
Svetlana Khodchenkova
Actor · b. 1983 · Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Svetlana Khodchenkova is a Russian actress, known for her roles in Bless the Woman (2003) and in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). She was born Svetlana Viktorovna Khodchenkova on January 21, 1983, in Moscow and spent her childhood in Zheleznodorozhny, a small city about 6 miles east of Moscow, Russia. She was raised by a single mother, attended a public school, and once dreamed of becoming a medical doctor. In 1998, at the age of 15, she started a career as a fashion model in Moscow, and also made a few international gigs. In 2000 she began her studies at the Moscow Institute of World Economics, but quit in favor of acting. From 2001 to 2005 she studied acting at the Shchukin Theatrical School of the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. There she attended the class of Nina Doroshina and Alekandr Lyubimtsev, graduating in 2005 as actress. While a student, she starred in films of directors Stanislav Govorukhin, and Viktor Merezhko, and also appeared in popular Russian TV series. In 2008, she earned the best actress award at Gdynya Polish Film Festival, for the leading role in Mala Moskwa (2008). In 2012, she won COFCA Award for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). On December 13, 2005, she married her classmate, actor Vladimir Yaglych, and also took her husband's name, changing her name from Svetlana Khodchenkova to Svetlana Yaglych.The couple married on the 13th on purpose; because all their filming contracts were signed on the 13th, they believed that 13 would keep working as a good number for them. However, their marriage did not last, ending in divorce. Svetlana has been involved in several stage productions of Independent stage project in Moscow. She made stellar appearances in such plays, as "Moulin Rouge Hospital" and "Theatre with and without rules" earning herself much critical acclaim. Outside of her acting profession, Svetlana is skilled in horse-back riding. She is also fond of winter sports, such as alpine skiing: she practiced her downhill at the ski resort of Courchevel, France. Source IMDB, original author Steve Shelokhonov
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TV7.1Talk ShowComedyEvening show Ivan Urgant. Movies, sports, new gadgets, art. What is happening in the country and in the world? Actual characters discussing the day's events and new music.
TV6.8MysteryMoscow, 1978, the eve of the Olympic Games. In the Soviet Union, several cases of fraud have been registered, the victims of which were women "with a position in society." The victims describe the signs of the criminal in the same way: a charming, intelligent middle-aged man, easily insinuates himself into trust. After the suicide attempt of the deputy chairman of the district executive committee, a professional detective, police captain Shmakov and senior police lieutenant Polina Novgorodtseva, takes over the investigation of a high-profile case.
TV5.3DramaA sex icon becomes a spy during one of the most important wars of the 20th century. To survive, Margaret becomes an exotic dancer after her husband leaves her. When the world stands on the edge of WWI, she becomes Mata Hari, a spy with unprecedented access to the European elite.
Mata Hari
2017 · 10 votes
TV5.0MysteryDramaWhen talented young officer Katya Lavrova is removed from the force without much explanation, she begins to work as a freelance investigator and helps solve various crimes.
TV7.1ComedyThe current mayor of the city of Sineozyorsk, Arkadiy Anikeyev, is caught taking a bribe on an especially large scale, after which, by a court decision, he is placed under house arrest and must stay for a long time at his place of residence in a communal apartment. Arkadiy is abandoned by his wife, to whom all the property was recorded. Once in a communal apartment, Anikeyev runs into Ivan Samsonov, with whom they were neighbors in a communal apartment in childhood. Leaving aside disagreements, Anikeyev decides to help Samsonov become the new mayor of Sineozyorsk, so that he will help to remove all charges from him
TV4.2DramaComedyDuring a spur-of-the-moment trip to St. Petersburg, chief financial officer Elena unexpectedly meets the man of her dreams – and then, equally unexpectedly, loses him again. She has nothing to go on, so she breaks out everything she's got to hunt him down: logical deduction, supernatural forces, her friends' help, a new guy she's met, a retreat, and much more. Since she was a little girl, Elena has always "taken life at a march," climbing the career ladder with frankly alarming determination, never letting herself get waylaid by romance or relationships. She's always been like that – right up until this weird, accidental, incredibly lucky meeting. In the new episodes, Elena gets back to hunting down the one that got away, using every aboveground (or underhand) method available to her. She rushes headlong into it, makes mistakes, falls down, but keeps going, making the difficult journey toward love and affection, and, most importantly, finding herself.
