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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] |
The Young Guard (film)
''The Young Guard'' (, Transliteration, translit. Molodaya Gvardiya) is a two-part 1948 cinema of the Soviet Union, Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov (film director), Sergei Gerasimov and based on The Young Guard (novel), the 1946 novel of the same title by Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev, Alexander Fadeyev. In 1949 a USSR State Prize, Stalin Prize for this film was awarded to Gerasimov, cinematographer Vladimir Rapoport, and the leading actors. The film was the highest grossing Soviet film of 1948, with approximately 48,600,000 tickets sold. Synopsis The film is set in July 1942 during The Great Patriotic War. Part of the Red Army leaves the mining town Krasnodon. After that, the city gets occupied by the German troops. Enemy machines destroy their path and members of the Komsomol group are forced to return home. In response to the atrocities of the invaders, the young Komsomol members, who are former students, create an underground Anti-fascism, anti-fascist Komsomol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerasimov Institute Of Cinematography
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, officially the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography (, meaning ''All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov''), a.k.a. VGIK, is a film school in Moscow, Russia. History The institute was founded in 1919 by the film director Vladimir Gardin as the Moscow Film School and is the first and oldest film school in the world. From 1934 to 1991 the film school was known as the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (). Film directors taught at the institute include Lev Kuleshov, Marlen Khutsiev, Aleksey Batalov, Sergei Eisenstein, Mikhail Romm and Vsevolod Pudovkin. Since 1986, the school has been named after the film director and actor Sergei Gerasimov (film director), Sergei Gerasimov. The founding of the institute was authorized by Lenin in 1919. Its work in the early years was hampered by a shortage of film stock. It has a history as one of the oldest film schools in existence; many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Askoldov
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Askoldov (; 17 June 1932 – 21 May 2018Richard Sandomir: ', The New York Times, June 6, 2018. Retrieved 2018-12-09.) was a Soviet Russian actor and film director. Life and career Upon graduation from Moscow Lomonosov University in 1955 and the Gorky Institute of World Literature in 1958, Askoldov worked as an administrator for the USSR Ministry of Culture and for Goskino’s Main Department of Feature Film Production, where he was the supervisor for the Gorky Studio for Children’s and Youth Films. Askoldov then studied film direction with Leonid Trauberg at the Supreme Courses for Screenwriters and Directors (VKSR), graduating in 1966. He directed his first film, ''Commissar'' (1967). The film was banned for more than 20 years. Its banning, caused by dissatisfaction by the authorities with his "party" direction, and his refusal to change certain aspects pertaining to characterisation in the film (which they requested), put an end to his career as a dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Gubenko
Nikolai Nikolaevich Gubenko (, ; 17 August 1941 – 16 August 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, film and theatre director, screenwriter, founder of the Community of Taganka Actors theatre. His movie ''Wounded Game'' was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. He was named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1985.Cinema: Encyclopedia Dictionary, main ed. Sergei Yutkevich (1987). — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, p. 108 Gubenko was also active in politics. He served as the last Ministry of Culture (Soviet Union), Minister of Culture of the USSR (1989–1991) and as the Russian State Duma deputy between 1995 and 2003. From 2005 on he acted as the Moscow City Duma deputy.Anna KisselgoffThe New Minister Of Soviet Culture Takes Truth as Taskarticle at The New York Times, 27 December 1989 Early life Nikolai Gubenko was born in the Odessa Catacombs during the Siege of Odessa (1941), Defence of Odessa, the youngest of five children. His parents divorced when he was three years old. He was raised by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Sergeyevich Konchalovsky (; né Mikhalkov; born 20 August 1937) is a Russian film and theatre director, screenwriter, and producer. His filmmaking career spans over 60 years in Cinema of the Soviet Union, Soviet, Cinema of the United States, Hollywood, and contemporary Cinema of Russia, Russian cinema. Early in his career, he was a screenwriting collaborator of Andrei Tarkovsky. His film credits include ''Uncle Vanya (1970 film), Uncle Vanya'' (1970), ''Siberiade'' (1979), ''House of Fools (film), House of Fools'' (2002), ''The Postman's White Nights'' (2014), ''Paradise (2016 film), Paradise'' (2016), and ''Dear Comrades!'' (2020). During the 1980's, he resided in the United States, where he directed films such as ''Maria's Lovers'' (1984), ''Runaway Train (film), Runaway Train'' (1985), ''Shy People'' (1987), and ''Tango & Cash'' (1989). He also directed the The Odyssey (TV miniseries), 1997 miniseries adaptation of the ancient Greek narrative ''The Odyssey''. His film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Diamond Arm
