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Boris Blank

Boris Blank

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Biography

Boris Leibovich Blank (born October 2, 1938) is a Soviet and Russian film actor, film director, screenwriter and artist. President of the Guild of Film and Television Artists of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. Former chief artist of the State Film Actor Theater (2008-2017). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991).

Known For

Welcome, or No Trespassing
7.6

Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp.

Welcome, or No Trespassing

1964
Anna Pavlova
4.9

The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably difficult, but dreams of a ballerina career make her stubbornly deal with adversity. Anna’s performance and determination does not go unnoticed by the celebrated choreographer Marius Petipa, who helps to stage Pavlova's examination performance. Such a gift becomes a starting point for Ani in the world of big ballet, her fast-paced career, position in high society and world fame make her forget about close friends and especially her faithful Michel Fokine, who invested a lot of energy in the formation of a ballerina.

Anna Pavlova

1983
My Tender and Affectionate Beast
6.1

An aristocrat falls for a young woman who brings him ruin. Based on Chekhov's story. AKA A Hunting Accident, The Shooting Party.

My Tender and Affectionate Beast

1978
The End of Eternity
5.9

Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and Boris Ivanov.

The End of Eternity

1987
The Seagull
4.5

Events unfold on the estate of Pyotr Sorin, which brought together representatives of secular society - actress Irina Arkadina, the host's sister and her lover, the famous writer Trigorin. Sorin’s nephew, Konstantin Treplev, in love with a neighbor girl Nina Zarechnaya, who dreams of becoming an actress, writes for her a play that she plays in the scenery of Sorin’s garden.

The Seagull

1970
Simple - Minded
5.0

No description available.

Simple - Minded

1994
Who Will Pay For Luck?
4.0

Crimea, 1919. The White Guards are preparing a trial of the revolutionary Antonina Chumak. Sailor Kuskov, Cossack Dmitry Chumak and card cheater Fedor Chumar arrive in the city to save her.

Who Will Pay For Luck?

1980
A Man at His Place
5.8

A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center.

A Man at His Place

1973
Adventures of a Dentist
6.4

Young dentist Chesnokov has a knack for painless tooth removal, much to the dismay of others, who fear unemployment and start to challenge Chesnokov.

Adventures of a Dentist

1967
Shine, Shine, My Star
5.6

In 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution, the peoples had to decide between conforming to Bolshevism or national self-determination. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but social life and art. While others just want to wash away their gloom, he reflects on the everyday sorrows and the role of art in that time of changes.

Shine, Shine, My Star

1969
The Sixth of July
6.0

Political thriller based on a story of coup against Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party in Moscow on 6–7 July 1918. They assassinate German ambassador in Moscow in hope of gaining public support and dragging the country into new war with Germany.

The Sixth of July

1968
The Old New Year
5.9

Two families are trying to fix their problems during the celebration of the New Year.

The Old New Year

1980
The Theater Is My House
7.0

A.N. Ostrovsky recalls the first period of his creative work (1849–1859), when he began collaborating with the Maly Theatre and with masters of the Russian stage such as L.P. Kositskaya, M.S. Shchepkin, and P.M. Sadovsky. Almost every character in this film is a real historical figure.

The Theater Is My House

1987
An Ordinary History
4.3

A young provincial, Aleksander Aduev, moves to St. Petersburg to live with his pragmatic uncle, where he experiences the collapse of his romantic ideals.

An Ordinary History

1970
Uncle's Dream
5.7

An important event is taking place in a small provincial town, an elderly rich prince arrives. The local "lioness" Maria Alexandrovna Moskaleva decides to marry him to her daughter Zinochka. But the "noble" Mordassov society is by no means inclined to voluntarily give up its positions: after all, in the head of every mother who has a marriageable daughter, the dream is to get a rich man as a son-in-law.

Uncle's Dream

1967
Mother of Jesus
10.0

After Jesus' execution, several people gather at his mother's house — a brother and sister, a Roman patrician with a servant, one of the apostles... They all understand that something more significant has happened than just the execution of some half-crazed prophet. Everyone is trying to answer the question for themselves, what is the mystery of the personality of Jesus Christ. But, alas, no one here hears each other. And there is already a crowd of sufferers at the house, who see in the mother of Jesus the savior from all troubles...

Mother of Jesus

1991
The Stairway
3.9

Having his life come to a dead end, Vladimir is thinking about suicide. He is saved by a girl and spends the night at her home. The next morning, Vladimir wants to leave, but finds himself trapped by the house: the staircase seems to have no end, again and again it brings him to the same floor.

The Stairway

1989
Kremlin secrets of the XVI century
N/A

Spring of 1584. The Magi predict the death of King John within 24 hours. Warring boyars are rebelling and are ready to unite against Boris Godunov. The royal court is in turmoil. The already unstable moral principles become completely unbridled. Moscow is filled with violence, drunken orgies and the wild revelry of tsarist power.

Kremlin secrets of the XVI century

1991
Without Sun
9.0

“Without the Sun” is the first name that Gorky himself gave to his play and which most closely matches its essence. For this work is not about the "day" and its people, but about the indestructible, passionate desire of people from darkness to light, to the sun. "

Without Sun

1987
Arena
8.5

In one of the occupied European cities, the commandant of the garrison gathers a troupe of circus performers. Coming from different countries, they are in the humiliating position of people forced to serve their enslavers. Many of them, recruited from camps and workhouses, were quite content with their lot. Only after a chain of subsequent events, the artists raise an uprising. Unarmed people are not able to resist the arrived guards. They die, but at the cost of their lives they regain their lost human dignity.

Arena

1967