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The Big Ore
''The Big Ore'' () is a 1964 drama film directed by Vasily Ordynsky and based on the novel by Georgi Vladimov. Plot Victor Pronyakin (Eugene Urbansky), returned from the army to his fiancée (Svetlana Zhgun), but realizing she hadn't been faithful, he left abruptly and met another woman at a station buffet. After working for some time in Crimea, Victor decided to go work at the "big" Kursk ore mine, where work was in full swing — everyone awaited the first shipment of ore. Foreman (Vsevolod Sanaev) gave him a battered MAZ truck, but determined Victor restored the vehicle. Rain started, making it dangerous to haul loaded trucks from the quarry. However, Victor persisted, alienating the brigade against himself. Finally, he was transporting the first load of the "big ore," but the truck overturned on an incline. Victor died during the operation. His wife, Tamara, went to see him and saw the first train with the ore and people rejoicing, unaware that he was no longer alive. Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeni Urbansky
Yevgeni Yakovlevich Urbansky (; born February 27, 1932, in Moscow – November 5, 1965, Bukhara Region) was a prominent Soviet Russian actor. The creative life of Yevgeni Urbansky was short but very bright. A whole cinema epoch with peculiar aesthetics was created by him in the films '' The Communist'' (1958), ''Ballad of a Soldier'' (1959), and '' Clear Skies'' (1961). At the age of thirty-three, the actor died in an accident while performing a stunt during filming.''Ирина Бутыльская.'Он сыграл своего отца// «Новая газета», № 59 (2007-05-08) Selected filmography * '' The Communist'' (1957) * ''Ballad of a Soldier'' (1959) * '' Letter Never Sent'' (1960) * ''Probation'' (1960) * '' Clear Skies'' (1961) * ''The Boy and the Dove'' (1961) * ''The Big Ore ''The Big Ore'' () is a 1964 drama film directed by Vasily Ordynsky and based on the novel by Georgi Vladimov. Plot Victor Pronyakin (Eugene Urbansky), returned from the army to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgiy Zhzhonov
Georgiy Stepanovich Zhzhonov (, ; 22 March 1915 – 8 December 2005), was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and writer. He is known for playing the spy Mikhail Tulyev in the "Resident" quartet of films, '' Beware of the Car'' (1966), '' The Hot Snow'' (1973), and many others, and was a popular actor. He was appointed People's Artist of the USSR in 1980. Early life and education Zhzhonov's parents grew up in a peasant family from the Tver Region. His mother was his father's second wife, and there were five children in this family. They moved to the city and his father opened his own bakery, but never became wealthy. Zhzhonov was born on 22 March 1915, and, like many of his peers, finished school in grade seven. He then studied acrobatics at the Leningrad College of Circus and Estrada Arts, and started to give performances with a friend. There he was spotted by film director Eduard Ioganson in 1932, and asked him to play the part a tractor driver in the film ''Hero's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Russian-language Films
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 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 * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to war-r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Black-and-white Films
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Drama Films
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motors, Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day (Panama), Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 22 – Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the first Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesi ... [...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] |
Russian-language Drama Films
Russian is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is the native language of the Russians. It was the ''de facto'' and ''de jure'' official language of the former Soviet Union. Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 Russian has remained an official language of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and is still commonly used as a lingua franca in Ukraine, Moldova, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to a lesser extent in the Baltic states and Israel. Russian has over 253 million total speakers worldwide. It is the most spoken native language in Europe, the most spoken Slavic language, as well as the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia. It is the world's seventh-most spoken language by number of native speakers, and the world's ninth-most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Drama Films
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow. The Soviet Union's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917. The new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the Russian SFSR, the world's first constitutionally communist state. The revolution was not accepted by all wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Films
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, including three highly successful musical films, ''Mary Poppins,'' ''My Fair Lady,'' and '' The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'' Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1964 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 29 – 50-year-old actor Alan Ladd is found dead in bed at his home in Palm Springs, California. An autopsy confirms the cause of death as cerebral edema caused by an acute overdose of "alcohol and three other drugs" His death is ruled accidental. Ladd's final film, '' The Carpetbaggers'', is released in April and, despite mostly negative reviews from critics, becomes a major commercial success. * March 6 – Elvis Presley's 14th motion picture, '' Kissin' Cousins'', is released to theaters. * March 15 - Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton. * June 3 – The animated film '' Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!'' is released. Not only it is the first theatrical feature produced by H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Communist (film)
The Communist () is a 1957 Soviet historical romance film directed by Yuli Raizman. ''The Communist'' is one of the classic films of Soviet cinema. Praised for its realism and noted for its tinges of propaganda, the story is a vivid portrayal of a young man dedicated to communist ideals who struggles to complete a power plant despite supply shortages, a burgeoning revolution, and war profiteers. The film was innovative for its time; director Yuli Raizman managed to create an unflinching, complex image of the everyday struggles and triumphs of early communism. Story In 1919, the Russian Revolution is transitioning into the Russian Civil War. A demobilized Red Army soldier, Vasily Gubanov, travels to a small town to help with the construction of a power plant. The town, Zagory, is in the midst of a housing shortage and Gubanov is only able to obtain a spot on the dining room floor of a local peasant, Fyodor, and his wife, Anyuta. Gubanov offers to pay in rubles, but due to hyperin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Kristalinskaya
Maya Vladimirovna Kristalinskaya (; 24 February 1932, Moscow – 19 June 1985, Moscow) was a Soviet-Russian singer. In 1957 she performed at the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow with an amateur ensemble under the direction of Yury Saulsky and was awarded a Laureate prize. Later she started performing independently. Wide popularity came to her starting in the early 1960s when she recorded the song "Dva Berega" ("We are Two Banks of the Same River") from the 1959 movie ''Thirst (1959 film), Thirst''. The vinyl recording of the song sold 7 million copies. Maya Kristalinskaya toured the country a lot, worked with the jazz orchestras of Eddie Rosner and Oleg Lundstrom, with the ensemble of Evgeny Rokhlin. In 1963, she performed "" on popular show "Little Blue Light". Kristalinskaya was the original performer of the song "Nezhnost'" (1966) which is considered the epitome of her singing talent. In 1966, Maya Kristalinskaya was recognized as the best pop singer of the ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentin Nikulin
Valentin Yuryevich Nikulin (; 7 July 1932, Moscow — 6 August 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet, Russian and Israeli theater and film actor. Nikulin was born in the family of the playwright Yuri Nikulin (1907-1958) and pianist Eugeniya Brooke (1909-1982); nephew of the writer Lev Nikulin and actors Konstantin Shayne and Tamara Shayne, and a grandson of impresario Veniamin Nikulin. Nikulin graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in law in 1957 and from the School-Studio at the Moscow Art Theatre (1956–60). From 1960-90, and from 1999 until his death, he was an actor at the Sovremennik Theatre. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than hundred roles. Filmography * '' Nine Days in One Year'' (, 1962) as young physicist * '' The Road to Berth'' (Путь к причалу, 1962) as Marat Lepin * '' The Big Ore'' (Большая руда, 1964) as Vladimir * ''Adventures of a Dentist'' (Похождения зубногo врача, 1965) as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
