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Margarita Pilikhina
Born June 30, 1926 · Moscow, USSR
Died March 13, 1975 · aged 48
Margarita Mikhailovna Pilikhina (Russian: Маргарита Михайловна Пилихина; 30 June 1926, Moscow – 13 March 1975, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian cinematographer and pedagogue. She became an Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR in 1965. She was born in Moscow. Her great-uncle was Georgy Zhukov (1896-1974), Marshal of the Soviet Union. In 1950, she graduated from the camera department Gerasimov Institut…
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Night Guard · 1957Night Guard
★ 6.51957
MovieCrimeMystery
The accountant of the commodity base discovers a small mistake in the documents, as told by the manager of the base. That night, someone hacked and robbed a safe with accounting documents, and committed the killing of an accountant. The case for the search for criminals was entrusted to police commissioner Krechetov and lieutenant Kasyanov.
Foma Gordeyev · 1959Foma Gordeyev
★ 6.51959
MovieDrama
Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of life around him. Foma is seeking solace in a drunken rampage and wild antics. After many years of desolation, he is half-ill at the opening of a night shelter built with his father’s money.
I Am Twenty · 1965I Am Twenty
★ 7.31965
MovieDrama
Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.
The Stars of the Day · 1966The Stars of the Day
★ 10.01966
MovieDramaHistory
A female poet and author faces the harsh realities of a besieged Leningrad. Based on Olga Berggolts' memoir of the same name.
Matters of the Heart · 1974Matters of the Heart
★ 7.31974
MovieDrama
A story about lives of an ambulance employees and their relationships.
Anna Karenina · 1975Anna Karenina
★ 6.61975
MovieDramaMusic
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation. A Bolshoi Ballet adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya, who also took on the titular role.
Carrot Head · 1961Carrot Head
★ 7.31961
MovieAdventureFamily
Tchaikovsky · 1970Tchaikovsky
★ 5.21970
MovieDramaMusic
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, of his friendship with Baroness von Meck, an outstanding woman of her time, who for many years was Tchaikovsky’s guardian angel. The film also includes retrospections of the composer’s childhood and adolescent years, with Tchaikovsky’s life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians.
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The Stars of the Day · 1966The Stars of the Day
★ 10.01966
MovieDramaHistory
A female poet and author faces the harsh realities of a besieged Leningrad. Based on Olga Berggolts' memoir of the same name.
Director of Photography
Matters of the Heart · 1974Matters of the Heart
★ 7.31974
MovieDrama
A story about lives of an ambulance employees and their relationships.
Director of Photography
Carrot Head · 1961Carrot Head
★ 7.31961
MovieAdventureFamily
Director of Photography



