Vladimir Menshov
Birthday: Born in 1939-09-17 in Baku, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
Deathday: 2021-07-05
TV Credits
Последний герой
Character: Host
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Судебная колонка
Character: Yaroslav Ivanov
Daria Ivanova, a graduate of the journalism faculty, works for a popular weekly magazine. Despite the obvious successes, he considers the current occupation empty and unnecessary, and therefore seeks to work in the genre of investigative journalism. One day she gets the chance. And although the girl has only very general ideas about law, she really wants to make a career, and working in a popular newspaper is an excellent launching pad. In addition, Daria has a fiance – the investigator of the c...
Ликвидация
Character: Маршал Жуков
Liquidation is a highly popular Russian television series, which parallels the famous The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed with notable ethical shift. In the "Meeting Place", chief of criminal investigations Gleb Zheglov had a modus operandi "Thief must go to prison, no matter how I put him there". In Liquidation, chief of criminal investigations David Gotsman's motto has changed to "Thief must go to prison, but lawfully so". The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as Vladimir M...
Москва. Центральный округ
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The heroes of the series are employees of one of the metropolitan police departments who investigate crimes committed in the central district of Moscow every day....
«Везёт»
Character: старик
The series is about a former motorcycle racer, champion of a motorcycle track, who, having become an alcoholic, moonlights as a driver and tries to stop drinking and improve his life....
Прожекторперисхилтон
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Four hosts discuss some current news and comment on different issues in politics and economics, similar to 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe. The show's name is a reference to the 80s TV program "Прожектор Перестройки" - a program that was discussing current events on Soviet television during the times of Perestroika - and American socialite Paris Hilton, who, according to Svetlakov, symbolizes lack of taste. Thus, the name of the show implies that this is a current events program that shouldn't be taken seriousl...
Уходящая натура
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The end of the seventies. The Soviet country is "on the march". Plans are being fulfilled and overfulfilled, giant factories are being built, preparations for the Olympics are in full swing....
Громовы
Character: Andreyich
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Диверсант
Character: Kalyazin
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У.Е.
Character: General Palmetov
"У.Е." means "условная единица" in Russian or "CU" (conventional unit) in English. A conditional unit is a euphemism used in Russia to denote a monetary amount in a foreign currency (usually US dollars) or an equivalent amount of a dollar in rubles at an official or exchange rate. The retired 50-year-old FSB colonel at his own risk and continues to investigate the case, because of which he was sent to retirement, and is drawn into a swirl of events related to the leakage of Russian capital abr...
Екатерина
Character: граф Алексей Бестужев
1745. The reigning Empress Elizabeth Petrovna is infertile. The only heir is her feeble-minded nephew Peter III. Elizabeth cannot allow Peter to ascend to the throne, so she decides to marry the tsarevich, wait for the birth of her son, and then take the boy and raise him as a real Russian emperor herself. Brides are coming to St. Petersburg. Among them is the lovely Fike - the young Princess Sofia Frederica from the impoverished branch of the Prussian kings....
Актриса
Character: Пётр Иванович (начальник РОВД)
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Адвокат
Character: Михаил Петрович Рогалев (главная роль, капитан)
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вДудь
Character: Self
Yury Dud interviews famous figures, including musicians (mainly rappers), politicians, journalists, film directors, and businesspeople....
Большая разница
Character: Self/Guest
The "Big Difference" is created not only for the audience, but also for those who became the hero of the parody - TV presenters and actors. A guest who comes to the studio seems to see himself through a magnifying glass, because all the details are taken into account in the parody: the character's manner of dressing, speaking, diction features, plastic, makeup, hairstyle. The uniqueness of the project is that in addition to entertainment, the program also has a developmental function. After all,...
Я не я
Character: Бывший
The main character is an average person with average parameters: a wife, two children, a modest job, a modest salary. There is nothing unusual about Sergei Nedelin, except for one strange hobby: he likes to wander through the evening streets, look into windows and storefronts. Life is raging everywhere, and only his existence seems poor and squalid to him....
Участок
Character: Лев Ильич Шаров
Policeman Pavel Kravtsov is a rather strange man. If he has to handcuff someone, he apologizes and asks if he is pressing. He is ambitious but honest; he is young but thoughtful. With such inclinations, you can't really make a career in the city police. So a city man, senior Lieutenant Kravtsov, gets through to the remote village of Anisovka by an ordinary district police officer....
