Erast Garin

Acting

Erast Garin

Born — Died

1902-10-28 — 1980-09-04

Place of birth

Russian Empire

Known for

Acting

Credits

70 titles

Known for

Gentlemen of Fortune poster
7.8

Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care.

Gentlemen of Fortune

1971

The Twelve Months poster
6.3

A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.

The Twelve Months

1956

Cipollino poster
6.9

In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic produce, "Cipollino, the Onion Boy" fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable townsfolk by the fruit royalty (Prince Lemon and the overly proud Lord Tomato) in the garden kingdom.

Cipollino

1961

12 Chairs poster
7.6

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.

12 Chairs

1971

Little Straw Bull poster
5.0

Animated adaptation of a Ukrainian folk tale. Forest thieves — a bear cub, a hare, and a fox — keep sneaking onto a grandfather’s homestead, causing trouble for him and his granddaughter. To teach the little bandits a lesson, the grandfather builds a straw bull and covers its sides with tar. He sets the bull out on a clearing. The curious thieves gather around the strange creature, and one by one get stuck to its sticky, tar-covered sides…

Little Straw Bull

1954

Cinderella poster
6.6

In the fairy kingdom live stepmother, her evil daughters — Anna and Maryana, a limp husband-forester and his daughter from his first marriage — Cinderella. The stepmother exploits the poor girl as a housekeeper. With the help of her godmother-fairy, Cinderella gets to the royal ball, where a beautiful and very kind prince falls in love with her. At midnight, the magic ends, and poor Cinderella has to return to her former life. But on the crystal shoe that Cinderella lost while fleeing the palace to the battle of the palace chimes, the prince searches for the bride.

Cinderella

1947

Film credits

1970s · 12 titles

Gentlemen of Fortune poster
7.8

Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care.

Gentlemen of Fortune

1971

12 Chairs poster
7.6

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.

12 Chairs

1971

Nylon 100% poster
5.7

An adventures of a 100% nylon "fur" coat traveling between various people.

Nylon 100%

1973

Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day poster
7.5

Another Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh story. This time the donkey, known from the Pooh stories as Eeyore, is sad because he has no tail. Pooh goes in search of one and finds it attached to a bell that hangs from the treehouse of one Owl.

Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day

1972

A Miracle Without Miracles poster
NR

While the owners were away, the neighbors upstairs had a burst pipe. In an attempt to escape the flood, the furniture rushed outside, but then the wardrobe shouted that it could save them all…

A Miracle Without Miracles

1973

Much Ado About Nothing poster
6.2

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

Much Ado About Nothing

1973

Robinson Kuzya poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Robinson Kuzya

1978

If You Are a Man poster
7.0

The main character of the film is an ordinary chauffeur Pavel, whose life is not very successful, despite the fact that he is a very kind and fair person. Finally, fate smiles at Pavel, he meets true love, but more and more tests fall to his lot, as if testing a simple guy for strength.

If You Are a Man

1972

It's Impossible Without It poster
3.0

This story is about a puppy who liked it not to belong to anyone. He had no friends, no family, and no relatives. He was cheerfully singing songs, being happy that he did not want to listen to anyone and did not need to ask permission for anything and could do what he wanted. But is it possible to live like that forever?

It's Impossible Without It

1971

In the World of the Fables poster
5.3

The cartoon is based on several Krylov's fables.

In the World of the Fables

1973

Change a Dog for a Train poster
7.7

Ten years old Alik is invited to star in a movie as a young partisan but almost loses the opportunity.

Change a Dog for a Train

1975

Two Days of Wonders poster
5.8

Father and son exchange the bodies using the help of two student fairies.

Two Days of Wonders

1970

1960s · 25 titles

Cipollino poster
6.9

In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic produce, "Cipollino, the Onion Boy" fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable townsfolk by the fruit royalty (Prince Lemon and the overly proud Lord Tomato) in the garden kingdom.

Cipollino

1961

The Coin poster
6.3

The collection of TV series based on Albert Maltsa’s stories. Action happens at the time of the Great depression.

The Coin

1962

Valuable Kopeck poster
5.1

Animated short film dedicated to the redenomination of the Soviet ruble that happened on January 1, 1961.

Valuable Kopeck

1961

The Wild Swans poster
6.8

When a witch transforms her brothers into swans, a young princess must find a way to change them back.

