Aleksandr Shirvindt

Acting

Aleksandr Shirvindt

Born 1934-07-19 · Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Acting credits

Do You Know How to Live? poster
NR

From the childhood Natasha Korolyuk showed talent for music. She graduated from the conservatory in a small town and was ready to begin new and exciting activities. But her life plans changed when she met pianist Alexander. She married him and moved to Moscow. But soon the girl realizes that her husband is the usual mediocrity and seedy bohemian who wants to live idly. Active Natasha does not want to cast in lot with this man and returns to her homeland.

Do You Know How to Live?

1970

Crazies poster
4.8

A romantic and funny fantasy about the events occurred during the building of a first railroad in Russia.

Crazies

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Чествование

1993

Incognito from St.Petersburg poster
6.0

A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.

Incognito from St.Petersburg

1978

Old Men: Robbers poster
7.2

An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen.

Old Men: Robbers

1972

A Little Time Machine poster
NR

This film tells about the discovery achieved at the intersection of many sciences: cybernetics, astrophysics, telepathy and veterinary medicine. Soviet scientists made a sensational invention - the device "TV-1" (a transistor of time) was designed. Trial samples were disguised in household items: they were equipped with beads, a flower and a cane. The owners of experimental devices were random people.

A Little Time Machine

1967

The Outlaw Ballad poster
8.0

1830s, Moldavia. The groom Todor fell in love with his master's maid, Yustinia. Having found himself in hard labor, Todor organized an escape and, with a group of like-minded people, took refuge in the codry. So, under the leadership of Ataman Todor Tobultok, the Moldavian rebels, who called themselves haiduks, began to fight against the tyranny of the landowners.

The Outlaw Ballad

1959

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! poster
7.3

A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

1976

The Irony of Fate: Continuation poster
4.8

Thirty years have passed since Zhenya and Nadya met—they broke up, and Nadya moved to Leningrad. The friends still go to the bathhouse, and now they are joined by Konstantin, Zhenya's son. Uncle Pasha and Uncle Sasha persuade Kostya to arrange a New Year's miracle for his father and send him to St. Petersburg. Nadya's daughter lives at that very address, and on the same day, her fiancé, Irakli, is planning to propose to her.

The Irony of Fate: Continuation

2007

The Circus Princess poster
6.2

The whole city is rushing to the circus to see the deadly act of the famous masked artist, the mysterious Mr. X. Among the guests is a rich widow, Countess Palinskaya, for whom any man is ready to perform a feat. But only the mysterious X is able to ignite the flame of love in the heart of the inflexible Countess...

The Circus Princess

1982

Station for Two poster
7.3

Platon is travelling by train to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch where he meets Vera, a waitress. He refuses to pay for the food after which a series of unfortunate events unfold for the pair.

Station for Two

1983

The Benefit. Lyudmila Gurchenko poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Benefit. Lyudmila Gurchenko

1978

Heartbreak House poster
NR

September evening, an unusual ark house, resembling a ship in shape, for its owner, the gray-haired old man, captain Châtover, sailed the whole life through the seas. A strange house where people behave differently. Young beauty sisters reign in this house, beckoning true gentlemen, as the light of a lamp beckons moths. This house fences its inhabitants from the outside world. Talk about the meaning of life, home entertainment, hopeless novels. And a premonition of trouble: at the same time, clouds of the First World were gathering over the good old England ...

Heartbreak House

1975

Little Comedies in a Big House poster
5.5

Theatrical movie based on an ordinary life of an average soviet family

Little Comedies in a Big House

1974

A Million in a Wedding Basket poster
6.2

In the densely populated slums live large but poor family of charming and talented signor Leonido Popogatto. Under the guise of an important person he enters the secular parties and steals drinks and food from the tables.

A Million in a Wedding Basket

1985

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Lessons of Our Ancestors

1975

Facts of the Past Day poster
9.0

The action takes place in the early 1980s, in the Arctic, at a mining plant. The long-overdue issue of radical restructuring of production has caused heated debate between the opposing parties. How to ensure the safe work of miners and not reduce labor productivity? There is a conflict between the director and the chief engineer of the enterprise...

Facts of the Past Day

1981

Three Men in a Boat poster
7.0

Three London gentlemen take vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

Three Men in a Boat

1979

Vovka the Trainer poster
NR

About how the magical little people, Chuny‑Muny and little Vovka, punished the rude boys who were interfering with the little ones playing hockey.

Vovka the Trainer

1979

Russian Ragtime poster
4.4

In Soviet Union young Misha is dreaming to see USA, but it seems highly unlikely...

Russian Ragtime

1993

Inspector General poster
7.0

The performance of the Moscow Theater of Satire, based on the play by N.V. Gogol.

Inspector General

1982

Eastern Dentist poster
NR

A musical comedy based on the story of Hakob Paronian. The film adaptation of the comedy classic of Armenian literature. The action takes place at the end of the 19th century, in Constantinople, in the Armenian environment.

Eastern Dentist

1982

Silver Revue poster
9.0

Lena, a fantasist and dreamer, a soloist of the ice ballet, dreams of staging a fairy-tale magic performance. One day the heroine meets Yura, a dreamer like herself, and leaves him a phone number without giving her name...

Silver Revue

1983

Alice in Wonderland poster
7.7

Alice follows the white rabbit, falls down a deep hole and discovers a strange Wonderland at the bottom.

Alice in Wonderland

1981

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