
Acting
Gurgen Tonunts
Born — Died
1922-09-02 — 1997-09-21
Place of birth
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR
Known for
Acting
Credits
44 titles
Known for
4.5English-dubbed and re-edited version of the 1959 Soviet film Nebo Zovyot. Acquired by Roger Corman and reworked by a young Francis Ford Coppola, the film relocates its Cold War “space race” to a fictional future where rival nations—North Hemis and South Hemis—compete to reach Mars first. When one crew’s mission goes awry, their rivals risk their own flight to attempt a daring rescue nearthe Martian moons, where strange cosmic dangers await.
Battle Beyond the Sun
1959
6.51943 year. On the instructions of the military newspaper, the photojournalist Varvara Knyazhich goes to the front line to take some pictures of the knocked-down powerful German tank "Tiger". In a combat situation, she has to face a difficult relationship between officers and subordinates. During the execution of a journalistic assignment, Varya is literally two steps from death. But it is here that she is destined to find her love...
Wild Honey
1967
8.7An old pickpocket named "Cardinal", during the days of the International Festival of Youth and Students, decides to gather old “personnels” to prepare small and large thefts from the festival participants. During the "conference" it turns out that a complete "personnel crisis" has come. The ensuing meeting with the former bootlegger — Senka-Moroz, who broke with his past and found happiness in his family and honest work, leads the Cardinal to confusion and mental confusion. A conversation with Professor Muromtsev, a terminally ill person who nevertheless cares about the fate of others, shock the "Cardinal" and he takes the first but decisive step towards a new life, breaking with the criminal world.
The Chain Reaction
1963
6.8Driven from the court by her sisters' scheming, the young Tsarina is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son. Surviving the storm-tossed voyage, the mother and her now magically-adult son land on a remote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form, and longs for reunion with his estranged father, Tsar Saltan. Merchants come to the island with news of the tsar, and the prince sends word back to him, but the sisters continue their campaign of lies and trickery to keep them apart.
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
1967
7.3Zoo inspector Chaplygin, concerned about the death of walruses due to panic caused by airplane flights, destroys the only navigational sign and the flights stop. Having failed to understand each other on the spot, the pilot and the zoo inspector go to Moscow - and will settle their dispute in the State Arbitration.
Счёт человеческий
1978
8.5The hero of the film, police captain Anatoly Lensky, is an adventurer who is characterized by nobility, a sense of honor and intrigue. Together with other characters goes to the "Bay of death" in search of hidden treasures there. All heroes movie must to meet in one place. There they will converge, but not all come back…
The Bay of Death
1991
Film credits
1990s · 4 titles
8.5The hero of the film, police captain Anatoly Lensky, is an adventurer who is characterized by nobility, a sense of honor and intrigue. Together with other characters goes to the "Bay of death" in search of hidden treasures there. All heroes movie must to meet in one place. There they will converge, but not all come back…
The Bay of Death
1991
5.6Mafia kidnaps an investigator's little son after he discovers massive thefts on a local shoe factory. With the help of his three old friends, two cops and a newspaper reporter he struggles to rescue his son and close the case at the same time.
The Criminal Quartet
1990
9.0About the life and work of the scientist and writer Ivan Efremov.
Revelation of Ivan Efremov
1990
4.4The action of the movie takes place in a certain fairy-tale town. The main character - the scientist Christian-Theodore discovers a lot about the inhabitants of the city, about their oddities and peculiarities. The princess of the city has struck the imagination of Christian-Theodore, but he does not notice that he is not indifferent to the kind girl Annunziata. The scientist becomes a victim of palace intrigues and intrigues. His own shadow, which appeared to the hero, pushes him to a cowardly act - the rejection of the princess. The shadow wins the heart of the princess and wants to destroy Christian-Theodore. But, as it is supposed to be in a real fairy tale, everything ends happily. The hero is helped by Annunziata's love and the sympathy of the town's inhabitants for the scientist who wants to make everyone happy.
Shadow, or Maybe Everything Will Be Fine
1991
1980s · 4 titles
6.5The cruel laws of the zone, whose inhabitants are divided into hierarchical clans, dictate their own conditions of behavior. The head of the institution, Major Kalinin, sees prisoners not so much as criminals, but as people who have stumbled in life, and tries to give everyone a chance to improve. But not everyone accepts his position...
