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Poor Sasha
''Poor Sasha'' (russian: Бедная Саша, Bednaya Sasha) is a 1997 Russian adventure film directed by Tigran Keosayan. Plot A touching New Year's fairy tale about those who, despite money and status, lack love and warmth. Moscow, late 1990s. Beryozkin, an honest, but unlucky bank robber is granted temporarily leave from prison after rescuing a general who's locked himself in a vault. He is given money by the prison warden and one of the mob bosses for gifts, but the money gets stolen by a pickpocket, and Beryozkin realizes that his best option is to commit suicide in order to avoid an otherwise gruesome death. He is saved by a tramp named Aristarchus, who offers him a solution: to rob the home of a banker. Little do they know that the banker's home is booby-trapped by her twelve-year-old daughter Sasha. The unfortunate Beryozkin gets captured. However, instead of calling the police, Sasha blackmails Beryozkin into helping her rob her own mother, because she wants her mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tigran Keosayan
Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan ( hy, Տիգրան էդմոնդի Քեոսայան, russian: Тигран Эдмондович Кеосаян; born January 4, 1966) is a Russian film director, actor and television presenter of Armenian origin. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan (russian: Армен Борисович Джигарханян; hy, Արմեն Բորիսի Ջիգարխանյան, Armen Borisi Jigarkhanyan; ; 3 October 1935 – 14 November 2020) was a Soviet, Armenian, and Russian actor. Born and raised in Yerevan, Dzhigarkhanyan started acting in the academic and Russian theaters of the city, before moving to Moscow to continue stage acting. Since 1960, he appeared in a number of Armenian films. He became popular in the 1970s with the various roles he portrayed in Soviet films like '' The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers'' (1968), its sequel '' The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers'' (1971) and '' The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed'' (1979). After almost 30 years on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theatre, Dzhigarkhanyan taught at VGIK and in 1996 he founded his own drama theater in Moscow. With more than 250 appearances, Dzhigarkhanyan, one of the most renowned film and stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set Around New Year
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990s Adventure Films
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TEFI
TEFI (russian: ТЭФИ) is an annual award given in the Russian television industry, presented by the Russian Academy of Television. It has been awarded since 1994. TEFI is presented in various sectors (up to 50 nominations in 2008), such as television shows, notable people in the television industry, journalists, channels. The winners are awarded the Orpheus statuette created by Ernst Neizvestny. It can be considered the Russian analogue of the Emmy Awards. Recipients ; News programs * Vremya ( Channel One) — 2002, 2006, 2007 * Vesti ( Russia TV) — 1995, 2001 * Segodnia ( NTV) — 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004 * Vesti with Sergey Brilyov ( Rossiya 1) — 2006 * Nedelia s Mariannoy Maximovskoy (REN TV) — 2008, 2009, 2010 * News 24 with Mikhail Osokin (REN TV) — 2010 * Culture News (Kultura) — 2003 ; Game shows * Umniki i umnitsy (Channel One) — 1996, 2001 * What? Where? When? (Channel One) — 1997, 2001 * Zov Djungley ( Channel One) — 1999 * O, shastlivchik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinotavr
Kinotavr (russian: Кинотавр), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival is an open film festival held in the resort town, resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.Official website retrieved on 2018-05-14. Alexander Rodnyansky said: "This year the festival will not take place, it will be rescheduled for a period when we survive the current political events and can return to the cinema, including to understand what happened to the country and to all of us." From 1994 to 2005 the festival consisted of two parts: the Open Russian Film Festival (ORFF) and the International Film Festival (IFF). As of 2008 it was the largest national film festival in Russia. There is a second film festival, known as Sochi Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Martirosyan (actor)
Georgy Khachaturovich Martirosyan (russian: Гео́ргий Хачату́рович Мартиросьян; January 31, 1948, Rostov-on-Don) is a Soviet and Russian film, stage and voice actor, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2004). at the kino-teatr.ru Selected filmography * (1975) as Tikhon * (1978) as cardinal's guardsman * There Was a Piano-Tuner... ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Madyanov
