Aleksandr Adabashyan

Aleksandr Adabashyan

Born: August 10, 1945
in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Actor, writer, designer and director Aleksandr Artyomovich Adabashyan was born in Moscow in 1945 the same year as his friend and steady collaborator Nikita Mikhalkov. The two men’s varied pairings began in 1974 when Artyomovich production designed Mikhalkov’s feature debut “At Home Among Strangers, Strangers at Home”, a low budget “Borscht Western” set during the bloody Russian civil war following the Bolshevik revolution. Artymovich has designed eight Mikhalkov films in all, physically realizing such disparate visions as Moscow during the Khrushchev regime in 1979’s “Five Evenings,” mid-nineteenth century St. Petersburg in 1980’s “Oblomov”, and the infant Soviet film industry in 1976’s “Slave of Love”. In addition, Alexnder Adabashian has some two dozen writing credits to his name including multiple pairings with Mikhalkov. After making his onscreen debut in “At Home Among Strangers”, Adabashyan has made frequent appearances in Russian film and television, primarily in character roles.

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Movies for Aleksandr Adabashyan...

My Invisible One
Title: My Invisible One
Released: October 6, 2023
Type: Movie
Single mother Maria (Daria Ekamasova) lives with her son and daughter in a science city, which is being prepared for liquidation. She believes that her physicist husband, who disappeared six years ago during a scientific experiment, is somewhere nearby — just in another dimension. A former colleague of her husband (Vladimir Seleznev) arrives in the city in search of the missing person's records, and Maria has a boyfriend-trucker Stas (Nikolai Klyamchuk), ready to take her away with her children and start a new life together. Faced with a choice, a woman can not decide to leave her invisible husband.
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King & Jester: A Tale of Gorshok and Knyaz
Title: King & Jester: A Tale of Gorshok and Knyaz
Released: August 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Adventures in a fantasy world: Gorshok and Knyaz save the Princess from the clutches of the evil Sorcerer.
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Title: King & Jester
Character: Гордарик / Одноглазый
Released: March 2, 2023
Type: TV
A fantasy drama infused with music and horror fables based on the real story of the 'King and Jester', a cult Russian punk-rock band, enormously popular in the 1990-2000s. The show goes along the band's rocky road to success and tells the story of its polarizing-natured frontman Michael Gorshenev and his tragic death in 2013. Tricksters, evil spirits, noblemen, and other characters of the 'King and Jester' song verse make their way into the lives of Gorshenev and his bandmates.
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Strict Regime Parents
Title: Strict Regime Parents
Character: отец
Released: April 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Parents lock their son at home for re-education. He is 38 years old. He is the mayor.
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All About My Sister
Title: All About My Sister
Character: Ragman
Released: December 17, 2020
Type: Movie
When the grown-up Minka goes to visit his sister Lyolya, now an adult woman with two children living in their childhood home, everything along the way reminds him of funny stories from the past. But he does not know that as a result of the pranks of her "stuffed" twins Petya and Fedya, Lyola is in serious trouble ...
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Title: The Diplomat
Character: Lipkin
Released: September 2, 2019
Type: TV
The life of the hereditary diplomat Pyotr Andreyevich Luchnikov is a cycle of events. But he is mainly busy not with establishing international relations and working in the Foreign Ministry, but with sorting out relations and fulfilling the desires of the numerous women who surround him. The trouble-free Luchnikov rushes between wives, former and current, mother, mistresses in several countries, children, grandchildren and an endless number of unfamiliar beauties. Having completely perverted himself, Luchnikov decides to start life from scratch. The last straw for him is the arrival of a new employee - a young and lively girl Inga with a stutter, a difficult character and a father who is Luchnikov's sworn enemy.
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Жили-были мы
Title: Жили-были мы
Released: April 27, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Легенды кино
Character: Self - Заслуженный деятель искусств РФ
Released: September 16, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Poor people
Character: издатель
Released: April 11, 2016
Type: TV
The story of an intelligent loser who lives in a communal apartment in St. Petersburg works as a “literary Negro” by Olga Buzova and writes an autobiography on her behalf.
