Leonid Kuravlyov
Birthday: 1936-10-08
Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Biography: 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
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White Queen's Move
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Afonya
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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
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Крыса на подносе
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Pyotr Ryabinkin
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I Am His Bride
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The Most Beautiful Horse
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Northern Rhapsody
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The Book of Masters
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Enclosure
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Restricted Area
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Mimino
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It Can't Be!
The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishm...
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Evropejskij Konvoj
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There Will Be No Leave Today
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The Golden Calf
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This Merry Planet
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The Trust That Has Burst
A witty comedy, that has fun and philosophy in one. Inspired by short stories of O`Henry....
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The Most Charming and Attractive
Nadya Klyueva is a single woman. Persuaded by her friend, she decides to charm her co-worker whom sh...
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Esli Nevesta Vedma
Известный профессор нетрадиционных наук узнает, что на его «малой родине» в далекой деревушке происх...
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Fuss of the Fusses
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
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Shine, Shine, My Star
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Incognito from St.Petersburg
A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol....
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The Stairway
Having his life come to a dead end, Vladimir is thinking about suicide. He is saved by a girl and sp...
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First Encounter - Last Encounter
The story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private detecti...
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The Turkish Gambit
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Destroy the Thirtieth!
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All That Jam
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When the Trees Were Tall
The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, a...
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The Beginning
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The Night Before Christmas
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The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering....
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There Is Such a Lad
A story about Pashka, a really decent, honest guy, even though he lies a lot, who is looking for hap...
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We're from Jazz
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Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation
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Dangerous for Your Life!
A funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible youn ...
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Look for a Woman
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One Time Deal
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What a Mess!
The story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may...
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Holy Moly!
Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Georgy Burkov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Galina Polskikh in a sad comedy by Sergey Nik...
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Snake Catcher
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Life and Amazing Aventures of Robinson Crusoe
In the seventeenth century, Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on a desert island and is the only surviv...
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There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
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Little Tragedies
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Lady Into Lassie
Based on a famous short story by Pushkin, this film tells of a youthful, innocent and pure love stor...
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Defeat
A 4-partmade-for-television feature film. Two young physicists, engaged in the problems of atmospher...
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Funny People!
The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the Worl...
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Lev Gurych Sinichkin
The old actor dreams of a leading role for his young talented daughter. However, she is opposed by a...
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To Dream and to Live
The script about loneliness, conformity and the impossibility of creative realization scared the edi...
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Ladies Invite Gentlemen
Anna Pozdnyakova is already over 30 years old and, despite the fact that she is kind and pretty, she...
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Sitting on the Golden Porch
Two kings: Fedot and Amphibrachiy have been adjoining peacefully for many years. But once Amphibrach...
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Five Minutes of Fear
On the way for fishing Leonid Karetnikov finds the body of a man on the roadside and admit a car dri...
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The Master and Margarita
The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Th...
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Don't Leave Your Lovers
Sometimes divorce process could be really painful. This is exactly the case for the heroes of this r...
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We, the Undersigned
The main events unfold in the train. The acceptance committee from Moscow, revealing deficiencies in...
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You to Me, Me to You
Ivan Sergeevich Kashkin — the bath attendant of the most prestigious metropolitan bath. It’s not eas...
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Elder Sister
A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actre...
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The Barber of Siberia
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, expe...
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Timur and His Team
A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the year...
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The Invisible Man
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Entrance to Labyrinth
The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hall...
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The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tell...
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Before We Part
Stuck due to bad weather at a tiny Far Eastern airport, several random travel companions become witn...
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Счет человеческий
Zoo inspector Chaplygin, concerned about the death of walruses due to panic caused by airplane fligh...
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A Dog Was Walking on the Piano
The 16-year-old Tanya Canareykina decided to drastically change her life. For starters she fell in l...
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Two Days of Wonders
Father and son exchange the bodies using the help of two student fairies....
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Made in USSR
An ordinary high school turns into an ordinary model of a totalitarian state. The trivial story of t...
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Three on the Red Carpet
Three candidates for deputies of the republican and local Soviets are awaiting the election results....
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Hope
At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexi...
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Without Witnesses
Based on the story by A. Kleshchenko "You can't stop the case". A kind and brave soul Valka Burmakin...
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Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Qu...
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Live in Joy
A kolkhoz machine-operator is a local inventor who has tensions with his wife over his hobby. He inv...
