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Budimir Metalnikov
Budimir Alekseyevich Metalnikov (; 27 September 1925 – 1 September 2001) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. Early years Metalnikov was born in Moscow into an educated Russian family of chemical engineers.Pavel Sirkes. «True Nostalgia»' interview with Budimir Metalnikov in the international culturological web magazine Foreign Backyard, №3/1, 2010 (in Russian) His father Aleksei Petrovich Metalnikov came from peasants. He was working as the chief engineer at the Apatit enterprise when he was arrested in 1937. Budimir's mother Zinaida Georgiyevna Metalnikova was also arrested shortly after. The 12-year-old Budimir and his 3-year-old sister Marina were taken to the NKVD reception center for children of enemies of the people situated in the Danilov Monastery. The children were then separated and put into different orphanages; Metalnikov never managed to find his sister, despite all his attempts. In 1939 he was sent to Kirovohrad to study in one of the vocati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vagankovo Cemetery
Vagankovo Cemetery () is located in the Presnensky District of Moscow, Russia. It was established in 1771, in an effort to curb 1770–1772 Russian plague, an outbreak of bubonic plague in Central Russia. The cemetery was one of those created outside the city proper so as to prevent the contagion from spreading. More than 500,000 people are estimated to have been buried at Vagankovo Cemetery from 1771 to 1990. As of 1990, the cemetery contained slightly more than 100,000 graves. The vast necropolis contains the mass graves from the Battle of Borodino, the Battle of Moscow, and the Khodynka Tragedy. It is the burial site for many prominent people from the academic, artistic, military, and sports communities of Russia and the old Soviet Union. The cemetery is served by several Orthodox churches constructed between 1819 and 1823 in the Muscovite version of the Empire style. History Imperial era Since its beginning as a minor city, burying the dead—with some exceptions—a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Home For Tanya
''A Home for Tanya'' (, translit. Otchiy dom) is a 1959 Soviet drama film directed by Lev Kulidzhanov. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. Plot In 1950s Moscow, Tanya, a young woman from a wealthy family studying at a pedagogical institute, learns that she is the biological daughter of Natalia Avdeyevna, an elderly rural woman who lost her during World War II. Curious and apprehensive, Tanya visits Natalia in her village, discovering a world vastly different from her own. Initially feeling out of place, Tanya gradually begins to understand and connect with the people and the rural way of life. Natalia introduces Tanya to Nyura, a local farm worker, and Sergey Ivanovich, a former soldier and the village chairman. Tanya witnesses village life firsthand, including the challenges faced by its residents. When Nyura is accused of theft, Sergey Ivanovich intervenes to ensure justice, reinforcing Tanya’s admiration for his fairness and leadership. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Nagibin
Yuri Markovich Nagibin (; 3 April 1920 – 17 June 1994) was a Soviet and Russian short story writer, screenwriter, literary critic and novelist. Biography Yuri Nagibin was born in Moscow. Nagibin's mother Ksenia Nagibina was pregnant with him when his father — Kirill Nagibin, a Russian nobleman — was executed as a counter-revolutionary before he was born. He was raised by his Jewish stepfather Mark Leventhal who was also later arrested and sent into internal exile to the Russian North in Komi Republic in 1927. Nagibin was unaware of his real father, so he assumed he was partly Jewish (Nagibin's mother was of Russian ethnicity). He found out late in life that both of his parents were in fact Russian, but he consciously related himself to Jews and condemned antisemitism, having suffered many antisemitic incidents in his early life. In 1938 he entered the Moscow State Medical University, but left it for Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He wrote his first story in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Talankin
Igor Vasilyevich Talankin () (3 October 1927 – 24 July 2010) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. His film ''Splendid Days'' (1960, co-directed with Georgiy Daneliya) won the Crystal Globe (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival), Crystal Globe (the main award) at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and ''Tchaikovsky (film), Tchaikovsky'' (1969) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Selected filmography *''Splendid Days'' (1960) *''Introduction to Life'' (1962) *''Day Stars'' (1968) *''Tchaikovsky (film), Tchaikovsky'' (1969) *''Take Aim (1974 film), Take Aim'' (1974) *''Father Sergius (1978 film), Father Sergius'' (1978) *''Starfall (film), Starfall'' (1981) *''Time for Rest from Saturday to Monday'' (1984) References External links * 1927 births 2010 deaths People from Noginsk Academic staff of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography People's Artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tchaikovsky (film)
''Tchaikovsky'' () is a 1970 Soviet biopic film directed by Igor Talankin. It featured Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the role of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the Academy Award for Original Song Score and Adaptation. Plot When Tchaikovsky is composing his First Piano Concerto, his friend Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein refuses to play it at the premiere, considering it unplayable. After the disappointment of ''Swan Lake'', Nadezhda Filaretowna von Meck, a wealthy widow, sends him financial support. Later, Tchaikovsky embarks on his opera ''Eugene Onegin'', receiving a love letter from student Antonina Ivanovna. His attempt to meet her leads to his brief arrest. He then dedicates his Fourth Symphony to von Meck, who hopes Tchaikovsky's marriage will bring him peace. Struggling with married life, Tchaikovsky attempts suicide. Von Meck intervenes, offering financial aid to secure his div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Shukshin
Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes. A prominent member of the Village Prose movement, he began writing short stories in his early teenage years and later transition to acting by his late 20s. Biography Vasiliy Makarovich Shukshin was born on 25 July 1929 to a peasant family of assimilated Moksha Mordvin origin in the village of Srostki near Biysk in Siberian Krai, Soviet Union (now in Altai Krai, Russia). In 1933, his father, Makar Leontievich Shukshin, was arrested and executed on the charges of participating in an "anti-kolkhoz plot" during the Soviet collectivization. He was only rehabilitated 23 years later, in 1956. His mother, Maria Sergeyevna (née Popova), thus had to look after the survival of the entire family. By 1943 Shukshin had finished seven years of village school and entered an automobile technical school in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov
Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov (; 20 November 1927 – 26 March 2007) was a USSR, Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognized persons of the post-World War II Soviet Union, Soviet theatre and Film, cinema. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1986 and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982. Biography Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov spent his childhood and youth in the town of Tara, Omsk Oblast. Although he had failed his exams in Schepkinskoe School and for the Moscow Art Theatre School, he moved to Omsk in 1944 to become an actor. After two years of studies in the studio at Omsk Drama he went to Moscow and entered the Schukin Theatre School in 1946. Ulyanov worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre from 1950 and directed it from 1987. He played a wide range of characters on stage, with Rogozhin in Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dostoevsky's ''Idiot'' being the most remarkable of them. In 1979 he staged Vasily S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nonna Mordyukova
Noyabrina Viktorovna Mordyukova (Russian: Ноябри́на (Но́нна) Ви́кторовна Мордюко́ва; 25 November 1925 – 6 July 2008) was a Soviet and Russian actress and People's Artist of the USSR (1974). She was the star of films like director Denis Yevstigneyev's ''Mother'' and Nikita Mikhalkov's 1980s hit '' Family Relations''. She was one of the most outstanding Russian film actresses of the 20th century. Biography Nonna (Noyabrina) Viktorovna was born into a large family in the Cossack village of Konstantinovka, Donetsk Region, Ukrainian SSR. Nonna spent her childhood in a settlement where her mother worked as chairwoman of kolkhoz (collective farm). In 1946, Mordyukova entered the Actors’ Faculty of VGIK and studied there under Boris Bibikov and Olga Pyzhova. After graduating she played on stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor and was often featured by film directors. In 1948, Mordyukova was married to actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov and had a son (now d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LiveJournal
LiveJournal (), stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian-owned social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. In January 2005, American blogging software company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated LiveJournal, from Fitzpatrick. Six Apart sold LiveJournal to Russian media company SUP Media in 2007; the service continued to operate out of the U.S. via a California-based subsidiary, LiveJournal, Inc., but began moving some operations to Russian offices in 2009. In December 2016, the service relocated its servers to Russia, and in April 2017, LiveJournal changed its terms of service to conform to Russian law. As with other social networks, a wide variety of public figures use the service, as do political pundits, who use it for political commentary, particularly in Russia, where it partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Kudryavtsev (film Critic)
Sergey Valentinovich Kudryavtsev () is a Russian film critic and historian. He graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1978 and worked in the office of Soviet cinema at VGIK in 1980–1983. Kudryavtsev began his career as a film critic in 1973, when he was 17. He has published several books on Russian and world cinema, such as ''500 films'' (1991), ''+500'' (1994), ''The Last 500'' (1996), ''Our Cinema'' (1998), the personal film encyclopedia ''3500'' (2008). He taught history and theory of cinema at VGIK in 1994-1998, was a lecturer at the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (since 2005), the Institute of Contemporary Art (since 2008). A three times winner of the Russian Guild of Film Critics awards. Now his new three-volume personal film encyclopedia ''Almost 44000'' is being in preparation. The first volume, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of world cinema, has been released in December 2015. At the moment Kudryavtsev collects funds for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Simple Story (1960 Film)
A Simple Story () is a 1960 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Yuri Yegorov. The picture was the 48th most attended domestic film in the Soviet Union. The film tells the story of a determined widow who becomes the first woman chairperson of a struggling collective farm, transforming it through resilience and leadership while navigating personal sacrifices, community dynamics, and her own evolving desires. Plot In the collective farm "Zarya," the position of chairman frequently changes, with new appointees every year. During one of the meetings, where the district committee introduces yet another candidate, the young widow Aleksandra Potapova—who, like many women in the village, lost her husband during the Great Patriotic War—unexpectedly suggests that a woman should take on the role. To her surprise, the community elects her. Aleksandra begins her new duties with determination, despite not fully understanding the complexities of the position. She faces challenges in her rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The festival was formally accredited by the FIAPF in 1951. Cannes is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals, alongside Venice and Berlin, as well as one of the "Big Five" major international film festivals, alongside Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance. History The early years The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in 1938 when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of high-ranking official and historian Philippe Erlanger and film journalist Robert Favre Le Bret decided to set up an international cinematographic festival. They found the support of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
