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Karina Smirnoff was born on 2 January 1978 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Dark Feathers (2024), Shall We Dance? (2004) and Tango Shalom (2021).- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Mstyslav Chernov was born in 1985 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He is a director and writer, known for 20 Days in Mariupol (2023), Frontline (1983) and Moderated by Matt (2022).- The brother of actress Tamara Shayne, he was to join the Moscow Arts Theatre, but World War I intervened, and then he fought with General Pyotr Wrangel and the White Armies. Although he received few significant roles, he was outstanding in None But the Lonely Heart (1944) as Ike Weber, and in The Stranger (1946) as Gen. Meinike, where his character dominates the first 15 minutes of the film. His performance in Danny Kaye's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) is also highly regarded. His performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) was considered outstanding, but was cut from the release print. Not an ambitious actor, Shayne was dedicated to his family, including his second wife, Marjorie.
- Lyubava Greshnova was born on 5 July 1988 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Mamo, ya lotchyka lyublyu (2012), The Nurse (2018) and Ya podaryu tebe pobedu (2019).
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- Production Designer
- Director
Russian-born French art director and director who gained a significant reputation, particularly as a collaborator with director Jean Renoir. At the age of sixteen, Lourié went to Paris where he studied painting and stage design. He designed sets and costumes for various ballet companies before turning his attention to film. After working as co-art director on a few films, including two for Renoir, Lourié took over as sole art director for Renoir's The Grand Illusion (1937). Lourié worked steadily with Renoir, and went to America with him in 1941. He also was art director for Charles Chaplin's last American film, Limelight (1952). He branched into directing, specializing in, of all things, giant-monster films, often art directing and doing special effects on them as well. He continued as a respected art director into the 1980's. Following a series of strokes, Lourié died of heart failure at the reported age of 89, although most reference works list a birth year of 1905, which would have made him approximately 86. He was survived by his wife Laure and a daughter.- Inna Gulaya was born on 9 May 1940 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for When the Trees Were Tall (1962), Vremya, vperyod! (1965) and Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn (1966). She was married to Gennady Shpalikov. She died on 27 May 1990 in Moscow, USSR [now Russia].
- Valentina Chepiga was born on 27 April 1962 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for The Interplanetary Surplus Male and Amazon Women of Outer Space (2003).
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
Born in Russia, stage director Alan Schneider worked primarily in the U.S., and was best known for interpreting the plays of Samuel Beckett. Schneider made very infrequent ventures into cinema, the best-known being Film (1965), an experimental silent movie written by Beckett, made in 1964 with Buster Keaton. Schneider corresponded with Samuel Beckett for many years; ironically, and tragically, he was struck and killed by a motorcycle in London while crossing the street to post a letter to Beckett.- Natalya Fateeva was born on 23 December 1934 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Gentlemen of Fortune (1971), Vagonchik moy dalniy (2013) and Korolyov (2007). She was previously married to Boris Yegorov and Vladimir Basov.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Michel Vitold was born on 15 September 1914 in Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Judex (1963), Quentin Durward (1971) and The Affairs of Messalina (1951). He was married to Christiane Lénier, Michèle Sayanoff Dufour and Mireille Paparella. He died on 14 June 1994 in Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Actress
- Writer
- Composer
Lyudmila Gurchenko was a popular actress in the Soviet Union during the 1950s - 1980s, she was best known for Carnival Night (1956), Five Evenings (1979) and Siberiade (1979).
She was born Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko on 12 November 1935, in Kharkov, Ukrainian Soviet Republic of the USSR. She studied acting at the VGIK (Soviet State Institute for CInema), graduating from the class of Sergey Gerasimov in 1956. That same year she shot to fame in the Soviet Union, aftr delivering a stellar performance as singer Lenochka Krylova in Carnival Night (1956), by director Eldar Ryazanov.
Gurchenko's film partners were such Russian stars, as Oleg Borisov, Sergei Shakurov, Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Basilashvili, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Igor Ilyinsky, Yuriy Nikulin, Armen Jigarhanian, Oleg Tabakov, Stanislav Lubshin, Andrey Mironov and Aleksandr Mikhaylov among others.
Lyudmila Gurchenko was married five times and had one daughter with her first husband, Boris Andronikashvili. She died of a pulmonary failure on 30 March 2011, at age 75, and was laid to rest in Moscow, Russia.- Aleftina Evdokimova was born on 6 October 1939 in Osnova, Kharkov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Ekipazh (1980), Maltiyskiy krest (2008) and Courier (1986).
