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Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
''Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'' () is a 1980 Soviet romantic drama film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Vera Alentova and Aleksey Batalov. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981. Plot Part One In 1958, three young women, Katerina, Lyudmila, and Antonina, live in Moscow in a workers' dormitory, having arrived from province. Katerina, serious and hardworking, works in a factory while studying at night to get admitted to a college. Antonina, a construction worker, dates her fellow co-worker Nikolay, a reserved but kind young man. Lyudmila, dynamic and vivacious, works in a bakery, but spends time in a university library in a search for the opportunity to marry up. When asked to house-sit for her well-to-do Moscow relatives, Lyudmila, flirty and impetuous, invites herself along and convinces Katerina to throw a dinner party as a ploy to meet successful men. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Menshov
Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov (; 17 September 1939 – 5 July 2021)Умер Владимир Меньшов Tass.ru. 5 July 2021 was a and Russian and . He was noted for depicting the Russian and |
Yuri Vasilyev
Yury Nikolayevich Vasilyev (; October 12, 1939 — June 4, 1999) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He is best known for film roles in '' The Journalist'' (1967) and ''Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'' (1980). He was considered a sex symbol of Soviet cinema. at the kino-teatr.ru Selected filmography * Washington's Story (1960) as Buddy Brooks * The Journalist (1967) as Yuri Aliabiev * |
Leonid Kharitonov (actor)
Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov (; 1930–1987) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian actor. He played in the films ''Private Ivan'', ''Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm'' and ''Street Full of Surprises''. Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1972). Life He was born in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad on 19 May 1930, and died in Moscow on 20 June 1987, aged 57. Career Training In early life he was ambivalent about an acting career. Although he took part in amateur productions, and in the ninth grade applied to theatre school, he nevertheless chose to study law for a year at university, while continuing theatrical performance in his spare time. "In the play ''The Inspector'', he rocked the entire city of Leningrad; he played Bobchinsky and it was after this role that he again seriously considered an acting career." That summer, the Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow Art School toured in Leningrad and offered audit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgi Yumatov
Georgi Aleksandrovich Yumatov ( rus, Гeopгий Алeксандpoвич Юматов, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj jʊˈmatəf; 11 March 1926 – 6 October 1997) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in 72 films between 1946 and 1994. He was a People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1982). Biography Yumatov was born on 11 March 1926 in Moscow into a Russian family. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War. During 1941—1942 he studied at the Naval School. In 1942 he was enrolled as a cabin boy on the torpedo boat "The Brave", and a year later he became its helmsman. He participated in the siege of Budapest. He distinguished himself in the battle for Vienna in the assault on the bridge. During this battle he was awarded the Medal of Ushakov. He was wounded several times and also shell-shocked. After the war he returned to Moscow and was noticed by Grigori Aleksandrov in a cafe. He invited Yumatov for a small part in his upcoming comedy ''Spring'' (1947).Elizaveta MaetnayaFatal Muse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (; born ''Smoktunovich'', 28 March 19253 August 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990. Early life Smoktunovsky was born in a Siberian village in a peasant family of Belarusians, Belarusian ethnicity. It was once rumored that he came from a Polish family, even nobility, but the actor himself denied these theories by stating his family was Belarusian and not of nobility. He served in the Red Army during World War II and fought in the battles Battle of Kursk, of Kursk, Battle of the Dnieper, the Dnieper and Battle of Kiev (1943), Kiev. In 1946, he joined a theatre in Krasnoyarsk, later moving to Moscow. In 1957, he was invited by Georgy Tovstonogov to join the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, Bolshoi Drama Theatre of Saint Petersburg, Leningrad, where he stunned the public with his dramatic interpretation of Prince Myshkin in Fyodor Dostoev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Voznesensky
Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky (, 12 May 1933 – 1 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one of the "Children of the '60s," a new wave of iconic Russian intellectuals led by the Khrushchev Thaw. Voznesensky was considered "one of the most daring writers of the Soviet era" but his style often led to regular criticism from his contemporaries and he was once threatened with expulsion by Nikita Khrushchev. He performed poetry readings in front of sold-out stadiums around the world, and was much admired for his skilled delivery. Some of his poetry was translated into English by W. H. Auden. Voznesensky's long-serving mentor and muse was Boris Pasternak, the Nobel Laureate and the author of '' Doctor Zhivago''. Before his death, he was both critically and popularly proclaimed "a living classic", and "an icon of Soviet intellectuals". Personal life Voznesensky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameo Appearance
A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly either appearances in a work in which they hold some special significance (such as actors from an original movie appearing in its remake) or renowned people making uncredited appearances. Short appearances by celebrities, film directors, politicians, athletes or musicians are common. A crew member of the movie or show playing a minor role can be referred to as a cameo role as well, such as director Alfred Hitchcock who made frequent cameo appearances in his films. Concept Originally, in the 1920s, a "cameo role" meant "a small character part that stands out from the other minor parts". The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' connects this with the meaning "a short literary sketch or portrait", which is based on the lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garri Bardin
Garri Yakovlevich Bardin (; born September 11, 1941) is a Soviet and Russian animation director, screenwriter, producer and actor best known for his experimental musical and stop motion films.''Sergei Kapkov (2006)''. Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, pp. 92-94 He was awarded the 1988 Short Film Palme d'Or for the ''Fioritures'' cartoon and the Order of Honour in 2011. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Basov
Vladimir Pavlovich Basov (28 July 192317 September 1987) was a Soviet Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1983. Biography Vladimir Basov was born in the Urazovo village, Voronezh Governorate (now Belgorod Oblast) to Pavel Basov (Basultainen) and Aleksandra Basova.Bodanova L. I., ''Vladimir Basov. In Direction, in Life and Love.'' Moscow, 2014. p. 3-8 His father was a University of Tartu, Tartu alumnus of Finnish ethnicity who joined Bolsheviks during the October Revolution, revolution. "Basov" was his party alias later adopted as a family name. He served as an officer and political commissar up until his death in 1931. Vladimir's mother Aleksandra Ivanovna was a daughter of a Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox priest from Engels, Saratov Oblast, Pokrovsk. She met Pavel during the Russian Civil War, Civil War; he was a runaway and asked for shelter. During the 1920s she taught peasant children Russian language and li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Tabakov
Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (; 17 August 1935 – 12 March 2018) was a Soviet and Russian actor and the Artistic Director of the Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre. People's Artist of the USSR (1988). Biography Tabakov was born in Saratov into a family of doctors. His paternal great-grandfather, Ivan Ivanovich Utin, came from serfdom, serfs and was raised in a wealthy peasant family under the Tabakov surname. His grandfather, Kondratiy Tabakov, worked as a locksmith in Saratov where he built himself a house and married a local commoner Anna Konstantinovna Matveeva. Oleg's father, Pavel Kondratievich Tabakov, worked at the :ru:Российский НИПЧИ «Микроб» Роспотребнадзора, State Regional Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology "Microbe" in Saratov. His maternal grandfather, Andrei Frantzevich Piontkovsky, was a szlachta, Polish nobleman who owned lands in the Podolia Governorate and married a local villager, Olga Terentievna (surname unknown) of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalya Vavilova
Natalya Dmitrievna Vavilova (, born 26 January 1959) is a Russian film actress. Biography Natalya Vavilova started her career as an actress at the age of fourteen. She appeared in several pictures in supporting roles. In 1984, Natalya Vavilova graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, studying under Yevgeny Matveyev, an acclaimed Russian actor and director. Her classmate was Alim Kouliev. Success and fame followed her role of Aleksandra Tikhomirova in the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film picture ''Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears''. While being filmed for the picture ''Nikolai Podvoisky'', she fell from a horse and suffered a spinal trauma. Her last film was ''The Sukhovo-Kobylin Case''. After she accomplished that work, Natalya Vavilova stopped pursuing her acting career. Since that time she has avoided all contacts with the press. She lived with her husband, Russian film director Samvel Gasparov, in a house twelve kilometers from Moscow. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
