Valentin Gaft
Valentin Yosifovich Gaft was born on September 2, 1935 to Ukrainian parents recently relocated to Moscow. Gaft entered the Moscow Theater School in 1953 at age 18 and made his film debut three years later in Mikhail Romm’s “Murder on Dante Street”. Over a half century of performing Valentine Gaft has been associated with the Mossovet and Leninsky Komsomol Theater troupes and the Sovremennik Theater which Gaft joined in 1969 and where he continues to work to this day. Gaft was named a People’s Artist of the Soviet Union in 1984 and has authored series of highly acidic epigrams satirizing members of the Russian film and theater communities.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.418 |
| Birthday | 1935-09-02 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia] |
| Also Known As | Валентин Гафт, |
2007
12
6.597/382
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen a...
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12
1974
Cement
0/0
About the restoration of a cement plant destroyed during the Civil War.
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Cement
1980
The Circus Boy
0/0
This story is about the events of the beginning of the century, the circus, in which the favorite of the troupe Alesha grew up. After the mother - acr...
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The Circus Boy
1999
Небо в алмазах
0/0
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Небо в алмазах
1975
The Magic Skin
0/0
Struggling with financial loss, a poet receives a shagreen leather from an antiquities shop, fulfilling his wishes
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The Magic Skin
1982
Суббота и воскресенье
0/0
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Суббота и воскресенье
1980
Three Years
0/0
Alexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev decides to marry her, but the relationship is not goi...
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Three Years
1988
Дорогое удовольствие
0/0
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Дорогое удовольствие
1991
Футболист
0/0
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Футболист
1982
Magicians
7.1/55
In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a m...
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Magicians
1980
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
7/33
The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress...
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Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
1973
Как кошка с собакой
0/0
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Как кошка с собакой
1991
Promised Heaven
5.5/26
In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg,...
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Promised Heaven
1994
The Master and Margarita
5.9/24
Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master...
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The Master and Margarita
1977
The Holiday of Disobedience
0/0
About that, how parents abandoned the disobedient children and returned only then, when they reformed.
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The Holiday of Disobedience
1978
Postman's Tale
0/0
Based on the tale of the same name by Karel Capek about postal gnomes.
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Postman's Tale
2010
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
4.9/53
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian offi...
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
1968
Intervention
5.3/18
The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky b...
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Intervention
1978
Cabbages and Kings
4.3/3
Фильм создан в жанре музыкальной комедии по мотивам знаменитого юмористического романа О"Генри "Короли и капуста". Действие фильма разворачивается в у...
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Cabbages and Kings
1972
Записки Пиквикского клуба
0/0
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Записки Пиквикского клуба
1986
Year of a Calf
3.5/2
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 rur...
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Year of a Calf
1970
The Amazing Boy
0/0
After professor creates a robot who looks like blue-eyed boy the criminals become very interested in the invention.
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The Amazing Boy
1988
Aelita, Do Not Pester Men
3.5/2
She's not so young, not so pretty and has a weird name - but she still believes in founding her happiness.
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Aelita, Do Not Pester Men
1989
The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
3.6/7
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other h...
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The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
1987
About the Cat...
5.8/3
The musical based on the famous "Puss in the Boots".
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About the Cat...
1994
I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
5/3
The hero of the film, afraid of losing both his wife and his mistress, is ultimately left alone.
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I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
1979
The Garage
7.3/79
An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to redu...
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The Garage
2000
Old Hags
4.9/14
Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia.
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Old Hags
1976
Daylight Train
5.9/8
Two old friends living in Moscow and St. Petersburg are hoping to get their children married.
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Daylight Train
1991
The Terrorist
3/2
A man invites a soaking wet under the rain young girl to his house not suspecting that her visit is not an accident.
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The Terrorist
1996
The Career of Arturo Ui
0/0
When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - how many opportunities there are for a funny comedy...
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The Career of Arturo Ui
1970
A Ballad of Love
6.9/9
Leningrade. Galina works as a restorer at Catherine Palace; she is a sculptor as well and takes her profession very seriously and enthusiastically. Ve...
