Valentin Chernyak
Actor · b. 1932 · Degtyarnoye, Kharkovskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
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Movie4.4Science FictionAdventureEnglish-dubbed and re-edited version of the 1959 Soviet film Nebo Zovyot. Acquired by Roger Corman and reworked by a young Francis Ford Coppola, the film relocates its Cold War “space race” to a fictional future where rival nations—North Hemis and South Hemis—compete to reach Mars first. When one crew’s mission goes awry, their rivals risk their own flight to attempt a daring rescue nearthe Martian moons, where strange cosmic dangers await.
Battle Beyond the Sun
1959 · 22 votes
Movie8.5DramaBased on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.
Movie7.0DramaDavid Motuzka, demobilized Red Army soldier, returns to his native village, hoping to see the changes caused by the revolutionary events. But he cannot see no improvement. The village is ruled by the kulaks and David's childhood friend Kornii Matiukha helps them.
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Movie6.3DramaThe year is 1962. Returning after an important mission, the polar aviation pilot Tagilov saves a young woman, Tatyana, who is stranded on a chipped ice floe. She is a doctor.
Movie7.3ComedyLyudmila doesn't have any luck in finding the perfect job. She tried to be an air hostess, newscaster, model, ice skater, but fate had something else in store for her - a petrol station, where her incredible positivity and fiery personality charm everyone around her.
Movie10.0FamilyAdventureBased on the story "The Chicken God" by Y. Zbanatsky. Six-year-old Sergei from the Yantarny kindergarten finds a magical stone – "the chicken god." When he looks through a hole in the stone, the world becomes magical and beautiful. With this treasure, Seryozha sets off on a journey, meeting all kinds of people, until his teachers find him.
Movie8.0DramaHistoryHearing about the revolution in the hospital, the sailor Gulyavin goes to Petrograd, and from there with a detachment of Ukrainian volunteers he is sent to Ukraine. The troop is joined by cavalrymen under the command of the anarchist Lelka. The chief of staff, Stroyev, reproaches Gulyavin with negligence - you cannot take an untested detachment. However, the desperate courage of Lelka in battle with the White Guards gives Gulyavin not only respect for her, but love...
MovieDrama1905. The peasant Marko Hrusha returns to his native village and leads a struggle against the landlords for land. He is arrested but later released. After his release, his struggle becomes even stronger...
Movie6.0DramaA surgeon identifies his patient as his childhood neighbor, and remembers their life in Alma-Ata in the fifties. Then they grew in a period of ending Stalinism, among adults who were both coward and brave. He's dreaming about the balcony, which was their refuge.
Movie5.0WarAdventureWWII, 1945. There are fights for the city on the Danube. The river is mined by the Germans, and this fetters the action of our troops. In addition, a city with a million people was left without food. And downstream are Soviet food barges. The command instructs the reconnaissance group a difficult and dangerous operation — to obtain from the enemy a map of the mined sections of the river, which requires penetrating into the city captured by the Germans.
Movie7.0WarDramaVillage boy Klimko, accompanying his father to the front, stays with his stepmother. In the occupied village, the hero cannot see his friends. Having survived hunger, injuries and loneliness, the boy enters a vocational school - nine kilometers from the village - and works with new friends for the front...
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About two days from the life of Anna Sergeevna Kuleshova, secretary of the rural district party committee. Along with solving a number of complex social problems, she also has to deal with many personal issues related to her daughter's fate, and patiently wait for her husband, a major who participates in the disposal of bombs left over from the war.
Movie6.1HistoryDramaA life of a few people during the years before WWII before the events shown in "Destiny" (1977).
Movie6.6HistoryDramaA war comes to the life of the heroes of "Earthy Love" (1975).
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Movie9.0FamilyAdventureSchoolchildren Nikita and Roma dream of doing a heroic deed. One day, they saw a photo of the "criminal" in the newspaper and a laconic "message" about the "crime" he had committed. The guys go looking for him.
MovieDramaHistoryThe film tells the story of the difficult and tragic fate of a Prykarpattia family over several generations. The events take place in the difficult 30s and 40s. Zhmeniak's father tries to gather more land in his possession by all means. But not everyone understands that he will divide all that land between his children when it comes time to die anyway, and they are simply jealous of his possessions. Meanwhile, the children have their own dramas and tragedies, because it's one thing to love someone, and another thing to know what the father thinks about it, and who he sees as wives for his sons. And then there are changes of government, and then there is the war...
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