- Actor
- Director
Aleksandr Negreba was born on 28 April 1961 in Kharkov, Kharkovskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Kharkivska oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Za den do (1991), Little Vera (1988) and Neustanovlennoe litso (1990). He was married to Yelena Koptseva-Negreba. He died on 7 April 2023.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Costume Designer
Barbara Karinska was born on 3 October 1886 in Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She was a costume designer, known for Joan of Arc (1948), Hans Christian Andersen (1952) and The Pirate (1948). She was married to Vladimir Mamontov, Alexander Moïssenko and N. S. Karinsky. She died on 19 October 1983 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Rita Stoya was born on 15 September 1917 in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russia [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for Un scandale aux galeries (1937), Marchandes d'illusions (1954) and L'assassin est à l'écoute (1948).- Elza Radzina was born on 10 February 1917 in Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Teatris (1978), King Lear (1970) and Tayna chyornykh drozdov (1983). She died on 18 August 2005 in Riga, Latvia.
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Aleksandr Alov was born on 26 September 1923 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Assassination Attempt (1981), Mir vkhodyashchemu (1961) and Bereg (1984). He died on 12 December 1983 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Aleksandra Danilova was born on 3 December 1918 in Krasnokutsk, Bogodukhov uyezd, Kharkov Governorate, Ukrainian People's Republic [now Krasnokutsk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Alexander Nevsky (1938), Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980) and Shestvie zolotykh zverey (1979). She died on 20 April 2004 in Moscow, Russia.
- Director
- Actor
Vadim Abdrashitov, one of Russian cinema's most independent directors who was influenced by liberation of cultural life during the Khrushchev's "Thaw", is now an internationally renown filmmaker with awards from the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals.
He was born Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov on January 19, 1945, in Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR (now Kharkov, Ukraine). His father, Yusup Abdrashitov, an ethnic Tatar, was an officer in the Soviet Army and for that reason his family was moving many times to places like Vladivostok, Alma-Ata, Sakhalin, Kamchatka and Leningrad. Young Abdrashitov was so impressed with the space flight of the first Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, that he left his parents in Kazakhstan, and moved to Moscow. There he studied nuclear physics at the famous 'FisTech' where the Nobel Prize Laureats Landau, Tamm, and Semyonov were among professors.
At that time Abdrashitov became involved in amateur film-making. Then he transferred to the Mendeleev Institute of Technology, because it was equipped with the film studio for students. His cultural and artistic interests developed during the "Thaw", that was initiated by Nikita Khrushchev. Abdrashitov was influenced by the books of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vasiliy Aksyonov, and by the songs of Vladimir Vysotskiy, Yuri Vizbor, Bulat Okudzhava, and Aleksandr Galich. After graduation as an engineer, he worked as a manager at the Moscow Electric-Vacuum Industry, which was making color TV tubes.
From 1970-1974 Abdrashitov studied film directing under Mikhail Romm at the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). After the death of Romm, he continued his film studies under Lev Kulidzhanov and graduated as a film director. His directorial debut was Ostanovite Potapova! (1973), a satirical comedy based on the screenplay by Grigori Gorin. In 1975 Abdrashitov met with the unknown writer Aleksandr Mindadze. That was the beginning of their fruitful collaboration in their next 12 films, which they made together in 30 years. Their films were awarded at many international film festivals as well as at the Soviet and Russian film forums. Abdrashitov became Laureat of the Russian State Prize for his film The Train Has Stopped (1982). In Parade of the Planets (1984), an existential film, starring Oleg Borisov, Sergey Shakurov, and Sergey Nikonenko with others, seven men are trying to find their way back home after a military training in which they were "killed" by an enemy's missile, and seized to exist. In search for their way home they go through mystical experiences in the battlefield, then in a "city of women", in a retirement home, and finally they witness a Parade of the Planets, a rare cosmic event that happens once in a thousand years.
Abdrashitov and Mindadze has been enjoying continuous and fruitful collaboration which had resulted in many critically acclaimed works. Their Plumbum, or Dangerous Game (1987) was awarded the Gold Medal at the 44-th Venice International film Festival. Abdrashitov was made Laureat of the USSR State Prize for his film Sluga (1989), which was also awarded the Alfred Bower Prize from the Ecumenic Jury at the Berlin Film Festival (1991). Their haunting film Vremya tantsora (1998), with remarkable acting by Sergey Garmash and Chulpan Khamatova, received several awards and nominations. Their latest Magnitnye buri (2003) (aka.. Magnetic Storms) is an apocalyptic, anti-Utopian, almost "pavlovian" analysis of provincial life in Russia, where people are programmed to become zombies, trapped in a vicious cycle of work for survival and the only events that bring variety to their monotonous life are occasional sparks of bloody fist-fights - albeit powerless to change the general doom.
