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Nadezhda Simonyan
Nadezhda Simonyan (February 26, 1922 - June 7, 1997) was a Russian composer who wrote over 40 film scores for movies, radio, and television, as well as chamber and orchestral works, and music for circus performances. Simonyan was born in Rostov-on-the-Don. She studied composition and piano at Leningrad Conservatory, where she received a diploma in 1950 and earned a medal. Her teachers included Oles Chishko and Venedikt Pushkov. In 1956, Simonyan wrote her first film soundtrack for '' Old Man Khottabych'', a children’s film by Gennadii Kazanskii. Peter Rollberg described Simonyan’s strength as a composer as a “ . . . warm melodiousness that equally energizes cheerful, dramatic, and tragic episodes with a pragmatic, flexible approach to instrumentation.” In 1960, Italian film maker Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostov-on-the-Don
Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of the North Caucasus. The southwestern suburbs of the city lie above the Don river delta. Rostov-on-Don has a population of over one million people, and is an important cultural centre of Southern Russia. History Early history From ancient times, the area around the mouth of the Don River has held cultural and commercial importance. Ancient indigenous inhabitants included the Scythian and Sarmatian tribes. It was the site of Tanais, an ancient Greek colony, Fort Tana under the Genoese, and Fort Azak in the time of the Ottoman Empire. In 1749, a custom house was established on the Temernik River, a tributary of the Don, by edict of the Empress Elizabeth, the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leningrad Conservatory
The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as the Petrograd Conservatory and Leningrad Conservatory) is a school of music in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students. History The conservatory was founded in 1862 by the Russian Music Society and Anton Rubinstein, a Russian pianist and composer. On his resignation in 1867, he was succeeded by Nikolai Zaremba. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was appointed as a professor in 1871, and the conservatory has borne his name since 1944. In 1887, Rubinstein returned to the conservatory with the goal of improving overall standards. He revised the curriculum, expelled inferior students, fired and demoted many professors, and made entrance and examination requirements more stringent. In 1891, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oles Chishko
Oles' Semyenovich Chishko (1895–1976) was a Ukrainian and Russian Soviet composer and singer (tenor). Oles' Semyenovich Chishko was born on 3 July 1895. He graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama (vocal) in 1924 and studied composition with Pyotr Ryazanov at the Leningrad Conservatory. Chishko was a soloist in the opera theatres of Kharkiv, Kiev, Odessa, and Leningrad. He was also the first performer of the roles of Pierre Bezukhov in ''War and Peace'' by Sergei Prokofiev, Kobzar in "Taras Bulba" by Lysenko, and Pyotr in "V plenu u yablon" by himself. His students included film composer Nadezhda Simonyan. Operas * "Judith" (performed in 1923, Novorossiysk), * "V plenu u yablon" (performed in 1931, Odessa), * "Bronenosets Potyomkin" (performed in 1937, Leningrad, 1938, Moscow), * "Makhmud Tarobi" (performed in 1944, Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Man Khottabych
''Starik Khottabych'' (russian: Старик Хоттабыч, ''Old Man Khottabych'' or ''Old Khottabych'') is a Sovcolor Soviet fantasy film produced in the USSR by Goskino at Kinostudyia Lenfilm (Lenfilm Studio) in 1956, based on a children's book of the same name by Lazar Lagin who also wrote the film's script, and directed by Gennadi Kazansky. In the United States, the film was released theatrically by Sovexportfilm, with English subtitles, under the title ''The Flying Carpet'' through Artkino Pictures in 1960. Plot summary Volka,Volka (Willie) is a diminutive form of the name Volya which also was a diminutive name of Vladimir: "Yesterday, a pioneer named Vladimir Kostylkov came to his district militia station and handed the officer on duty a treasure consisting of antique gold objects which he found on the bottom of the river, in a very deep place./ref> a 12-year-old Soviet Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union, Young Pioneer, discovers an ancient vessel at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (; 20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked highly in critical polls such as that of '' Cahiers du Cinéma'' and '' Sight & Sound'', which lists his 1963 film '' '' as the 10th-greatest film. Fellini's best-known films include ''La Strada'' (1954), '' Nights of Cabiria'' (1957), '' La Dolce Vita'' (1960), '' 8½'' (1963), ''Juliet of the Spirits'' (1965), the "Toby Dammit" segment of '' Spirits of the Dead'' (1968), '' Fellini Satyricon'' (1969), ''Roma'' (1972), '' Amarcord'' (1973), and ''Fellini's Casanova'' (1976). Fellini was nominated for 16 Academy Awards over the course of his career, winning a total of four in the category of Best Foreign Language Film (the most for any director in the history of the award). He rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lady With The Dog (film)
