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- The era of perestroika, people get the opportunity to see the world, not only go on a tourist trip, but also move to a permanent place of residence in another country. Tamara, a simple girl from a provincial town, is opting for the United States. She is not only moving to Chicago, but also gaining a place there under the sun. Now you can think about restoring family relationships. Tamara left a sister in Ivanovsk. Tamara calls her to her. She is ready to assist Natasha, to do everything necessary so that she firmly stands on her feet in the overseas country. But, oddly enough, Natasha does not want to accept such a generous gift from her sister and is not going to leave her hometown. She lives well here, she has her own business. And Natasha hopes that she will be able to arrange a personal life.
- The humorous show of Yuriy Stoyanov, in which the master of parodies and reincarnations will offer the viewer a whole gallery of funny characters. And a galaxy of wonderful artists will help him, many of which will appear in a completely new and unexpected role.
- Three friends, a brother with a sister and their girlfriend, staged a not sickly party at the bowling club during which Anya saw her boyfriend, who had recently changed her with some kind of fat cow. Jealousy in the intoxicated brain flashed fire and the short film heroine decided to stab him with a fork in the eye, but her brother and sister, like real friends, came to the rescue to help the saddened Anya to punish the traitor Dima in a deserted place - Waking up in the morning in a riding car, Anna did not I immediately knew where she was and where they were going, greatly surprised at some knocks in the trunk. Ruslan reminded her of the details of the conceived enterprise, where Anya was the main instigator, from whom she became ill, but having stolen at each other, the movie characters decided that it was too late to retreat and the punishment should come true. That's just in the trunk was not Anin friend.
- An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.
- 19877.9 (2.9K)TV Mini SeriesRetired Sherlock Holmes and practicing Dr. Watson come back together to solve a puzzle in the beginning of the 20th century.
- The quarantine is over, but the villagers decide not to tell the local hooligans, the Popov brothers, about it. After all, the time of self-isolation was the calmest in the entire history of the settlement - crime decreased by 100%. The most interested in this scam is the sleazy cop and the head of the settlement, who dreams of a promotion. Now every resident of the village plays his part, but everything does not go according to plan when the younger brother falls in love with the city doctor Lusya, who is actually waiting for the groom in the district center.
- Boston. In those distant times, when virgin forests were still rustling on the site of today's Washington, when proud and free Indians gathered at the wigwams, on the site of which New York and Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco are now piled, a settlement already existed here on the Atlantic coast of America. called by the people who founded it - Boston.
- Today the roads of Valentin Zorin's travel across the United States of America led him to the Pacific coast in California. One of the fifty states in the country. However, to one of the fifty states - this is not entirely accurate, although indeed there are fifty stars on the American flag, and each of which symbolizes a state, but California is not just one of the states, stretching a long ribbon along the Pacific coast, it is the largest center: the political , industrial, financial.
- In the next episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin talks about the capital of the United States of America - Washington. There are bigger and more beautiful rivers in America, if not the Potomac River meandering among the plains of the Atlantic coast of the country, but for many reasons: geographical, economic and political order, at the end of the 18th century, it is here, at the junction of the industrial north and the plantation south, not far from places where the waters of the Potomac disappear without a trace in the vast bulk of the Atlantic, a city named after George Washington was founded.
- American cities, unlike, say, European ones, cannot boast of a history of the past two millennium. There are no old palace fences, no deep antiquity.., but even in this row, Dallas, spread out on the Texas prairies, is considered a newcomer in America - an upstart without family and tribe.
- A film about the administrative center of Georgia, the city of Atlanta, about the social and political problems of its inhabitants. The city, a century earlier, burned down by the northerners on the orders of Sherman and rose from the ruins. Atlanta by that time was not just the capital of Georgia, but also its economic and industrial center.