Dangerous Friends
1980
7.4Members of the Shield and Helmet Masonic Lodge, sent by the CIA, are preparing a coup in one of the western countries. The criminal chronicle reporter manages to infiltrate the headquarters of the conspirators. The information he produces will play a decisive role in preventing the putsch. However, the successful journalist soon became convinced that he had discovered only the tip of the iceberg...
The Secret of Gretha Villa
1984
6.2A movie about the gas mine workers in the scorching hot desert of Karakum, Turkmenistan.
Karakum, 45° in the Shadow
1983
5.0A young poet at a social ball invited a beautiful stranger to dance and received a challenge to a duel from a jealous husband. The duel took place, but the bullet flying to the poet's heart stuck into a gold coin that ended up in his jacket pocket. The inspired poet wrote a number of short stories about the voyage of the golden one, the characters of which are a cheerful sailor, a greedy innkeeper, his wife and her lover...
I'm Ready to Take a Challenge
1984
1970s · 11 titles
7.3Zoo inspector Chaplygin, concerned about the death of walruses due to panic caused by airplane flights, destroys the only navigational sign and the flights stop. Having failed to understand each other on the spot, the pilot and the zoo inspector go to Moscow - and will settle their dispute in the State Arbitration.
Счёт человеческий
1978
8.0A Soviet officer serves as a counterspy amidst enemies.
The Triple Control
1970
6.5Aleksei comes to Chelyabinsk from Moscow — a young student who proclaims a free lifestyle, not constrained by everyday hard labor. Aleksei falls in love with a young singer Lyudmila, the daughter of hereditary workers. When a Moscow student enters the family of noble steelworkers — people who are proud of their working roots, his self-identity changes. From now on, to Aleksei idleness already seems shameful, and idleness is shameful. To be worthy of such highly respected people as the Ivanov family, Aleksei goes to work as a steelworker.
The Ivanov Family
1975
7.6The film comprises three cinematic novellas: (1) “And They Arrived at the Peasant’s Hut… or the Adventures of Writer Senya in Search of the Hidden Word,” in which writer Senya draws inspiration for his rural novels from his housekeeper Yermolayevna’s tales; (2) “The Song, or How the Great Louarsab Organized a Choir,” where a city visitor attempts to form a choir of centenarian elders in a Georgian mountain village; (3) “What Is Our Life?! or What Is Our Life?!”—during a musical reenactment of pre-Revolutionary France, a drunken actor’s tardiness forces King Louis XIV (also the theater committee chairman) and the cast to improvise the play’s ending.
Au-u!
1976
4.0The film is set in 1920 in the Volga region during the Civil War. The story of the heroic struggle of the crew of an armored train.
An Hour Before Dawn
1973
8.3The third film of the film trilogy ("Personally known", "Emergency assignment", "Kamo's Last Feat") about the Bolshevik revolutionary S.A.Ter-Petrosyan, known as Kamo (1882-1922).
Kamo's Last Feat
1974
NRThe main characters are two graduates of a music school, gifted violinists. Andrei is ambitious, able-bodied, absorbed in the desire to achieve recognition. The other is Ladya Bragin, simple and reckless. On the day of the exam at the conservatory, he meets a girl who works as a clown, and immediately decides to stay in the circus. The creative successes of the heroes do not immediately and not simply take shape. Their will, their conviction of a calling, are severely tested. And yet both come to understand what happiness music can give and how much it demands from a musician...
Concerto for Two Violins
1975
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Repeated Wedding
1975
6.0Soviet engineer Viktor Loginov, who came to one of the East as a technical representative of the Minsk Automobile Plant, had to take part in an international rally due to the illness of a professional racer. Among the experienced aces from other countries, Victor was a beginner. Many representatives of foreign firms are interested in losing in the most difficult struggle. This would give an occasion to close the path to the world market for the new Soviet machine. But courage, mutual assistance and self-confidence help Victor overcome all stages of the most difficult path, where the danger came from both nature and people.
The Cool Guy
1972
9.0About the romantic youth of the legendary commander, hero of the Civil War G.I.Kotovsky (1881-1925). An inexperienced fighter against landlord arbitrariness becomes a professional revolutionary under the influence of revolutionary events in Russia.