TV8.8DramaCrimeFew days before his retirement, an experienced chief investigator gets assigned a new case, where a corpse mysteriously disappears from the morgue. The mortician swears that the man, killed by a train while saving a woman’s life, just got up and left. The woman happens to be a well-connected neuroscientist and she wants to know what happened to her rescuer. The elderly detective and the young doctor make an unlikely duo and their terse relations often get in the way of the investigation. But to get to the truth they have to work together. Intricate plot lines mix three different stories that unravel the mysteries of hundreds of WWII soldiers’ deaths, and even a terrorist plot.
TV5.9DramaThe TV show is about the Godunov family, which covers the period from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to the accession of Mikhail Romanov to the throne.
TV7.2DramaWar & PoliticsSwept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.
TV3.6DramaKuprin (Yama, Vpotmakh, Poedinok)
TV6.6ComedyContemporary Moscow. Journalist Sonya Bagretsova reviews restaurants for a popular Internet magazine. A misanthrope who wants and needs no one, she has one weakness - alcohol - that lands her in a ridiculous predicament.
TV5.5DramaThe story of four young women working in the recruiting agency New recruit their families and relations with men.
TV6.0The series, like a stage play, is divided into three acts, with a three-year period between each of them and tells a story that will shatter viewers' perceptions of the actors' lifestyle and offer a glimpse into their reality with all their fears, desires, and goals. It will become clear how those whom everyone is used to consider carefree live and work when the stage lights go off. And how actors, more so than any other professionals, can hit rock bottom despite being on their peak the day before.
TV7.0Action & AdventureCrime
TV7.1ComedyDramaThe series is about a former motorcycle racer, champion of a motorcycle track, who, having become an alcoholic, moonlights as a driver and tries to stop drinking and improve his life.
TVDramaThey are charming. They are lucky. They're devilishly resourceful. They are real professionals. This couple skillfully changes their appearance and styles, enters the image with great artistry and leaves no traces behind.
TV6.8DramaMysteryTaxi driver Larisa Aidarova from a small seaside town is preparing for the wedding with her beloved Maksim, with whom she has been working and living together for more than a year. But all plans collapse when Maksim is detained on suspicion of murder.
TV8.0DramaCrimeA crime series about MosGaz - Valdimir Ionesyan, one of a firsts Russian serial killers caught in 1962 in Moscow.
TV7.5ComedyIt is difficult to call the primitive era of human history a paradise like the biblical Eden. Instead of a quiet life, two tribes living along the banks of the same wide river face severe danger every day. The Chief's tribe is losing ground due to the weakness and inexperience of their leader, who wants to be a friend to everyone. But the tribe of "jerks", led by the Leader, is at the peak of its strength and lives in prosperity. Therefore, one of the Chief's hunters escapes to the competitors, and the Chief's people joyfully accept him. But few of the savages understand what is really happening on the other side.
TV1.0DramaNika was the poster girl for a secret religious cult called. A group of specialist, called deprogrammers, tries to turn the young woman around, employing questionable methods.
TV10.0DramaCrimeБанды
2010 · 1 votes
TV6.4ComedySci-Fi & FantasyAt first glance, the most ordinary provincial town of Veliky Guslyar is actually a unique point on planet Earth, where communication with parallel worlds and civilizations of other planets is open. Time travel, teleportation, talking animals, and parking flying saucers are commonplace for locals. The Gusliarians are so used to them that they hardly notice them.
TV7.0ComedyCrimeKsenia is an exemplary wife and mother. She obeys her greedy and ungrateful husband in everything, who takes Ksenia's reverence for granted. After learning about her husband's infidelity, Ksenia accidentally kills him during sex. Now the housewife has to hide the body, cover her tracks so as not to go to prison and leave the children orphaned, as well as find a way to make a living, because Ksenia does not have her own money, and she cannot use her husband's accounts without his presence.
