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The Twelve Chairs (Russian: 12 стульев, romanized: Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a 1971 Soviet comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. [1] It is an adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs.
As a result, the movie bore almost no resemblance to the book besides the setting and several characters' names. History later repeated itself with another film by Sokurov Days of Eclipse (Dni zatmeniya). The film became a classic Soviet New Year's Eve romantic comedy, similar to Irony of Fate (Ironiya sud'by) and The Carnival Night ...
After Stalin's death some scenes and frames were censored (for example, Stalin's statue at VDNKh, Molotov's reference in his government telegram). [7]The full version of the film was shown in the early 1990s, in the program Kinopravda? on Channel One Russia, and in 2002 on the centenary of the birth of Lyubov Orlova, on Russia-1 the complete version of the film was shown, but with ...
The film was enormously popular; it became the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965 having 69.6 million viewers. The novel Déjà vu, based on a story from a Polish magazine, [4] won the Grand Prix Wawel Silver Dragon at the Kraków Film Festival in Poland in 1965. [2] The film became a source of quotes for Soviet people. [6]
Come and See [a] is a 1985 Soviet anti-war film directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova. [4] Its screenplay, written by Klimov and Ales Adamovich, is based on the 1971 novel Khatyn [5] and the 1977 collection of survivor testimonies I Am from the Fiery Village [6] (Я из огненной деревни, Ya iz ognennoy derevni), [7] of which Adamovich was a ...
Brezhnev (Russian: Брежнев) is a 2005 biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. It originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One. [1] The movie was an expensive period piece partly filmed in the Kremlin. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev. [2]
Three Plus Two, or 3 + 2 (Russian: Три плюс два, romanized: Try plyus dva) is a 1963 Soviet romantic comedy film directed by Genrikh Oganesyan based on a play by Sergei Mikhalkov, [1] and co-produced by Moscow-based Gorky Film Studio and Soviet Latvian Riga Film Studio.
Agony (Russian: Агония, romanized: Agoniya; U.S. theatrical/DVD title Rasputin) is a 1981 Soviet biographical film by Elem Klimov, made c.1973-75 and released in Western and Central Europe in 1982 (United States and Soviet Union 1985), after protracted resistance from Soviet authorities. [1]