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The Hero
Title: The Hero
Released: March 31, 2016
Type: Movie
Andrey Kulikov goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, who had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution. On the headstone of the grave next to his great-grandfather's, he notices the face of a young woman. Later, while walking through Paris, Andrey sees a woman, Vera, who looks just like the young woman he had seen on the headstone. And so begins the telling of two love stories, separated by three generations and one hundred years.
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No Borders
Title: No Borders
Character: photographer
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.
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Sunstroke
Title: Sunstroke
Released: October 4, 2014
Type: Movie
In a Crimean filtration camp, after the evacuation of the White Army, an unnamed captain is haunted by memories of a brief romance as he tries to understand how the Russian Empire fell apart and who is to blame.
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Spikes
Title: Spikes
Released: June 24, 2014
Type: Movie
One day in the life of three non-mainstream Moscow guys from different walks of life.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: publishing house editor
Released: November 18, 2013
Type: TV
The action takes place in Victorian England in the last quarter of the 19th century. 27-year-old amateur detective Sherlock Holmes becomes a bystander to a crime along with Dr. John Watson, a military doctor who has just returned from the war in Afghanistan. During the investigation, Watson, not yet having an apartment in London, settles with Holmes in Mrs. Hudson's «half board», and then takes part in the affairs of his new friend. Watson gives Holmes boxing lessons. Watson himself is an experienced boxer, able to deal with several opponents with his bare hands. In addition, he is an excellent marksman. Considering Holmes a genius, the doctor decides to tell the whole world about his talent and the mysteries he revealed in his stories, where he often embellishes the events («the true story» of which the series presents). Watson is taught to embellish events by the editor-in-chief of the «Morning Chronicle».
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Dog's Paradise
Title: Dog's Paradise
Released: June 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Moscow, summer of 1953. Tanya, an eleven-year old girl, meets a boy, Mitya. Mitya and his family have just returned from exile in the Russian Far East. Tanya learns that Mitya had to leave behind his best friend, a dog called Hector. Mitya is eager for Hector to join him in Moscow, but the adults declare it impossible - a large city is no place for a dog. In an attempt to prove the adults wrong and convince them to bring over Hector, Mitya and Tanya decide to create the perfect home for him - a dog's paradise in an empty sealed room they find in the building...
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Ku! Kin-dza-dza
Title: Ku! Kin-dza-dza
Character: Droid Abradoks(voice)
Released: April 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Beginner DJ Shreds and world-renowned cellist Vladimir Chizhov meet on a noisy street in Moscow barefoot man. Clicking on the strange machine, the characters are moved to the desert planet Plyuk. A remake of the beloved animated film "Kin-dza-dza!" No less fascinating and funny than the original, the adventures of the Shred and Uncle Vova. In this world of sand inhabitants are divided into two categories - patsaks and chatlan, a simple match has incredible value, and the people are met and escorted by the color of his pants.
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The Admirer
Title: The Admirer
Released: January 24, 2012
Type: Movie
A story based on love between Anton Chekhov and a young writer Lidiya Avilova.
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Kiss through the Wall
Title: Kiss through the Wall
Released: January 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Kesha, a young magician assistant, is desperately in love with a young journalist Alisa. He is ready to do everything possible to conquer her.
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Novogodniy Detektiv
Title: Novogodniy Detektiv
Released: December 12, 2010
Type: Movie
В предновогодней московской суете Галина случайно встречает свою первую любовь, бывшего одноклассника Эдуарда. Вспомнив прошлое, они решают встретить Новый Год вместе. Но праздничная ночь принесет много сюрпризов, ведь старые знакомые не торопятся рассказывать друг другу о переменах, произошедших с ними за все эти годы… Эта новогодняя сказка вселяет в людей уверенность, что если не в Новогоднюю ночь, так в Новом Году они обязательно встретят свою половинку!
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A Man from Boulevard des Capucines
Title: A Man from Boulevard des Capucines
Character: stroitel-filosov
Released: July 8, 2010
Type: Movie
A comedy about Masha First (the grand-granddaughter of Johnny First) who comes to Russia from USA trying to make her own movie.
