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Turning (2002 Film)
''Turning'' () is a 2002 Russian drama film directed by Valery Fokin. The film is an adaptation of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. The film tells about an exemplary family man who had a nightmare, after which he turned into a disgusting insect. Plot Set in early 20th-century Prague, the film follows Gregor Samsa, who has been supporting his family and paying off his father's debts for years. One morning, Gregor wakes to find himself transformed into a large, grotesque insect with a hard shell and twitching legs. His transformation horrifies his parents and sister, as he is no longer able to work and financially support them. Revolted by his appearance, his family, focused only on material concerns, grows increasingly disdainful of him. They isolate Gregor in his room, which gradually becomes a storage space for unwanted items. Treated like an animal, Gregor still thinks, feels, and understands as before, retaining his humanity more fully than the family members who reject him. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Fokin
Valery Vladimirovich Fokin (russian: Валерий Владимирович Фокин; born 28 February 1946) is a Soviet and Russian theatrical and film director, actor and pedagogue. He is the Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and the President of The Meyerhold Centre in Moscow. Fokin is decorated with four honorary Russian state awards. Biography Fokin was born in Moscow in 1946. After graduating from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in 1968, where he staged his first performance, Fokin began directing at Moscow's Sovremennik Theatre where he worked for 15 years. During the 1970s and 1980s, Fokin made a name for himself in the Russian theatrical world by directing plays at this theatre and the Yermolova Theatre. In 1971, he directed '' Valentin and Valentina'', a play written the same year by Mikhail Roshchin. In 1973, he directed the plays '' An Incident with a Paginator'' and ''Twenty Minutes with an Angel'' at Sovremennik. Fokin also wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalya Shvets
Natalya (russian: Наталья) is the Russian form of the female given name Natalia. The name Natasha (russian: link=no, Наташа), being originally a diminutive form of Natalya, became an independent name outside the Russian-speaking states since the late 1800s. People with the given name Natalya * Natalya Akhrimenko (born 1955), Russian shot putter * Natalya Donchenko (1932–2022), Soviet speed skater * Natalya Estemirova (1958–2009), Russian human rights activist * Natalya German (born 1963), Soviet sprint athlete * Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936–2013), Russian poet, translator and civil rights activist *Natalya Marchenkova (born 1948), Ukrainian animator and animation director. * Natalya Kushch-Mazuryk, née Kushch (born 1983), Ukrainian pole vaulter * Natalya Melik Melikyan (1906–1989), Armenian scientist * Natalya Meshcheryakova (born 1972), Russian freestyle swimmer * Natalya Neidhart (born 1982), Canadian professional wrestler * Natalya Pasichnyk (born 1971 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Drama Films
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries * Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity *Russophone, Russian-speaking person (, ''russkogovoryashchy'', ''russkoyazychny'') * Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *Russian alphabet * Russian cuisine *Russian culture * Russian studies Russian may also refer to: * Russian dressing *''The Russians'', a book by Hedrick Smith * Russian (comics), fictional Marvel Comics supervillain from ''The Punisher'' series * Russian (solitaire), a card game * "Russians" (song), from the album ''The Dream of the Blue Turtles'' by Sting *"Russian", from the album ''Tubular Bells 2003'' by Mike Oldfield *"Russian", from the album '' '' by Caravan Palace * Nik Russian, the perpetrator of a con committed in 2002 *The South African na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Russian-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Films
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 2002 by worldwide gross are as follows: 2002 was the first year to see three films cross the eight-hundred-million-dollar milestone, surpassing the previous year's record of two eight-hundred-million-dollar films. It also surpasses the previous years record of having the most ticket sales in a single year (fueled by the success of various sequels and the first Spider-Man movie). Events * March 1 — Paramount Pictures reveals a new-on screen logo that was used until December 2011 to celebrate its 90th anniversary. * May – '' The Pianist'' directed by Roman Polanski wins the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival. * May 3–5 – '' Spider-Man'' is the first film to make $100+ million during its opening weekend in the US unadjusted to inflation. * May 16 – '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' opens in theaters. Although a huge success, it was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidiya Maslova