Vadim Abdrashitov is a Member of the Russian Film Academy and a Member of the Russian Union of Cinematographers. He received numerous awards and nominations at Russian and International film festivals and was designated People's Artist of Russia in 1992. Vadim Abdrashitov has been enjoying a happy family life with his wife, Natella Toidze, and their two children, son Oleg (born in 1973) and daughter Naina (born in 1980). Abdrashitov is currently residing and working in Moscow.- Actor
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- Director
Sergei Popov was born on 14 November 1946 in Kharkov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He is an actor and writer, known for The Asthenic Syndrome (1989), Ulybka (1992) and Moskva, ya lyublyu tebya! (2010).- Mikhail Vodyanoy was born on 23 December 1924 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Wedding in Malinovka (1967), Nasledniki (1960) and Budni ugolovnogo rozyska (1973). He died on 13 September 1987 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
- Konstantin Bromberg was born on 17 October 1939 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was a director, known for The Adventures of the Electronic (1979), Magicians (1982) and U menya est lev (1975). He died on 10 January 2020 in Detroit, USA.
- Igor Bezyayev was born on 17 July 1922 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for ...Smena nachinayetsya v shest (1958), Vozvrashchenie chuvstv (1980) and Vdovy (1977). He died on 8 December 1993 in Moscow, Russia.
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- Cinematographer
- Writer
Mikhail Belikov was born on 20 February 1940 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Decay (1990), Night Is Short (1982) and Kak molody my byli (1985). He died on 27 March 2012.- Aleksandr Getmanskiy was born on 22 January 1960 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Neskolko lyubovnykh istoriy (1994), Under Military Law (2015) and Porokh i drob (2013). He died on 1 April 2023 in Kiev, Ukraine.
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- Actor
Mikhail Bogin was born on 4 April 1936 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He is a director and writer, known for Dvoe (1965), A Ballad of Love (1966) and Zosya (1967).- Lyudmila Alfimova was born on 4 September 1935 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Wedding in Malinovka (1967), Lita molodiyi (1959) and Za dvoma zaytsiamy (1961). She was married to Ivan Sergeevich Kalnitsky and Felix Mikhailovich Kadygrob. She died on 22 February 2024 in Pechora, Vinnytsia region, Ukraine.
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- Cinematographer
Aleksandr Pankratov was born on 4 September 1946 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He is a director and writer, known for Portret zheny khudozhnika (1982), Zavtra (1991) and Prodelki v starinnom dukhe (1986).- Actor
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Kirill Pletnev was born December 30th 1979 in Kharkov. He spent his early years in Leningrad where his family moved shortly after he was born; there he went first to primary and then â" to secondary school. In the year of 1996 he entered SPGATI (St Petersburg State Academy of Theatrical Arts) to become a student of Vladimir Petrov's course. Upon graduation in the year 2000 he had occasionally worked in a number of Moscow theaters. Later on Kirill joined in the company of Moscow Drama Theatre headed by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and moved to the Russian capital. In the spring of 2003 he left the theatre and started to collaborate with stage director Irina Kerutchenko. Since 2001 Kirill has been filming a lot.- Igor Vovchanchyn was born on 6 August 1973 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine].
- Anna Babkova was born on 19 October 1982 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali (2007) and Beyaz Show (1996).
- Martine de Breteuil was born on 21 March 1908 in Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for L'homme qui revient de loin (1972), The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez (1964) and La tête du client (1965). She was married to François de Breteuil. She died on 13 November 2007 in Paris, France.
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- Actor
Aleksandr Muratov was born on 21 April 1935 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He is a director and writer, known for Avdotya Pavlovna (1967), Zolotaya tsep (1988) and Utro vechera mudreneye (1981).- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ilya Gurin was born on 9 July 1922 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Nashi znakomyye (1969), Yeshchyo mozhno uspet (1974) and Za chto? (1991). He died on 8 September 1994 in Moscow, Russia.- Production Manager
- Producer
- Writer
George Moskov was born on 13 October 1893 in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was a production manager and producer, known for Three Blondes in His Life (1961), Green Fields (1937) and The Great Mike (1944). He died on 6 August 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Animation Department
Mikhail Druyan was born on 17 October 1911 in Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was a cinematographer, known for Ya byl sputnikom solntsa (1959), The Humpbacked Horse (1975) and Klop 75 ili Mayakovskiy smeyotsya (1976). He died on 7 July 2000 in Moscow, Russia.- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya was born on 21 February 1909 in Volchansk, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. She was a director and assistant director, known for The Snow Maiden (1952), Geese-Swans (1949) and The Hunchback Horse (1947). She died on 18 November 1980 in Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Actor
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Toeplitz helped to found and was the first rector The World Famous Polish Film School in Lodz. Toeplitz is credited with devising the structure and syllabus for training many of the world's finest film directors including Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski.