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Vitya Glushakov - A Friend of the Apaches
Vitya Glushakov is a perfect high school student. He even writes a novel about the Apache tribe. But...
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Midshipman Panin
It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They ...
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Chekhov's Vaudevilles
Musical teleplay based on A.P. Chekhov's vaudevilles "The Proposal" and "The Bear"....
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The Enchanted Wanderer
Aboard a steamship, a priest tells his fellow passengers his life story, which he admits is the stor...
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Traces of Rain
Love overtook the famous conductor in Russia, which he had once abandoned. But the young beloved, ol...
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The Roundabout
Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with ...
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Ono
The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Tow...
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Russian Account
Dangerous repeat offenders Cabinet and Corkscrew arrive in Dagomys with the aim of abducting the pre...
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Russian Miracle
The enterprising Ivan decides to organize a tour in America of the famous Russian psychic Yuri Koshm...
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Sincerely Yours...
A young astronomer is becoming more of administrator instead of concentrating on science....
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Not Under the Jurisdiction
In a training flight, the Il-28 plane crashes. Shooter-radio operator Sorokin without an order leave...
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The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
After a photo of Konstantin Zbruyev got published in the magazine he got a lot of letters. So now it...
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The Twelve Months
A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. ...
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Gangsters in the Ocean
A modern pirates attack Russian ship and imprison the sailors on the inhabited island....
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An Unrealistic Story
The youth construction team celebrated Anatoly and Varya's wedding with fun. Without giving importan...
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Martinko
Martynko, while in the guardhouse, found a deck of magic cards with which he could easily beat anyon...
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Literature Lesson
A young literature teacher does not like his job. He feels he has to change something in his life. A...
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Your Son and Brother
Based on short stories by Vasiliy Shukshin. About the life and people of the modern Soviet village....
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Third Time
The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team o...
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Men's Talk
Sasha Larionov, is in the eighth grade and still doesn't know that his mother has left the family. S...
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A Man for a Young Girl
After falling in love with a much younger girl a rich businessman is trying to find an ancient elixi...
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KGB Agents Also Fall in Love
A Russian agent is sent to a mission in Chile as a punishment. While there, he continues his adventu...
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Liberation: The Last Assault
In Berlin, Lieutenant Yartsev's infantry and Tzvetaev's battery fight their way in the U-Bahn. Capta...
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The Adventures of Travka
A story of a little boy nicknamed Travka who got lost for a whole day....
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It's Just Awful!
A bodies of a six-grader and his father are interchanges with the help of the magic machine invented...
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Tailcoat for an Idler
Twelve years old boy escapes summer camp in order to meet his brother currently serving in the army....
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The Left-Hander
When the British, wanting to surprise the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich, presented a clockwork miracle...
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Without Father
After the death of her husband, Tamara gave her daughter Olya to an orphanage and left for the North...
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Aibolit and Barmaley
About the adventures of the good doctor Aibolit and the evil robber Barmalei....
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Detonator
A strange object falls to the ground from space. His fall is accompanied by a strong explosion, whic...
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Circus in the Circus
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and a...
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Kysh and TwoBriefcases
The heroes of the film are first-graders Snezhana and Alyosha Seroglazov, who received the nickname ...
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Sentence
In one of the American States committed a major Bank robbery, which killed two guards. Jim Conley, a...
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Ultimatum
The patients of the big hospital are fighting for their rights during Perestroyka times....
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Everything for You
Masha Barashkina has extraordinary organizational skills. She helped open a children's hospital, a s...
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Au-u!
The film comprises three cinematic novellas: (1) “And They Arrived at the Peasant’s Hut… or the Adve...
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A Day and the Whole Life
A story about a woman who raised her son alone during the difficult war and post-war years. She live...
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Lyubushka
Bandits took away a beautiful horse from peasant Nikita Lykov and left him a nag instead. The peasan...
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Late Child
A boy suffers from excessive care of his family, cause he wants them to reckon with him as an adult,...
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While the Dream is Mad
Yura Otvertkin, a romantic from Tsarevo-Kokshaisk, is obsessively in love with aeronautics. In St. P...
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Copper Angel
An international geological expedition led by a Russian engineer works in an inaccessible area of on...
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About Friends and Comrades
In Moscow in 1919 there are still anarchist organizations, whose actions are clearly anti-Soviet in ...