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A Ballad of Love
1990
Mister Perrichon's Trip
5.8/5
Monsieur Perrichon, a rich coachbuilder by profession, is an honest but vain member of the bourgeoisie who decides to take a pleasure trip in the comp...
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Mister Perrichon's Trip
1981
Esop
5.2/7
This is a story about Greek slave Esop, who contributed a lot to the world of literature, and about his silly owner, who had the power and money, but...
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Esop
1991
Night Fun
6.5/19
A night become real "fun" for a family with the visit from very strange person.
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Night Fun
1989
The Visit
5.6/10
In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with...
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The Visit
1988
Kings of Crime
3.8/6
This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rheto...
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Kings of Crime
2006
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
3/1
The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive mess in the same House of Culture, where they celebr...
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Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
1997
Sympathy Seeker
5.4/17
A Christmas story, almost a fairy tale. An ordinary Russian girl brought up without a father could not even think that one fine day she would find him...
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Sympathy Seeker
2008
New Adventures of Babka Ezhka
5/1
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New Adventures of Babka Ezhka
1991
Lost in Siberia
4.8/16
The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mi...
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Lost in Siberia
1984
Eight Days of Hope
0/0
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Eight Days of Hope
2012
Wings
3.9/29
In the weeks leading up to the grand air show young Su-27 fighter by the name of Knight comes to the disciples to aircraft leading figures, which are...
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Wings
1987
Forgotten Tune for the Flute
6.7/20
A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one...
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Forgotten Tune for the Flute
1974
Long-Haired Wonder
6/1
A story based on life events of famous gymnast Olga Korbut.
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Long-Haired Wonder
1992
Encore, Once More Encore!
5.6/15
A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers dri...
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Encore, Once More Encore!
2013
The Story of an Old Woman
0/0
The Story of an Old Woman was filmed in one shot without any cutting or pasting. Annotation from author: In this film I wanted to show how the one per...
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The Story of an Old Woman
1977
An Almost Funny Story
3.9/9
The younger of two sisters living together suddenly meets the love of her life...
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An Almost Funny Story
2013
Six Degrees of Celebration 3
6.4/58
And again a heroes of "Yolki" series are ready and prepared for a New Year.
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Six Degrees of Celebration 3
1977
Fight in a Blizzard
0/0
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Fight in a Blizzard
2000
Tender Age
5.6/16
A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves into an extraordinarily told ballade with twofold meanin...
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Tender Age
1982
Vertical Races
6/13
A drama about a psychological duel between a police detective and career criminal.
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Vertical Races
2009
The Book of Masters
4.5/38
A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field. It transforms her heart into a stone and puts...
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The Book of Masters
1975
Ivan and Marya
6.8/6
Between the king and the soldier Ivan a serious dispute occurs. A seasoned soldier, of course, takes precedence over the quarrelsome sovereign. But un...
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Ivan and Marya
1975
Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
7.3/50
A funny comedy based on famous Brandon Thomas' play "Charley's Aunt".
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Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
1987
Visiting the Minotaur
6.8/9
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Visiting the Minotaur
1974
Lot
7/1
Young hockey player try his best to become success goal-keeper.
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Lot
1983
Monsieur Lenoir, who...
0/0
Teleplay based on the play by Armand Salacrou.
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Monsieur Lenoir, who...
1989
The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
0/0
The film is based on the story of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A sad story about how the demagogue and idler Foma Opiskin lived in the house of Col...
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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
1980
Today and Tomorrow
0/0
The film raises environmental issues and examines the nature of the relationship between the manager and the team.
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Today and Tomorrow
1977
The Golden Fleece
3.5/2
Eight very different people are looking for a treasure on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean.
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The Golden Fleece
1975
Olga Sergeevna
5.5/1
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Olga Sergeevna
1958
Aleksa Dundic
4.9/7
Life and times of Aleksa Dundic, a volunteer in the Serb army during WW1, who later became a legend by fighting for the Red Army in the Russian Civil...
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Aleksa Dundic
1977
Do You Want to Be an Actress, Girl?