''The Diamond Arm'' ( ''Brilliantovaya ruka'') is a Soviet crime comedy film made by Mosfilm and first released in 1969. The film was directed by director Leonid Gaidai and starred several famous Soviet actors, including Yuri Nikulin, Andrei Mironov, Anatoli Papanov, Nonna Mordyukova and Svetlana Svetlichnaya. ''The Diamond Arm'' has become a Russian cult film and is considered by many Russian contemporaries to be one of the finest comedies of all time. It was also one of the all-time leaders at the Soviet box office with over 76,700,000 theatre admissions in the Soviet era. The plot of the film was based on a real-life news item about Swiss smugglers who tried to transport jewels in an orthopedic cast. Plot The boss of a black market ring (known only as "The Chief") wants to smuggle a batch of jewelry from a foreign state into the Soviet Union by hiding it inside the orthopedic cast of a courier. The Chief sends a minor henchman named Gennadiy 'Gesha' Kozodoyev (played by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Gaidai
Leonid Iovich Gaidai (30 January 192319 November 1993) was a Soviet comedy film director, screenwriter and actor who enjoyed immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former Soviet Union. His films broke theatre attendance records and were some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia. He has been described as "the king of Soviet comedy".Prokhorova, Elena, "The Man Who Made Them Laugh: Leonid Gaidai, the King of Soviet Comedy", in Beumers, Birgit (2008) ''A History of Russian Cinema'', Berg Publishers, , pp. 519–542 Early life and first success Gaidai was born on 30 January 1923 in Svobodny, Amur Oblast,Rollberg, Peter (2010) ''The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema'', The Scarecrow Press, Inc., , pp. 235–8 where he is commemorated by a statue. His father Iov Isidorovich Gaidai came from a Ukrainian family of Serfdom in Russia, serfs of the Poltava Governorate. At the age of 22 he was sentenced to several years of katorga for revolutionary activity and sent to the Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Kulidzhanov
Lev Aleksandrovich Kulidzhanov (19 March 192417 February 2002, also Lev Aleksandri Kulijanyan) was a Soviet and Armenian film director, screenwriter and professor at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He was the head of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR (19651986). People's Artist of the USSR (1976). He directed a total of twelve films between 1955 and 1994. Biography Born on 19 March 1924 (according to other sources including his tomb, on 19 August 1923) in Tiflis, Transcaucasian SFSR. His father Aleksandr Nikolayevich Kulidzhanov (originally Kulidzhanyan) was an Armenian revolutionary who served as a high-ranking Communist Party official. He was arrested during the Great Purge of 1937 and disappeared without a trace. Kulidzhanov's mother Yekaterina Dmitriyevna was either of Russian or of Armenian descent. She was arrested along with her husband and sentenced to five years in the Akmol labor camp in Kazakhstan. She returned home only in 1944. All those years Kul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Shvejtser
Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer (, 16 February 1920, Perm – 2 June 2000, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1990). Biography Mikhail Schweitzer graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in the directing class of the Sergei Eisenstein art workshop. He started to work at Mosfilm since 1943. Schweitzer was an assistant director of ''Man No 217'' film production in 1944. Mikhail Romm was a director of that film. When Schweitzer lost his job after his first movie '' Glorious Path'' which was filming in the ''contestation with a cosmopolitism'' period, he could be accepted to work at Sverdlovsk Film Studio only with Mikhail Romm's help. Filmography * '' Glorious Path'' (1949) * ''Other People's Relatives'' (1955) * '' Sasha Enters Life'' (1956) *''Resurrection'' (1960–1962) * '' Time, Forward!'' (1965) * '' The Golden Calf'' (1968) * ''Funny People'' (1974) * '' The Flight of Mr. McKinley'' (1976) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin ( rus, Всеволод Илларионович Пудовкин, p=ˈfsʲevələt ɪl(ː)ərʲɪˈonəvʲɪtɕ pʊˈdofkʲɪn; 28 February 1893 – 30 June 1953) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential theories of montage. Pudovkin's masterpieces are often contrasted with those of his contemporary Sergei Eisenstein; Eisenstein utilized montage to glorify the power of the masses, while Pudovkin preferred to concentrate on the courage and resilience of individuals. He was granted the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1948. Biography Vsevolod Pudovkin was born in Penza into a Russian family, the third of six children. His father Illarion Yepifanovich Pudovkin came from peasants of the Penza Governorate, the village of Shuksha and worked in several companies as a manager and a door-to-door salesman. Vsevolod's mother Yelizaveta Aleksandrovna Pudovkina (née Shilkina) was a housewife. A student of engi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