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Time, Forward!
The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Ma...
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Presumption of Innocence
After the concert, the popular singer, having boarded the train, discovers that her jacket is missin...
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Homeboy
A young girl known for being "Homeboy" for everybody is dreaming to become more feminine....
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The Suicide
As Soviet Russia enters the era of the New Economic Policy, Semyon Podsekalnikov decides to stop loo...
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The Wedding Gift
The newlyweds are given the keys to an apartment, the owner of which has gone to Africa for 2 years....
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Seventh Skies
Life in a distant south town become to difficult for the young girl Ksana from Moscow......
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The Stringer
Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video ...
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Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
A love story between a mythical Russian minister and an opportunist TV series actress....
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Crash
The GPU secret service develops and conducts in 1923-24 an operational game aimed at the elimination...
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Take Care of the Men!
She is a business, courageous and energetic woman. He is spineless, awkward and also not amenable to...
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The Flight of Mr. McKinley
A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky t...
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May I Die, Lord...
Before the demolition of the orphanage, almost all the children were transferred to other boarding s...
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In Search of the Golden Phallus
The priceless treasure “The Golden Phallus” - a unique work of art of the ancient civilization of th...
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Crazy Money
Moscow mid-XIX century. Middle-aged provincial businessman Savva Gennadievich Vasilkov falls in love...
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Machinist Drove the Trains
Olga, who was taken to the West by Hitler's invaders, works as a switchman at a railway station. Ech...
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Reports from Lebyazhye
Ivan Baikalov, the secretary of the District Committee, is the first person to come to him with any ...
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Foam
Makhonin buys dissertations from people who sell their knowledge and intellect, preparing candidate ...
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How Is It Going, Crucians?
A retired KGB colonel, having collected at his country house a file cabinet of people who had cooper...
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Facts of the Past Day
The action takes place in the early 1980s, in the Arctic, at a mining plant. The long-overdue issue ...
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Old Songs About the Main Thing 3
An unofficial sequel to the movie "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession". The events take place o...
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Viy
A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transfo...
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The Last Sacrifice
The rich merchant widow Yuliya Tugina is practically ruined by her lover, impoverished nobleman Vadi...
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Such a Big Boy
In the first days of the Second World War, a young woman with three children is evacuated from the f...
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Energetic People
Aristarkh Petrovich Kuzkin, the manager of a store, finds himself in big trouble. His wife Vera, hav...
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Nesrochnaya vesna
In 1923, Alexey Dmitrievich arrives at the Buyanovo station. Realizing that he will not be able to f...
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Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Th...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 2
The final film of the television series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson." It is ba...
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Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
This film version was released before the premiere of the full two-part television version (The Adve...
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The Devil's Puppets
A young Frenchman receives a royal award for his scientific discovery. The new laureate agrees to be...
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Young People
She is smart, surrounded by parental attention and therefore not completely independent, and he is o...
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The Heirs
The plot focuses on an ordinary family living in one village in the taiga. Father works as a driller...
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Love of Serafim Frolov
The first post-war years. Serafim Frolov visits a girl he knows by correspondence. But she still rem...
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New Year's Story
A secret unit to combat aliens has been operating since the Second World War, as we learn from newsr...
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Next of Kin
The plot is based on a comic situation between a husband and wife (both dreaming of a new family), w...
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Fun for Old People
Five pensioners, former highly skilled workers, decided to assemble a cross-country bus from cars th...
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Unanswered Love
About the dramatic fate of provincial actress Larisa Dobrynina. The death of a friend, betrayal of h...
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For the Matches
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some m...
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The Rain
In one of the Russian cities, where local tailors have long sold their fabrics and clothes from it o...
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Boys
Zhenya Prokhorov, a pupil of an orphanage, draws the attention of the director of the capital's choi...
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Across Red Nights
Moscow, the years of perestroika. The quiet life of Eduard and Pavla turns into a nightmare one day....
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Provincial Benefit
Life in art based on the plays of A. Ostrovsky: "Talents and Admirers", "Forest", etc....
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Through All the Years
Alexander Demin and Vassa Druzhinina fell in love with each other in their school years. In the thir...
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Black Gloves
A short film version of Leonid Gaidai's "Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession" on an old, silent ...
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Take Your Time
About a bear cub who wanted to become a circus star, but was late for the circus express train becau...
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