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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин; IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ɪlʲˈjitɕ ˈlʲenʲɪn] ( listen); 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, intellectual and politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.
As a politician, Lenin was a persuasive and charismatic orator. As an intellectual his extensive theoretic and philosophical developments of Marxism produced Marxism–Leninism, a pragmatic Russian application of Marxism that emphasized the critical role played by a committed and disciplined political vanguard in the revolutionary process, while defending the possibility of a socialist revolution in less advanced capitalist countries through an alliance of the proletarians with the rural peasantry.
Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ульянов) on 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 in the town of Simbirsk in the Russian Empire. Simbirsk, a rural town on the River Volga nearly 1,500 miles from the capital Saint Petersburg, would be renamed upon Ulyanov's death fifty-four years later as "Ulyanovsk" in his honour. That same year, Saint Petersburg itself would be renamed Leningrad after Ulyanov's better-known cadre name.
Actors: Andreas Marianos (actor), Panos Voutsaras (editor), Konstantina Vonorta (producer), Yannis Veslemes (composer), Yannis Tsortekis (actor), Rinio Dragasaki (director), Rinio Dragasaki (writer), Elina Psikou (producer), Thanasis Dovris (actor), Foteini Kontoudaki (actress), Avra Vordonaraki (actress), Alkistis Mamali (costume designer), Kleio Papatzanaki-Hrysovergi (actress),
Plot: During the 80's, in Athens, a nine year old girl gradually loses touch with her workaholic communist father. She fantasies that Vladimir Lenin wants to harm him. Things get worse when the American movie maniac, Freddy Krueger join forces with the Russian.
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Short, Thriller,Actors: Padmapriya (actress), Cheran (actor), Cheran (director), Aryan Rajesh (actor), Hitesh Jhabak (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Péter Rudolf (actor), Dorottya Udvaros (actress), Frigyes Hollósi (actor), Tamás Jordán (actor), Dénes Szekeres (producer), Károly Gesztesi (actor), István Hajdu (actor), Péter Horváth (writer), János Gyuriska (actor), János Gyuriska (actor), Klára Major (editor), Ildikó Kishonti (actress), Annamária Radnai (miscellaneous crew), György Bajomi Nagy (actor), Katalin Imrei (costume designer),
Plot: The story takes place in the sixties, at a children's pioneer league masquerade ball. The protagonist, still in his adolescence at the time - though when he is telling the story he is an adult already - prepares to emigrate, but before, for the last time he would like to be carefreely happy in the swirling crowd of the ball - to say farewell to everything he is leaving behind. And in this crowd, amidst his masqueraded mates, he seems to recognise his family: his parents, grandmother, and grandfather. As he recalls the events of the family's history, they come alive. The ambience of the party and the farewell evokes the well-known situations embedded in the family history from the sixties - the under blanket collective listening to Free Europe Radio, family card games, the fright of nightly searches by the authorities, childhood toys, the first car in the neighbourhood, the divorce trial, the moments of liberation and homecoming. Because of the animated memories and his impressions of the pioneer league ball, our hero decides, after all the pros and cons to stay. Because he is happy here on this ball and nothing can take this away or replace it.
Keywords: 1960s, based-on-playActors: Yuriy Kutsenko (actor), Igor Kvasha (actor), Viktor Stepanov (actor), Gennadi Sajfulin (actor), Yuriy Sorokin (director), Yuriy Sorokin (actor), Sergei Varchuk (actor), Vladimir Talashko (actor), Aleksandr Lapshin (writer), Elena Aminova (actress), Aleksey Safonov (actor), Yuri Butsko (composer), Svetlana Korkoshko (actress), Valeri Poroshin (actor), Rim Ayupov (actor),
Plot: History of the Russian revolution through the eyes of Gorky, the writer and the man. He initially was sympathetic with some of Lenin's promises, but later became shocked with Lenin's bloody methods. Gorky emigrated to Western Europe. Crafty Stalin manipulated Gorky back into entrapment in Communist Russia. His quick death in 1936 is still a mystery. Documentary footage of Gorky from Russian and German film archives, helps the story.
Keywords: communism, revolution, russia, tragedy, writerActors: Zbigniew Rybczynski (director), Zbigniew Rybczynski (writer), Robin O'Hara (producer), Tim Farrell (miscellaneous crew), Michal Urbaniak (composer), Daniel Chapman (actor), Stuart Samuels (producer), Milosz Benedyktowicz (writer), Lev Shekhtman (actor), Catherine Ryan (actress), John Figley (actor), Wanda Ryboczynska (producer), Melinda Ward (producer), Stuart L. Weiss (producer), Drew Dix (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Iris Berben (actress), Egon Eis (writer), Günter Lamprecht (actor), Ulrich Matschoss (actor), Dietrich Mattausch (actor), Alexander May (actor), Jörg Pleva (actor), Wolfgang Preiss (actor), Hans Putz (actor), Wolf-Dietrich Berg (actor), Eva Brumby (actress), Constanze Engelbrecht (actress), Hans Häckermann (actor), Christine Wodetzky (actress), Wolfram Schaerf (actor),
Genres: History,Actors: Yelena Samarina (actress), Fernando Trueba (writer), Silvia Munt (actress), Amparo Moreno (actress), Fernando Trueba (producer), Óscar Ladoire (writer), Carmen Maura (actress), Antonio Resines (actor), Luis Ciges (actor), Narciso Ibáñez Menta (actor), Óscar Ladoire (actor), Francisco Rabal (actor), Mariano Barroso (actor), Fernando Trueba (director), Óscar Ladoire (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: Graham Chapman (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), Graham Chapman (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), John Cleese (actor), Graham Chapman (actor),
Plot: A collection of skits that made the Python troup famous, performed live at the Hollywood Bowl. Included are the singing philosophers, lumberjacks, the pope, and a suspiciously-male looking seabird vendor.
Keywords: absurd-humor, absurdism, actor-playing-multiple-roles, actress-playing-multiple-roles, albatross, audience-interaction, australian-stereotype, based-on-sketch-comedy, based-on-tv-series, blow-jobActors: Curd Jürgens (actor), Julian Glover (actor), Ian Holm (actor), Barta Barri (actor), Tom Baker (actor), Frank Braña (actor), Jack Hawkins (actor), Jean-Claude Drouot (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Harry Andrews (actor), Steven Berkoff (actor), Maurice Denham (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Roy Dotrice (actor), Alexander Knox (actor),
Plot: The tragic story of Nicholas II, the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. It is an inside look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra, their daughters, and the painful secret which bound the Imperial Couple to the mystical Rasputin, and the eventual execution of the entire family.
Keywords: 10-days-in-october, 1910s, abdication, ambassador, aristocracy, aristocrat, ballet, based-on-book, bolshevism, brother-sister-relationshipActors: Nikolai Volkov (actor), Kirill Lavrov (actor), Aleksandr Borisov (actor), Bruno Frejndlikh (actor), Sergei Kurilov (actor), Boris Chaikovsky (composer), Vladimir Erenberg (actor), Vladimir Chestnokov (actor), Sergei Vasilyev (director), Leonid Lyubashevsky (actor), Nina Mamayeva (actress), Sergei Vasilyev (writer), Andro Kobaladze (actor), Anatoli Fedorinov (actor), Adolf Shestakov (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,