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The twelve episodes of this BBC series cover a millennium of English monarchy and portray lives of twelve important English monarchs and how each of them more
The twelve episodes of this BBC series cover a millennium of English monarchy and portray lives of twelve important English monarchs and how each of them impacted the history: William the Conqueror, Henry II, Edward I, Henry V , Richard III, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Charles I, Charles II, George III, Victoria, and to the present Queen Elizabeth II. Each 23-minute episode is filmed on location, with historian Nigel Spivey providing the narration describing bloodshed, lust and political intrigue. Actors provide mute dramatization. close
Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life more
Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir. close
The Legend of Yang Guifei, also known as The Secret History of Concubine Yang, is a Chinese television series loosely based on the romance between Emperor more
The Legend of Yang Guifei, also known as The Secret History of Concubine Yang, is a Chinese television series loosely based on the romance between Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty and his consort Yang Yuhuan. The series was directed by You Xiaogang and starred Yin Tao and Anthony Wong as the couple. It was first broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV from April to May 2010. close
Biographical film about the Chuvash revolutionary poet Mikhail Kuzmin. Under the pseudonym Sespel, the young poet waged an uncompromising struggle against more
Biographical film about the Chuvash revolutionary poet Mikhail Kuzmin. Under the pseudonym Sespel, the young poet waged an uncompromising struggle against the counter-revolution in Cheboksary. Once in prison, the sick Sespel was soon released by the Communists and, at the request of doctors, moved to Ukraine from where he transported food to his homeland until his last days. Buried in Ukraine. close
Life and times of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, famous French pilot and even more famous writer who disappeared on a routine reconnaissance flight during WW2.
Life and times of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, famous French pilot and even more famous writer who disappeared on a routine reconnaissance flight during WW2. close
Juan Caoer was orphaned at an early age. Before her death, her mother made her promise to go to study the weaving craft in Jinxinfang, a workshop famous more
Juan Caoer was orphaned at an early age. Before her death, her mother made her promise to go to study the weaving craft in Jinxinfang, a workshop famous for its products. Having become a skilled craftsman, Caoer enters the palace, where he finds a new girlfriend and, of course, love. close
Mitrofan Aksenov is a genius who anticipated the most important and influential scientific discovery of the twentieth century — the theory of relativity.
Mitrofan Aksenov is a genius who anticipated the most important and influential scientific discovery of the twentieth century — the theory of relativity. close
In the documentary Konstantin Orozaliev and Faid Simforov "Catch up and destroy" describes the legendary escape of the Soviet pilot from captivity.
According more
In the documentary Konstantin Orozaliev and Faid Simforov "Catch up and destroy" describes the legendary escape of the Soviet pilot from captivity.
According to the plot of the picture, in February 1945, a simple Russian soldier Mikhail Devyataev and other prisoners make an escape from fascist captivity on a Henkel plane. It was thanks to this risky step that Mikhail and nine other prisoners of war, who were waiting for another German concentration camp, managed to survive two Nazi concentration camps.
The fact that Devyataev saved nine prisoners of war from certain death was remembered only thirteen years later and handed him the Hero Star. close
When the collection of short stories of I. E. Babel “Konarmiya” was published, one of its first readers was S. M. Budenny. "Conarmy" made him furious. more
When the collection of short stories of I. E. Babel “Konarmiya” was published, one of its first readers was S. M. Budenny. "Conarmy" made him furious. Budyonny called "Konarmiya" slanderous speculation and threatened to personally kill Babel with a checker. Defending Babel, Gorky wrote: "He showed the fighters of the First Horse "better, more truthful than Gogol - the Zaporozhians." The writer was saved that time. But on May 16, 1939, no one could help Babel. The writer was arrested. He was in the most terrible prison of the NKVD - Sukhanovskaya. From there, few people managed to get out alive. There were rumors that the true culprit of Babel's arrest was the wife of People's Commissar of the NKVD Yezhov - Yevgenia Solomonovna. There is a secret in the relationship between these people. The authors of the film put forward their version of Babel’s arrest: the writer went to visit the wife of the “iron People’s Commissar” not because he had a “spy connection” with her, but because all this time Babel was collecting material for his novel, a draft version of which was written by the time of arrest. This first and last novel by Babel – perhaps his best literary work – disappeared without a trace in the archives of the NKVD. . . close
The legendary dancer, African-American Bill Robinson began to work as a dancer as a child, becoming one of the best artists on Broadway by the age of more
The legendary dancer, African-American Bill Robinson began to work as a dancer as a child, becoming one of the best artists on Broadway by the age of 27. But for white Americans, Bill began dancing at the age of 50 thanks to his new manager, Marty Forkins, with whom he worked for the rest of his career. Even at the age of 60, Bill was an unsurpassed steppe virtuoso, agile, charming, always smiling. Friends remember him as a cheerful, generous and lucky person, equally cheerful both in work and in everyday life.