Also worked in England with his uncle Ludovico Toplitz in 1935 on "The Loves of a Dictator" with Clive Brook and The Beloved Vagabond with Maurice Chevalier in 1936.
Also started the Australian Film, Radio and Television School.- Semyon Svashenko was born on 1 September 1904 in Dergachi, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Derhachi, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Shturmovye nochi (1931), Quiet Flows the Don (1957) and Tikhiy Don II (1958). He died on 23 November 1969 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Naum Dymarsky was born on 31 August 1921 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Chudo s kosichkami (1976) and Ballada o sporte (1979). He died on 18 June 2007 in Moscow, Russia.
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Mikhail Papava was born on 6 November 1906 in Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Ivan's Childhood (1962), Ivan Pavlov (1949) and Vysota (1957). He died on 27 January 1975.- Daniil Ilchenko was born on 25 December 1894 in Zolochev, Kharkov uyezd, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Zolochiv, Zolochiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Quiet Flows the Don (1957), Tikhiy Don II (1958) and Prostaya istoriya (1960). He died on 13 April 1977 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Olga Krasko was born on 30 November 1981 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for The Turkish Gambit (2005), Valeriy Kharlamov. Dopolnitelnoe vremya (2008) and The Signpost to Destiny (2007).
- Valentin Chernyak was born on 2 March 1932 in Degtyarnoye, Kharkov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Degtyarne, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He is an actor, known for Koroleva benzokolonki (1963), Battle Beyond the Sun (1959) and Lyubov zemnaya (1975).
- Olesya Ivanova was born on 25 January 1925 in Merefa, Kharkov Governorate, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkivsky Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Kin-dza-dza! (1986), Office Romance (1977) and Put slavy (1949). She died on 26 October 1995.
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Born in Kharkov, Ukraine. Moved to America in 1990. Has two younger brothers Nicholas and Dennis Bulba. Finished Louis D. Brandeis High School. He wanted to be a lawyer but changed his mind when entered college . Started acting in 2005 and now is Majored in Film Production at Brooklyn College. Opened his company, Ocean Wave Pictures, where he is Directing and Producing music videos, commercials and films.
Gary co-created Baba Fira, a hit Russian YouTube series.- Valentina Serova was born on 23 December 1917 in Kharkov [now Kharkiv], Ukraine. She was an actress, known for The Great Glinka (1946), Four Hearts (1944) and Devushka s kharakterom (1939). She died on 12 December 1975 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Justine Pasek was born on 29 August 1979 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She has been married to Dan Joelson since 8 August 2009.
- Ruslan Mikaberidze was born on 24 August 1939 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Neilonis nadzvis khe (1985), Erti nakhvit shekvareba (1975) and Stealing the Moon (1972). He died on 16 December 2020 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Evgeniy Samoylovich Ryss is Russian Soviet writer and playwright, publicist, screenwriter. He spent his childhood in Rostov-on-Don, graduated from the second-stage school in Leningrad. In 1924 (at the age of 16) he entered the Higher State Courses on Art History at the State Institute of Art History. He graduated from three courses. Then he traveled around the country a lot, worked in the newspapers of Vladikavkaz, Baku, Bukhara, Samarkand, and Tashkent. Returning to Leningrad, Evgeniy Ryss was restored at the institute, but did not finish his studies, he worked as a feuilletonist in the Red Evening Newspaper, from the beginning of the 1930s in the Komsomol Satire Theater. Since the mid 30's he also wrote prose. He lived in Leningrad. Collaborated with the magazine "Star". During World War II, Evgeniy Ryss worked as a TASS correspondent. After the war he settled in Moscow.
He first appeared in literature in 1928 as a playwright with the comedy "Twenty-One Dangers" (together with Vsevolod Voyevodin). The main theme of the works of Ryss is about workers, brave and honest people, about the activities of the investigation, prosecutors, courts, defense and the nature of their interaction. The author of historical adventure and detective books. A number of works by the writer were included in the almanacs (collections) of science fiction and adventure literature for children and young people, "The World of Adventures" (1957.1962.1968) and the journal "Seeker". The works of Ryss were repeatedly released, as well as translated in other countries. A number of films were shot according to the scripts of Evgeniy Ryss.