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Movie6.6DramaThrillerGeorge Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · 3K votes
Movie6.4ActionScience FictionWolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
The Wolverine
2013 · 10K votes
Movie6.1DramaThe film's two main protagonists are Russia's best saber fencers. One of them has long been in the limelight, the other only recently made it into the national team and has been winning almost every tournament since. The two athletes begin to fight for supremacy both on and off the arena.
Movie7.3FantasyFamilyEllie lives in a distant city. One day, the evil witch Gingema conjured a hurricane that took Ellie and her dog Totoshka to the country of the Munchkins. To return home, Ellie and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion will set off along the yellow brick road to the Emerald City in search of the Wizard who will grant their cherished wishes.
The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I
Волшебник Изумрудного города. Дорога из жёлтого кирпича
2025 · 92 votes
MovieMusicFamilyAbout writing music for Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker.
Movie5.9ActionCrimeAn alumni of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service who is settled in Europe gets a call from his father who was considered dead and he sets on a mission to find him with the help of his first love.
Movie4.9HistoryActionThe early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a bastard. For the refusal to kill, he has to pay with eve- rything he had, because “for peace you need more swords than for a war”...
Movie6.7ActionThrillerTerror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.
Movie5.9DramaDovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
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A continuation of the musical story "The Wizard of Oz. Ellie and Her Friends." Despite all the difficulties and adversity, the brave little girl Ellie achieved the impossible—defeated evil and returned home.
Movie5.0ComedyRomanceEvery year on the International Women’s Day telephone networks transfer millions of phone calls and SMS messages. The vast majority of phone calls are addressed to the most important women in lives of everyone - to our mothers. But what would it be if because of enormous number of calls telephone network breaks down? What would we do? Someone would wait until network is rebuilt and would congratulate his mom in the evening or even the next day. But others, like the heroes of our movie, would change their plans to congratulate their moms just today ... personally ... as a kid!..
Movie2.5RomanceFamilyA year from the life of a first-grader and his parents.
Movie4.8ComedyRomanceOur three hapless heroes - Igor, Artyom, and Sauna - return for the third lesson from St. Valentine. This time they must learn the true value of fatherhood, but this time the kids are grown up...
Movie3.0ComedyA continuation of a funny adventures of a dachshund puppy and four his friends - taxi drivers.
Movie6.5FantasyFamilyFather Frost decides to send Yaga to be re-educated by Petya, a boy who has his own problems - he wants to reconcile his parents before the New Year. Petya's parents spend more time working than they do with their family, and Petya wants to fix this situation before the New Year.
Movie5.5RomanceMusicAlexander Pushkin is young, brash and adored by high society. He is the star at every ball he attends, his fans revere his poetic talent, and young women dream of winning his attention. However, not even his aristocratic patrons and loyal friends, nor his growing fame can keep him from dueling, getting exiled, and becoming destitute. Only when he meets his true love does he find meaning in life, and his genius develops to make him the legend the world knows today.
MovieDramaRomance
Movie5.9ComedyMay, 1945... A young pilot Aleksey Kaverin stationed in Germany is going home to Russia for vacation. The problem is he needs to bring a bride. And not only to himself but to four his friends as well.
Movie1.0DramaRomanceIn Gleb's life everything was perfect - both at work and at home until one day the trusted partner betrayed him and as a result Gleb lost his business. The family was left without a livelihood. From now on, Gleb's wife Lena has to take care of herself, her husband and a child. She literally knocks down in search of earnings. Serious quarrels constantly occur between Lena and Gleb. The man feeling himself a useless loser starts drinking. Lena continues to work, hiding her pain from strangers. But once her boss Stas learns about Lena's situation and offers his help. Having heard about it, Gleb becomes furious. He decides that his wife cheated on him, and forbids her to see her son.
Movie5.7ComedyRomanceMax falls into the hands of a "happy" horoscope, which he must follow for 30 days, performing all its insane orders to obtain previously unavailable beauty and success. But one day Max's horoscope is replaced...
Movie6.2DramaDavid, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings being investigated, David is himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest. Despite the overbearing surveillance, double-crossing acquaintances, and growing media interest, David remains defiant and will not apologise. With the court case drawing ever nearer, does David have any hope of winning this battle against Goliath?
Movie5.6DramaRomanceDuring the Cold War, a local Polish officer and a young Soviet woman wedded to a Soviet officer are drawn together by music.