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Смерть в пенсне или Наш Чехов
Title: Смерть в пенсне или Наш Чехов
Released: July 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Elephant
Title: Elephant
Character: Petrovich
Released: June 10, 2010
Type: Movie
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The snow is falling in Russia
Title: The snow is falling in Russia
Character: Мэр
Released: May 10, 2010
Type: Movie
European journalist visits Russia for the fist time. By chance he picks up a phone call at his fellow journalist Moscow office and this call sharply and irrevocably changes his life. He travels to a strange and ghostly provincial Russian town which seems to be real but couldn't be found on any road map. He meets there his dreams and fantasies, his love and his final day. By taking the identity of his friend he enters the ultimate adventure of living somebody Else's life and experiencing somebody Else's fate. But a price for that is his own life.
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Title: Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Character: Communist
Released: April 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in the front-lines. His daughter, Nadia, who survived a rape attempt by Nazi soldiers, is now a nurse risking her own life to save others. In the war-torn nation even former enemies are fighting together to defend their land. People stand up united for the sake of victory. Written by Steve Shelokhonov
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The Ghost
Title: The Ghost
Character: Aleksandr
Released: November 13, 2008
Type: Movie
A novelist struggling with writer's block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration -- fully unaware that he is being set up to take the blame for a murder.
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Title: 12
Released: November 4, 2008
Type: TV
12 jurors must decide whether an 18-year-old boy accused of murdering his stepfather, a Russian army officer who fought in Chechnya, is guilty. All the evidence points against the accused, and eleven of the twelve people gathered in the school gym are ready to convict the young man. But one of the jurors is sure that everything is not as clear as it seems at first glance, and suggests a more thoughtful consideration of the case.
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Plus One
Title: Plus One
Released: August 21, 2008
Type: Movie
After a failed marriage, Masha retreats to the sanctuary of her humble profession as a translator of serious literature. Financial difficulties force her to accept an offer to interpret during a seminar held by an English puppeteer.
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Джоконда на асфальте
Title: Джоконда на асфальте
Released: November 15, 2007
Type: Movie
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12
Title: 12
Character: Bailiff
Released: June 6, 2007
Type: Movie
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.
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Your Will Not Leave Me
Title: Your Will Not Leave Me
Released: November 30, 2006
Type: Movie
The film takes place in 1951 in a large provincial city. The young wife returns from the resort, and after her comes the “spa card” from the man with whom she somehow walked along the shore, listening to the surf under the starry night sky. A husband receives a postcard ... He does not arrange a scene of jealousy and, experiencing pain inside himself, decides to write him an answer on behalf of Vera.
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Tycoon's Interpreter
Title: Tycoon's Interpreter
Character: Ira's father
Released: August 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Ira is Russian. Ivan Tashkov, too. She is 23 years old, lives in Geneva with her mother and knows very little about her homeland. Tashkov is a supposed gangster of the Russian mafia, and is in jail waiting to be judged. Ira, who is searching for her roots and her own path in life, happens to be the interpreter of Tashkov's defense lawyer, and gets instantly captivated by of this powerful, cultured and manipulative man.
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Title: The Master and Margarita
Character: Михаил Александрович Берлиоз
Released: December 19, 2005
Type: TV
The Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter.
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About Love In Any Weather
Title: About Love In Any Weather
Character: Homeless
Released: November 11, 2004
Type: Movie
The main character, meteorologist Perushkin, is a “paranormal” person who has “solid cyclones and anticyclones” in his life — he is busy with the invention of a device that draws energy from space. On the way to the great discoveries, a variety of troubles await him, one of which could have ended very sadly, if not ... love is the one that comes when you do not wait for it, the one that does not depend on the circumstances and size of the wallet, which remains unchanged In any weather…
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Title: Region
Character: геодезист Михалыч
Released: December 8, 2003
Type: TV
Policeman Pavel Kravtsov is a rather strange man. If he has to handcuff someone, he apologizes and asks if he is pressing. He is ambitious but honest; he is young but thoughtful. With such inclinations, you can't really make a career in the city police. So a city man, senior Lieutenant Kravtsov, gets through to the remote village of Anisovka by an ordinary district police officer.