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Elem Klimov and Larisa Shepitko were the most beautiful and tragic couple of Soviet cinema. Their films were banned, put on the shelf, released in a limited more
Elem Klimov and Larisa Shepitko were the most beautiful and tragic couple of Soviet cinema. Their films were banned, put on the shelf, released in a limited edition. Larissa shot only four paintings, Elem. Despite this, and Elem, and Larisa, recognized classics not only Soviet, but also world cinema. close
The main character of the film “Lame Dervish”, created in the community of Hungarian and Tajik filmmakers, is the Hungarian scientist Vambury (Dula Benedek), more
The main character of the film “Lame Dervish”, created in the community of Hungarian and Tajik filmmakers, is the Hungarian scientist Vambury (Dula Benedek), an orientalist and ethnographer who went to Bukhara in 1862. This journey was made in search of the true ancestral homeland of the Hungarians, despite the fact that Europeans were forbidden to enter the city at that time. But the traveler was helped by the envoy of the Bukhara Emir Mirzo (Ato Mukhamedzhanov), who allowed Vambery to inspect the mosques and palaces of "sacred Bukhara", and also showed various creations of ancient culture and brought to the book depository of the emirs, because he understood that East and West cannot be divided and it is necessary to look for ways of rapprochement. close
The last piece of the trilogy, following 'Katatsumori' and 'See Heaven', filming her grandma and herself. Her gazes and insights are cast on the lovable beings in front of her eyes.
The last piece of the trilogy, following 'Katatsumori' and 'See Heaven', filming her grandma and herself. Her gazes and insights are cast on the lovable beings in front of her eyes. close
The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.
The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations. close
“Darwin’s Darkest Hour” is a television biographical drama that tells the story of the discovery of the most influential scientific theory of all time more
“Darwin’s Darkest Hour” is a television biographical drama that tells the story of the discovery of the most influential scientific theory of all time – the theory of science. "Lost" ) spent years writing his “Big Book”, as he called it. However, fearing a brewing conflict with Orthodox religious values, he did not print his work until he received the manuscript from naturalist Alfred Wallace. Reading the essay of a colleague, the hero of the film "Darwin:" The Darkest Hour Before Dawn was struck by the fact that it contained many of the conclusions about the evolution of species that he himself had arrived at.
Such an unpleasant discovery for the scientist presented Darwin with a dilemma: either to continue to postpone publication and thus risk leaving all the works of his later years in obscurity and giving the palm to others; or to publish a treatise, and thereby doom himself to the probable fury of the church and, perhaps, to a break with his wife Emma, a devout Christian. close
A documentary about the brilliant Italian painter, one of the largest representatives of High Renaissance art. His paintings are characterized by the more
A documentary about the brilliant Italian painter, one of the largest representatives of High Renaissance art. His paintings are characterized by the emphasized balance and harmony of the whole, the balance of the composition, the dimensionality of the rhythm and the delicate use of the possibilities of color. Impeccable command of the line and the ability to generalize and highlight the main thing made Raphael one of the most outstanding artists of all time. close
His life was full of adventure and struggle, his death surrounded by mystery, his influence on contemporaries and descendants is enormous. What was he more
His life was full of adventure and struggle, his death surrounded by mystery, his influence on contemporaries and descendants is enormous. What was he like, Guevara, nicknamed Che, an Argentine, accepted by the Cuban people as a son, a man who taught Latin Americans to fight for their freedom? His great contemporaries – John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle and Mao Zedong – took their places in the textbooks of world history, and Che is still an idol. Che's time goes on. This documentary is entirely dedicated to the legendary revolutionary.
The film is dedicated to a unique artistic phenomenon—the work of musician Oleg Karavaichuk, who with great strength embodied the understanding of “The more
The film is dedicated to a unique artistic phenomenon—the work of musician Oleg Karavaichuk, who with great strength embodied the understanding of “The Spirit of St. Petersburg” in our time. About this film composer who wrote music for more than 100 movies, and the creator of virtuosic piano, improvisations, Dmitry Shostakovich said, “Karavaichuk is not a talent; he is a genius.” This is how he was discussed, as the last musical genius, in June 2016, when Oleg Karavaichuk passed away. The next year, 2017, he would have turned 90 years old. close
Behind her fragility was an iron character. Even from her own troubles, she knew how to benefit. She studied music... to the sound of sirens and anti-aircraft guns.
Behind her fragility was an iron character. Even from her own troubles, she knew how to benefit. She studied music... to the sound of sirens and anti-aircraft guns. close
