Vladimir Tolokonnikov Movies
- 1996
Dangerous Lesbians Make Life Living Hell in Kazakhstan Women's Prison. That's the basic plot. The details are thus: cute convicted killer Madina is the new girl in the cell-block. Assigned to bunk with eight other inmates, it isn't long before she finds herself face-to-face with the ruthless ring leader and head dope dealer Tanya. When the warden threatens Madina, she has no choice but to rat on Tanya. Afterward, she is tossed into solitary and from there into a dormitory where she encounters manly Gosha and seductive Monk, who also deals drugs. One day, Madina learns that her lover, the man she killed for, married another. Devastated, she willing lets Monk have her way. Turns out Madina liked the loving. Unfortunately, when she comes back for seconds, Monk spurns her. Totally distraught, Madina tries to kill herself. Meanwhile, Kama, another inmate decides to stand up to Monk and nearly gets knifed. This leads to Monk's arrest. Things get even better when Madina gets pardoned. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Venera Nigmatullina, Lyudmila Baranova, (more)
- 1991
In this gentle comedy, an unpopular resident in a Russian village has his life completely changed when he announces, entirely on a whim and just to upset things a bit, that he's moving to the Pacific coast. This news electrifies his small community, and he suddenly becomes the popular toast of the town, something he has never experienced before -- and likely never will again, because the movers are carting off his belongings, and he will be forced by the momentum of the events he has set into motion to board a bus headed east. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Andrei Zhigalov, Sergei Batalov, (more)
- 1988
This Soviet film tells the story of Preobrazhensky (Yevgeni Yevstigneyev), a surgeon, who is a professor of medicine in Moscow. After the Russian revolution is thoroughly in place, he is visited by the housing committee, who feels that he should share the spaciousness his "big" five-room apartment with several others. Meanwhile, in an experiment he implants a dog with the heart and brain of a tramp. The dog gradually transforms into a man (Vladimir Tolokonnikov), but still has some doggy attitudes: for instance, he chooses to call himself Sharikov. Since Sharik is a common Russian dog name, just as "Rex" might be in the West, it is clear where the man-dog's sympathies lie. Sharikov becomes associated with the local Party officialdom, and begins to terrorize the professor and his assistant, Dr. Bormental (Boris Plotnikov). After he becomes a member of the housing committee, he wangles a room in the professor's apartment. Also, after being appointed a member of a state committee to deal with stray animals, Sharikov refuses to allow dogs to be killed, only cats. The movie is based on the 1925 story by Mikhail Bulgakov, which was very hard to find in Russia up until the perestroika. After people began reading it for the first time, they were amazed to discover how daringly he had criticized the emerging Soviet system. This Russian made-for-TV movie is perhaps the most successful adaptation of the story; an Italian version was made in 1975. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Yevgeni Yevstigneyev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, (more)
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