- In the next episode of the series "America of the Seventies" political observer Valentin Zorin travels through the most "European" city in the USA, the capital of jazz - New Orleans. Throughout the country from the northern borders to the Gulf of Mexico, the mighty Mississippi carries its waters - a river toiler, a river that feeds many generations of Americans who have lived and now live on its banks. At its mouth, at the confluence with the Gulf of Mexico, is New Orleans. However, this New Orleans is not so new. In the past, the center of the possessions of the French kings in a new light, and now the largest city, port in the south of the United States.
- Walk through one of the oldest cities in the United States - Philadelphia. "The City of Brotherly Love" or - Philly, as the Americans affectionately call it, is proud of its historical sights, because it was here that the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were signed.
- In the next episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin tells about the history of the founding, economics and social contradictions of a major center of the US steel industry - the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- In this episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin travels through one of the most famous and visited cities in the United States, the "pearl of the West Coast" - San Francisco. Many centuries ago, the inhabitants of ancient Hellas said that the one who was not in Athens was a blockhead, and the one who visited there and did not admire the city was a donkey, and the one who voluntarily left it was a camel. This is how Americans feel about San Francisco. Indeed, the city is very beautiful, steeply descending to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, it makes you admire yourself.
- The first film about America of the seventies, Valentin Zorin began with the city of Chicago - the eight millionth giant stretching on the shores of Lake Michigan. Chicago is called the industrial capital of the United States. It may just as well be called the main center of the American working class. In Chicago, the social contrasts of 1970s America are particularly striking.
- New York is the largest city in the modern world. In greater New York, together with the suburbs, in the 1970s, sixteen million people live, and in the city itself there are about ten million. Americans speak differently about New York - some argue that New York is not America, others, on the contrary, are convinced that this is the most American of all American cities. Apparently both are right.
- In ancient times, when heraldry was in use and every self-respecting city considered it necessary to have its own coat of arms, it was placed on that coat of arms that was symbolic and lily for the city (fortress tower, deer head, scales of justice, sword or something else, something especially revered). To this day, it would not be worthwhile to preserve this custom and wonder what the residents of Los Angeles, the third largest city in the United States, would like to take as a symbol. They surely would - they certainly would be the California Highways. Even Americans accustomed to car herds, coming from other parts of the country to California, finding themselves in Los Angeles and its suburbs, marvel at the empty weaving of concrete and asphalt belts filled to the brim with gasoline carriages.
- Essay by political observer Valentin Zorin, impressions of his visit to the United States, the course of the election campaign. New trends in US politics and public sentiment. Interviews in English with US officials on American policy, new trends, and improving relations with the USSR. Political debate. Promises, plans of politicians. Nuclear policy. Disarmament issues. Presidential candidate programs. 1972 year.
- Vasiliy Kutuzov, the namesake of the famous commander, ends up in a mental hospital because of his talent for inventing jokes. Everyone in his family had this gift, and many suffered as a result. The authorities did not like the fact that the Kutuzovs were bothering the people. But how can this people live in such a country without anecdotes? Vasily's neighbors in the ward are all famous people who have left their mark on history. So he amuses them, until the doctors decided how to cure him of this "ailment" .
- The chief architect of the city, Maxim Karnach, is going through a difficult period in his personal life and career. Many years of misunderstanding, reproaches and family scandals forced him to make a bitter but firm decision: file for divorce from his beautiful wife Dasha. Karnach's friends and colleagues do not suspect what is happening in his family, so they don't understand his other act: self-rejection of his candidacy in the city party. After all, by doing so, he threatened both his career and the professional fate of his subordinates, who only under his leadership were able to finally begin to realize their creative projects. But Karnach is not going to give up his positions at all: despite the intrigues of his enemies and envious people, despite the pressure "from above", he categorically refuses to approve the development project of the city center, which he considers incorrect.
- An investigator for particularly important cases travels to the scene, where corruption and crime have taken on new sophisticated forms in the mountainous southern region of the country. Under the guise of an accidental robbery of a train, individual cars are hijacked, loaded with waste from metallurgical production - and essentially enriched gold ore. The kidnappers are armed with all means. Those who try to prevent them from stealing gold in tons, they ruthlessly kill.
