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I learned that I have a huge family: the path and the little wood, and in the field every single ear of corn!

Я узнал, что у меня Есть огромная семья: И тропинка, и лесок, В поле – каждый колосок! Речка, небо голубое – Это все мое, родное. Это Родина моя! Всех люблю на свете я! Literal translation I learned that I have A huge family: The path and the little wood, And in the

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A Model of the Monument to Alexei Balabanov Unveiled in Saint Petersburg

The model shows the maintenance tram car in which Danila Bagrov took refuge from the gangsters in the film Brother. On the edge of the car sits the figure of the director. The monument will be cast in bronze at life size and installed in May next year in Yekaterinburg,

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In this photograph from the early 1960s: students of the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio

In this photograph from the early 1960s: students of the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio. In the front row Vera Alentova is easy to recognise; in the back row one can make out Andrey Myagkov, along with Vsevolod Abdulov, Gemma Osmolovskaya, Yelena Odintsova and Rogvold Sukhoverko

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Vera Alentova, aged 22, at the Genoa Municipal Theatre in 1964, in the company of Rogvold Sukhoverko and Nikolai Malyuchenko

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The monument "Heart of Europe" before the Brussels headquarters of the European Parliament was created by Ludmilla Tcherina (1924-2004)

I first came across the name of Tcherina in the opening titles of the film "The Red Shoes", and it turned out that she was not only an actress and ballerina but also a sculptor, painter and writer. Yet she owed her resonant Russian name not to her

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Teutonic Knights' Costumes in Eisenstein's “Alexander Nevsky” and Medieval Codices

Unbelievably, the maddest part of Eisenstein's film Alexander Nevsky, the costumes of the Teutonic knights, actually reproduces historical reality quite accurately. At least if we are to believe the illustrations in medieval codices, for example the German Codex Manesse (2, 3) of around 1300 and the Zurich Armorial

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Svetlana Nemolyaeva as Tortilla in the new film “Buratino” and the author's view of it

In the new "Buratino", Nemolyaeva plays Tortilla. And while there are questions to be put to the film itself, Nemolyaeva's performance gives us a wise tortoise from some statistical bureau, with whom one longs to take tea with raspberry jam on a saucer. I am glad

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Clark Gable in Paris in 1952

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Alla Nazimova and her 1922 film “Salome” based on Wilde’s play

Stills from the 1922 film Salomé. The film, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, was directed by Charles Bryant, and today it is regarded as one of the boldest and most radical works of the early cinema. The title role was played by Alla Nazimova, one of the most

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A Paris footbridge over the Canal Saint-Martin is renamed after Jane Birkin

Singer Lou Doillon, youngest daughter of Jane Birkin, told an anecdote from life at the opening of a bridge named in honour of the actress:. My son asked me: is your mother still dead? I answered him: yes, but today she is becoming a bridge. One hopes it was the

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The Soyuzmultfilm studio has officially confirmed that Vladimir Putin will appear in a future episode of the series "Prostokvashino"

A smiling man in glasses leans out behind a serious girl in a pink T-shirt against a red background, both raising their palms.

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Photograph of Natalie aged 13 and Jean aged 46, born in 1948

Natalie Portman and Jean Reno on the set of Léon in 1994. Natalie is 13 here, Jean is 46; it turns out he was born in 1948