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The Scottish-Ugandan Joan of Arc, Mandipa Kabana
The Scottish-Ugandan Joan of Arc, Mandipa Kabana. In a stage production, admittedly, not in a film
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The 1968 "Odyssey": of all the screen adaptations, the one closest to the text of its source
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Alexander Gradsky during the filming of Andrei Konchalovsky's "A Romance of Lovers" in 1973
photo by Yevgeny Umnov
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It's a Proper Circus!
Such was the look of the wooden structure that housed theatrical and circus performances at public festivities: the booth, or balagan. This one is the celebrated balagan of the merchant Nikolaev, set up in the Admiralty District of Saint Petersburg. It was called the "Great Roller Coaster" (Bolshoy
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Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
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Yuri Nikulin in the film "Andrei Rublev"
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Vladimir Etush Street appears in Moscow between Lobachevsky and Vasily Lanovoy Streets
A street named after Vladimir Etush has appeared in Moscow. It runs from Lobachevsky Street to Vasily Lanovoy Street
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Christopher Lee's mother belonged to the Carandini family, tracing his line to Charlemagne
It turns out that Sir Christopher Lee, the actor who brought Saruman to life in Peter Jackson's film trilogy, was descended on his mother's side from the noble Italian house of Carandini. This allowed Christopher Lee to trace his lineage directly back to Charlemagne, Emperor of
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Helen Mirren traced relatives and former family estates in Russia
In 2007 Helen Mirren, born Elena Lydia Vasilyevna Mironova, visited Russia and found her cousins and other relatives. Her grandmother was Countess Lydia Andreyevna Kamenskaya, her grandfather Colonel Pyotr Vasilyevich Mironov. Helen's father arrived in Great Britain at the age of two. In Russia her grandfather had left
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The Brides of Count Dracula, 1931
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Leonid Markov and Kirill Lavrov on the set of the film "A Hunting Accident" in the village of Valuevo in 1977
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And what if Ebenezer Scrooge were put through our weather?
The old skinflint is played this time by Johnny Depp. The film is due out in autumn 2026