- Erast Fandorin, a young official of the detective department, undertakes to investigate a mysterious suicide. He meets a friend of the suicide student Akhtyrtsev, but as soon as the first threads to the investigation of the crime fall into his hands, an attempt is made to murder him. Fandorin goes on the trail of the mysterious organization "Azazel".
- Based on the novel by D. Hemmet "Glass Key". On the eve of the senate elections, the head of the large trust Paul Medvig, the leader of the city mafia, is doing everything to re-elect his man - Senator Henry. However, the unexpected murder of the senator's son confuses Medwig's cards: his employee, formerly a private investigator, Ned Beaumont, returns to the old craft - and undertakes to investigate this case, with clear grounds to consider Henry to be the murderer himself.
- 1919 year. Fate confronts the young idealist Osya with the Turkish swindler Ibrahim Bender. And the honest Osya would never have contacted such a shameless and cunning swindler if they had not been united by an incredibly dangerous adventure - a hunt for a royal relic, a precious rod, which local bandits and white officers would also like to get. In a series of dizzying adventures, Osya is forced to learn from Ibrahim charming flattery, delicate deception, captivating blackmail and - brute force. And all this - being in love with the purest girl in the city. And, it seems, into one more - a fatal foreign beauty. This is how the portrait of the legendary great schemer and favorite of women, Ostap Bender-Zadunaisky, begins to take shape.
- Part 1 of a one-off special Benny taped in 1990, with outdoor scenes made in New York. Highlights of this part include Hill as head of a common cold research center musical choir, a visual guide to "How to Meet Beautiful Women," and "A Streetcar Named Desirée" (with Benny as both the Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh characters).
- Part 2 of a one-off special Benny taped in 1990, with outdoor scenes made in New York. Highlights of this part include Hill playing Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Roseanne Barr and an audience member in a parody of "Ask Dr. Ruth," Chow Mein showing up for an audition, and Benny getting into a tangle with gangsters.
- Part 1 of 3, featuring sketches never broadcast in America, this hilarious medley contains vintage material from Benny when his cheeky humor established him as one of England's funniest - and naughtiest - comedians. Filled with riotous musical send-ups, fractured fairy tales, wacky commercial spoofs and pitch-perfect impressions, this collection captures the vast range of one of England's most inspired comics.
- Part 2 of 3, featuring sketches never broadcast in America, this hilarious medley contains vintage material from Benny when his cheeky humor established him as one of England's funniest - and naughtiest - comedians. Filled with riotous musical send-ups, fractured fairy tales, wacky commercial spoofs and pitch-perfect impressions, this collection captures the vast range of one of England's most inspired comics.
- Film-making based on V. Kataev's comedy "Day of Rest". The conscientious old supply manager must immediately receive an important resolution - but the bloated bureaucrat from the administration does not want to put it on the last working day. Everything should be decided in an elite holiday home, where the caretaker can get only by becoming an impostor.
- The surgeon oncogynecologist Arkady returns with his family from America to Russia. He travels at the invitation of his best friend to the position of director of the clinic, where he finds himself at the epicenter of intrigue between doctors and senior patients. How will the staff accept him? And what about Shura, the wife of Arkady, who had to go for her beloved husband to an unloved country? The "Behappy" series is an ironic look at the generation of thirty who have everything for happiness, but no happiness.
- Russian documentary, one of the earliest silent films ever made.
- Russian parody sketch shows. The actors within the project are performing parodies of the most popular Russian and world celebrities, TV programs, movies, etc.
- In June 1941, the Emergency Headquarters of the Defense of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced part of the front to withdraw, and on July 9 - to leave Pskov. Fighting on the Luga direction restrained the enemy. The first attacks of the Germans, intending to overcome the Luga frontier on the move, were repulsed with great losses for them.
- Soviet three-part television feature film based on the novels by Jules Verne «20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea» and «Steam House».