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Year of the Horse - Constellation Scorpio
Title: Year of the Horse - Constellation Scorpio
Released: April 8, 2003
Type: Movie
In the past, the famous circus rider Maria learns that her favorite horse Senator, with whom she spoke, want to send to the slaughter. Then Mary decides to take a risky step and steals the horse from the circus.
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Title: Azazel
Released: March 10, 2002
Type: TV
The main character, an official of the 14th grade, Erast Petrovich Fandorin, serves as a clerk in the Detective Department and secretly dreams of becoming a detective. By the will of circumstances, he finds himself involved in the investigation of a mysterious suicide.
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The President and his Granddaughter
Title: The President and his Granddaughter
Character: Doctor
Released: December 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Moscow Year New Year's Eve 1987. In the 25th hospital on duty are the obstetrician and the nurse. They make the rounds, after which sit down to celebrate the New Year. Suddenly, the hospital ambulance arrives with a pregnant woman - daughter of the general, who had an accident and she started the premature birth. Despite the exhortations of doctors that gestational age is a tragic turn for the child, a fierce general, threatening with a pistol, forcing him to take delivery. A child is born dead, and intimidated doctor decides to replace it for a living. On the same day another woman gave birth to twin-girls, one of which is changed. Ironically, the two girls called Masha.
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The Musicians from Bremen
Title: The Musicians from Bremen
Released: June 6, 2000
Type: Movie
The classic story about a musicians from Bremen is told in not so classical way.
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Title: Memories of Sherlock Holmes
Character: John Barrymore
Released: April 3, 2000
Type: TV
Detective television series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Five films about Sherlock Holmes, shot by Igor Maslennikov earlier, were remounted in 2000, a connecting story about Conan Doyle's literary secretary, Mr. Wood, who is preparing an anniversary collection of stories about Holmes for the beginning of the coming XX century. Sir Arthur receives huge mail every day, addressed not to him, but to Sherlock Holmes. And then one day a letter arrives with a plea for help, and Doyle begins an investigation...
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Title: Black Room
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: TV
The black room. Enclosed space. The action unfolds as if slowly. You understand that every word, every gesture of the heroes have a special, secret, as yet absolutely incomprehensible meaning. But you feel: you can't miss a single nuance. There are two or three heroes in each novel. There is a real drama between them, which ends with an explosion. Sometimes figuratively, and sometimes literally. Time is continuous: there is no yesterday and tomorrow.
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Title: Fort Boyard Russia
Character: Fouras the Stargazer
Released: September 27, 1998
Type: TV
Russian game show based on the original French format of Fort Boyard.
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Московские каникулы
Title: Московские каникулы
Released: June 30, 1995
Type: Movie
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Nastya
Title: Nastya
Character: представитель министерства культуры
Released: July 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A young Russian store clerk has a drab existence in times of shortages and is berated by her ailing mother for not seeing men. So she brings home an unknown young man who she met on the tram. She dreams many things but pines for this man.
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Title: To Remember
Character: Narrator
Released: December 9, 1993
Type: TV
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Presence
Title: Presence
Released: June 10, 1993
Type: Movie
A 1993 Russian language drama film directed by Andrei Dobrovolsky, starring Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandra Butorina and Aleksandr Adabashyan. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1994.
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Dark Eyes
Title: Dark Eyes
Released: February 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.
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Guard Me, My Talisman
Title: Guard Me, My Talisman
Character: французский турист
Released: August 31, 1986
Type: Movie
The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the plush forest around Boldino when a mysterious figure pops up from behind a tree and asks the couple a question on an esoteric point of Pushkin scholarship. From that strange beginning, the man, whose name is Klimov, starts to ease himself into the couple's private space, and trouble ensues. Complementing this story is the festival itself, enactments of Pushkin's works, and emotional debates among the festival-goers over the meaning of his poetry.
