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Gregory Hlady
Gregory Stepanovych Hlady (, Hryhoriy Stepanovych Hladiy; born 4 December 1954) is a Ukrainian actor. He has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1973. He starred in ''Music for December'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography *1974: '' Only Old Men Are Going to Battle'' - fighter pilot of 1st squadron *1980: ''Dudaryky'' *1981: '' Such Late, Such Warm Autumn'' *1982: ''Preodoleniye'' - Valentin Sergeyevich Osintsev *1984: '' Stolen Happiness'' *1985: ''Vozvrashchenie Batterflyay'' *1986: ''Obvinyaetsya svadba'' *1986: ''Mama, rodnaya, lyubimaya...'' *1987: ''Otstupnik'' - Miller *1988: ''Voydite, strazhdushchie!'' - Avenir Avdeyev *1988: ''Fantasticheskaya istoriya'' *1989: ''Sirano de Berzherak'' - Cyrano De Bergerac *1990: ''Leningrad. Noyabr'' *1990: ''Vospominanie bez daty'' *1991: ''Paths of Death and Angels'' - Schrevek István *1991: ''Anna Karamazoff'' *1991: ''Slomannyy svet'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khorostkiv
Khorostkiv ( uk, Хоростків, pl, Chorostków, yi, כראָסקעוו, Chorostkov) is a city in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Khorostkiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: History In the Second Polish Republic, Khorostkiv, then known as Chorostków, belonged to the County of Kopczynce, Tarnopol Voivodeship. The town is the birthplace of Polish painter Jan Maszkowski (born 1793), and Jesuit theologist, translator and scholar Stanislaw Stys (born 1896). City since 1977. In January 1989 the population was 8811 people. Until 18 July 2020, Khorostkiv belonged to Husiatyn Raion Husiatyn Raion ( uk, Гусятинський район) was a raion in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Husiatyn. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrat .... The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Uk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Cadieux II
''Laura Cadieux II'' (french: Laura Cadieux...la suite) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Denise Filiatrault and released in 1999. A sequel to the 1998 film ''It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C'est à ton tour, Laura Cadieux)'', the film placed the characters from the first film, which was a direct adaptation of the novel by Michel Tremblay, in an original story written entirely by Filiatrault. In the film, Laura Cadieux (Ginette Reno) and her friends are taking a cruise on the St. Lawrence River to celebrate Laura's 50th birthday."Laura takes a cruise: Cadieux, part deux, offers laughs, but lacks depth of original". ''Montreal Gazette'', December 3, 1999. Laura is trying to fend off the advances of the ship's captain (Michel Dumont); Alice Thibodeau (Sonia Vachon) is freely flirting with nearly all of the men on board while Albert (Martin Drainville) is struggling to make his own feelings for her known; Lucille Bolduc (Adèle Reinhardt) is unsuccessfully trying to catch the eye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Forbidden Room (2015 Film)
''The Forbidden Room'' is a 2015 Canadian experimental fantasy drama film co-directed by Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, and written by Maddin, Johnson, and Robert Kotyk. The film stars Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Jacques Nolot, Charlotte Rampling, Udo Kier, Gregory Hlady, Sparks, Karine Vanasse, Adele Haenel, Mathieu Amalric, Maria de Medeiros and Geraldine Chaplin. Plot The film's frame story, and the narrative it returns to the most, concerns a submarine crew transporting a volatile substance that will explode if they ever resurface. As the crew struggle to survive with low oxygen levels, a woodsman (Roy Dupuis) mysteriously forces his way onto the vessel; the crew believe his sudden appearance may lead to an escape from their predicament. The men navigate a labyrinth of rooms and passageways while trying to access the captain's chamber. Along the way, they recount stories that lead to other stories, which unfold in a complex and layered manner. The most important ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Days Of Future Past
"Days of Future Past" is a storyline in the Marvel Comics comic book ''The Uncanny X-Men'' issues #141–142, published in 1981. It deals with a dystopian future in which mutants are incarcerated in internment camps. An adult Kate Pryde transfers her mind into her younger self, the present-day Kitty Pryde, who brings the X-Men to prevent a fatal moment in history that triggers anti-mutant hysteria. The storyline was produced during the franchise's rise to popularity under the writer/artist team of Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin. The dark future seen in the story has been revisited numerous times, and was the basis for the 2014 similarly titled feature film '' X-Men: Days of Future Past'', wherein Wolverine is sent back in time. In 2001, fans voted the first issue of this storyline the 25th greatest Marvel comic. The ''Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005'' gave the numerical designation for the original "Days of Future Past" timelin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jappeloup
