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Heat (2006 Film)
''Heat'' (, stylized as "ЖАRА") is a 2006 Cinema of Russia, Russian teen film, teen romantic comedy loosely based on the ''Walking the Streets of Moscow'', directed by and produced by Fyodor Bondarchuk. ''Heat'' along with Wolfhound (2006 film), ''Wolfhound'' became one of the most expensive Russian films in 2006. Additionally, its budget was one third as compared to the advertising campaign. Plot After three years a conscript sailor in the Russian Navy, Aleksey (Aleksey Chadov), comes back from the Black Sea Fleet to Moscow for a meeting with his waiting girlfriend, Masha (), and old classmates. Unfortunately, he finds out that his girlfriend is already married and has a child, then decides to spend the remaining time in a restaurant with his friends—an Business oligarch, oligarch's son, Konstantin (Konstantin Kryukov), a beginner actor, Artur (Artur Smolyaninov), and a Hip hop music, hip-hop artist, Timati. When their lunch is coming to the end, it appears that no one has mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk ( ; born 9 May 1967) is a Russian film director, actor, producer and TV host. He is also the founder of Art Pictures Studio, a production company. He specializes in action movies, war movies, and science fiction films. Some of his most notable films include '' The 9th Company'' (2005), '' Dark Planet'' (2008–2009), ''Stalingrad'' (2013) and '' Attraction'' (2017). As an actor, Bondarchuk is best known for starring in '' 8 ½ $'' (1999), ''Down House'' (2001), '' Two Days'' (2011), '' The PyraMMMid'' (2011) and ''Ghost'' (2015). He is a winner of TEFI award in 2003 in nomination “The best host of the entertainment TV-show”. He is a two-time winner of the Golden Eagle Award: as the Best Actor in a movie ''Two Days'' by Avdotya Smirnova (2011) and as the Best Actor in the comedy ''Ghost'' produced by Alexander Voitinsky (2015). On 15 October 2012 he was appointed as chairman of Lenfilm's Board of directors. Early life Fyodor was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walking The Streets Of Moscow
''Walking the Streets of Moscow'' (''I Walk Around Moscow'', ) is a 1964 Soviet romantic comedy film directed by Georgiy Daneliya and produced by Mosfilm studios. It stars Nikita Mihalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Yevgeny Steblov and Galina Polskikh. The film also features four People's Artists of the USSR: Rolan Bykov, Vladimir Basov, Lev Durov, and Inna Churikova. The famous movie theme, performed by Mikhalkov, was written by the composer Andrey Petrov. The film, regarded as one of the most characteristic of the Khrushchev Thaw, premiered at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and won a prize for the work of cameraman Vadim Yusov, best known for his subsequent collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky. Plot summary The film opens at a Moscow airport in summer 1963. A young man, Volodya ( Aleksei Loktev), calls out to a young woman he sees singing to herself and dancing. :– Arriving or departing? :– Waiting for arrivals. :– Who is it? :– My husband. :– He's lucky to have someone to me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnia Ditkovskyte
Agnia (Agne) Olegovna Ditkovskyte (), after marriage — Chadova, born 11 May 1988, Vilnius, Lithuania) is a Russian actress of a Lithuanian origin.Агния Дитковските: Праздники Любви // popularperson.infoАлексей Чадов и Агния Дитковските поженились /ref> [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rossiya Hotel
The Rossiya Hotel () was a hotel in Moscow and was the List of largest hotels, largest hotel in the world from 1967 to 1980. Until its closure in 2006, it remained the second List of largest hotels in Europe, largest hotel in Europe, with 3,182 rooms. Throughout its existence, the hotel welcomed about ten million guests, including more than two million foreigners. Famous hotel guests included Mikhail Gorbachev, George H. W. Bush and Mike Tyson. History Background: destruction of Zaryadye The 1935 Soviet master plan of Moscow called for demolition of Zaryadye, the historic district of Moscow, clearing space for the ''Industry Building'' (Narkomtiazhprom) and its riverside ramps. This project did not materialize as planned. The first round of destruction (1936) cleared the blocks adjacent to Moscow Kremlin for the ramps of Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. This was followed by the destruction of most of Zaryadye in 1947, clearing the ground for the Seven Sisters (Moscow), skyscrap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastarbeiter
; ; both singular and plural) are foreign or migrant workers, particularly those who had moved to West Germany between 1955 and 1973, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker program (). As a result, guestworkers are generally considered temporary migrants because their residency in the country of immigration is not yet determined to be permanent. Other countries had similar programs: in the Netherlands and Belgium it was called the program; in Sweden, Denmark and Norway it was called (workforce-immigration); and in East Germany such workers were called . The term that was used during the Nazi era was (German for 'foreign worker'). However, the latter term had negative connotations, and was no longer used after World War II. The term is widely used in Russia (, ) to refer to foreign workers in the country from post-USSR or third-world countries. Historical background Following World War II there were severe labour shortages in continental northern Europe, and high une ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostap Bender