- At the center of the lyric-dramatic narrative is the front-line fate of one of the millions of ordinary soldiers of the Great Patriotic War - sapper Fyodor Chaklun and his four-legged assistant - a specially trained shepherd named Rumba. With the help of Rumba, Fedor discovers a mined section of the road and warns the senior in rank - junior lieutenant Svetlana. But the girl, carried away by flirting with the lieutenant colonel, forgets to block the road, and a Soviet tank is blown up on a mine. Fyodor, who is in love with Svetlana, takes the blame - Fidelity and devotion, high patriotism, a sense of duty and responsibility to his own conscience, love and friendship - these are the moral and human concepts that with honor will carry through the harsh military and life trials of Fedor Chaklun, Sveta, Tonya and other characters of the film story are ordinary liberating armies. The film is dedicated to them and to many of those who, having liberated their native land, did not live to the day of the Great Victory, and to those who came to Berlin with battles.
- The owner of a network of elite beauty salons, Ekaterina Vlasova, is a woman with a very nasty character. She is wayward, cynical and extremely stubborn. Thanks to these properties, she created her "empire" from scratch - and old-fashioned ideas about the border between good and evil help her to flourish. But life in the capital forces Catherine to show herself in a new role - now, with her trademark stubbornness, she reveals criminal designs and criminal intrigues. Even the investigator Shilov, who at first did not hide his antipathy to the "omnipresent old woman," is forced to admit her talent for deduction. To successfully catch criminals, Ekaterina must keep up with the times - and she persistently masters new technologies and gadgets.
- A simple St. Petersburg chemistry teacher lives modestly: for years he walks in the same suit, drives a "hunchback" "Zaporozhets", carries a shabby briefcase. And he does not suspect that a copy of him lives nearby, in the same Petersburg. This person is not at all addicted to chemistry. People like him are simply called a bandit. Sergei Prokhorovich cuts across the vastness of the city on the Neva in a luxurious jeep, leads real boys and pampers his mindless girlfriend. He had never met a chemistry teacher. Until the situation emerges from the classic anecdote about the "new Russian": the teacher's "Zaporozhets" flies into the bandyugan's jeep. Prokhorich leaves the car to deal with the bastard, but, looking inside the "hunchback", freezes: the driver of the "Constipation" is surprisingly similar to him. Brothers. And not a single real kid will ever leave his brother, so from that moment on, the teacher and the bandit go purely through life together, finding themselves in situations one more fun than the other.
- The author's cycle of the famous theater and film actor Leonid Filatov, dedicated to the actors of Soviet and Russian cinema who passed away. Aleksandr Kaidanovsky and Rolan Bykov, Vladimir Vysotsky and Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Oleg Dal and Inna Gulaya became heroes of the issues - and many others.The last program was dedicated to the author himself and the presenter - Leonid Filatov. She aired on December 4, 2003. The filming of the documentary cycle was completed due to the death of the presenter.
- December 31, 1320. Residents of the medieval city of Nishchburg, who survived two plague epidemics, are preparing to celebrate the New Year and quickly forget about all the problems that have fallen on their heads. But it turns out that not all that is possible has fallen on their heads. A huge stone flies to the Earth, which will fall in some twelve hours. The wise baron decides not to say anything to anyone, but to distract his subjects by arranging a magnificent feast for all the money that remains in the treasury.
- Introducing the release of a new show, in which invited participants will experience greed, greed, the whole range of psychological tricks, and also get the chance to make money through luck and deception. The rules of the game are a bit like the board game "Mafia", which we have upgraded to our conditions. Unlike the Mafia, here you can win without cheating. And it depends only on the participants which path they choose: black or white. Who will substitute the participants and receive the maximum bank amount?
- The master of the improvisational genre Anton Shastun and his show «CONTACTS». Star guests come to his studio to test his erudition. But not his own, but those whose names can be found among the contacts on the phone: friends, acquaintances, relatives, colleagues and even random people. One contact, one call and one minute to talk. Who will be smarter?
