The success of Eldar Ryazanov's film was ensured not only by the topical plot and talented directorial work, but also by a bright constellation of actors who starred in this film. For some, filming in Ryazanov's tragicomedy became the peak of acting popularity, and for someone it opened the doors to the world of big cinema
The comedy "For family reasons" directed by Alexei Korenev was released in 1977. The film about how difficult it is to get along under one roof for several generations immediately gained immense popularity. The attractive Galina Arkadyevna, who also holds a high position, of course, cannot be the most ordinary grandmother. The daughter is outraged, the son-in-law is offended, the plan is burning, and the granddaughter is crying. And here the family decided to leave. But everything did not go as suggested
Musical comedy "Formula of Love", directed by Mark Zakharov and written by Grigory Gorin. The film was released in 1984 and immediately won the hearts of the audience. Everything was wonderful in this film - and a free adaptation of the story of Alexei Tolstoy "Count Cagliostro", and directorial work, and acting
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka is a fairy tale film directed by Alexander Row in 1962 - a magnificent adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's story. A fabulous story is played out before Christmas. You watch this film and enjoy: the cunning Solokha is fighting on the spot, Oksana charms the beauties, and the hapless Devil laughs to tears. And other characters - Vakula, Chub, godfather Panas, clerk, Golov, Panas's wife, Catherine II, Potemkin - are simply superbly spelled out in the film. The film that makes it light
Magnificent architecture, mild climate, delicious food and an interesting history - all this makes Italy a real paradise on Earth. It seems that beauty is in the atmosphere here. And also beautiful men with perfect facial features, an impeccable sense of style and a magnificent figure live here. In this review, beauties from the Apennines, who set fashion all over the world. And this is another reason to fall in love with the magnificent country of Italy
The musical comedy "Straw Hat" is a fascinating story that happened to the young and charming ladies' man Leonidas Fadinar. For a long time he lived off the rent, and suddenly decided to marry the daughter of a wealthy gardener. Nonankura. Even during preparations for a noisy wedding, funny adventures begin
Georgy Danelia's film "I Walk Through Moscow" was released in 1964. The script was written by Gennady Shpalikov, and this picture became a cinematic debut for a whole constellation of then young actors - Evgeny Steblov, Vladimir Basov, Irina Miroshnichenko, and Nikita Mikhalkov played his first major role in this film
In 1975, a tragicomedy with an unpretentious story about the plumber Afanasy was released on the screens of Soviet cinemas. He did not disdain left-wing earnings, dragged after girls and loved to drink. And so day after day. But one day his life turned 180 degrees, and he himself did not notice. This is what the film of the recognized master of comedy director Georgy Danelia is about
A wonderful screen adaptation of the immortal novel of the Russian classic, talentedly performed by Alexander Zarkhi! The starring role is played by the incomparable Tatyana Samoilova, the star of the films "The Cranes Are Flying" and "Unsent Letter". The actress managed to create a lively and attractive image of Anna - a woman unable to cope with her criminal passion. Wonderful acting ensemble, brilliant dramatic material and strong direction make this film one of the masterpieces of Soviet cinema
Actors from the Soviet comedy "The Most Charming and Attractive" in the film and years after filming
Soviet viewers saw the lyrical comedy "The Most Charming and Attractive" directed by Gerald Bezhanov in 1985. This seemingly uncomplicated story about the girl Nadya, who by the age of 30 had not adjusted her personal life, caused a huge response. The director gathered in his film a magnificent constellation of actors who made a banal love story unforgettable
"Admiral" is a film about the vicissitudes of life and love of the military white officer Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak, who rose to the rank of admiral and became the supreme ruler of Russia. The events described in the film unfold in 1916 - 1920 against the backdrop of two revolutions, the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Civil War. This film became a real highlight of the national cinema: about 200 people took part in the battle scenes - real sailors and conscripts. And for the crowd scenes there was
Olya, not the most exemplary pioneer, who did not really like going to school and offended her grandmother, once accidentally found herself on the other side of the mirror. And then she was not up to whims. The fairy tale "The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors", filmed in 1963 by Alexander Rowe, was watched with great pleasure by both children and adults. The plot was very exciting and close to real life, and real stars of Soviet cinema starred in the film
