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Station For Two
''Station for Two'' () is a 1983 Soviet romantic comedy directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film became the List of Soviet films of the year by ticket sales, Soviet box office leader of 1983 with a total of 35.8 million ticket sales. It was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. Plot summary There are two main heroes in this movie: Vera, a waitress at a train station and Platon, a pianist. Platon is innocent of the crime he is accused of: he took the blame for his wife's driving over a pedestrian. On a leave from the Corrective labor colony, penal colony to see his wife he gets stuck at a provincial railway station where he meets Vera. After a series events they fall in love... As a result Platon is about to be late for his return, which is equated to an escape attempt... Platon's innocence is known to Platon's wife and Vera in whom he confided. However it turns out that Platon's life is of no interest to his wife, but Vera is ready to wait for his release. Ideas for the film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldar Ryazanov
Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (; 18 November 1927 – 30 November 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pact countries. Biography Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was born in Samara. His father, Aleksandr Semyonovich Ryazanov, was a diplomat who worked in Tehran. His mother, Sofya Mikhailovna (née Shusterman), was of Jewish descent. In 1930, the family moved to Moscow, and soon his parents divorced. He was then raised by his mother and her new husband, Lev Mikhailovich Kopp. In 1937 his father was arrested by the Stalinist government and subsequently served 18 years in the correctional labour camps. Ryazanov began to create films in the early 1950s. In 1955, Ivan Pyryev, then a major force in the Soviet film industry, suggested to him to begin work on his film Carnival Night. At fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amnesty
Amnesty () is defined as "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted." Though the term general pardon has a similar definition, an amnesty constitutes more than a pardon, in so much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense. Amnesty is increasingly used to express the idea of "freedom" and to refer to when prisoners can go free. Amnesties, which in the United Kingdom may be granted by the crown or by an act of Parliament, were formerly usual on coronations and similar occasions, but are chiefly exercised towards associations of political criminals, and are sometimes granted absolutely, though more frequently there are certain specified exceptions. Thus, in the case of the earliest recorded amnesty, that of Thrasybulus at Athens, the thirty tyrants and a few others were expressly e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Romantic Comedy Films
1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 6 – Pope John Paul II appoints a bishop over the Czechoslovak exile community, which the ''Rudé právo'' newspaper calls a "provocation." This begins a year-long disagreement between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Vatican, leading to the eventual restoration of diplomatic relations between the two states. * January 14 – The head of Bangladesh's military dictatorship, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, announces his intentions to "turn Bangladesh into an Islamic state." * January 18 – U.S. Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt makes controversial remarks blaming poor living conditions on Native American reservations on "the failures of socialism." Watt will eventually resign in September after a series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosfilm Films
Mosfilm (, ''Mosfil’m'' , initialism and portmanteau of Moscow Films) is a film studio in Moscow 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 Ostern, Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production ''Dersu Uzala (1975 film), Dersu Uzala'' () and ''War and Peace (film series), 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 (renam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1983 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1983 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film '' Let's Spend the Night Together'' opens in New York City. *May 25 - '' Return of the Jedi'', the final installment in the original '' Star Wars'' trilogy, is released. Like the previous films, it goes on to become the highest-grossing film of the year. * Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman makes her film debut in the Australian movie '' Bush Christmas''. *'' Brainstorm'', the final film of screen star Natalie Wood, is released, 2 years after her death. *October - Frank Price resigns as president of Columbia Pictures and is replaced by Guy McElwaine. *November 18 - '' A Christmas Story'' released to theaters to moderate success, earning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Budnitskaya
Alla Zinovievna Budnitskaya (; born 1937, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema. Biography Born July 5, 1937, in the family of the builder Zinovy Lazarevich Budnitsky. After graduating from secondary school in 1954, she attempted to enter the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and VGIK, but failed to pass the qualifying rounds at either university. From 1954 she studied at the Institute of Foreign Languages, which she did not finish, because in 1957 she managed to get in VGIK. She studied with Grigory Kozintsev and graduated in 1962. From 1964 to 2003 she was an actress of the National Film Actors' Theatre. In the cinema since 1960. TV presenter, the author of programs on TNT, NTV, and REN TV. Personal life He husband is Alexander Orlov, the film director. Foster daughter Daria Drozdovskaya, daughter of the tragically dead actress Mikaela Drozdovskaya (1937—1978). Selected filmography * 1955: '' A Guest from Kuban'' () as young collective farmer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislav Sadalsky
