Valeriy Priemykhov Movies
- 1998
This international award-winning Russian drama offers a broad look at modern life in the troubled former Soviet Union. Featuring at least 80 characters, Karen Shakhnazarov's drama is really a complex string of interwoven vignettes, some of which occasionally reoccur while others briefly appear and just as quickly disappear without explanation. These little episodes include scenes of a young boy reading Pushkin, a couple eating in a restaurant, the fond reminiscence of a bird dog, a gang-land murder, and the discovery of a slain princess in a medieval monastery. Dyen Polnoluniya was screened at several 1998 film festivals including the Pusan Film Festival, the Montreal Film Festival and the Vancouver Film Festival. Kudos include the prestigious FIPRESCI Award. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vladimir Ilyin, Valeriy Priemykhov, (more)
- 1991
Work is hard to find in Moscow these days, and although native Muscovites are probably reluctant to do the kinds of toilet-swabbing low-level labor that migrants into the town happily do, the natives still resent the fact that immigrants are (at least theoretically) taking jobs away from locals. This is a familiar theme, even in the U.S. In the story, Pavel and Pavlina, two ethnic Russians from the rural areas of former Soviet states, have separately come to Moscow seeking exactly that sort of work. Pavel has a tiny room somewhere, Pavlina is homeless. They meet during an altercation at a bar during which they are picked up by the police. After their release, she spends the night in Pavel's room. Their goal is to avoid both the police and the criminal gangs who, between them, govern so much of the life in that difficult city. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Oksana Arbuzova, Andrei Andreev, (more)
A group of escaped criminals hides out in the remote wooded area of Siberia in this grim drama set in the summer of 1953. Although Josef Stalin was already dead, the shadow of his oppressive rule still hangs over the country. The gang makes their way to a small village where political prisoners Luzga (Valeri Priyemykhov) and Kopalich (Anatoli Papanov) wait to escape by boat. Luzga is a former Army scout who can barely hide his contempt of Josef Stalin, while Kopalich is a noted archaeologist. When the village is attacked by the marauding gang, the two political prisoners help defend the townsfolk against the bloodthirsty mob. The last feature for the popular actor Anatoli Papanov, Kholodnoye Leto Pyatdesyat Tretyego was seen by over 40 million people in the Soviet Union, making it the third most popular feature of 1988. This is one of the first perestroika films that showed political prisoners in a sympathetic light. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Valeriy Priemykhov, Anatoli Papanov, (more)
- 1984
The proposed selfishness of the younger generation in the '80s in Russia is under the microscope in this fast-paced story about Anna, a 19-year-old woman (Olga Machnaia) with a baby in her arms, pleading for help from Vadim (Valeri Priemykhov), a trusting Leningrad cabbie. The wintry slush on the streets and cold nip in the air seem to make her plight all the worse: she just has to get to the airport in time to convince her boyfriend not to leave her and the baby. This is not a simple one-way fare, the woman is also mysteriously running away from the police and other pursuers -- what has she done? As the cabbie helps her avoid capture, he discovers along the way that she does not know how to change a diaper or feed the baby, he does it for her. And so the truth comes out: she has kidnapped the baby in order to convince her boyfriend it is his and that he has to come back to her. Unfortunately, both the truth and the police arrive at about the same time.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Olga Mashnaya, Valeriy Priemykhov, (more)
- 1983
In this standard, serious film about why teenagers or pre-teens go wrong and what can be done to help them, immoral or corrupt parents are as much at fault as the teens themselves. An idealistic camp counselor takes on several of the kids who want to be helped and installs them at his sports camp in the wilderness, generally bending to the teens' wishes whenever possible. At first his liberal-minded attitude backfires because the kids continue their antisocial behavior either out of habit, or just to spite him. Eventually, when the counselor is about to call it quits, the teens rally around him because whether he was aware of it or not, his own decent behavior was having an effect right along. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Valeriy Priemykhov, Andrei Zykov, (more)
