Georgi Taratorkin Movies
- 1991
Galina has grown increasingly skittish since her divorce, and her students (she's a high-school teacher) become alert to her vulnerability. Restraint would be uncharacteristic in this situation, as teens are notoriously unforgiving of the imperfections of their elders. They band together to make a complaint to the school governing committee that she's incompetent and anti-Semitic. When the students discover that she's having an affair with another teacher, they intrude on that, too. The last straw comes when, as a "trick," they kidnap her son from nursery school. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Irina Kupchenko, Georgi Taratorkin, (more)
- 1984
In this watchable sci fi story based on a novel by Sergei Pavlov, the time is the 21st century, and the space security organization has a dangerous situation on its hands -- it seems four individuals from outer space have the ability to change form and to affect radio transmissions and magnetic fields. Their powers could threaten governments on earth and seem to derive from an unusual accident on one of the moons of Uranus shortly after four astronauts landed. Now the space police have to bring this potentially disastrous situation under control. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Vladimir Gostyukhin, Vasily Livanov, (more)
- 1980
Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the tragedy of a star-crossed love. After a general ruins some men under him in punishment for a rebellion, a friend of the broken men vows revenge. The friend, a naval officer, takes a job as a valet in the general's son's house. While he plots his revenge, the son has an affair with a woman whom the valet begins to love. She is discarded after becoming pregnant, and the valet has his own troubles; he has contracted tuberculosis. Sick and unable to follow through on his plans for vengeance, he leaves for France with the pregnant woman hoping to declare his love and seek a cure for his illness. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Yevgeniya Simonova, Alexander Kaidanovsky, (more)
This Russian adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment packs nearly every pivotal event from the mammoth novel into its 200 minute running time. Georgi Taratorkin stars as Raskolnikov, the impressionable student who believes himself to be above the law-and commits murder to prove his theory. Innokenti Smoktunovskiy, best known for his brilliant interpretation of the title character in the Russian Hamlet (1964), costars as police inspector Porfiry, who humbly but diligently wears down Raskolnikov's alibi. Most cinemadaptations of Crime and Punishment end with the protagonist's arrest; this one retains Dostoyevsky's lengthy post-prison epilogue, in which Raskolnikov learns at long last how to be a human being. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Georgi Taratorkin, Victoria Fyodorova, (more)
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