Участок
Character: старший брат Лев Ильич Шаров
Policeman Pavel Kravtsov is a rather strange man. If he has to handcuff someone, he apologizes and asks if he is pressing. He is ambitious but honest; he is young but thoughtful. With such inclinations, you can't really make a career in the city police. So a city man, senior Lieutenant Kravtsov, gets through to the remote village of Anisovka by an ordinary district police officer....
Третья мировая
Character: Yura in old age
About the tragic love story against the backdrop of the Caribbean crisis. According to the plot of the film, after the aggravation of relations between the two superpowers in different regions of the Soviet Union, military training for reservists was organized. In a quiet village located somewhere in central Russia, they don’t know anything about the lofty goals of the political leadership of the USSR and the USA. But when men of draft age begin to receive subpoenas from the military registratio...
100янов
Character: General-leitenant VS
The humorous show of Yuriy Stoyanov, in which the master of parodies and reincarnations will offer the viewer a whole gallery of funny characters. And a galaxy of wonderful artists will help him, many of which will appear in a completely new and unexpected role....
Под каблуком
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The life of an advertiser does not look successful: the work brings income and satisfaction, the beloved woman agreed to get married. But everything collapses in one moment: Kostya's father dies, and on his hands is not only a family business – a manufacturer of women's shoes, but also helpless relatives who are used to the fact that their problems are solved by a man. Kostya is clearly not suitable for the role of "head of the family": he does not devote enough time to his fiancee Sonya and dau...
Диверсант 2: Конец войны
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Night Watch
Character: Geser
Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limi...
Day Watch
Character: Geser
A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event....
Generation P
Character: Farsuk Seiful-Farseikin
A chronicle of Russia's transition from communism to capitalism....
Love and Pigeons
Character: Vedushchiy kadrili (uncredited)
One of the most favorite Soviet comedies, a screen version of the play of the same name by Vladimir Gurkin. Each of us knows the story of Vasily, who went to the resort, succumbed to the charms of a femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, but could not withstand two weeks of urban life, and returned to his family, where he waited for love and pigeons....
Время для размышлений
Character: Igor Ignatyevich
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Under One Sky
Character: Pavlov
After working for four difficult years in the Far North, extracting timber in the taiga, Bulgarian Angel Naydenov and Russian Nikolai Pavlov, leaders of a large timber industry enterprise, became friends, as it turned out, forever. And now, meeting a friend at the Sofia airport, Naydenov recalls joint successes and defeats....
The Apocalypse Code
Character: Kharitonov
Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four nuclear bombs from a sunken American submarine and hides them in four major cities throughout the world. The charges can be activated by an 11-digit code. Zayidi dies and his accomplice, nicknamed "The Executioner," is about to blow up the bombs. The Executioner is chased by FSB, whose agent Marie has previously infiltrated Zayidi's team....
Our Father
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A young Jewish woman, having received an order from the occupation authorities to report to the assembly point, goes into town with her son. They approach the ghetto, but realizing what awaits them, they leave. They wander around the city, not daring to visit their friends. Night falls. Huddled together, mother and son fall asleep on a bench. And in the morning, soldiers indifferently throw their frozen bodies into the back of a truck....
High Security Vacation
Character: Nikolai Vyshkin
Two escaped convicts pose as children's summer camp staff in order to evade capture and learn about caring for others in the process. Sumrak has been in prison since he was 16 years old but is pushing thirty now, is well acquainted with prison gang culture and covered with tattoos. Evgeni Koltsov is a former police officer unjustly imprisoned and destined for a death sentence from the other inmates if he stays in prison....
The Last Six Degrees of Celebration
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"The Last Six Degrees of Celebration" will be the most touching, kind and magical of all, because your favorite characters will say goodbye to the audience. The film almanac will include five New Year stories. In the novel "Pines" millenial will help his brutal stepfather, Uncle Yura, to make a marriage proposal. In "The Brothers", the inseparable friends, Borya and Zhenya, will once again be on the verge of breaking up, because Zhenya is going to return to Yakutsk. The skier and snowboarder tur...
Lovey-Dovey 3
Character: Vladimir Andreevich
In third part of "Lovey-Dovey" Andrey and Marina are exchanging bodies again - but this time with their parents in law....
New Odeon
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Möbius
Character: Cherkachin
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank....
O, Luckyman!
Character: Олег Генрихович
A comedy about the young guy who got the chance to live a life of somebody else....
Lucky Trouble
Character: Tryokhgolovich
Who said you have to win to be a champion? Slava Kolotiloff, a schoolteacher from a sleepy seaside town by the name of "Fingers" comes to conquer Moscow with the manuscript to his first novel in hand. But instead, quite by accident, he conquers the heart of a beauty named Nadia (Milla Jovovich). As their wedding approaches, Slava needs only to quit his job and tie up loose ends back in "Fingers" before returning to Moscow to start a new life with his new bride. But due to a number of bizarre cir...