- Chicago. In the first part of the film, the author tries to answer the question: "Did the African Americans who traveled to the north, including to Chicago, succeed in finding human conditions of existence and human rights?" To the song of the American blues musician George "Buddy" Guy, the streets of the American metropolis of Chicago, black residents are shown. Dick Gregory, one of the best actors in America of the time, commenting on the conditions of life for blacks when they first moved to Chicago. Comments by African American Families on Current Conditions. Video footage of a huge Negro ghetto. Directed by Anatoly Semyonov. 1973 year.
- In the second film, the author tells about the struggle of blacks for the right to feel equal with all US citizens. Commentary of the mayor of Cairo, one of the cities in the American South, about the suppression of the rebels, about the most brutal methods of fighting African American protesters. Jesse Jackson's speech. Jesse Jackson's commentary on the Black Rights Organization. Comments by female residents of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, on the degree of mental development of whites and blacks. A story about the Ku Klux Klan, about Robert Shelton - the head of the Ku Klux Klan. R. Shelton's comment on the solution of the Negro problem in the USA. Speech by American singer and dramatic actor Paul Robson, his commentary. Shots of the Olympics, victories in the competition of black athletes. About reprisals against Negro organizations. The widow of the American writer Ernest Hemingway Mary and the American scientist Henry Winston speak out about support for African Americans and the fight against racism. 1973 year.
- Deadline is a 1959-1961 American television drama series that re-enacted famous newspaper stories from the past. Hosted and narrated by Paul Stewart, the syndicated series was produced by Arnold Perl. Guest stars included Peter Falk, Diane Ladd, Robert Lansing, and George Maharis. Thirty-nine 30-minute episodes were produced.
- Sculptor Mahmoud, an art student, comes on vacation to his grandmother. He chooses his cousin Zumrad as a living model for his thesis. When the work was completed, Zumrad's relatives demanded that Mahmud marry her. The young artist runs away. In the end, he cannot marry all the models he works with.
- Thief Nikolai Kotenko is released from prison, determined to start a new honest life for the sake of his beloved wife Nadia and two young children who are waiting for him at home. However, the underworld does not want to let Nikolay go. He is forced to take someone else's fault for the murder under the threat of reprisal against his family. Nikolai gets 25 years in prison, and Nadia draws up a divorce and leaves with the children in an unknown direction. 20 years pass.
- The former homeless child Yakov who in the childhood has accidentally got to America comes back to the native village. He hopes that will allocate him the earth, and he will be able to become the real farmer. Having received seeds of cigar tobacco from the American friend, Vosmerkin has begun to realize plans.
- Zakhar Psaltyrev went through many ordeals in the royal fleet, where scuffle and bullying of a man became a custom. Only thanks to the natural mind and perseverance, an illiterate peasant guy managed to escape the fate of many of his comrades who had drunk and lost their human dignity. Captain 1st Rank Lezvin, the commander of the cruiser Svyatoslav, panting in the harsh atmosphere of the tsarist autocracy, fatherly loved his messenger for his simple Russian soul, sharp-witted mind, love for his homeland and hatred for oppression. Zakhar learned a lot from Lezvin, but soon they had to part. Zakhar becomes an active underground bolshevik. Years of war and revolution have passed in struggle and peaceful labor. The day has come when the sailor Zakhar Psaltyrev returns to his ship as a captain of the 1st rank and becomes his commander.
- The action takes place on one of the floors of a typical office high-rise. Small rented offices, a general secretary on the floor, a canteen, a smoking room and a daily routine. After all, we are not talking about a large company, but about small private organizations, each of which must fight for survival. And everything would not be so funny if the three neighboring organizations did not differ so much. The floor was divided among themselves by a travel agency, a sex therapist and a totalitarian sect, under the guise of a humanitarian center. These are by no means good neighbors. All of them have a huge tooth sharpened against each other. Each organization does not have enough space to work, but the entire floor is occupied, the only way to get more is to survive a competitor. And each "firm" in the face, smiling at its neighbors, is always ready to "stick a knife" in the back. The war has begun.