Roman Sergeevich Madyanov (russian: Рома́н Серге́евич Мадя́нов; born July 22, 1962) is a Soviet and Russian actor. Madyanov's career in cinema began as a child actor when he starred as Huckleberry Finn in '' Hopelessly Lost'' (1973). He is best known in the West for portraying the corrupt mayor Vadim in the 2014 film '' Leviathan''. Biography Roman Madyanov was born on July 22, 1962 in the city of Dedovsk, Moscow Region. His father, Sergei Veniaminovich Madyanov, worked as a television editor, and mother Antonina Mikhailovna as a librarian. Roman Madyanov's father worked as a director on television and often took Roman and his elder brother Vadim to work. There he was noticed by assistants of directors which led him to have his cinematic debut in 1971 in an episodic role in the film "Translation from English". In 1973, starred in the leading role of Huckleberry Finn in the picture by Georgiy Daneliya '' Hopelessly Lost''. In his school years Roman Mady ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Ruslanova
Nina Ivanovna Ruslanova (russian: Нина Ивановна Русланова; 5 December 1945 – 21 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She was honored as a People's Artist of Russia (1998).Награждена указом президента России № 80 от 26 января 1998 года Early life Ruslanova was orphaned at two months old in late winter 1945 in Bohodukhiv. Her surname (after ) comes from the orphanages in the |
Aleksandr Zbruyev
Aleksandr Viktorovich Zbruyev (russian: Александр Викторович Збруев; born 31 March 1938, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is Soviet and Russian theatrical and cinema actor. Selected filmography * ''My Younger Brother'' (1962) as Dimka Denisov * ''A Span of Earth'' (1964) as Aleksandr Motovilov * ''Clean Ponds'' (1965) as Sergei * ''Big School-Break'' (1972) as Grigoriy Ganzha * '' A Lover's Romance'' (1974) as Igor Volgin * ''Melodies of a White Night'' (1976) as Fyodor * ''The House That Swift Built'' (1982) as Relb, Lilliputian * ''Guard Me, My Talisman'' (1986) as Mitya * '' Tracker'' (1987) as Yakov Pyatkin * '' To Kill a Dragon'' (1988) as Friedrichsen * ''Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, Red Rose Is an Emblem of Love'' (1989) as Ilya * '' The Inner Circle'' (1991) as Stalin * ''You Are My Only Love'' (1993) as Timoshin * '' Maestro Thief'' (1994) as Vladimir Beletsky * ''Everything Will Be Fine!'' (1995) as Konstantin Smirnov * '' Poor Sasha'' (1997) as Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spartak Mishulin
Spartak Vasilyevich Mishulin (russian: Спартак Васильевич Мишулин; Moscow, October 22, 1926 – Moscow, July 17, 2005) was a Soviet actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR. He was best known for his roles as Sayid in ''White Sun of the Desert'' (1969) and the title character in the Soviet stage adaptation of the Swedish children's book series Karlsson-on-the-Roof (1971) at Moscow's famed Satire Theatre. Biography Spartak Mishulin was born on October 22 in 1926 in Moscow. His mother, Anna Vasilievna Mishulina, was deputy to the People's Commissar of Industry and was a member of the party nomenklatura. The name Spartak was given at the insistence of his maternal uncle, a well-known historian, Professor Alexander Vasilyevich Mishulin, who specialized in the War of Spartacus. The Mishulins' family lived in the center of Moscow on Nastasinsky Lane. Spartak from an early age was fascinated by the theater and dreamed of becoming an actor. In 1937, Anna Mishulina w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Garkalin
Valery Borisovich Garkalin (russian: Вале́рий Бори́сович Гарка́лин; 11 April 1954 – 20 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He was awarded the People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 2008. Garkalin was also a professor of GITIS. Personal life He was married to Yekaterina from 1978 until her death in 2009. His daughter Nika is active in theatrical production. His son-in-law is an actor of the Theatre of Nations Pavel Akimkin. Garkalin became a grandfather in 2012 when his daughter gave birth to a son named Timofey. Garkalin was hospitalized with COVID-19 in Kommunarka on 2 October 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. He died from complications of COVID-19 on 20 November 2021. Selected filmography * ''Katala'' (1989) as Aleksei Grekov * ''Tsar Ivan the Terrible'' (1991) as Vaska Gryaznoy * ''Russian Symphony'' (1994) as Borisych * ''What a Mess!'' (1995) as Vasily Krolikov, Innokentiy Shniperson, Roman Almazo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