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Character: Gosha's Friend (uncredited)
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions......
Courier
Character: Guest on Katya's birthday
Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and works as a courier at a Russian newspaper. Through his job, he meets patronizing Professor Kuznetzov and his rebellious daughter Katya. To annoy the professor, Ivan claims to have an affair with Katya. To his surprise, Katya backs his story up....
Year of a Calf
Character: Feodosy
The young energetic Lyudmila Petrovna Nikitina, who worked as a milkmaid on the farm, decided to radically change her life. Settling the head of a rural furniture store, she sold a cow, pigs, sheep, and even invited the sons of a music teacher from the city, violinist Valerian Sergeyevich, to her sons. Her husband Theodosius, a collective farm carpenter, is not able to reason with his wife, but at the same time he does not intend to put up with the new order. To Lyudmila Petrovna’s surprise, th...
What Men Still Talk About
Character: Лев Николаевич Толстой
A year later the men are still talking, but this time on the 31st of December and still about the women, football, children, and, of course, about the approaching New Year’s celebration. But what can they do, if their beloved wives and girls are waiting for them at Kamil’s, busy with New Year tree decoration and cooking, and the husbands are accidentally got stuck in the advertising agency office? Will they manage to get home in time to celebrate the New Year together?...
Zerograd
Character: Nikolay Smorodinov, The Prosecutor
Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent....
Six Degrees of Celebration 2
Character: Grandfather Valera
A lot of things happened in the life of "Yolki" hepes during the last year, but here it's again - the New Year's eve......
What a Mess!
Character: Russian President / Commentator on TV
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....
Vysotsky: Thank God I'm Alive
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Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family friend. Written by nitorch....
Chinese Tea-Set
Character: Фрол Аверьянович Сатановский
The film is set in 1913 Russia during the celebrations of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. Rich Russian merchants are celebrating their wealth by gambling and playing poker. They are traveling aboard the luxurious cruise liner "St. Nikolai" on Volga river, oblivious to the fact that several gangs of crooks and con-artists are stealing their money in the game. Their target is the wealthiest Russian tycoon Satanovsky....
Depression
Character: "Godfather"
A crime story which take action in Riga Sea Port....
It Happens to People
Character: папа
A lyrical and philosophical story about the lives of ordinary people: acquaintances and strangers, relatives and just met. Their lifelines are intertwined, but what at first seems random obeys the eternal laws of love…...
Legend No. 17
Character: Balashov
Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death...
Practical Joke
Character: Vladimir Valentinovich (swimming coach) (uncredited)
At high school, some pupils decide to play a 'practical joke' on their teacher. On the day of midterm exam all of them say they she had told them the wrong date for the exam. She almost believed them, but then asked a girl known for her honesty and the girl could not lie. As a result everyone in the class gets an F for that midterm. That's a real problem for some of them - with an F they cannot have perfect GPA and will not enter prestige Universities. They want revenge......
07th Changes Course
Character: Russian President
A newest Russian military plane "TU-106" equipped with nuclear weapon is controlled by terrorists. There is almost no time before attack......
Interception
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A top American spy is in charge of a delicate mission. The USA plans to infiltrate several U-boats in the sea of Vladivostok, however they need the soviet surveillance satellite to stay 'blind' for a couple of hours, so this spy is sent to damage the antenna for the satellite. Everything was planned accurately. But the CIA never counted on the relentless pursuit of a frontier guard who sees the spy's parachute on landing....
A Little Doll
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A young Russian gymnast is forced to return to the life of an ordinary teenage girl after an injury prevents her from competing....
Dialogues
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Five attempts to say the most important thing, through dumbness and fear of being misunderstood. Five steps to yourself, through the reflection in the closest people. Five breaths to go on, overcoming emptiness and fear of death, in search and finding love. Different heroes go this way with only one desire to be heard and accepted as they are. But is it possible?...
В той области небес…
Character: Юлий Борисович Лихоман
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Ivin A.
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Private Internal Troops Andrei Ivin is a security guard in a strict regime zone. He is absolutely not adapted to military service, a typical humanist who left the historical and archival institute. One summer, he stands at night on duty on the tower. A recidivist nicknamed Mishka Knyaz escapes. Private Ivin could not shoot him, and he was forced to go under the tribunal himself. In an explanatory note, he writes that he "refuses to continue to dispose of someone else's life." Under the supervisi...