Stanislav Yurievich Sadalsky (; born 8 August 1951 in Chuvashia) is a Soviet and Russian actor. Selected filmography * ''The Twelve Chairs (1971 film), The Twelve Chairs'' (Двенадцать стульев, 1971) as ''Fireman in the theater "Columbus"'' * ''The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed'' (Место встречи изменить нельзя, 1979) as ''Kostya "Kirpich" Saprykin, pickpocket'' * ''Say a Word for the Poor Hussar'' (О бедном гусаре замолвите слово, 1981) as ''cornet Alexei Pletnev'' * ''Station for Two'' (Вокзал для двоих, 1982) as ''man with a carburetor'' * ''Torpedo Bombers'' (Торпедоносцы, 1983) as ''Dmitrienko'' * ''White Dew (film), White Dew'' (Белые Росы, 1983) as Mikhail Kisel * ''Confrontation (TV series), Confrontation'' (Противостояние, 1985) as ''Gennady Zipkin, taxi driver'' * ''The Lady with the parrot'' (Дама с попугаем, 1988) as ''Gennady Fedorov'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoli Skoryakin
Anatoli () is a town and a former municipality in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ioannina Ioannina ( ' ), often called Yannena ( ' ) within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina (regional unit), Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus (region), Epirus, an Modern regions of Greece, administrative region in northwester ..., of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 15.845 km2, the community 7.698 km2. The population (in 2021) was 12,119. References Populated places in Ioannina (regional unit) Ioannina {{Epirus-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Bortsov
Viktor Andreyevich Bortsov (; June 14, 1934 in Orenburg, USSR – May 20, 2008 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet/Russian theatrical and cinema actor. He was a People's Artist of RSFSR. Bortsov was best known as Savva Ignatyevich in the 1982 film The Pokrovsky Gate. He died at 73, after a long struggle with intestinal cancer. A civil funeral was held at the Maly Theatre, Moscow on May 23, 2008. He was buried in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow. Selected filmography * 1970 — Liberation () as General Grigory Oriol * 1978 — Aniskin Begins Again (И снова Анискин) as Sidorov, tractor driver * 1982 — Station for Two (Вокзал для двоих) as drunkard in a restaurant * 1982 — The Pokrovsky Gate (Покровские ворота) as Savva Ignatyevich * 1984 — Alone and Unarmed (Один и без оружия) as Dmitry Sergeyevich * 1986 — Ballad of an Old Gun (Баллада о старом оружии) as Gritsenko * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Volkova (actress)
Olga Vladimirovna Volkova (; born 15 April 1939 in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad) is a Russian theatre and film actress. She began her career at the Bryantsev Youth Theatre in Leningrad. She appeared in more than ninety films since 1968. Biography Olga Volkova was born in Leningrad (modern day - St. Petersburg), in a family of actors. In 1960 she graduated from the acting studio at the Leningrad Youth Theater (workshop of Leonid Makariev). In 1970-1976, a meeting took place at the Leningrad Comedy Theater, after which Olga moved to the Bolshoi Drama Theater, where she worked until 1996. Selected filmography Awards In 1993 Volkova received the People's Artist of Russia award. In 2002 won Golden Eagle Award (Russia), Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film ''The Tale of Fedot-Sagittarius'' (Baba Yaga). References External links * Soviet film actresses Soviet stage actresses Russian film actresses Russian stage actresses Russian television actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatyana Dogileva
Tatyana Anatoliyevna Dogileva (; born 27 February 1957) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, Meritorious Artist of Russia (1989), and People's Artist of Russia (2000). Biography Early life and education Dogileva was born on February 27, 1957, in Moscow, into a working-class family. She received her secondary education at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Moscow, where she combined her studies with rhythmic gymnastics and choreography. At age 14, she entered the Young Actor's Studio at the Central Television. In 1978, Dogileva graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute of Theatrical Art, where she studied under Vsevolod Ostalsky. Theatre Dogileva's stage career began with a successful performance in her thesis play ''Much Ado About Nothing'', where she played Beatrice. She was then invited to three theaters in Moscow, and she chose Lenin Komsomol Theater, where she worked until 1985. Among her best-known Lenkom parts was that of Nelly in ''Cruel Games'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Shirvindt
Aleksandr Anatolyevich Shirvindt (, 19 July 1934 – 15 March 2024) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, educator, screenwriter and voice actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989). In 2000, he became a theatre director of Moscow Satire Theatre. Biography Aleksandr Shirvindt was born in Moscow in a family of a violinist and music teacher Anatoly Gustavovich Shirvindt (1896–1962) and Raisa Samoilovna Shirvindt (1898–1985) of Moscow Philharmonic Society. Grandfather, Gustav (Gedaliah) Moiseyevich Shirvindt (a graduate of Vilnius 1st Gymnasium in 1881), was a doctor. In 1956 Shirvindt graduated from Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. The same year he made his cinema debut in '' She Loves You!'' (1956). In 1957, he became an actor at the Lenkom Theatre. He also appeared on stage as part of a comedy duo with Mikhail Derzhavin from 1957 to 2017. Shirvindt appeared in more than 40 films, including '' Grandads-Robbers'' (1971), ''The Irony of Fate'' (1976), ''The Twe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
