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Life Is Beautiful (1979 Film)
''Life Is Beautiful'' ( it, La vita è bella, russian: Жизнь прекрасна, Zhizn prekrasna, also known as ''Betrayed'') is a 1979 Italian-Soviet romantic drama directed by Grigory Chukhray. Plot The action takes place in an unnamed country (in foreign versions of the film the country is Portugal during Salazar's reign), ruled by a military junta which violently suppresses any free thought. Antonio Murillo is a former military pilot who was dismissed from the army for refusing to sink a ship loaded with refugees. Now he drives a taxi and periodically becomes a witness to the despotism of the authorities. His girlfriend Mary, waitress, is a member of an underground movement fighting against the dictatorship. Antonio, for all his dislike of the junta is not interested in politics, his dream is to save money and to become a pilot again, and to own a private plane. But once he drives a man on his taxi, who turns out to be on the side of the opposition. This causes him to come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigory Chukhray
Grigory Naumovich Chukhray (russian: Григо́рий Нау́мович Чухра́й; uk, Григорiй Наумович Чухрай; 23 May 1921 – 28 October 2001) was a Ukrainian Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1981).Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary // main editor Sergei Yutkevich (1987). — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 640 pages He's the father of the Russian film director Pavel Chukhray. Early life Grigory Chukhray was born in Melitopol (modern-day Zaporizhzhia Oblast of Ukraine) to Red Army soldiers Naum Zinovievich Rubanov and Claudia Petrovna Chukhray. He was of Ukrainian origin.Grigori Chukrai, ''My Cinema''. Moscow, 2001, 98 p. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junta (governing Body)
Junta ( or ) is a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian () term for a civil deliberative or administrative council. In English, the term, even when used alone, generally refers to a "military junta", the government of an authoritarian state run by high-ranking officers of a military. In Italy, a ''giunta'' is the civil executive of regions (see Regions of Italy#Institutions) and of municipalities (''comune'', see Comune#Importance and function). In Spain, the term refers to various historical and current governing institutions of a particular territory or occasion. An earlier, different use of the word in English was the Whig Junto, a political faction in early 18th-century Britain. The term is not related to the Sanskrit word '' Janatā'' (also transliterated as ''Jantā'' and ''Juntā''), which refers to ''the public/people/masses''. Historical examples * Junta (Habsburg) * Specific to Spain: ** Name of some of the institutions of government of the autonomous communities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosfilm Films
Mosfilm (russian: Мосфильм, ''Mosfil’m'' ) is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output includes most of the more widely acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein, to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production '' Dersu Uzala'' () and the epic ''War and Peace'' (). History The Moscow film production company with studio facilities was established in November 1920 by the motion picture mogul Aleksandr Khanzhonkov ("first film factory") and I. Ermolev ("third film factory") as a unit of Goskino, the USSR's film monopoly. The first movie filmed by Mosfilm was ''On the Wings Skyward'' (directed by Boris Mikhin). In 1927, the construction of a new film studio complex began on Potylikha Street (renamed to Mosfilmovskaya Street in 1939) in Sparrow Hills of Moscow. This film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Romantic Drama Films
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Italian Romantic Drama Films
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1979 Films
The year 1979 in film involved many significant events. Highest-grossing films United States and Canada The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows: International Major events * March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, '' Take Down''. * March 5 – Production begins on '' The Empire Strikes Back''. * March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures. * May 25 – '' Alien'', a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released. * May 29 - Mary Pickford, a silent screen legend and Hollywood pioneer who was, at the height of her career, the most famous woman in the world, dies of a stroke. * May 31 – '' The Muppet Movie'', Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature-length motion pictures, is released in United Kingdom. * June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer. * June 29 – '' Moonraker'', t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Remizov
Mikhail Grigorievich Remizov (russian: Михаил Григорьевич Ремизов; 9 November 1948 – 17 September 2015) was a Russian stage and film actor. Biography In 1973 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School (Vasily Markov's course). A year earlier he starred in the television movie ''Big School-Break'', and it was his first role in the cinema. He served in the Russian Army Theatre, Youth Theatre Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk Drama Theater, the Moscow Literary and Drama Theatre of the WTO and the New Drama Theatre. Since 1996, he was the actor of the Stanislavsky Moscow Drama Theater. Death He died on the night of September 17, 2015 of a heart attack aged 66. He was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery. Selected filmography * ''Big School-Break'' (1972) * ''Seventeen Moments of Spring ''Seventeen Moments of Spring'' (russian: Семнадцать мгновений весны, Semnadtsat' mgnoveniy vesny) is a 1973 Soviet twelve-part television series, directe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Yasulovich