''The Lady with the Dog'' (russian: Дама с собачкой, translit. ''Dama s sobachkoy'') is a 1960 Soviet drama film directed by Iosif Kheifits. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The film is set in the 19th Century at Yalta, the popular Russian resort on the Black Sea. Dmitri Gurov, Moscow banker, meets Anna Sergeyevna from Saratov, also vacationing. Beautiful Anna walks her dog daily to the delight of the men who observe her. Both Dmitri and Anna are married and both are unhappy in their situations. Both have come to Yalta without their spouses. A romance soon blooms into an affair. After their summer romance ends, both return to their marriages. Dmitri returns to his former life, bored with working and going to his club to play cards. He is haunted by Anna's memory. At Christmas, Dmitri tells his wife he is going to St. Petersburg on business but actually goes to Saratov where he finally locates Anna who is attending an opera with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Of Chukotka
''Chief of Chukotka'' (russian: Начальник Чукотки, Nachalnik Chukotki) is a 1966 Soviet comedy film directed by Vitaly Melnikov. Plot 1922. Commissar Alexey Mikhailovich Glazkov, who received a mandate from the Soviet government to manage the affairs of Chukotka, and the very young clerk Alyosha Bychkov accompanying him in a dog sled driven by a musher, travel from Ascension Bay to the village Uigunan in Chukotka. On the way, Glazkov dies of typhus, and Alyosha and the musher bury him, covered with snow. However, despite the death of Glazkov, the musher refuses to turn the dogs in the opposite direction and delivers Alyosha to Uygunan, where he is met by the former tsarist customs officer Khramov. Having sent Alyosha to rest after his arrival, the cunning Khramov, having secretly examined the things brought by Alyosha, finds Glazkov's mandate among them and believes that Alyosha is Glazkov. Cast * Mikhail Kononov as Bychkov * Alexey Gribov as Timofey Ivanov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nights Of Farewell
''Nights of Farewell'' (russian: Третья молодость) is a 1965 Soviet-French drama film directed by Isaak Menaker and Jean Dréville. Plot The film tells about the young dancer Marius Petipa, who is invited to St. Petersburg, which will completely change his life. Cast * Gilles Ségal as Marius Petipa * Oleg Strizhenov as Pyotr Tchaikovsky * Jacques Ferrière as Anton Minkh * Natalya Velichko as Mashenka Surovshchikova * Nikolay Cherkasov as Gedeonov * Nikolay Trofimov as Petrov * Gennadiy Nilov as Lev Ivanov * Alla Larionova Alla Dmitriyevna Larionova (russian: Алла Дмитриевна Ларионова; 19 February 1931, in Moscow, USSR – 25 April 2000, in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1990). ... as Lyubov Leonidovna References External links * {{IMDb title, id=0059522 1965 films 1960s Russian-language films Soviet drama films 1965 drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Snow Queen (1967 Film)
''The Snow Queen'' (russian: Снежная королева, Snezhnaya koroleva) is a Soviet 1967 fantasy film, directed by Gennadi Kazansky and based on the eponymous 1844 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Plot On a frosty winter evening, the Snow Queen kidnaps Kai and turns his heart into a piece of ice. Gerda, wishing to return Kai home goes to search for him. She experiences many trials to get to the Snow Queen's palace and to retrieve Kai from icy captivity. Cast * Valery Nikitenko – The Storyteller * Elena Proklova – Gerda * Slava Ziupa – Kay * Evgenia Melnikova – Grandmother * Natalia Klimova – The Snow Queen * Nikolai Boyarsky – Counselor * Yevgeny Leonov – King Eric XXIX * Irina Gubanova – The Princess * George Korolchuk – Prince * Olga Viklandt – The Chieftain * Era Ziganshina – The Little Robber * Andrei Kostrichkin – Ghost * Vera Titova – Inkwell See also * ''The Snow Queen'' (1957 film) * ''Frozen (2013 film) ''Frozen'' is a 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twelve Months (1972 Film)
''The Twelve Months'' (russian: Двенадцать месяцев, Dvenadtsat mesyatsev) is a 1973 Soviet Lenfilm fantasy film directed by Anatoliy Granik based on the play by Samuil Marshak adapted from the fairy tale with the same name. Cast * Natalya Popova — Stepdaughter * Marina Maltseva — Stepsister * Olga Wiklandt — Stepmother * Liana Zhvaniya — The Queen * Nikolay Volkov — Professor * Tatiyana Pelttser — Gofmejsterina * Leonid Kuravlyov — Soldier * Konstantin Adashevskiy — The Head of the Royal Guard * Alexander Sokolov — The Chancellors your * Georgy Teikh — Royal Prosecutor * Lev Lemke Lev Isaakovich Lemke (russian: Лев Исаакович Лемке) (25 August 1931 – 4 August 1996, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian actor, awarded the title Meritorious Artist of Russia. Lemke finished his education in the Theatre S ... — The Eastern Ambassador * Alexey Kozhevnikov — The Western Ambassador * Arkady Trusov — December * Boris R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Women Composers
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1922 Births
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