"Petersburg Mysteries" is an action-packed Russian TV series that tells about the events in which two noble Petersburg families were involved. Millions of viewers of the entire post-Soviet space watched what is happening in the series, building various versions of what is happening together with the detective. Interesting acting work made this series really unforgettable
The musical film "Kuban Cossacks" can rightfully be considered one of the pillars of Stalin's propaganda. As the great Lenin bequeathed, cinematography was the most important at that time, and visual propaganda worked best. Collective farmers were portrayed by polished Moscow artists, the food on the tables was fake, and not a single real Kuban song was sounded in the film about the Cossacks. And yet, for many actors, this film has become an excellent springboard in their acting career
When the Soviet-French 3-part feature film "The Prisoner of the Castle of If" was released on the screens, everyone, young and old, stuck to the television screens. The film was directed by Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich based on the novel by Alexander Dumas "The Count of Monte Cristo". And of course, this touching detective story about passion, love, decency and ordinary human happiness was complemented by a magnificent acting
For several decades literally everything in the world has changed. But it seems that time has no power over celebrities. They always keep their nose downwind, picking up the latest trends and staying on the crest of the wave. Some make a lot of effort to keep their beauty and youthfulness and look fashionable and modern. Others stick to the image they chose at the beginning of their careers. So, look at how celebrities have changed over the decades
Photography of architectural objects is a special genre when the photographer seeks to convey all the beauty of man-made objects. And here, more than ever, everything is important: light, details, foreshortening. Panoramic photography greatly expands the possibilities of photographers, because it allows you to capture an object in all its glory and at the same time show it from different angles. Watch and enjoy
The 32 kilograms exhibition by the German photographer Ivonne Thein is a real horror room. No, there are no rivers of blood, sinister monsters, or instruments of torture. There are only young girls torturing themselves in the name of a beautiful figure
Jigsaw puzzles are an insanely exciting activity not only for children, but also for adults. But only when this puzzle, bought in the store, is assembled by a child, it is a game. And when an adult gets down to business, and the elements of the puzzle are made by him - this, probably, can already be called creativity
Pictures of amazing warmth and good nostalgia from Valery Vasilyevich Bysov, a Belarusian photographer who started doing what he loved in the 1950s and who devoted several decades to photography
Street photographer Bruce Gilden is known for his unique photography style. And his longstanding Coney Island series is a vivid illustration of the photographer's abilities and an iconic project in which Gilden documented the leisure time of New Yorkers from the late 1960s to the 1980s
Shop windows, an embankment, sheets on clotheslines, hidden faces, merry-go-rounds, people who have fallen asleep on the streets - in the lens of a photographer a whole life. Isis Biedermanas used to say about Paris in his photographs: “This is not modern Paris and not old, but just mine.” The city that could fall in love with itself
Sergey Maksimishin is one of the most talented Russian photographers, whose name is known to the world photography and media community. This is one of the key figures in contemporary Russian photography. He is not chasing exotic shots, he is filming Russia. And she is real in his photographs, without a drop of gloss
Henri Cartier-Bresson described Marc Ribat as "a born geometer with an eye like a compass." Many of the photographer's photographs have become illustrations in photojournalism textbooks. For sixty years, through the lens of the camera of a French photographer, the whole world has followed the most important events, sometimes inaccessible to the general public
Having started his career in fashion magazines, in the middle of the last century, Louis Faurer turned his attention to New York, where new discoveries awaited the photographer everywhere. Here he found poetic and gloomy images of heroes of the streets, often poor and lonely among the bustle in the "hypnotic twilight" of Times Square
Forced labor and deadly conditions are what Nazi POW camps are known for. Nevertheless, Spiegel writes about an archive of photographs from a "model" camp in Germany, where during World War II prisoners put on plays, played sports, spent time in the library and listened to academic lectures behind barbed wire