An Ordinary Wedding
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Ivan lives in Yekaterinburg, writes bold poems, loves sandwiches with squash caviar and his fiancee Dasha. The wedding was decided to be played in Sochi, where Vanina's beloved grandfather lives, who is seriously ill. But after a bold publication in social networks, Ivan, instead of flying to his wedding, is forced to stay at home with an electronic bracelet on his leg. In order for the planned celebration to take place, Ivan will have to take an unexpected step....
ВГИК100. Признание в любви
Character: self
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Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg
Character: Ivan Ivanovich Nakhlobuchko - general
Considering that Musakov’s Abdulladzhan (1991) was dedicated to Steven Spielberg, we might suggest that these four boys embody nothing more complicated than a conflict of youthful innocence with some ominous threat—the basic workings of E.T. (1982) or War of the Worlds (2005), say. That threat, however, is best understood not through vague nationalism or warmed-over socialism, but through the other reference-point of Abdulladzhan—Tarkovskii’s Stalker (1980). Musakov leaves his boys in a simplifi...
Ar-chi-me-des!
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A funny story about four young men who are starting a band....
The Green Carriage
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A famous movies director tries to understand why his life started to change so drastically....
Personal Opinion
Character: Petrov
Psychologist Petrov and sociologist Burtsev are invited by Basov, the director of a factory, to study the basic problem of production....
Murder at Cloister Ponds
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On the night of the murder of a high-ranking official, the police apprehend a group of young men on motorbikes drinking near the scene of the crime. Captain Rogalev and investigator Avdeev are ordered to solve the murder at any cost....
Experience
Character: Алексей Николаевич Нечаев
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Red Mob
Character: Олег
Emissary of the former "party mafia", nicknamed "Jafar" prepares and implements a series of provocations and terrorist acts on the outskirts of the country to create the preconditions for a coup. During a attack on one of the army armories wounded his conductor. Bandits urgently need to smuggle across the Afghan border caravan with drugs. As a conductor Jafar tries to use the former army officer - Oleg, wherefore bandits taking hostage his son. Oleg and his army friend, Nikolai, using all his e...
Ивановы
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A Man at His Place
Character: Semyon Bobrov
A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center....
If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender...
Character: Konev
A story about one of the big battles of WWII....
Tsarevich Aleksey
Character: Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov
Tsarevich Alexei was one of the smartest people in the state. His father Peter hoped that he would take his place, but Alexei tried with all his might to remain out of power and wished for ordinary human happiness....
After You're Gone
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Aleksey Temnikov is a renowned ballet dancer and an acknowledged genius whose career was abruptly cut short after sustaining an injury in the 1990s. Twenty years later, Aleksey discovers that his condition is degenerative and that he will soon lose the ability to walk. Aleksey sets out to choreograph a ballet he envisaged long before but never staged for fear of failure. “What will I leave behind after I am gone?” is a question Aleksey feels he must contend with. However, returning to the world ...
Milky Way
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Dear Edison!
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A young scientist is sent to the deep countryside immediately after his university graduation......
Night Bazaar
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The fantastic and dramatic events of “Night Watch” suddenly take a comic and completely different twist...
Salty Dog
Character: Sailor Martiamov
A dog survives a bad master and finds a good one - a sailor from a Soviet ship....
Spartacus and Kalashnikov
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The story of street children and the dog who penetrate into the fast food restaurants at night and catching terrorists in spare time....
New Year's Alarm
Character: Georgiy Morozov
This New Year's evening all the Morozovs family members are really alarmed - father's inheritance is in jeopardy......
Trotsky
Character: Каргин, матрос
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Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding
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Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a wealthy boyar. Peter the Great insists the two be married, but Ibrahim goes against the tsar's wishes, refusing to force her to marry him since she doesn't consent. When another man tries to marry her, however, Ibrahim's loyalties and generous n...
The Highway
Character: Potapov
The film takes place during one day of operation of a railway line, the capacity of which is lower than necessary. A disaster occurs: a passenger train crashes into a tank train, the driver's assistant is killed, and traffic on the section is delayed. The film explores the patterns that led to the accident....
Forgive Me
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How can change your life if someone tells you that your husband is cheating on you?...
General
Character: Георгий Константинович Жуков
A biopic about a Soviet general V. Gorbatov....
The Suicide
Character: писатель Виктор Викторович
As Soviet Russia enters the era of the New Economic Policy, Semyon Podsekalnikov decides to stop looking for a job. However, the prospect of living at the expense of his wife and mother-in-law seems unbearable. Having reached the end of his tether, Semyon is resolved to take his own life. Based on Nikolai Erdman's controversial play....