Lidiya is a feminine given name. People *Lidiya Alfeyeva (born 1946), a Soviet long jumper *Lidiya Belozyorova (1945–2022), Ukrainian actresses *Lidiya Ginzburg (1902–1990), a major Soviet literary critic and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad *Lidiya Grigoryeva (born 1974), a Russian long-distance runner from the Chuvashia region *Lidiya Krylova (born 1951), a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics * Lidiya Masterkova (1927–2008), a Russian-born French painter, non-conformist artist in USSR * Lidiya Khudat Rasulova, (1941–2012), Azerbaijani politician *Lidiya Skoblikova (born 1939), the most successful Olympic speed skater in terms of Olympic gold medals *Lidiya Sukharevskaya (1909–1991), a Soviet stage actress and playwright renowned for her work with Nikolay Akimov and Andrey Goncharov *Lidiya Shulaykina (1915–1995), Russian attack pilot during the Second World War *Lidiya Vertinskaya (1923–2013), Soviet/Russian actr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmila Polyakova
Lyudmila Petrovna Polyakova (russian: Людми́ла Петро́вна Поляко́ва; born January 28, 1939, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actress; she is a People's Artist of Russia (1999). Biography She graduated in 1964 from the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (course of Viktor Korshunov). In the movie it is removed since 1967. Since 1990, she has been an actress of Maly Theatre (Moscow). Awards * Order For Merit to the Fatherland (2010) * Order of Friendship (2006) * People's Artist of Russia (1999) * Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1994) * State Prize of the Russian Federation (2003) Selected filmography * ''Beginning of the Unknown Century'' (1967) as Pregnant peasant woman * ''Agony'' (1974) as Paraskeva, Rasputin's wife * '' The Ascent'' as (1977) as Demchikha * ''An Almost Funny Story'' (1977) as a client at the hairdresser * ''Farewell'' (1983) as Darya's friend *''Humiliated and Insulted'' (1991) as Anna Ikhmeneva * '' Bimmer'' (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Timtsunik
Leonid (russian: Леонид ; uk, Леонід ; be, Леанід, Ljeaníd ) is a Slavic version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Leonide. People with the name include: *Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919), Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature *Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982), leader of the USSR from 1964 to 1982 *Leonid Buryak (b. 1953), USSR/Ukraine-born Olympic-medal-winning soccer player and coach *Leonid Bykov (1928–1979), Soviet and Ukrainian actor, film director, and script writer *Leonid Desyatnikov (b. 1955), Soviet and Russian opera and film composer *Leonid Feodorov (1879–1935), a bishop and Exarch for the Russian Catholic Church, and survivor of the Gulag *Leonid Filatov (1946–2003), Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, and pamphleteer *Leonid Gaidai, (1923–1993), Soviet comedy film director *Leonid Geishtor (b. 1936), USSR (Belarus)-born Olympic champion Canadian pairs sprin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avangard Leontiev
Avangard Nikolaevich Leontiev (russian: Аванга́рд Никола́евич Лео́нтьев; born February 27, 1947, in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, teacher, professor. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1995). Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995). Selected filmography * Train Stop – Two Minutes (1972) as viewer * Little Tragedies (1979) as Solomon * A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov (1980) as Alexeyev * Alone and Unarmed (1984) as photographer * The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984) as narrator * Dark Eyes (1987) as official in St. Petersburg * The Parrot Speaking Yiddish (1990) as Zaremba * Burnt by the Sun (1994) as Chauffeur * The Barber of Siberia (1998) as Andrei's uncle * Silver Lily of the Valley (2000) as episode * Yesenin (2005) as Anatoly Lunacharsky * Adjutants of Love (2005) as Paul I of Russia * Sunstroke (2014) as prestidigitator * The Age of Pioneers (2017) as Yuri Levitan * Van Goghs ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of social alienation, alienation, existential anxiety, guilt (emotion), guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels ''The Trial'' and ''The Castle (novel), The Castle''. The term '':en:wikt:Kafkaesque, Kafkaesque'' has entered English to describe absurd situations, like those depicted in his writing. Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking History of the Jews in the Czech lands, Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Metamorphosis
''Metamorphosis'' (german: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, ''Metamorphosis'' tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (german: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, with differing interpretations being offered. In popular culture and adaptations of the novella, the insect is commonly depicted as a cockroach. Plot Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin". He initially considers the transformation to be temporary and slowly ponders the consequences of this metamorphosis. Stuck on his back and unable to get up and leave the bed, Gregor reflects on his job as a traveling salesman and cloth merchant, which he characterizes as being full o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
