Igor Talankin

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Igor Talankin

Born October 3, 1927 · Noginsk, USSR (Russia)

Died July 24, 2010 · aged 82

Igor Talankin (3 October 1927 – 24 July 2010) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. His film Splendid Days (1960, co-directed with Georgiy Daneliya) won the Crystal Globe (the main award) at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and Tchaikovsky (1969) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Known For

The StepmotherThe Stepmother · 1973
The Stepmother
★ 6.11973
MovieDrama
In Pavel Olevantsev’s family suddenly comes news that his daughter by another woman was orphaned. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, nor could his wife know about it... It is not easy to decide to take the child to his house. But it will be much more difficult to endear the girl to them, to return her the joy of childhood and the belief that she is not alone...
TchaikovskyTchaikovsky · 1970
Tchaikovsky
★ 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.
Choice of PurposeChoice of Purpose · 1975
Choice of Purpose
★ 8.01975
MovieDramaHistory
A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons.
Introduction to LifeIntroduction to Life · 1962
Introduction to Life
★ 5.31962
MovieDramaWar
A boy from Leningrad has his world turned upside down by his parent's separation and World War II. He leaves town amidst the fighting and returns to find a friend in his step-brother.
Invisible TravellerInvisible Traveller · 1998
Invisible Traveller
★ 6.51998
MovieDrama
At the heart of the picture is a common legend about the last days of Emperor Alexander the First Blessed.
DemonsDemons · 1992
Demons
★ 7.01992
MovieDrama
Father SergiusFather Sergius · 1978
Father Sergius
★ 3.41978
MovieDrama
Prince Stepan Kasatsky is an officer, an ardent, proud young man, and a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.
Autumn, Chertanovo...Autumn, Chertanovo... · 1988
Autumn, Chertanovo...
★ 5.11988
MovieDrama
The heroine of the film is a young attractive woman whose motto is “you need to become depraved to feel like a saint.” She is convinced that men who love her should easily accept her for who she is. But it only causes them pain...

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Falling StarsFalling Stars · 1981
Falling Stars
★ 4.21981
MovieDramaRomance
Falling Star is based on three stories by the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Astafyev and centers on a young soldier on the front lines who is wounded and taken to the hospital. Once there, he muses about his childhood and a little girl he had loved - someone who could easily have grown up to be the nurse that is attending to him now. As he recuperates, he and the nurse fall in love and he very much wants to marry her. At this point, the nurse's mother comes for a visit and advises him against such an action because if they were to marry and he were subsequently killed or maimed in action - the fighting is still close to the hospital - the nurse would suffer much more than if he just left her alone. Now it is up to the soldier to make a decision one way or the other.

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