8.5/1
A young girl traumatized by her mother death is becoming an actress.
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Do You Want to Be an Actress, Girl?
2003
Снежная любовь, или Сон в зимнюю ночь
1/1
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Снежная любовь, или Сон в зимнюю ночь
1986
My Dearly Beloved Detective
3.4/10
The conceit is that Sherlock Holmes is, as in reality, a fictional creation of Arthur Conan Doyle, but that the place where his office would be is mai...
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My Dearly Beloved Detective
1980
Hurry to Do Good
5.2/2
The film-play tells about a teenage girl with a difficult fate, who by chance ended up in someone else's family, about difficult relationships with th...
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Hurry to Do Good
1979
The Centaurs
2.7/3
The story takes place in an unnamed Latin Country.
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The Centaurs
1980
The Morning Round
9/1
Doctor Nechayev lives by the concerns of his patients. This is a man of remarkable mental qualities and a highly qualified specialist in cardiology, b...
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The Morning Round
1967
Mitya
0/0
The chief engineer of a large enterprise is waiting for a meeting with the minister on an important issue and at the same time is trying to return the...
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Mitya
1981
The Dog In Boots
6.9/36
The story about an enamored singing dog who isn't thoroughbred - that's a minus, but honorable - that's a plus.
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The Dog In Boots
1986
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
6/8
Vasily Muravin, 50, a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Management, is experiencing a crisis. At work, the place of the head of the department is rep...
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Through Main Street with an Orchestra
1974
Moscow, My Love
5.1/8
A young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She achieves professional success, for...
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Moscow, My Love
1966
We Are Russian People
6/1
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...
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We Are Russian People
1982
If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender...
5.3/11
A story about one of the big battles of WWII.
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If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender...
1960
Normandy - Neman
4.8/9
A certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne nor Vichy's orders decide to join the USSR. Once they...
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Normandy - Neman
2016
Milky Way
6/5
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Milky Way
1971
Allow Take-Off!
7/1
A new pilot arrives to a far away airport forcing the old veteran to retire.
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Allow Take-Off!
1956
Murder on Dante Street
5/7
A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII.
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Murder on Dante Street
1981
The Black Hen, or Living Underground
4.2/4
At a St. Petersburg boarding school, a new life began for the ten-year-old Alyosha, who was accustomed parental attention. Missing his home, Alyosha c...
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The Black Hen, or Living Underground
2017
Подлец
10/1
russian comedy
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Подлец
2013
Iron Mountain
0/0
The third part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tell about the student years of Nursultan Nazarbayev, about the most important stages of his person...
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Iron Mountain
2013
Fiery River
0/0
The second part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tells about Nursultan Nazarbayev's student years, about the most important stages of his personali...
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Fiery River
2014
Breaking The Vicious Circle
0/0
The film tells about Nursultan Nazarbayev who went into politics and made efforts to improve the existing at that time difficult situation in Kazakhst...
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Breaking The Vicious Circle
1974
Сергеев ищет Сергеева
8.5/2
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Сергеев ищет Сергеева
2000
Watch Without Hands
4/1
A major politician and businessman was killed. His widow, with the help of a private detective and a photojournalist, begins her own murder investigat...
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Watch Without Hands
1969
Wait For Me, Anna
6/1
A love story during wartime.
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Wait For Me, Anna
1957
Poet
5.8/4
Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about...
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Poet
1985
Contract of the Century
3/3
In order to negotiate with West German financiers about the construction of the gas pipeline between Siberia and Western Europe, a delegation of Sovie...
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Contract of the Century
1975
На всю оставшуюся жизнь
5.2/6
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На всю оставшуюся жизнь
1976
Story of an Unknown Actor
6/1
The of an actor in a provincial theatre.
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Story of an Unknown Actor
1990
The Suicide
6/1
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...
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The Suicide
1970
Ordinary story
3/2
The film is a play based on the novel “An Ordinary History” by Ivan Goncharov directed by the Sovremennik Moscow Theater. The main roles were played b...
