7 Movies Starring Evgeniy Mironov

His Wife's Diary

His Wife's Diary

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-10-20

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (368 Reviews)

Director:

Aleksey Uchitel

Fullplot:

A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov. A work of great honesty and piercing psychology.

Prevrashchenie

Prevrashchenie

Basic Info:

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

80 min

IMDB Ratings:

(206 Reviews)

Director:

Valeri Fokin

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Valeri Fokin

Franz Kafka (novel)

Ivan Popov

Fullplot:

House of Fools

House of Fools

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-12-06

Languages:

Chechen, Russian

Countries:

Russia, France

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (2234 Reviews)

Fullplot:

The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have to continue living their day to day life after being invaded twice over, and they have to deal with their sicknesses.

Idiot

Idiot

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-05-12

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

550 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.6 (1181 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

The thrilling drama based on the world's greatest masterpiece by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Half-sane Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss psycho-clinic to face the glamorous world of St Petersburg. Here vice, money and extortion rule. Myshkin finds himself in the whirlpool of intrigue. He inherits an enormous fortune, acquires affections of the vicious Nastassya Filippovna and the beautiful young Aglaya. Scandal, murder and incredible love affair follow. Plunge into the atmosphere of the 19th century St Petersburg created by the impressive authentic costumes and sceneries in the most expensive TV-project in Russia

Dreaming of Space

Dreaming of Space

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-07-07

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (473 Reviews)

Director:

Aleksey Uchitel

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

A story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.

Piranha

Piranha

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-04-06

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

167 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (1088 Reviews)

Director:

Andrey Kavun

Cast:

Writer:

Aleksandr Bushkov (novel)

Dmitriy Zverkov (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Agent of special department "Piranha" Kirill Mazur and his colleague Olga go to the far north with the assignment to liquidate an underwater secret weapon lab in the guise of a mutual vacation. All of a sudden, they find themselves in the world where civilization laws are forgotten, and this deadly weapons are kept by gangsters who are controlled by a new "master of taiga" Prohor, whose leisure time is spent hunting at humans. Mazur didn't know that he would have to trade his familiar gun for a hand-made bone knife, and save his companion and himself instead of saving the world. For them, this safari in northern forests would be no less dangerous as for the live targets.

Sindrom Petrushki

Sindrom Petrushki

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-06-09

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia, Germany, Switzerland

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

( Reviews)

Director:

Elena Hazanov

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Alena Alova

Dina Rubina (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Since early childhood Peter has been obsessed with the world of puppets, but his greater obsession is with a real girl, Lisa. He crafts his perfect woman out of her. But Lisa isn't a docile marionette. She's a living human being and she rebels against her creator. Based on the critically-acclaimed, brilliant and poignant novel by one of the best contemporary Russian writers, Dina Rubina, "Petrushka Syndrome" is a multidimensional metaphor, where a sense of duality pervades everything. People and dolls, life and art, the Creator and the creation depend on one another. And where does one draw the line between them?

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