The Last Hajduk
1973
9.0The plot is based on the story of the complex relationship between Peter Schmidt and Zinaida Rizberg, with whom he corresponded after a chance meeting on the train.
Postal Romance
1970
1960s · 20 titles
6.51943 year. On the instructions of the military newspaper, the photojournalist Varvara Knyazhich goes to the front line to take some pictures of the knocked-down powerful German tank "Tiger". In a combat situation, she has to face a difficult relationship between officers and subordinates. During the execution of a journalistic assignment, Varya is literally two steps from death. But it is here that she is destined to find her love...
Wild Honey
1967
8.7An old pickpocket named "Cardinal", during the days of the International Festival of Youth and Students, decides to gather old “personnels” to prepare small and large thefts from the festival participants. During the "conference" it turns out that a complete "personnel crisis" has come. The ensuing meeting with the former bootlegger — Senka-Moroz, who broke with his past and found happiness in his family and honest work, leads the Cardinal to confusion and mental confusion. A conversation with Professor Muromtsev, a terminally ill person who nevertheless cares about the fate of others, shock the "Cardinal" and he takes the first but decisive step towards a new life, breaking with the criminal world.
The Chain Reaction
1963
6.8Driven from the court by her sisters' scheming, the young Tsarina is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son. Surviving the storm-tossed voyage, the mother and her now magically-adult son land on a remote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form, and longs for reunion with his estranged father, Tsar Saltan. Merchants come to the island with news of the tsar, and the prince sends word back to him, but the sisters continue their campaign of lies and trickery to keep them apart.
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
1967
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Towards Conscience
1966
6.8Based on the popular comedy novel, as well as many international anecdotes about Nasreddin Hodja, a witty Muslim traveler.
Nasreddin in Khujand, or the Enchanted Prince
1960
No synopsis available yet.
A Leaf from a Notebook
1965
6.4The civil war in Russia, guerrillas fighting with Kolchak formations. As a result of sabotage, accident with white Russian train takes place. In disaster area the flag with the inscription "Wagtail's Army" is found. Kolchak commanders think that they are Bolsheviks, but guerrilla leader does not know anything. It turns out that this is work of three boys.
Wagtail's Army
1964
NRThe Red Army soldier Maksud returns with a detachment of the Red Army to his native village. Maksud sees that nothing has changed in the village — just like in the old days, the bai are rampaging, oppressing the people: bek Rahmankul ordered the hanging of two dehkans who plowed the land that the Soviet government gave them. Obsessed with hatred of the new order, Rahmankul asks Sheikh Abbas to give him the treasures of the mosque to arm his gang.
Possessed
1966
8.0After learning that his brother Vazgen had died in his homeland during the Second World War, Gurgen Aramyan, who had been sent to an American orphanage during the bloody genocide of the Armenian people and remained in America, decided to travel to the Soviet Union in search of his children, Varazdat and Mariam. In the early days of the city's occupation, Vazgen joined the partisans. His wife was shot and killed by a German patrol. Varazdat and Mariam were left alone. They went to visit their neighbor, Uncle Stepan, who had recently escaped from a Soviet prison and was now afraid of both his own people and strangers.
Called to Live
1961
7.5Spring 1919. All routes to Baku oil are blocked. S.M. Kirov, a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 11th Army, instructs Georgy Atarbekov, chairman of the Astrakhan Cheka, to establish contact with the Dagestani Revolutionary Committee, purchase gasoline, and smuggle fuel. According to Atarbekov's plan, propaganda brigade actors Armen and Anush are sent to the port of Petrovsk with the documents of the detained Persian businessman Makhmedi and his wife.
Explosion After Midnight
1969
9.0The film tells about the encounter with religious prejudice in our day.
Fire Under the Ashes
1967
4.3In German-occupied Crimea during WWII, a group of Russian soldiers employ unusual tactics to steal classified documents from their enemies.
One Chance in One Thousand
1969
7.5Old village doctor Ruben Azaryan is going to operate a sick child, although he feels bad. Perhaps this is the last operation in his life. He remembers his youth, the institute, the student Maro in love with him, the war, the front and the first love - nurse Svetlana, who died during a raid on their hospital. Then marriage to Maro, a difficult job as a village doctor. One day he refuses to have an abortion for one widow. The widow commits suicide from shame. Her death still torments Azaryan. But hundreds of people he saved are also remembered, which means that life was not lived in vain ...