The Wild Swans

1962

Thumbelina poster
6.9

A story based on the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "Thumbelina".

Thumbelina

1964

Vodyany poster
7.3

Prokhor Lykov, nicknamed Vodyany in the village for his passion for fishing, always disappeared on the shore of the lake with a fishing rod. The chairman of the collective farm decides to use his enthusiasm in his own way ...

Vodyany

1962

The Return from Olympus poster
6.1

Olympus. Here are all the most important gods: mighty Zeus, his treacherous wife Hera, handsome singer Apollo, ruler of the seas Poseidon, warrior Ares, goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and wise Athena. Here is the illegitimate son of Zeus, Hercules - a demigod-half-man. Having missed the Earth, he begs for travel on it from Zeus before sunrise. He is accompanied by an eagle - a cunning and insinuating creature, the same one who once pecked Prometheus and from which Hercules saved him. On Earth, Hercules enters the temple dedicated to him and his twelve feats. There he remembers some of them.

The Return from Olympus

1969

Ordinary Wonder poster
6.5

In a romantic and philosophical tale of magic and love, a mischievous Sorcerer turns a bear into a young man. Unhappy in his new state, the former bear, with the help of the magician and his beautiful wife, is looking for a princess to kiss in order for his wish to be granted. Certain that all princesses are a vain, spoiled lot, he approaches the first one he sees. But the princess herself is gentle, kind and beautiful, and she and the young man fall in love with each other at the first sight. Unable to bring her pain, he runs away without explaining. As the Princess takes brave actions to find her beloved, new characters enter the story, including the King's ambitious Prime Minister and a hunter looking for a bear fur to complete his collection. How will this complicated plot be resolved?

Ordinary Wonder

1964

An Optimistic Tragedy poster
5.2

1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.

An Optimistic Tragedy

1963

The Elephant poster
8.3

Based on Kipling’s classic tale of how a curious young elephant came to have a trunk.

The Elephant

1967

The Brave Tailor poster
8.0

The story of how the young worker was bored with life.

The Brave Tailor

1964

Unusual Town poster
NR

Mayhem breaks out when newcomer Oblaposhkin is put temporarily in charge as deputy of the weird City of Durov, inhabited by animals that work in the city as firefighters, barbers, secretaries, teachers, hotel managers and everything else.

Unusual Town

1963

The Fisher Cat poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

The Fisher Cat

1964

The Dragon poster
9.0

An animated movie based on tales from Southeast Asia (Maynmar) about a sword the hero received from a turtle that defeats only one dragon, and in order to see the other, you have to look around and look inside yourself because the second dragon is there.

The Dragon

1961

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man poster
7.2

On September 1, the first day of school, a happy young boy named Fedya draws a picture of a little man on a white wall using coal.

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man

1960

Cain the XVIII-th poster
5.4

A traveling musician falls in love with a princess who is betrothed to a dictator planning to defeat his enemies with the help of an exploding mutant mosquito.

Cain the XVIII-th

1963

Frog the Traveller poster
7.1

Tired of boring life frog decides to travel by hitchhiking.

Frog the Traveller

1965

Rasplyuev's Days of Fun poster
7.0

A clerk fakes his own death in order to get a big fortune.

Rasplyuev's Days of Fun

1966

Nargis poster
NR

On the motifs of the story of S.Rashidov “A Kashmir song”. Spring Flower Nargis waits for the master of bees Bambur whom nobody has seen yet. A witch transforms the master of storms Chorud into a young man and lets him pass as Bambur, but her trick is unmasked. Chorud kills Nargis, but Bambur revives her. A tale by the old ( Cell animation) master Polkovnikov, (1908-1982) whose active career as animation director stretched from 1933 till 1980.

Nargis

1965

Half A Hour For Miracles poster
8.0

The boy Fedya met mysterious The Wall Painter, who gave him his magic brush, with which anybody could do good deeds. But only for a half of hour. The agents of the evil king - The Gray and Abricadabr - hunt for boy. They want to destroy the magic brush and cancel all good deeds in the world

Half A Hour For Miracles

1968

The Piggy Bank poster
9.5

A piggy bank tries to grasp more coins than can contain in itself. Based on the fairy tale by H.C. Andersen.

