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Aleksei Kravchenko (actor)
Aleksei Yevgenyevich Kravchenko (; born 10 October 1969) is a Russian actor known for his role in the 1985 film ''Come and See'' as a young boy in the resistance army. Biography Kravchenko was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. In 1985, aged 15, he made his debut in the film ''Come and See'' directed by Elem Klimov. He was 14 when filming started. After graduating from vocational school, he served in the Navy. He attended the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, starting in 1991 and graduating in 1995 (he was taught by renowned actress Alla Kazanskaya). He did not act in anything for more than a decade, but since 1998, he has appeared in at least one film or TV show almost every year. He was awarded the Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 2007. In 2020, he was awarded the People's Artist of Russia. In 2023, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine added Aleksei Kravchenko to the list of persons posing a threat to the national security of U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in Moscow metropolitan area, its metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's List of largest cities, largest cities, being the List of European cities by population within city limits, most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest List of urban areas in Europe, urban and List of metropolitan areas in Europe, metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow became the capital of the Grand Principality of Moscow, which led the unification of the Russian lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimea
Crimea ( ) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukraine. To the east, the Crimean Bridge, constructed in 2018, spans the Strait of Kerch, linking the peninsula with Krasnodar Krai in Russia. The Arabat Spit, located to the northeast, is a narrow strip of land that separates the Syvash lagoons from the Sea of Azov. Across the Black Sea to the west lies Romania and to the south is Turkey. The population is 2.4 million, and the largest city is Sevastopol. The region, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, has been under Russian occupation of Crimea, Russian occupation since 2014. Called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period, Crimea has historically been at the boundary between the Classical antiquity, classical world and the Pontic–Caspian steppe, steppe. Greeks in pre-Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Lord (film)
''Iron Lord'' (; ''Yaroslav, Tysyachu let Nazad'' (Yaroslav, A Thousand Years Ago)) is a 2010 Russian historical adventure film by director Dmitry Korobkin. It is a full-length feature film that tells the story of Yaroslav the Wise Yaroslav I Vladimirovich ( 978 – 20 February 1054), better known as Yaroslav the Wise, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death in 1054. He was also earlier Prince of Novgorod from 1010 to 1034 and Prince of Rostov from 987 to 1010, ..., and it was created as part of the preparation for the 1000th anniversary of Yaroslavl City. Cast * Aleksandr Ivashkevich as Yaroslav * Svetlana Chuykina as Raida * Aleksei Kravchenko as Harald * Viktor Verzhbitskiy as Svyatozar * Valery Zolotukhin as Churillo References External links * 2010 films 2010s historical action films 2010s historical adventure films 2010s historical drama films 2010s action adventure films 2010s action drama films 2010s adventure drama films 2010s biograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Security Vacation
''High Security Vacation'' () is a 2009 Russian adventure comedy film directed by Igor Zaytsev. Plot Viktor Sumarokov – experienced thief-recidivist nicknamed Sumrak is a person of authority to all prisoners. Yevgeny Koltsov is a former Ministry of Internal Affairs employee who is a well-deserved hero for courageous fighting in Chechnya. As a result of carelessness, he accidentally hurts a venal colleague. When the former lawman becomes imprisoned, chief of the penitentiary, lieutenant colonel UFSIN Vyshkin comes to Sumrak with a request to protect Koltsov from the threats of prisoners. The ringleader's closest aide learns that he wants to protect Koltsov (since the higher authorities have arrived for a holiday arranged on the premises, and problems connected with the death of the prisoner-militiaman would be detrimental) and using the promise of an early release he persuades another inmate authority, Shaman, to start a commotion and remove Koltsov with the goal being to undermi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attack On Leningrad
''Attack on Leningrad'', or just ''Leningrad'', is a 2009 war film written and directed by Aleksandr Buravsky, set during the Siege of Leningrad. Plot In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and their troops besieged the city of Leningrad. A group of foreign journalists are flown in for one day, but one of them, Kate Davis (Mira Sorvino), is presumed dead and misses the flight out. Alone in the city, she is helped by Nina Tsvetkova ( Olga Sutulova), a young and idealist police officer, and together they fight for their own and other people's survival. Cast * Gabriel Byrne as Phillip Parker * Mira Sorvino as Kate Davis * Aleksandr Abdulov as Chigasov * Vladimir Ilyin as Malinin * Mikhail Yefremov as Omelchenko * Marat Basharov as Yura Krasko * Mikhail Trukhin as Vernik * Yevgeni Sidikhin as Korneyev * Olga Sutulova as Nina Tsvetkova * Kirill Lavrov as Radio announcer * Armin Mueller-Stahl as Field Marshal Von Leeb * Alexander Beyer as Walter Hoesdorff * Yevgeny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeralash
''Yeralash'' ( rus, Ералаш, p=jɪrɐˈlaʂ) is a Soviet and Russian children's comedy television show and magazine. Yeralash also runs an actor studio and the "Yeralash Island" camp. The word ''yeralash'' means "mixed, mishmash" or "jumble" and is taken from the Turkic languages. History In 1974, Directors Alla Surikova, Alexander Khmelik and Boris Grachevsky sent a letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union with a proposal to create a comedy newsreel “Fitilek” (Little Wick) for children (similar to the name of another newsreel ''Fitil'', which was aimed for adult audience). In the process of development, the name "Fitilek" was rejected. The most widespread story about how the new name was chosen is that a contest was announced among the audience to rename the film magazine, and the name "Yeralash" was taken from a letter from a certain schoolgirl. Subsequently, this letter was said to have been lost. However, in 2013, Surikova and Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fall Of The Empire