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The Wedding Is Accused
Title: The Wedding Is Accused
Character: Boris Gorin, MC
Released: July 21, 1986
Type: Movie
The wedding turns into a crime scene
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Requiem for a Fillet
Title: Requiem for a Fillet
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The modest notary at the symphony orchestra of Gen Munkin did not like his mother-in-law. She was especially repelled by his work. Having identified her son-in-law as a loader in a butcher shop, she did not expect that the first piece of meat taken out by Gena from the store would end up in the circus...
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Two hussars
Title: Two hussars
Released: June 6, 1984
Type: Movie
Drama on the novel of the same name L. N. Tolstoy. Two hussars - father and son - two morals, two worldviews. And although older Turbin frivolous in love, but reliable in friendship and principled in matters of honor. Junior Turbines do not stand up to comparison with his father - he is calculating, shallow and selfish "hussars of the new generation".
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The Kiss
Title: The Kiss
Character: Сергей, сын генерала
Released: October 22, 1983
Type: Movie
The film is based on the short story by Anton Chekhov. Gentlemen invited to tea by the local landowner, a retired major-General von Rebbeca.. Lieutenant ryabovich lost in the darkness, in the rooms of the old house, suddenly kissed a stranger.
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Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Title: Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Character: The Sculptor
Released: October 4, 1982
Type: Movie
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
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Kin
Title: Kin
Character: Waiter #3 / 3rd Man On Photo / Man In The Train
Released: December 6, 1981
Type: Movie
One of the most popular movies tells, in an ironic manner, about complicated relationships between close people. Among the film’s achievements is not only splendid acting, but also the fact that “Kinfolk” remains as contemporary and topical as before. The relations between a son-in-law and a mother-in-law are as everlasting a theme as love itself. Especially when the role of the son-in-law Stasik is brilliantly played by Yuri Bogatyryov, and that of the mother-in-law by the incomparable Nonna Mordyukova. Marusya Konovalova, a kind, simple-hearted country woman, comes to Moscow to visit her only daughter (Svetlana Kryuchkova) and tries to help “glue together” her broken-up family. Acting with best intentions, she cannot understand why her interference provokes a stormy protest… Ruscico.com
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 2
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 2
Character: John Barrymore
Released: July 26, 1981
Type: Movie
The second part of the Russian TV adaption.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 1
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Part 1
Character: John Barrymore
Released: July 25, 1981
Type: Movie
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: John Barrymore
Released: July 25, 1981
Type: Movie
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family.
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Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Character: John Barrymore
Released: March 22, 1980
Type: TV
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm for the Soviet Central Television, split into eleven episodes, starring Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson. They were directed by Igor Maslennikov and filmed in Russia (the then Soviet Union) between 1979 and 1986, and the series was one of the most successful in the history of Russian television.
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Siberiade
Title: Siberiade
Character: salesman
Released: November 28, 1979
Type: Movie
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
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Five Evenings
Title: Five Evenings
Character: Timofeyev
Released: November 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Volodin "Five Evenings". The end of the 1950s. Aleksandr Petrovich Ilyin travels to the city where he lived before the war. Visiting the telephone operator Zoya, he sees a familiar house through the window and decides to go there for only fifteen minutes. So Aleksandr gets into a communal apartment, where the love of his youth Tamara Vasilyevna lives. They met twenty years ago and fell in love, but the war separated them. Now Ilyin and Tamara Vasilyevna met again, and love broke out with renewed vigor...
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A Slave of Love
Title: A Slave of Love
Character: director (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1975
Type: Movie
During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.
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At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Title: At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Character: связной бандитов / господин из воспоминаний атамана Брылова
Released: November 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among strangers as he attempts to recapture a shipment of gold that he was supposed to deliver to Moscow. Needed as a means of buying food for the people, the gold Shilov was entrusted with is stolen, initially by a group of assassins and then by a group of bandits. In tracking the gold’s whereabouts, Shilov’s motives are questioned and he is suspected of treason, in part because his brother was a devoted White. In an effort to clear his name, Shilov locates the gold, but he also discovers rampant greed and corruption.