The Piggy Bank

1963

A Little Frog is Looking For His Father poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Little Frog is Looking For His Father

1964

Russian Souvenir poster
4.6

The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thunderstorm and makes an emergency landing in the Baikal region. In addition to the Soviet citizen Varvara Komarova, all other passengers are foreigners. Using a stop, they explore new cities and get acquainted with the life, work and rest of Soviet people.

Russian Souvenir

1960

Daughter of the Sun poster
NR

A never ending polar night reigns. The agitated residents of a village turns to a shaman but he won't help them. A brave young hunter goes in search for the sun.

Daughter of the Sun

1963

Alyonka poster
5.5

Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alyonka Muratova is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alyonka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.

Alyonka

1962

1950s · 17 titles

The Twelve Months poster
6.3

A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.

The Twelve Months

1956

Little Straw Bull poster
5.0

Animated adaptation of a Ukrainian folk tale. Forest thieves — a bear cub, a hare, and a fox — keep sneaking onto a grandfather’s homestead, causing trouble for him and his granddaughter. To teach the little bandits a lesson, the grandfather builds a straw bull and covers its sides with tar. He sets the bull out on a clearing. The curious thieves gather around the strange creature, and one by one get stuck to its sticky, tar-covered sides…

Little Straw Bull

1954

The Enchanted Boy poster
7.4

An animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf and goes through many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese.

The Enchanted Boy

1955

Wishes Come True poster
7.7

If anything's possible, what's important?

Wishes Come True

1957

Unfinished Story poster
5.3

The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She is lonely, although she is cared for by a confident and promising colleague. Yelizaveta Maksimovna has one patient, a manly, full-energy ship builder Yershov, chained to the bed with a paralysis of both legs. All doctors recommend him rest, and Elizaveta Maksimovna advises to work and not feel sorry for herself. Yershov with all his heart falls in love with his doctor, and she loves him, but she does not dare to say her feelings. Ershov thinks that he has no hopes, but...

Unfinished Story

1955

Beloved Beauty poster
6.0

Once upon a time there were the tsar with the tsaritsa also there was at them a son Ivan-Tsarevich. And everything would be good if Ivan parents didn't come one morning and didn't tell them about the Beloved Beauty about which to it nurses sang, and now every day dreams. Also he wants to go in this world to look for to Beloved Beauty. Ivan-Tsarevich went, and to him the robber Bulat who became a sworn brother on the way. They began to look for Beauty.

Beloved Beauty

1959

Nesterka poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Nesterka

1955

A Magic Saving Stick poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

A Magic Saving Stick

1956

The Witch poster
6.8

In a remote cabin, two people live together, the dirty, unkempt deacon Savely and his beautiful wife Raisa. The deacon torments his wife with absurd jealousy. During a snowstorm, a group of lost mail coach drivers stumble upon the cabin...

The Witch

1959

The Forest Concert poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Forest Concert

1953

Verlioka poster
10.0

A one-eyed forest bully kidnaps a girl, but her friends rush to her aid. Based on Slavic fairy tales.

Verlioka

1957

Brothers Liu poster
6.7

Based on the Chinese folk tale. Long ago, three brothers Liu lived in China. They were so similar that even their own mother discerned them on colored ribbons. The first brother could command fire, the second could drink the sea and return it back, and a third knew the language of birds, animals and fish.

Brothers Liu

1953

Sportland poster
NR

The boy Mitya overslept in the morning. The alarm clock rang - he turned it off. The signal "Listen up everyone" / wake-up call to the Pioneer Dawn school sounded on the radio - he covered the loudspeaker with a pillow. The guys shouted through the window that the whole class had gone to take the BGTO standard, but Mitya was sleeping and was letting everyone down, which meant he would not receive the BGTO badge ("Be ready for work and defense"). But Mitya, with great reluctance, said, "I'll go tomorrow," and covered himself with a blanket.

Sportland

1958

On the Forest Stage poster
NR

The animated film was created based on the fables of Sergey Mikhalkov "Cautious birds" and "Hare in the hops." Drake with his assistants arranges a performance on the forest stage for animals. He tells fables about forest dwellers from the stage.

