Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
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1966 in film
The year 1966 in film involved some significant events. '' A Man for All Seasons'' won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Top-grossing films North America
The top ten 1966 released films by box office gross in North America are as fol ...
Regimantas Adomaitis
Regimantas Adomaitis (31 January 1937 – 20 June 2022) was a Lithuanian film and stage actor. He was also active in Russia and Germany.
Career
Adomaitis was born in Šiauliai. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Vilniu ...
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Juozas Budraitis
Juozas Budraitis (born 6 October 1940) is a Lithuanian actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1966. He starred in the Soviet film ''Wounded Game'', which was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. Budraitis ...
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Algimantas Masiulis
Algimantas Masiulis (July 10, 1931 Surdegis, Anykščiai District Municipality — August 19, 2008, Kaunas, Lithuania) was a Lithuanian film and theatre actor.
Biography
Masiulis appeared in his first play in the autumn of 1948, in '' Schoolgi ...
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Donatas Banionis
Donatas Banionis (28 April 1924 – 4 September 2014) was a Soviet and Lithuanian stage and film actor and theatre director. He has more than 80 credited roles in cinema and is best known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's '' So ...
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Lithuanian SSR
The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Lithuanian SSR; lt, Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika; russian: Литовская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Litovskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialistiche ...
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USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...
Oleg Dahl
Oleg Ivanovich Dal (russian: Олег Иванович Даль; 25 May 1941 – 3 March 1981) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.
He acted in films, from classics of drama to fairy tales and adventures. His most popular works inclu ...
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Marina Neyolova
Marina Mstislavovna Neyolova (russian: Мари́на Мстисла́вовна Неёлова; born 8 January 1947) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She has appeared in 37 films since 1969. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1987).
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Vladimir Etush
Vladimir Abramovich Etush (russian: Влади́мир Абра́мович Э́туш; 6 May 1922 – 9 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor of Jewish descent. People's Artist of the USSR (1984).
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Older sister
Older Sister (russian: Старшая сестра, Starshaya sestra ) is a Soviet feature film, shot in 1966, Georgy Natanson on the play by Alexander Volodin ''My older sister''.
Plot
Orphans Lida and Nadya have been living in the care of h ...
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Georgy Natanson
Georgy Grigorievich Nathanson (russian: Гео́ргий Григо́рьевич Натансо́н; 23 May 1921 – 17 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema director, screenwriter and playwright. Worked as director at Mosfilm ...
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Tatyana Doronina
Tatiana (Tatyana) Vasilyevna Doronina (russian: Татьяна Васильевна Доронина; born 12 September 1933) is a popular Soviet/Russian actress who has performed in movies and the theater. She is generally regarded as one of the ...
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Mikhail Zharov
Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Жа́ров; 27 October 1899 – 15 December 1981) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour ...
Mikhail Kozakov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov (in Russian: Михаил Михайлович Козаков) (14 October 1934, Leningrad – 22 April 2011, Ramat Gan) was a Soviet, Russian and Israeli film and theatre director and actor.
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The Republic of ShKID
''The Republic of ShKID'' (russian: Республика ШКИД) is an adventure, partly autobiographical children's novel by and written in 1926 and printed in 1927.
The book is about the fate of Russian street boys (''besprizorniks'') wh ...
Sergei Yursky
Sergei Yurievich Yursky (russian: Серге́й Ю́рьевич Ю́рский, 16 March 1935 – 8 February 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His best known film role is Ostap Bender in ''Th ...
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Pavel Luspekayev
Pavel Borisovich Luspekayev (russian: Па́вел Бори́сович Луспека́ев) (20 April 1927, Luhansk — 17 April 1970, Moscow) was a Soviet actor who is best known for his role of Vereschagin in the classic Russian movie '' White ...
Yuri Chulyukin
Yuri Stepanovich Chulyukin (russian: Юрий Степанович Чулюкин; 9 November 1929 — 7 March 1987) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor and songwriter best known for comedy movies. He became a People's Artist of the RS ...
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Natalya Kustinskaya
Natalya Nikolayevna Kustinskaya (russian: Ната́лья Никола́евна Кусти́нская; 5 April 1938 – 13 December 2012) was a Soviet actress, who was a Meritorious Artist of Russia from 1999.
Kustinskaya was born in Moscow, an ...
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The Story of Asya Klyachina
''The Story of Asya Klyachina'' (russian: История Аси Клячиной, которая любила, да не вышла замуж, ''Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne vyshla zamuzh'', also known as ''Asya's Happiness'' ...
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Andrei Konchalovsky
Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (russian: link=no, Андрей Сергеевич Михалков-Кончаловский; born 20 August 1937) is a Russian filmmaker. He has worked in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian ...
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Iya Savvina
Iya Sergeyevna Savvina (russian: Ия Серге́евна Саввина; 2 March 1936 – 27 August 2011) was a Soviet film actress who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.On Thin Ice'' , , По тонкому льду , ,
Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh
Damir is a common male given name in South Slavic languages. It also occasionally appears in Central Asia and Turkic regions of Russia.
