the murder of a resident of the suburbs Louis Touré, Maigret faces the indifference and cruelty of the people surrounding Louis in recent years. The diagnosis and the verdict — all guilty....
The Vacancy
Character:
An eccentric musical about what awaits a young honest man who does not want to enjoy the benefits of a "profitable place", despite the fact that he has a young wife, a very persistent mother-in-law and an influential uncle....
Captain
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The story of how the hero of Viktor Dragunsky's stories - Deniska Korablev - meets his uncle, a sea captain....
Murder Complicity
Character: Frank Fields
Based on the novel of the same name by Judah Waten. Beth Tyson is killed in his mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell, and Detective Filbert have three different versions of this crime......
Pena
Character: Полудушкин, нужный человек
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The Defendant
Character: адвокат
Anton Skulov, a war invalid, shot a drunk young man with a hunting rifle who climbed into his garden and ruined rare flowers that his wife, a war veteran, had grown before her death. The investigation was short-lived, the accused immediately admitted his guilt and was ready to stand trial, having already convicted himself of the murder....
Attention, Turtle!
Character: Didenko's grandfather / Manukyan's grandmother (uncredited)
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....
Baltic Skies
Character: Kabankov
Based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Chukovsky. The end of August 1941. At night, a truck rushes along the last road not yet occupied by the enemy to Leningrad. In the back of two — civil aviation pilot Lunin and commissar of the air division Uvarov. Lunin, a man no longer young, experienced, but had not yet been in battle, was sent to the legendary squadron of fighter pilots under the command of Captain Rassokhin. This squadron fought from the first day of the war and has already los...
Cheka Employee
Character: priest (uncredited)
Based on the novel of the same name by Aleksandr Lukin and Dmitriy Polyanovskiy. Russia, 1919. A young soldier of the First Cavalry Army, Aleksei Mikhalyov, is sent to work in the provincial Cheka. Here in the south of the country there is a large White Guard underground led by the elusive Markov. Aleksei gets into the gang, where he is mistaken for his own. The day of the operation to eliminate the white underground is appointed. But unforeseen circumstances destroy the plans of the Chekists....
It Began This Way...
Character: Lapshin
A Moscow group of Komsomol members arrives on the virgin lands, in the Kazakh steppes, and immediately faces bureaucracy and carelessness. Someone flees the state farm for more reliable earnings, and someone simply does not want to work. But a new energetic director appears — and real life begins......
The Night of The Yellow Bull
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1948 year. The hero of the film Serdar recalls his childhood, which he spent in post-war Ashgabat. At that time it was truly an international city, united by the bitterness of military losses and the happiness of the Victory that had happened. However, the subject of memories, alas, is far from nostalgic feelings. Indeed, on that day, the Ashgabat earthquake, tragic in its consequences, took place, which claimed the lives of two-thirds of the city's residents....
You Can't Cross the Bridge
Character: Stanley
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Song of a Falcon
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A paint-on-glass animated film (one of the first of its kind) about a dying falcon and a stupid snake....
Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
Character: Fyodorenko Samolyovich
The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov…...
Big "Wick"
Character: кавказец-взяточник (новелла «Сон в руку»)
A satirical express train sets off on its way. The driver S. Mikhalkov gives a farewell beep ... On the first carriage an inscription - "Summer cottage". The following are 8 short stories ......
Happy Gregory
Character: Gregory the dog (voice)
The gloomy dog Gregory no longer wants to be an "evil dog". Philosophical puppet cartoon about the search for happiness....