There Lived Once a Man
1968
NRSoviet rocket scientists and workers at a metallurgical plant are developing a new ultra-strong alloy needed for the construction of Soviet spacecraft.
Cosmic Alloy
1964
9.0Based on the opera of the same name by A. A. Dargomyzhsky on the plot of the tragedy by A. S. Pushkin.
The Visitor of Stone
1967
5.4Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. It's summer, and their main goals are swimming in the Black Sea and wooing the girl all three of them love. However, they are asked to become officers in the military, and slowly their worlds begin changing forever. Their parents oppose them, they begin fearing losing each other and their families, and the military tricks and maneuvers them into joining the army instead of the navy.
Goodbye, Boys!
1966
9.0At the end of 1943, during the occupation in Odessa, a new specialist Kraft arrives at the shipyard and soon becomes a chief engineer. It never occurred to anyone that a Soviet intelligence officer was hiding under the guise of a leader showing official zeal. At the decisive moment, when the victorious offensive of the Soviet troops forces the German-Romanian invaders to leave Odessa, on the instructions of the Center, Kraft leaves with them for further work behind enemy lines.
A Tale of a Chekist
1969
6.5The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.
An Extraordinary Assignment
1966
9.0Plane crashes in Caucasus mountains and the rescue-workers search for the passengers stuck in inaccessible glaciers of a Caucasus peak.
Twelve Companions
1962
9.5On the eve of the New Year, a Belgian plane carrying a group of Antarctic researchers crashes in the area of the Pearl Mountains. Only the Soviet expedition responds to their call for help. For several days, Soviet pilots, despite the weather conditions and risking their own lives, set out in search of the Belgians...
The Law of the Antarctic
1963
1950s · 5 titles
4.5English-dubbed and re-edited version of the 1959 Soviet film Nebo Zovyot. Acquired by Roger Corman and reworked by a young Francis Ford Coppola, the film relocates its Cold War “space race” to a fictional future where rival nations—North Hemis and South Hemis—compete to reach Mars first. When one crew’s mission goes awry, their rivals risk their own flight to attempt a daring rescue nearthe Martian moons, where strange cosmic dangers await.
Battle Beyond the Sun
1959
3.6This movie follows the crew of the spaceship Homeland, preparing for the first manned mission to Mars. When an American ship, Typhoon, rushes to beat them and suffers a critical malfunction, the Soviets divert their mission to attempt a rescue. Stranded on the asteroid Icarus with depleted fuel, the cosmonauts await a desperate rescue mission that may cost another crew their lives.
The Sky Calls
1959
7.0Spring of 1917. Soldiers of the former Wild Division are returning to their villages. Anzor, a footman of Prince Naurbek, commander of the Kabarda regiment, finds poverty and ruin at home - his mother and many other villagers have fallen into bondage debts to Princess Zhansurat. Anzor goes to the prince and asks him to return his land - after all, he shielded Naurbek from enemy bullets in battle. Having received a handful of millet, Anzor returns to his place. Subsequent meetings with the Bolsheviks Kantemir and Mashuko, and then with Kirov himself, convince Anzor of the necessity to fight against the princes.
Лавина с гор
1959
5.0A film about the Bolshevik revolutionary S. A. Ter-Petrosyan, known as Kamo (1882-1922). 1905. Detectives and gendarmes are searching for Kamo on a courier train. None of them suspect that behind the mask of a dapper prince playing cards with a gendarmerie colonel lies a brave revolutionary. In a first-class compartment, Kamo is carrying dynamite for the rebellious workers. In Tiflis, portraits of Kamo are plastered on the walls of houses. A large reward is promised for his capture. However, nothing can stop the daredevil. Under the leadership of the Russian Bolshevik Vasily, he organizes a workers' militia and, together with it, performs a series of feats.
Personally Known
1958
7.2The famous singer Ladygin, who has won success and fame, lives in a spacious apartment furnished with paintings and luxury goods. Suddenly, an old front-line friend, a prominent scientist Svekolkin, comes to Ladygin. Realizing that for Ladygin, ranks and titles are more valuable than human qualities, Svekolkin tells his friend that he works as a simple cashier. This leads to a number of misunderstandings and comic situations.
An Ordinary Man
1957