It is of Slavic origin, with ''da'' meaning "give"/"take", and ''mir'', meaning "peace".
It can also be a ...
Yevgeny Matveyev
Yevgeny Semyonovich Matveyev (russian: Евгений Семёнович Матвеев, uk, Євген Семенович Матвеев; 8 March 1922 – 1 June 2003) was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director who was named a People's ...
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Yevgeny Matveyev
Yevgeny Semyonovich Matveyev (russian: Евгений Семёнович Матвеев, uk, Євген Семенович Матвеев; 8 March 1922 – 1 June 2003) was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director who was named a People's ...
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan
The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan ( rus, «Сказка о царе Салтане, о сыне его славном и могучем богаты� ...
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Larisa Golubkina
Larisa Ivanovna Golubkina (Russian: ''Лари́са Ива́новна Голу́бкина''; born 9 March 1940, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian actress.
She entered the Moscow Musical School in 1955, graduating after four years, and the ...
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Oleg Vidov
Oleg Borisovich Vidov (russian: Олег Борисович Видов; June 11, 1943 – May 15, 2017) was a Soviet Russian American actor, film director and producer. He appeared in 50 films beginning in 1961. A refugee from his native Sovie ...
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There Lived Kozyavin
There Lived Kozyavin (russian: Жил-был Козявин) is a 1966 Soviet animated short directed by Andrei Khrzhanovsky, written by Lazar Lagin and Gennady Shpalikov.
Background
Andrey Khrzhanovskij directed this film in a surrealist, co ...
Three Fat Men
''Three Fat Men'' (Три толстяка) written in 1924, by Yury Olesha, was published in 1928.
It was the first revolutionary fairy tale in Soviet literature. The critical reaction at first was varied. V. Boichevsky in an article "How Storie ...
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Aleksey Batalov
Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Влади́мирович Бата́лов; 20 November 1928 – 15 June 2017) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue acclaimed f ...
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Lina Braknytė Lina Braknytė (19 October 1952, Vilnius) is a Lithuanian actress. She was voted the Best Actress in the republican film festival in 1967. She retired after several films and became Lina Paknenya.
Life
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Aleksey Batalov
Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Влади́мирович Бата́лов; 20 November 1928 – 15 June 2017) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue acclaimed f ...
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Valentin Nikulin
Valentin Yuryevich Nikulin (russian: Валенти́н Ю́рьевич Нику́лин; 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 ...
Gerbert Rappaport
Herbert Rappaport (1908–1983), known in the Soviet Union as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director.
Rappaport was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to Jewish parents from Lemberg (now Lv ...
Aleksandr Alov
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович А́лов) (September 26, 1923 – June 12, 1983) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist o ...
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Vladimir Naumov
Vladimir Naumovich Naumov (russian: Влади́мир Нау́мович Нау́мов; 6 December 1927 – 29 November 2021) was a Russian film director and writer. Naumov was named People’s Artist of the USSR in 1983. He was a schoolmate o ...
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Yevgeny Yevstigneyev
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev (russian: Евгений Александрович Евстигнеев; 9 October 1926 — 4 March 1992) was a prominent Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre pedagogue, one of the founders of the ...
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Wings
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Larisa Shepitko
Larisa Yefimovna Shepitko (, uk, Лариса Юхимівна Шепітько, translit=Larysa Yukhymivna Shepitko; 6 January 1938 – 2 July 1979) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actress. She is considered one of the best fe ...
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Maya Bulgakova
Maya Grigoryevna Bulgakova (russian: Ма́йя Григо́рьевна Булга́кова; 19 May 19327 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actress. She was one of the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1976).
Biography
Bulgakova was born on 1 ...
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Zhanna Bolotova
Zhanna Andreyevna Bolotova (russian: Жанна Андреевна Болотова; October 10, 1941, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR) is a Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s. In 1977 she became a USSR State Prize laurea ...
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Women
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Inna Makarova
Inna Vladimirovna Makarova (russian: И́нна Влади́мировна Мака́рова; 28 July 1926 – 25 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actress. She grew up in Novosibirsk. In 1948 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cine ...
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Year as Long as Life
''Year as Long as Life'' (russian: Год как жизнь) is a 1966 Soviet biographical drama film directed by Grigori Roshal.
Plot
The film takes place in Europe in the 19th century. The film shows the popular uprisings that took place there ...
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Grigori Roshal
Grigori Lvovich Roshal (russian: Григорий Львович Рошаль; October 21, 1899 – January 11, 1983) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 26 films between 1926 and 1968.
Biography
Grigori Roshal was born on ...
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Igor Kvasha
Igor Vladimirovich Kvasha (russian: Игорь Владимирович Кваша; 4 February 1933 — 30 August 2012) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He was a leading actor of Sovremennik Theater. Igor Kvasha was one of the ...
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Events January
* January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
* January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is ...
Films
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 atmospher ...