Jappeloup is a 2013 Canadian-French film directed by Christian Duguay. In January 2014, Lou de Laâge was nominated for the Most Promising Actress award at the 39th César Awards. Plot In the early 1980s, Pierre Durand, Jr. resigns from his career as a lawyer and becomes a professional equestrian, focusing on show jumping. He purchases (1975–1991) from . Durand loses at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. However, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, he wins. Cast * Guillaume Canet as Pierre Durand, Jr. * Marina Hands as Nadia * Daniel Auteuil as Serge Durand * Lou de Laâge as Raphaëlle Dalio *Tchéky Karyo as Marcel Rozier *Jacques Higelin as Dalio *Marie Bunel as Arlette Durand *Joël Dupuch as Francis Lebail *Frédéric Épaud as Patrick Caron *Arnaud Henriet as Frédéric Cottier * Donald Sutherland as John Lester *Antoine Cholet as Hubert Bourdy * Edmond Jonquères d'Oriola as Philippe Rozier * Benoît Petitjean as Éric Navet *Séba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Star
''Diego Star'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by and released in 2013. Set in Lévis, Quebec where a Russian cargo ship has been docked following a serious on-board accident, the film traces the journey of Traoré (Isaka Sawadogo), the ship's Ivorian mechanic, through both his decision to blow the whistle on the crew's neglect of ship maintenance issues and his developing friendship with Fanny (Chloé Bourgeois), the local woman with whom he has been billeted during the ship's time in Lévis. The film premiered in the Bright Future program at the 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam. It had its Canadian premiere at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in September 2013, Awards The film received five Prix Jutra nominations at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014, for Best Film, Best Actor (Sawadogo), Best Actress (Bourgeois), Best Screenplay (Pelletier) and Best Art Direction ( Marjorie Rhéaume). The film was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois The Prix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ugly Swans (film)
''The Ugly Swans'' (russian: Гадкие лебеди) is a 2006 Russian science fiction drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky, based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The film is often compared to Andrei Tarkovsky's '' Stalker'', also adapted from a Strugatsky book. Plot The film's plot is loosely based on the novel, with some superficial differences. The story has been adjusted slightly to contextualize it in the "near future," with the main character Victor Banev recast as a UN envoy to the town of Tashlinsk, where a mysterious group has taken the town's children to an isolated boarding school. The major departure from the novel's plot is in the ending, in which the "Aquatters" ("Slimeys" from the novel) are all killed by the humans. The children are heroically rescued by Banev, but they are unable to reassimilate into society and are institutionalized. A small role created for the film was a UN negotiator named Gennady Komov, a refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deliver Me (film)
''Deliver Me'' (french: Délivrez-moi) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Denis Chouinard and released in 2006.Charles-Henri Ramond"Délivrez-moi – Film de Denis Chouinard" ''Films du Québec'', January 12, 2009. The film stars Céline Bonnier as Annie, a woman who has just been released from prison after serving a 10-year sentence for killing her former partner, and is attempting to make amends and reconcile with her daughter Sophie (Juliette Gosselin) over the objections of Irène (Geneviève Bujold), Sophie's paternal grandmother who has been raising the girl since her son's death. The cast also includes Patrice Robitaille, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Gregory Hlady, Danielle Fichaud, Pierre Collin and Sandrine Bisson. In preparation for the film, Chouinard and Bonnier met with a woman who had been incarcerated at the Joliette Institution for Women for murdering her husband.Brendan Kelly, "Chouinard takes a new slant on outsiders". ''Montreal Gazette'', May 6, 2006. Chouinard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manners Of Dying
''Manners of Dying'' is a 2004 Canadian drama film based on the short story of the same name (1993) by Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his book, ''The Life of Pi''. Plot Kevin Barlow (Roy Dupuis) will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington (Serge Houde), director of the Cantos execution facility, intends to make sure of it. However Barlow chooses to go, be it calmly or fighting to the end, Parlington feels confident that he and his team can deal with the situation. When Barlow makes an unusual final request, a strange duel ensues between the condemned man and the prison director. In this struggle there can be no winner or loser, only two men faced with doubts and difficult choices to make. Recognition * 2006 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing - Jeremy Peter Allen - Nominated * 2006 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Score An annual award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Score is presented by the Acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal By Night
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language. In 2021, it was spoken at home by 59.1% of the population and 69.2% in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area. Overall, 85.7% of the population of the city of Montreal con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