Got Snow Maiden?
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New Year's Eve. An actor was invited to one of the families to play the role of Santa Claus. But the actor got sick and asked his friend to replace him. The friend agreed with joy, because it was his ex-wife who invited the actor. She forbids him to meet the children. Also, the failed father meets the sweet Snow Maiden, who is going through her own personal drama....
Happy Kukushkin
Character: Пашка Кукушкин
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A Time to Gather Stones
Character: General
A former German officer is coming back to USSR in order to help to clear land mines he put during the war....
Всего одна жизнь
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Abandoned
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After the death of the mother of twelve Kohl sent to an orphanage. Valentine is taking him from there. This lonely old woman is his dear aunt, with whom he had never been acquainted. Kohl is waiting for his older brother to come after him after his release from prison, and they will return home together....
8 ½ $
Character: Spartak
Gera, a respected director of TV commercials, thinks he's capable of creating a fiction movie masterpiece. Predictably, he ends up with owning money to a mafia and no film to show for. To make his life even crazier he falls in love with a girl who belongs to the boss of mafia....
Уходящая натура
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The 32 of December
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When with the last stroke of the clock the desire of friends suddenly comes true, three friends get an incredible chance to do what they dreamed of all their lives…...
The Cry of Silence
Character: Anton Ivanovich
Siege of Leningrad, 1942. Despaired Nina Voronova evacuates from the city, leaving her little son along in a deadly cold apartment. He is found by Katya, a teenage girl from next door. She claims he’s her brother, and manages to get extra food provision from the district administration. When Alexey Voronov arrives to the city, he realises this little boy is his son....
Гиблое дело
Character: Vova Lobanov
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Shawls
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When an American of Russian descent arrived at the dawn of perestroika in the Russian hinterland, in the town of Pavlovsky Posad, where old Russian shawls are made, a lover in love with these shawls, seen only in pictures, licked no one thought that drama would break out in the provincial silence ......
Distraction for the Soul
Character: Mikhailov
Based on the novel by same name by Vladimir Makanin. A cabinetmaker falls in love with a poetess who is courted by a university professor. The cabinetmaker has a wife and two high school sons. He is confronted with a difficult choice between family and beloved woman......
Where Is Enohp Located?
Character: Pavel Golikov
Forty-year-old researcher Pavel is still single. And not because he likes to be free and unmarried, but because he is very indecisive - he does not know how to meet girls. Pavel’s parents are sounding the alarm - they really want to give their son "in good hands" and see their grandchildren. But he doesn’t like those girls whom Pavel’s mother is wooing. And then one day a master takes over - a cheerful, battered and excessively sociable brother of Pavel — Gennady. He has in his arsenal one effec...
Russian Ragtime
Character: Otets Mishi
In Soviet Union young Misha is dreaming to see USA, but it seems highly unlikely......
Vysotsky. Four Hours of Real Life
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Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family friend. Written by nitorch....
Ivanovy
Character: Ivan Ivanovitch Ivanov
Peter is the father of spoiled children and works a boring job,. On top of that, he has to deal with his sister Olga's hopeless relationship. When their absent father unexpectedly shows up, life seems to transform....
An Essay on Victory Day
Character: General
On the eve of the Victory Day celebrations, three old wartime friends reunite in Moscow. But they don’t get a chance to sit and recall their long-forgotten exploits. Chairman of the Veterans Foundation Kilovatov (O. Yefremov) is accused of dealings with the criminal world and put behind the bars. Former dissident Morgulis (V. Tikhonov), now residing abroad, and participant of protest rallies Dyakov (M. Ulyanov) organize the release of their friend from prison. Confronted with the cruelty of thei...
The Last Meeting
Character: Klim Avilov
Writer Pavel Snegirev comes to the village where during the war there was an orphanage where he spent his childhood, and meets his old friend Klim Avilov. The collective farm foreman does not understand and does not accept the writer, who did not keep his promised word and did not return after the army, thereby betraying both their friendship and the love of Anichka, who had been waiting for Pavel all this time. Their meeting is the last in their lives....
One at Home
Character: Georgy Ivanovich (Gosha)
Famous actors and TV presenters Nikolai Fomenko and Ivan Urgant want to celebrate the holiday quietly and calmly, but, having lost their way, they end up in an enchanted house that does not let them out until the heroes believe in the New Year, a real fairy tale and a miracle, immersing themselves in the atmosphere of popular films....