''The Fall of the Empire'' () is a Russian crime, thriller TV miniseries in ten episodes directed and co-written by Vladimir Khotinenko, broadcast in March 2005. It is set in World War I, following Russian counterintelligence officer Sergei Pavlovich Kostin (Aleksandr Baluev), a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, who works to uncover enemy plots aided by his sidekick Ivan Karlovich Shtol'ts ( Marat Basharov). Cast Main characters of the series * Alexander Baluev as Captain of counterintelligence Sergei Pavlovich Kostin * Sergei Makovetsky as Professor of Law, and then the captain of the Army Intelligence Alexander Mikhailovich Nesterovsky * Maria Mironova as Elena Ivanovna Saburova * Chulpan Khamatova as Olga Semenovna Nesterovskaya * Marat Basharov as lieutenant counterintelligence Ivan Karlovich Stolz * Andrey Krasko as non-commissioned counterintelligence officer Nikolai Alexeyevich Strelnikov The real historical figures in the series * Vladislav Galkin as head of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 9th Company
''9th Company'' () is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk and set during the Soviet–Afghan War. The film is loosely based on a real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during Operation Magistral, the last large-scale Soviet military operation in Afghanistan. It received generally positive reviews from critics. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot In 1988, at a recruitment base in Krasnoyarsk, young Soviet Army conscripts say farewell to their families and loved ones before preparing to leave for military duty. Fellow recruits Lyutyi, Chugun, Gioconda, Ryaba, Stas, and Vorobey are assigned to the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment for eventual deployment to Afghanistan. Arriving at their bootcamp in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan, the recruits meet Chechen conscript Pinochet and their drill instructor, Senior Warrant Offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spetsnaz (miniseries)
''Spetsnaz'' () is a 2002 Russian TV miniseries directed by Andrei Malyukov. Overview The series is set mostly in Russia and follows the adventures of four (initially six) members of the Spetsnaz. The locations also switch frequently and have also included Chechnya, Afghanistan, Dagestan, and Kosovo. Through the course of the series, the characters have done everything from rescuing shot-down pilots in Chechnya to rescuing the passengers and crew of a hijacked Aeroflot plane grounded in Afghanistan. Cast The following are recurring characters in the show *Aleksandr Baluyev as Major 'Klim' Platov, the hardened veteran unit commander *Aleksei Yevgenyevich Kravchenko, Aleksei Kravchenko as Captain 'Doc' Vyazemsky *Vladislav Galkin as Senior Lieutenant 'Yakut' Urmanov *Igor Lifanov as Senior Warrant Officer 'Khrust' Khrustalyov *Vladimir Turchinsky as Lt. Col. Ozornykh *Aleksandr Nosik as Senior Warrant Officer 'Zmey' Kobrin *Andrei Zibrov as Warrant Officer Aleksey 'Shakh' Shakhma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star (2002 Film)
''The Star'' (, Transliteration, translit. ''Zvezda'') is a 2002 Russian film directed by Nikolai Lebedev (film director), Nikolai Lebedev, a large modern project of Mosfilm. It is based on a short story of the same name by Emmanuil Kazakevich, about a group of Soviet scouts working behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration in World War II. The story had previously been made into a 1953 The Star (1953 film), film of the same name. Aleksei Kravchenko (actor), Aleksei Kravchenko won a government award for his role in this film. Plot A team of Soviet scouts is sent behind enemy lines to find the location of the German armor forces. The Soviets wait until night, and open up with an artillery barrage. As the guns fire, the team advances. The team successfully slips behind enemy lines. Many dramatic scenes follow. In one, a German soldier is captured and interrogated. In another, the team calls an airstrike on German positions, causing great damage and casualties. One man even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigada
''Brigada'' (), also known as ''Law of the Lawless'', is a Russian 15-episode crime television miniseries that debuted in 2002. It became very popular in Russia and ex-Soviet countries as well as Eastern Europe, but received criticism for positive portrayal of criminals and aestheticization of violence. The miniseries follows the story of four best friends from 1989 to 2000, and follows their rise in the world of crime from a local gang of petty thugs to a true mafia, mainly concentrating on the leader of the group, Sasha Belov, played by Sergei Bezrukov. The fifteen-part miniseries was written by Igor Porublyov and Aleksei Sidorov and directed by Aleksei Sidorov. Plot The series proceeds in chronological order, apart from the scene at the beginning of the first episode before the opening credits, which was taken from Winter 1997. Summer 1989 The film begins in 1989 when Sergeant Alexander (Sasha) Belov, (nicknamed Bely, or ''white'') has finished his national service in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Christmas Miracle
''The Christmas Miracle'' () is a 2000 Russian romantic drama film directed by Yury Feting and Andrei Kravchuk, starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Chulpan Khamatova. It has a fairy-tale narrative about a couple who reunite at Christmas after many years apart. It was Kravchuk's debut film as director. The film was released in Russian cinemas on 21 December 2000. Cast * Aleksei Kravchenko as Maksim * Chulpan Khamatova as Masha * Aleksandr Abdulov as puppeteer * Sergey Shakurov Sergey Kayumovich Shakurov (, ; born 1 January 1942) is a Soviet and Russian actor of theater. He has appeared in more than ninety films since 1967. Life and career Sergey Shakurov was born in Russian-Tatar family in Moscow. His father was Mis ... as cosmonaut * Yury Kuznetsov as Barankulov * Svetlana Gaytan as teacher * Alyona Khmelnitskaya as Anna References External links * 2000 films 2000 romantic drama films Films directed by Andrei Kravchuk Russian Christmas films Russian romantic dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