Igor Nikolayevich Yasulovich (russian: Игорь Николаевич Ясулович; born 24 September 1941) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, film director and pedagogue. Biography Yasulovich was born in the village of Reinsfeld (now Zalesye) in Koshkinsky District of Kuybyshev Oblast. In 1962 he graduated from the cast, and then, in 1974, Directing Department Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. From 1962 he became an actor of experimental theater-studio pantomime, in 1964-1994 — Theatre studio of film actor, 1994 — Moscow Youth Theater. He has played over 170 roles in cinema, his debut appearance being in '' En Route'' (1961), albeit uncredited. Honours and awards * Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988) * State Prize of the Russian Federation (2000) * People's Artist of Russia People's Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: Народный артист Российской Федерации, ''Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislav Chekan
Stanislav Yulianovich Chekan (russian: Станисла́в Юлиа́нович Чека́н; 2 June 1922, Rostov-on-Don — 11 August 1994, Moscow) was a Soviet actor of theater and cinema, known primarily for his blue-collar manly appearance, and character actor roles of a stereotypical "big guy." Biography Stanislav Chekan was born in Rostov-on-Don on 2 June 1922. When he was 15 years old, his father was arrested as an enemy of the people. Stanislav was sent to a labor colony, where he first began to participate in amateur activities. Then he was sent to a vocational school, but on the way he turned to Rostov, where he entered another school, a theater school. From 1938 to 1941 he studied at the studio of Yuri Zavadsky in the Theater School of Rostov-on-Don. Member of the Great Patriotic War, fought near Novorossiysk, after a serious injury — the actor of the front-line theater. In 1945 Stanislav Chekan became an actor of the Odessa Theater of the Soviet Army, then, in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeni Lebedev
Yevgeni Alekseyevich Lebedev ( rus, Евгeний Алeксeeвич Лeбeдeв, , ɪ̯ɪvˈɡʲenʲɪɪ̯ ɐlʲɪˈkseɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈlʲebʲɪdʲɪf; January 15, 1917, Balakovo – June 9, 1997, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1968). Hero of Socialist Labour (1987). Biography Yevgeni Lebedev was born in Balakovo (now — Saratov Oblast), in the family of a priest, and later was forced to hide his origin. Family Wife - Natela Tovstonogova (1926-2013), a sister of Georgy Tovstonogov. Son - Aleksey Lebedev (born 1952), a film director. Partial filmography *''Rimsky-Korsakov'' (1953) as Kashchey the Deathless in opera (uncredited) *''Unfinished Story'' (1955) as Fyodor Ivanovich *'' Two Captains'' (1956) as Romashov *'' Virgin Soil Upturned'' (1960) as Agafon Dubtsov *''Going Inside a Storm'' (1966) as Agatov *'' Wedding in Malinovka'' (1967) as Nechipor *''An Incident that no one noticed'' (1967) as Yakov Alexeye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Budraitis
Juozas Budraitis (born 6 October 1940) is a Lithuanian actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1966. He starred in the Soviet film ''Wounded Game'', which was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. Budraitis also played a minor role in the finale of the period drama miniseries '' The Queen's Gambit''. Biography Juozas Stanislavas Budraitis was born on 6 October 1940 in the village of Liepynai, Kelmė, Lithuania in a peasant family. In 1945, the family moved to Klaipėda, and in 1955 – to the small town of Švėkšna. In the years 1958-1960, Budraitis worked as a laborer at a training and production plant in Klaipėda. After serving in the army, he entered the law faculty of Vilnius University. During the third year of his studies, he was approved for one of the main roles in the Vytautas Žalakevičius film '' Nobody Wanted to Die'' which was released in 1966. Budraitis was already finishing his third year externally and afterwards trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Druzhnikov
Vladimir Vasilievich Druzhnikov (russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Дру́жников; 30 May 1922 – 20 February 1994) was a Soviet actor. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1945 and 1992. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1974) and the winner of two Stalin Prizes (1948, 1950). Partial filmography * ''Bez viny vinovatye'' (1945) - Grigoriy Neznamov * ''The Stone Flower'' (1946) - Danilo - master * ''The Great Glinka'' (1946) - Rileyev * ''Nashe serdtse'' (1947) - Sergey Kazakov * '' Ballad of Siberia'' (1948) - Andrei Nikolayevich Balashov * ''Konstantin Zaslonov'' (1949) - Konstantin Zaslonov * ''Zagovor obrechyonnykh'' (1950) - Mark Pino * '' Zhukovsky'' (1950) - Nesterov * ''The Miners of Donetsk'' (1951) - Trofimenko * ''Admiral Ushakov'' (1953) - Midshipman Vasilyev * ''Attack from the Sea'' (1953) - Capt. Vasilyev * ''Chest tovarishcha'' (1953) - mayor Sergey Bokunov * ''Opasnye tropy'' (1955) - Vasiliy Zholudev * ''The Grasshopper'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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