Boris Leskin

Boris Leskin

Born: January 5, 1923
Died: February 21, 2020
in Chişinău, Bessarabia, Romania

Movies for Boris Leskin...

Cold Souls
Title: Cold Souls
Character: Donor
Released: August 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
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Everything Is Illuminated
Title: Everything Is Illuminated
Character: Grandfather
Released: September 5, 2005
Type: Movie
A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
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World War Three
Title: World War Three
Character: Yuri Rubanov
Released: December 1, 1998
Type: Movie
This mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.
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Men in Black
Title: Men in Black
Character: Cook
Released: July 2, 1997
Type: Movie
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
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A Couch in New York
Title: A Couch in New York
Character: Cab Driver #1
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply involved into the social settings of the other, because the decision to change their flats is made overnight. Could be the perfect amusement, but suddenly Henry finds himself beaten up by Beatrice' lover and Beatrice is considered to be Dr. Harriston's substitute by his clients...
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The Nick Of Time
Title: The Nick Of Time
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
A wealthy American businessman, Mr. Clarke, forces his dissolute but charming nephew James to go with him to Russia, where he buys a Faberge watch that belonged to Nicholas II himself. He is received by Mr. Borsch, who dreams of becoming a minister by signing a lucrative contract. A representative of a Japanese company, nicknamed the Samurai during the auction, is hunting for the same watch. Borshch's wife also "laid eyes" on an antique watch, and a talented thief leaves the prison. All the participants of the future adventures met at the restaurant, where James met the beautiful niece of Borsch's wife. Mr. Clark flies to Namibia, instructing his nephew to put the watch in the hotel safe. Naturally, on the same evening, the watch is stolen...
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Cadillac Man
Title: Cadillac Man
Character: Soviet Husband
Released: May 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
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The Package
Title: The Package
Character: Soviet Foreign Minister
Released: January 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
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Vampire's Kiss
Title: Vampire's Kiss
Character: Fantasy Cabbie
Released: September 17, 1988
Type: Movie
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction. The vampire continues to visit and drink his blood, and as his madness deepens, it begins to look as if some of the events he's experiencing may be hallucinations.
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The House on Carroll Street
Title: The House on Carroll Street
Released: March 4, 1988
Type: Movie
Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of FBI officer Cochran who was initially detailed to check her out. Just as well when things turn nasty
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The Falcon and the Snowman
Title: The Falcon and the Snowman
Character: Mikhael
Released: January 25, 1985
Type: Movie
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
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The Only One
Title: The Only One
Character: visitor (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Kolya Kasatkin, who saw in his wife Tanyusha the ideal of female charm, tenderness, kindness, who loved her to the point of oblivion, was at a loss before the idle conversations of well-wishers about his wife's betrayal. Having found his wife with the choir director, Nikolai demanded a divorce. Continuing to love each other, the former spouses are unhappy in separation. Kasatkin's new hasty marriage did not return his peace of mind. In daily agony, in the pursuit of a past life, he also lost his old dream — to live and work in the Far East, where he served in the army. Both realized too late that love does not forgive hasty decisions, that it must be able to keep and protect.
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The Strogovs
Title: The Strogovs
Character: staff-captain
Released: February 10, 1976
Type: Movie
In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Anna and his parents. Through the fate of this peasant family, a picture of the life of the Siberian region during major historical events — the Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War is outlined.
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Царевич Проша
Title: Царевич Проша
Character: стражник
Released: November 18, 1974
Type: Movie
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31st Dept.
Title: 31st Dept.
Character: заведующий типографией
Released: January 3, 1972
Type: Movie
The Commissioner of Police has been tasked with conducting an investigation into the threat of a terrorist attack in the building of the press concern. During the investigation, he learns about the existence of the 31st department, created by the management of the concern with the aim of eliminating the opposition press.
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Dead Souls
Title: Dead Souls
Character: служащий канцелярии
Released: December 10, 1969
Type: Movie
In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."
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The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!
Title: The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate.
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Vanya, How are You Here?
Title: Vanya, How are You Here?
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Tractor driver Pronka Lagutin comes to the city. Meeting the director's assistant unexpectedly turns into an invitation to him to play the role of a rural guy who moves to the city. Pronka rehearses with pleasure, but realizing that staying means never seeing her native village again, she runs away from the director.
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You!
Title: You!
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
The teleplay was based on V. Mayakovsky’s poems “You!”, “Listen!”, “Conversation with Comrade Lenin” and other works of the poet.
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A Very Old Story
Title: A Very Old Story
Released: June 4, 1968
Type: Movie
Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen.
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Дорога домой
Title: Дорога домой
Character: nemets
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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12 chairs
Title: 12 chairs
Character: аукционист
Released: December 31, 1966
Type: Movie
Who was the first to bring the great novel "12 Chairs" to the screen? You say "Leonid Gaidai" - and it will be a mistake. In our country, the first director was Alexander Belinsky (Leningrad television, 1966). Filming the favorite books of millions is a difficult task. The audience knows the plot in detail. Winged phrases have long gone to the people. Everyone has their own idea of ​​the main characters. In general, dissatisfied will be sure. So the version of "12 chairs", proposed by Alexander Belinsky, of course, will not suit everyone.
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First Visitor
Title: First Visitor
Character: Chinovnik
Released: October 31, 1966
Type: Movie
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Fear and Despair in the Third Empire
Title: Fear and Despair in the Third Empire
Character: Doctor
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Chronicle dramatic scenes of Germany under the rule of fascism.
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Two Sundays
Title: Two Sundays
Released: December 17, 1964
Type: Movie
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Conscience Doesn't Forgive
Title: Conscience Doesn't Forgive
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life.
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Рембрандт
Title: Рембрандт
Character: дежурный офицер
Released: December 31, 1963
Type: Movie
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Kukhlya
Title: Kukhlya
Released: December 31, 1963
Type: Movie
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The Soul Calls
Title: The Soul Calls
Character: Vitya (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1962
Type: Movie
Two old Leningrad workers, Sukhov and Solyanov, have a long-standing friendship — they worked at the same plant, lived in the neighborhood. Now Solyanov, at the insistence of his son, decides to retire. But it is not so easy to part with his native plant, which, as it turned out, still needs an old personnel officer...