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- ''The secret service agent's memories'' is a russian historical film based on the novel by Oleg Ryaskov. It was directed and produced by Oleg Ryaskov in 2010-2011. The world premiere was held at the tv channel Russia 1 in Russion Federation, on June 10, 2011. Also movie was shoved in USA, Canada ( by HULU), Germany, Thailand, Latvia, (1 Baltic channel) Litva, Estonia, (Ren TV Baltia),Ukraine (Channal 1+1), RTR-PLANETA (All world tv channal). It is late 1720s, Russia. Tsar Peter the Great dies and his highly appreciated associate and friend Prince Menshikov rules the country. Those who oppose to the Prince scheme against him. Courier Ivan Samoylov the army officer fails one of the risky tasks given to him to him by court intriguers and honestly confesses this. He is to be punished, but Head of Secret Service likes the officers qualities and make him a secret service courier. From now on he starts a chain of mysterious investigation that involves masons, pirates and grand dukes of the court.
- Former Soviet defector-scientist decides to return to his homeland and in exchange for the Government pardon proposes to give up secret "Orbit 12" material. The scientist also has data that will identify a traitor in the Russian special services. Meanwhile, a hired killer arrives to Russia from Europe, and systematically eliminates all those in connection to "Orbit 12". Sergachev forms a special unit to get to the bottom of this old secret, but if he doesn't act fast, the operation will fail, and the one person who possesses answers might falls into the hands of foreign intelligence, or worse yet, the hired killer.
- Weekly series of television feature documentaries "Legends of World Cinema" Different stories become the basis of the movie stars story. The film is about the fate of people whose names are forever in the history of world cinema.
- Young FSB academy graduate Yuriy Yevseyev gets 30-years old video record of recruiting talk between CIA agent and air war school graduate. Lieutenant Yevseyev does his best to find the spy.
- Amid total corruption and beginning during the last months of a major Soviet political leader's life, ordinary people in the USSR find themselves drawn into a merciless power struggle among the party elite there.
- In the center of events - a battle group of mercenary military called "Pack". Steve, Bes, Shaman, Ronin and Lavender are military professionals with extensive experience working under the guise of Russian intelligence services. The "Pack" team will have to carry out hard and life-threatening tasks.
- The day that his fiancé dies, bodyguard Ilya decides to leave his profession. His childhood friend, Alexey, has convinced him to continue on with his life and join a newly formed witness protection department within the police force. Ilya dedicates himself to his new job, surprising his colleagues with his unique way of thinking and acting. Soon Ilya learns, that the death of his fiancé is connected to an ingenious plan of revenge of a Western businessman, who has interests in Russia. If Ilya uncovers this plan, he will also uncover the truth behind the death of his fiancé.
- A real estate developer disappears with all the money from one his projects, leaving not only the investors penniless but also his wife and child. His wife sees only one solution she needs to find a doppelganger.
- The internet celebrity Viktor Goncharenko (Yaz) goes on an extreme culinary journey. He travels around Russia and realizes his wildest cooking dreams.
- The Hockey Games movie is about the 1972 Hockey Super Series. It tells about the coaches Anatoliy Tarasov and Vsevolod Bobrov, who brought Soviet hockey to the world level. The periods of life of Anatoliy Tarasov and Vsevolod Bobrov in the film are shown from young years to adulthood. The plot of the 'Hockey Games' is based on the memories of the direct participants in the events. The picture is partly based on documentary materials, the film shows footage of the sports chronicle of those years.
- French illusionist and film director Georges Méliès was known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour.
- Russian actor Nikolay Rybnikov was one of the most popular actors of Soviet cinema in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Lithuanian film actor Donatas Banionis is known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972) as Kris Kelvin. He has more than 70 credited roles in movies.
- English comic actor, film director and screenwriter Charlie Chaplin is one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry.
- American actress and singer Marilyn Monroe is known for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era's sexual revolution.
- French actress Annie Girardot often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women undergoing similar daily struggles.
- French actress Simone Signoret is known for her portrayal of fallen romantic heroines and headstrong older women. She won the Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards.
- Russian film director and film theorist Sergei Eisenstein is regarded as one of the most important pioneers of early cinema. He epitomized the uneasy, if often dynamic, synthesis of art and politics.
- French actress Jeanne Moreau is known as "Queen of the French New Wave" who combined sharp intelligence and smouldering sexuality.
- Russian actor Mikhail Kuznetsov is known for his roles in soviet movies. He was an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR, and the winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree.
- Russian actor Boris Blinov appeared in a number of movies during the Soviet era.
- Swedish-American actress Greta Garbo was known for her melancholic, somber persona due to her many portrayals of tragic characters in her movies and for her subtle and understated performances.
- Russian actor Nikolay Cherkasov was one of Stalin's favorite actors and played title roles in Sergei Eisenstein's monumental sound movies.
- Russian actor Vasily Merkurev played more than 40 roles in Soviet movies and he acted in over 100 stage plays of the Pushkin Drama Theatre (Alexandrinsky Theatre).
- Russian film director Ivan Pyryev remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes, served as Director of the Mosfilm studios and was the influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry.
- British actress Vivien Leigh won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her definitive performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
- Russian actor Andrey Fayt appeared in 70 soviet movies between 1925 and 1976.
- Italian actress Giulietta Masina and the wife of Italian film director Federico Fellini. Her portrayal of waiflike innocents served as the emotional focal point for some of Fellini's movies.
- Swedish actress Anita Ekberg active in American and European movies. She is known for her role as Sylvia in the movie La Dolce Vita (1960) directed by Federico Fellini.
- Russian film director Grigory Kozintsev is one of the great innovators of cinema. He is known for his adaptations of classic plays, include Don Kikhot (1957), Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1970).
- American actor Peter Falk is known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series Columbo, for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
- American film director D. W. Griffith is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered the art of the narrative movie.
- Russian actor Leonid Bronevoy is a Nika Award-winning soviet actor. Though primarily a stage actor, known for his work in the Lenkom Theatre, Bronevoy also makes occasional appearances in movies.
- Russian film director Mikhail Romm is one of the most important directors of Russia. The diversity in his filmmaking spanned from an epic movie about Vladimir Lenin to a portrait of a poor village woman.
- Danish actress Asta Nielsen was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars.
- American actress Grace Kelly is one of popular actresses, she starring in several significant movies in the early to mid-1950s.
- Russian actor Vladimir Fogel was a Russian silent film actor. His teacher was Lev Kuleshov who later called Fogel «ingenious cinema actor - the best in our generation».