Alexander Lazarev Movies
Actor/filmmaker Robert Capelli Jr., responsible for the 1999 bikini-infested film The Rules (For Men), teams up with film editor Jeffery Wolf to direct the so-called comedy Mail Order Bride. Danny Aiello stars in this film which tries to find humor in a story about the Russian and Italian Mafia involved in the business of human smuggling. Also starring Frank Gorshin (from the original Batman) and Vincent Pastore (from The Sopranos). Mail Order Bride premiered at the 2003 American Film Market. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Capelli Jr., Ivana Milicevic, (more)
- 1992
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Life For the Tsar (Bolshoi Opera) This performance of Glinka's opera, The Life of the Tsar features the vocal talents of Evgeny Nesterenko. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
- 1985
This classic mystery from Robert Louis Stevenson stars internationally acclaimed Soviet actor Innokenti Smoktunovsky as Dr. Henry Jekyll. With the help of an intravenous drug injection, he is transformed into the criminally inclined Edward Hyde (Alexander Feklistov).When a local politician is murdered, the attorney Utterson (Anatoly Adoskin) belatedly discovers to his horror that Jekyll and Hyde are one in the same. This film adaptation follows the Stevenson classic more closely than many previous attempts. Smoktunovsky gained world-wide praise for his lead role in the famous Russian version of Hamlet. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Alexander Feklistov, (more)
- 1982
This 1982 production by the Bolshoi Ballet finds the company interpreting the ballet The Seagull, adapted from Anton Chekhov's play of the same name - with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya and a score by Rodion Shchedrin. The principal dancers include Plisetskaya as The Seagull/Nina Zarechnaya, Alexander Bogatirev as Konstantin Treplev, Lyudmila Butzkova as Arkadina and Boris Efimov as Trigorin. The Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre provides musical accompaniment under the baton of Alexander Lazarev. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maya Plisetskaya, Alexander Bogatyrev, (more)
- 1981
- R
This two-part science fiction saga begins with the android Niya (Yelena Metelkina) being discovered in a discarded spacecraft by a spaceship from Earth. She is brought back for scientific research and it is learned she is from the dying planet Dessa which has been polluted by the inhabitants. Part two finds Niya returning to Dessa in an attempt to save the people from extinction. Over 20 million fans saw this feature in the Soviet Union, the last film by noted science fiction director Richard Viktorov. It was first released in 1981 and awarded a USSR state prize the following year. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Yelena Metelkina, Uldis Lieldidzh, (more)
- 1977
"Factory subjects" was a Soviet film genre. Sobstvennoye Mneniye is a typical movie in that genre. In it, a man and a woman who are production experts come to an electronics factory to help make it more efficient. The factory's own party official recognizes that there are inefficiencies but feels that it is more humane to leave things as they are. He is overruled by one of the visiting experts. In the meanwhile, the female expert realizes that her love for her male co-worker is in vain, for he has fallen in love with a girl in the electronics factory. After some conflict, these issues are resolved in a way that satisfies the majority of those concerned. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vladimir Menshov, Lyudmila Chursina, (more)