Henri Cartier-Bresson is a legendary man and the father of photojournalism, a French photographer, without whom it is impossible to imagine the photography of the 20th century. He was the founder of the street photography genre. His black and white photographs reflect the history, atmosphere, breath and rhythm of life of an entire era, and hundreds of modern photographers study in his photographs
“Being on the road, traveling without a specific goal, I look around with curiosity and wonder what I come across. During the shooting, the process of thinking somehow stops. It's like playing games with reality,”says Nikos Economopoulos about his work. And when you look at his photographs, you really are transported to another reality
Each year, the collective "photo archive" created by humanity is replenished with almost a trillion digital images. Every minute there are more of them than in the entire nineteenth century. A huge share of all this messy "photomass" continuously uploaded to social networks and virtual storages belongs to the selfie: on Instagram, for example, more than 300 million photos have been tagged with this tag
Valery Petrovich Shchekoldin is an outstanding Russian photographer who, during his lifetime, became a classic of documentary photography. Shchekoldin filmed in Russia and the former Soviet Union, in Chechnya and other hot spots. The heroes of Shchekoldin's photographs are old people, children from orphanages, teenagers from correctional colonies and prisons, residents of nursing homes
The Rob Muris archive is notable for the fact that the main selection criterion for getting into it was the strangeness of the pictures, and of any nature. The photographer was called to digitize the large Dutch archive Spaarnestad, located on the outskirts of Amsterdam. Muris re-filmed "digitally" analog works, of which there were millions in the archive, sometimes retouching and restoring them
Italian photographer Mario De Biasi was one of the most important Italian photographers of the last century. For 50 years, the photographer has filmed major world events, traveled to all continents, released more than a hundred albums with his works and received dozens of prizes. His pictures are dynamic, emotional and full of inner energy
The middle of the last century can rightfully be considered the “golden age” of photography. At that time, photography was a complex and little-known craft, and becoming a photographer was not at all easy. In our review, a story about a photographer and photographs of the last century that shook society
Photography is an amazing thing that allows you to plunge into the moment of the past, even after many years. Thanks to the efforts of the master Colin O'Brien, we have a real fan of seeing what London was like in the last century, at its most rapid growth and development
The decade of the 1970s-80s in the USSR was the time of the Brezhnese stagnation and the time of radical Gorbachev's changes. Today, you can treat him in different ways. But this is a huge layer of the history of a huge country, for which this period was the beginning of the end
A huge collection of retro photos by Stefan Lowenteil, containing over 15,000 images. This archive is a unique opportunity to plunge headlong into the world of a distant Asian power, the history of which goes back several millennia. Antique dealer Stefan Lowentale has collected images of China from both Western and Chinese photographers for decades
Pele is a legendary Brazilian attacking midfielder and the only footballer in the world to become world champion three times as a player. At the age of 7, Pele began playing for the local children's team, where he was distinguished by a very entertaining and effective game, and at the age of 15 he entered the big football arena
The Soviet Union existed for 70 years and became a whole epoch in the history of a large number of states. The younger generation does not know what life was like in those years. The best storytellers about that time, of course, will be photographs - silent evidence of historical truth
Inge Morath was born in the south of Austria to a linguist family. She inherited from her father a love of languages. After the end of World War II, Inge worked as a translator and journalist. In the 1950s, she became interested in photography and even assisted the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. She is also the second woman after Eva Arnold to become a member of the world's most prestigious association of documentary photographers
The works of this talented Russian woman make the audience freeze with delight, the world looks so beautiful and unusual through her eyes. Unusual entourage, vivid images of models and incredible fairy-tale plots - this is just a small list of what is interesting for the work of the young photo artist