On the Forest Stage

1954

Girl without an Address poster
6.5

The amusing adventures of the young builder Pasha Gusarov began from the moment when he met and fell in love with Katya on the train, who was going to conquer Moscow. Happiness makes a person careless, and the station is just the place where you can lose it. But it is at the station after all kinds of adventures that they meet again and now they will never part.

Girl without an Address

1958

The Magic Treasure poster
10.0

Based on the Buryats - Mongolian fairy tale by Malyarevsky. Once a brave and honest shepherd Bair rescued from the claws of a black vulture a magic bird. The bird thanked the shepherd by presenting him with a magic chest. All that fell into this chest, it became new and doubled. The greedy merchant Galsan heard about the wonderful gift of the bird and deceived the chest from Bair.

The Magic Treasure

1950

Soldiers Were Walking poster
7.0

October 1917. Russian and German soldiers, exhausted by three years of war, began to fraternize. But officers' bullets shot the fraternizers. The survivors - Ilya, Matvey, nurse Olga and German soldier Jakob - swore in front of the fallen soldiers to reach St. Petersburg and achieve peace for all.

Soldiers Were Walking

1959

1940s · 6 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Ordinary Wonder poster
6.5

In a romantic and philosophical tale of magic and love, a mischievous Sorcerer turns a bear into a young man. Unhappy in his new state, the former bear, with the help of the magician and his beautiful wife, is looking for a princess to kiss in order for his wish to be granted. Certain that all princesses are a vain, spoiled lot, he approaches the first one he sees. But the princess herself is gentle, kind and beautiful, and she and the young man fall in love with each other at the first sight. Unable to bring her pain, he runs away without explaining. As the Princess takes brave actions to find her beloved, new characters enter the story, including the King's ambitious Prime Minister and a hunter looking for a bear fur to complete his collection. How will this complicated plot be resolved?

Ordinary Wonder

1964

Ordinary Wonder poster
6.5

In a romantic and philosophical tale of magic and love, a mischievous Sorcerer turns a bear into a young man. Unhappy in his new state, the former bear, with the help of the magician and his beautiful wife, is looking for a princess to kiss in order for his wish to be granted. Certain that all princesses are a vain, spoiled lot, he approaches the first one he sees. But the princess herself is gentle, kind and beautiful, and she and the young man fall in love with each other at the first sight. Unable to bring her pain, he runs away without explaining. As the Princess takes brave actions to find her beloved, new characters enter the story, including the King's ambitious Prime Minister and a hunter looking for a bear fur to complete his collection. How will this complicated plot be resolved?

Ordinary Wonder

1964

The Prince and the Pauper poster
6.7

Two look-alike boys, one a poor street kid and the other a prince, exchange places to see what the other's life is like.

The Prince and the Pauper

1942

Rasplyuev's Days of Fun poster
7.0

A clerk fakes his own death in order to get a big fortune.

Rasplyuev's Days of Fun

1966

Rasplyuev's Days of Fun poster
7.0

A clerk fakes his own death in order to get a big fortune.

Rasplyuev's Days of Fun

1966

Marriage poster
7.0

The official Podkolesin is tired of his bachelor life, but at the same time he is afraid to disrupt his usual routine. His friend Kochkarev arranges a marriage between Podkolesin and the merchant's daughter Agafia Tikhonovna. It takes a lot of effort for Kochkarev to persuade his friend to go to his bride. But at the last moment, Podkolesin, frightened by the impending changes, runs away.

Marriage

1936

Marriage poster
7.0

The official Podkolesin is tired of his bachelor life, but at the same time he is afraid to disrupt his usual routine. His friend Kochkarev arranges a marriage between Podkolesin and the merchant's daughter Agafia Tikhonovna. It takes a lot of effort for Kochkarev to persuade his friend to go to his bride. But at the last moment, Podkolesin, frightened by the impending changes, runs away.

Marriage

1936

Sinegoriya poster
8.0

A story about the boys and their life during the WWII. Based on Lev Kassil book.

Sinegoriya

1946

Doktor Kalyuzhnyy poster
7.0

After graduating from college, a young doctor leaves his beloved girlfriend behind in the city and returns to his native village, where he energetically sets to work. The hospital is in complete disrepair. But the hero does not despair and even makes a scientific discovery that helps restore the sight of his old teacher and his former fiancée's sister.

Doktor Kalyuzhnyy

1939