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Ordinary story
1982
Customs
3/2
When vigilant Soviet customs officers find smuggled gold on a ship named Amur, they conduct an investigation to find the culprit and learn about a mur...
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Customs
1986
Fouetté
8/1
Prima-ballerina Elena Knyazeva prepares for her performance on the anniversary jubilee for the theater Swan Lake on the eve of her fiftieth birthday a...
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Fouetté
1968
The First Courier
0/0
The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian Social Democrats, began to appear. The Russian consp...
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The First Courier
1969
New Girl
8/2
A talented athlete joins the USSR gymnastics team.
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New Girl
2018
The Chosen Ones
0/0
The film is based on a dialogue between young and older generations about life, profession, fame, love, the mission of art, the destiny of man, herois...
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The Chosen Ones
1987
Time to Fly
0/0
Nothing like this has ever happened and could not happen in any of the airports. However, according to the authors of the film-parable, this tragicomi...
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Time to Fly
1975
From Lopatin's Notes
0/0
Based on the stories of the same cycle of Konstantin Simonov, who visited as a war correspondent almost on all fronts of the great Patriotic war.
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From Lopatin's Notes
1974
Girl Without Dowry
0/0
Unlike her sisters, Larisa Ogudolova refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry, but falls in love...
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Girl Without Dowry
1973
Balalaykin and K
5/1
The performance of the Sovremennik Theater directed by G. A. Tovstonogov.
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Balalaykin and K
1974
Dombey & Son
0/0
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly...
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Dombey & Son
1978
Players
0/0
The play is about the Game, about creativity, which this time turned into the form of a brilliant speck. Skillfully, talentedly and artistically, the...
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Players
1972
The Man from the Other Side
0/0
After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the...
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The Man from the Other Side
1974
Tanya
0/0
The story of a couple chasing their dreams amid the challenges of life in the postwar Soviet Union. Based on Aleksei Arbuzov's play.
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Tanya
1980
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
0/0
In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love w...
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1975
Widower's Houses
0/0
Two friends, Harry and William, meet the respectable Mr. Sartorius and his lovely daughter Blanche on the trip. Harry falls in love with Blanche and p...
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Widower's Houses
1979
The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
0/0
The nobleman des Grieux falls in love with the mysterious and attractive girl of humble origin Manon Lescaut. The girl seems to love the young man, bu...
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The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
1983
Romeo and Juliet
0/0
This TV version of the world-famous play by William Shakespeare stands out for its unusual production design and mise-en-scene.
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Romeo and Juliet
1970
Family Happiness
4.7/3
Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov
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Family Happiness
1971
The Road to Rübezahl
0/0
The German anti-fascist Max in 1939 emigrated to the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought in the Soviet partisan detachment and died, perfo...
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The Road to Rübezahl
1960
Russkiy Suvenir
3.2/4
The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thunderstorm and makes an emergency landing in the Ba...
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Russkiy Suvenir
1993
I want to go to America
0/0
The spicy story of a modest Russian guy drawn into the incessant sexual marathon by the will of rival intelligence agencies. The victims of such an in...
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I want to go to America
2011
One Day of Zhora Vladimov
0/0
The turning point for Russia is 1991. Exiled from the country, writer, dissident and human rights activist Georgiy Vladimov found himself in a forced,...
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One Day of Zhora Vladimov
1973
Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière
7/1
Episodes from the life of Molière with scenes from his play, revealing the tragic picture of the confrontation between the great playwright and the au...
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Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière
1978
Islands in the Stream
0/0
TV version of a play based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel.
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Islands in the Stream
2000
House for the Rich
7/1
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House for the Rich
2010
Равняется одному Гафту
0/0
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Равняется одному Гафту
1968
Калиф-аист
0/0
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Калиф-аист
1972
The Night at 14th Parallel
5.5/2
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The Night at 14th Parallel
2010
Сон Гафта, пересказанный Виктюком
0/0
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Сон Гафта, пересказанный Виктюком
1977
Temptation
0/0
The film takes place in Budapest in the 1920s. The teenage Rózsa Béla, the son of a washing-woman and a salesman born out of wedlock, gets employment...
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