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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: Dance of the Geisha (2024), Shall We Dance? (2004) and Tango Shalom (2021).- Lyubava Greshnova was born on 5 July 1988 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She is an actress, known for The Nurse (2018), Mamo, ya lotchyka lyublyu (2012) and Ya podaryu tebe pobedu (2019).
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- 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).- Actor
- Visual Effects
- Additional Crew
Sergej Onopko is a German Actor, born and raised in the 80's in former Soviet Union. He attended an art school in his native city of Kharkiv, in which he practiced latin dance, painting and performance art & competed in latin & standard dance nationally for 5 years.
He took part in several international film productions, since 2012 where he had his very first appearance in the action film "A Good Day to Die Hard" ever since he has appeared in more than 35 TV films, Short Films, TV series and feature films.- 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.
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- 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.- Andrei Chikatilo was one of the world's most prolific and barbaric serial killers. Born on October 16, 1936, in the Ukraine, he witnessed the devastation of his country at the onset of World War II. His mother Anna repeatedly told him of an older brother, Stephan, who had been murdered and cannibalized during the Ukrainian famine in the 1930s, in which it is estimated that several million died.
Although he was extremely tall and attractive, Chikatilo was always shy with girls and believed himself to be impotent. However, in 1963 his younger sister Taytana introduced him to a friend of hers named Fayina. Things clicked, and he and Fayina married that same year. They had two children, a daughter Ludmilla in 1965 and a son Yuri in 1969. Chikatilo graduated from Rostov University and became a teacher for a brief time, but he was eventually caught molesting some students, which led to his expulsion from the profession. By the end of 1978 Chikatilo had murdered his first victim, Lena Zakotnova, in Shankty, Russia. He didn't kill again for three years, but over the next nine years he tortured, murdered and cannibalized at least 51 more women and children. Russian authorities at first refused to believe that a serial killer could operate in their midst -- that sort of thing only occurred in degenerate capitalist societies -- but Chikatilo's victims began turning up so often and in so many places that the authorities finally were forced to admit that a monster was indeed loose among them. A task force consisting of the best homicide detectives in the country was assigned to hunt down and capture the killer (although they had no idea it was Chikatilo). He was finally captured on November 20, 1990, when a policeman noticed him acting suspiciously at a railroad station, detained him, and further investigation revealed that he had just committed three murders. Chikatilo confessed to 55 killings -- although due to the initial indifference and incompetence of the authorities it's been estimated that he likely committed at least twice that many before he was finally caught -- but was charged with only 53.
His trial opened on April 14, 1992, with victims' relatives screaming for retribution. Chikatilo acted like a raving maniac throughout the trial, rolling his eyes, moving back and forth, contorting his face and hurling curses at spectators and the judge, among others. On October 14, 1992, Andrei Chikatilo was convicted of 52 murders -- one charge was dropped for lack of evidence -- and five counts of child molestation. The next day he was given 52 death sentences and taken to Novocherkassk Prison in the Rostov-on-Don region of Russia. Sixteen months later, on February 14, 1994, his death sentence was carried out in the manner prescribed by Russian law -- a single bullet to the back of the head. - Art Director
- 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.- Cinematographer
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- Actor
Anatoliy Petritskiy was born on 14 December 1931 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Prichaly (1987), War and Peace (1965) and The Shooting Party (1978). He was married to Natalya Babochkina. He died on 6 September 2024 in Moscow, Russia.- Karina Andolenko was born on 20 September 1987 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. She is an actress, known for Ryabinovyy vals (2010), Russian Beauty (2015) and Rozy dlya Elzy (2009).
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- 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.- 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 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 Wait for Me (1943). She died on 12 December 1975 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Halina Gryglaszewska was born on 13 June 1917 in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russia [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for The Double Life of Véronique (1991), Wsciekly (1980) and Birth Certificate (1961). She died on 18 June 2010 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland.
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- 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.- Ivan Koval-Samborsky was born on 16 September 1893 in Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926), Men on Wings (1935) and The Girl with the Hat Box (1927). He died on 10 January 1962 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- 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.
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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 (1971) and Zosya (1967).- 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).
- 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].
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- Cinematographer
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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.- 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).
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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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].- 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.
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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.