Shimon Volpert
Crew
Biography
Soviet, Israeli stuntman and actor. In 1968-1973 - soloist of the folk dance ensemble "Palace of the Sailors" (Odessa). In 1975, he graduated from a choreographic school, receiving the education of a ballet dancer. In 1981 he graduated from the Kiev School of Variety and Circus Art. In 1977-1989 he worked at the Estrada Theater as a ballet dancer, stuntman, actor, teacher of plastic, stage movement and stage combat, then he worked at the Grotesque Theater at the Odessa Philharmonic. In 1987, he graduated from continuing education courses for senior cinema workers at VGIK (director of stunt and battle scenes). Stunt Semyon Grigoriev, one of the ten most sought-after specialists in the Soviet Union, emigrated to Israel (after repatriation - Shimon Volpert), created in this country in the early 1990s one of the most extraordinary stunt teams of the time. At the time of the creation of the stunt team established itself, working as a stunt performer in Hollywood and European films, including Women’s Prison, Deltofors, American Ninja and so on. Since 1992, Shimon Volpert (Semyon Grigoriev) has students, like him, immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Mostly athletes involved in different styles of martial arts. The formation of the brigade as a professional team can be attributed to the time of the creation of the “Gladiators' Show” (project by Menachem Golan and Israel Sharque) in the arena of the ancient Roman amphitheater in Caesarea. In Israel, completed the creation of a unique system of training for actors and stuntmen based on softness, which guaranteed invulnerability to falls and bumps. Thanks to this unique technique, Western stuntmen gave Shimon the nickname “Crazy Russian” for doing tricks with a minimum of special insurance tools and not getting injured. He heads his own martial art school in Lod.
Known For
Alice Seleznyova, a girl from the future, finds herself 1984. Following her are the space pirates Krys and Joker Y, with most nasty pirate's intentions. Coming to her help is an ordinary boy, Kolya, and his friends from 6th grade. Based on Kir Bulychyov's 1077 novel "One Hundred Years Ahead."
Guest from the Future
A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this Soviet Ukrainian animated adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale
Treasure Island
A Soviet Ukrainian made violent farcical yet quite faithful adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson's book that combines animated sequences with live action parts. This movie covers the first half of the book
Treasure Island: Part I – Captain Flint's Map
A Soviet Ukrainian made violent farcical yet quite faithful adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson's book that combines animated sequences with live action parts. This film covers the second half of the book
Treasure Island: Part II - Captain Flint's Treasure
After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is followed by an immortal killer robot through all the dangers, and only one guy tries to help her survive and protect her from the killing machine.
American Cyborg: Steel Warrior
A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing “Jurassic Park” moment in genetics.
Genesis 2.0
A detachment of Red Army soldiers is ambushed, from where only the boy can escape.
The Secret of the Golden Breguet
The Siberian permafrost is melting. Ancient bones rise up from the ground and wild animals seem to have disappeared. Three Yakutians venture into the vast wilderness on different quests. Villager Roman and city boy Kyym hunt for a rare reindeer while not so far away, scientist Semyon scourges the permafrost for a viable cell of the mammoth, which he needs to clone the extinct animal.
Holgut
Conscript Andrey Vorobey dreams of serving in the army. However, to his disappointment, the medical commission declares Andrey unfit for military service. Nevertheless, he is determined to test himself in challenging conditions and goes to a southern state farm, where he volunteers for the hardest jobs...
Don't Cry, Girl
Two friends founded a company to clean up planets. As long as they cleared the planets of debris, everything went well. But one day they were asked to clear the new planet of ghosts...