Ostap Bender () is a fictional confidence trick, con man and the central antiheroic protagonist in the novels ''The Twelve Chairs'' (1928) and ''The Little Golden Calf'' (1931) written by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf Ilf and Petrov, and Yevgeny Petrov (writer), Yevgeny Petrov. The novels belong to the picaresque novel genre, which was previously rare in Russian literature.Rubinsky, Shekshnya Bender is educated and has an analytical mind; is full of energy; in the case of a failure keeps his optimism and has an ability to reassess the situation; has an empathy towards his subordinates, opponents and "Confidence trick, marks"; has exceptional organizational skills, even when limited by scarce resources. While Bender is endowed with many traits of a Charismatic authority, charismatic leader, it was concluded that the major reason of his failures was lack of clear understanding of his own goals and needs, and short-term perspective. A serious drawback of Bender as a leader is his paternal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Power Skinhead
White power skinheads, also known as racist skinheads and neo-Nazi skinheads, are members of a neo-Nazi, music of white skin head white supremacist and antisemitic offshoot of the skinhead subculture. Many of them are affiliated with white nationalist organizations and some of them are members of prison gangs. The movement emerged in the United Kingdom between the late 1960s and the late 1970s, before spreading across Eurasia and North America in the 1980–1990s. Definition Skinheads The term "skinhead" comes from the shaven heads associated with members of this subculture. Michael German has argued that skinheads shave their heads to represent their separation from society. According to scholar Timothy S. Brown, the defining skinhead short haircut mostly emerged in reaction to the perceived shift in men's styles away from traditional masculinity, which was embodied by the "middle-class, peace-loving, long-haired student" of the hippie movement. Brown defines the skinh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tigran Keosayan
Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan (, ; born 4 January 1966) is a Russian film director, actor and television presenter. He is a winner of film festival prizes including TEFI, Kinotavr and 2001.Тигран Кеосаян. Биография и фильмография // russia.tv Described as a pro-Kremlin television presenter, the , and imposed sanctions on Keosa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hip Hop Music
Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music Music genre, genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African Americans, African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip-hop includes rapping often enough that the terms can be used synonymously. However, "hip-hop" more properly denotes an entire hip-hop culture, subculture. Other key markers of the genre are the disc jockey, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and hip hop production, instrumental tracks. Cultural interchange has always been central to the hip-hop genre. It simultaneously borrows from its social environment while commenting on it. The hip-hop genre and culture emerged from block parties in ethnic minority neighborhoods of New York City, particularly The Bronx, Bronx. DJs began expanding the instrumental Break (music), breaks of popular records when they noticed how excited it would make the crowds. The extend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Business Oligarch
A business oligarch is generally a business magnate who controls sufficient resources to influence national politics. A business leader can be considered an oligarch if some of the following conditions are satisfied: # uses monopolistic tactics to dominate an industry; # possesses sufficient political power to promote their own interests, often exacerbating income inequality and corruption, particularly through policies that benefit the elite at the expense of the majority. # controls multiple businesses, which intensively coordinate their activities. More generally, an oligarch () is a "member of an oligarchy; a person who is part of a small group holding power in a state". See also * Billionaire * Capitalist (other) * Chaebol * Gilded Age * Oligarchy * Plutocracy * Russian oligarchs * Tai-pan * Ukrainian oligarchs * ''Zaibatsu is a Japanese language, Japanese term referring to industrial and financial vertical integration, vertically integrated business congl ... [...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] |
Black Sea Fleet
The Black Sea Fleet () is the Naval fleet, fleet of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Mediterranean Sea. The Black Sea Fleet, along with other Russian ground and air forces on the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula, are subordinate to the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces. The fleet traces its history to its founding by Grigory Potemkin, Prince Potemkin on 13 May 1783 as part of the Imperial Russian Navy. The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR inherited the fleet in 1918; with the founding of the Soviet Union in 1922, it became part of the Soviet Navy. Following the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Black Sea Fleet was partitioned between the Russia, Russian Federation and Ukraine in 1997, with Russia receiving title to 82% of the vessels. The Black Sea Fleet has its official primary headquarters and facilities at the Sevastopol Naval Base, Crimea, which Annexation of Crimea by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
