Semyon Farada

Acting

Semyon Farada

Born — Died

1933-12-31 — 2009-08-20

Place of birth

Nikolskoe, Moskovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Known for

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Fuse

1962

Yeralash poster
6.6

The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.

Yeralash

1974

Entrance to the Maze poster
6.3

A Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika.

Entrance to the Maze

1990

Adventures of Captain Vrungel poster
7.6

An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.

Adventures of Captain Vrungel

1980

Naval Cadets, Charge! poster
7.6

Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev, a vice-chancellor of Russia. If this diary ever gets abroad, the consequences for the country would be grave. The cadets are trying to return the papers to their owner, but there are others who want to get the papers...

Naval Cadets, Charge!

1988

The Very Same Munchhausen poster
7.6

A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and behavior is what sets him apart from others. He becomes alienated from the society that failed to grasp his brilliance. In fact, his brilliance is what underlines the faults with the society itself. It's a beautiful yet tragic story that is filled with dense and intellectual dialogue.

The Very Same Munchhausen

1979

Film credits

1990s · 21 titles

Ladies' Man 2 poster
5.2

Two young friends are looking for adventures and women during New Year night.

Ladies' Man 2

1992

The Fatal Eggs poster
4.2

Based on the motifs of M. Bulhakow's story with the same title. The thing about the scientist-zoologist Persikow, whose unique invention makes the rate of formation and development of organisms grow thousands of times. The experiment subjects eggs of the anaconda, which by mistake go to the mad director of the model chicken farm, dealing with rebuilding the hen population in the country. Irradiated reptiles, hatching from eggs, start to devour.

The Fatal Eggs

1995

Dodgy poster
NR

An escaped prisoner, breaking the laws of hospitality, kills the dog of a boy whose grandfather gave him shelter. He placed a sharp piece of metal in a piece of meat. The police arrived and shot the dog. The boy grew into a small, pitiful, absurd, side-eyed man, who froze his genital organs while rescuing a dog, unable to have children, which his wife complains about very much. He works as a driver. While transporting a white piano from the collective farm to the club, he turns off the road so as not to run over the sheep, and the car falls into the river. A white puppy follows him everywhere and creepy and funny stories constantly happen. But he lives his dreams, writes poetry, his only friends are dogs - he gets kicked out of work, his wife leaves him. The real trouble comes - war.

Dodgy

1993

The Criminal Quartet poster
5.6

Mafia 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

Bolotnaya Street, or the Cure Against Sex poster
3.3

A high-rise building's residents and firefighters who arrived to extinguish the house, which broke out from a “love” spark...

Bolotnaya Street, or the Cure Against Sex

1991

Air Pirates poster
8.0

The chief of the airline agency gives the command to the special team not to drink, not to stand in the drafts and not to have contact with the girls, as these guys will have to hijack their own plane ... In order to identify weaknesses in the aviation services. During its implementation, our heroes are faced with real terrorists - this was not taken into account.

Air Pirates

1992

Shakh's Diamonds poster
7.0

A criminal story which started when a young bartender Mikhail lost all his money and decided to robe a private diamonds collection.

Shakh's Diamonds

1992

Entrance to Labyrinth poster
4.7

The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika.

Entrance to Labyrinth

1990

Crazies poster
5.4

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

Crazies

1991

Tyoma's Childhood poster
5.5

A story about an adolescent years of Tyoma - a young boy from Russian countryside...

Tyoma's Childhood

1991

A Boulevard Romance poster
5.2

The film was shot on the story of Valentin Pikul “Go and do not sin”, which tells about the real events that took place in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The story of the young beauty Olga Palem from a poor large family is replete with tragic events. Olga's passionate disinterested love for student Alexander Zapolsky becomes her evil rock. Spoiled and selfish, Alexander is not able to appreciate her feelings. Exhausted by humiliation, a young woman kills her lover. The high-profile trial of Olga Pale becomes a sensation that stirred up the whole of Russia ...

A Boulevard Romance

1995

The Passion According to Vladimir poster
8.0

The film takes place in the office of the head of one of the research institutes. The problem of whether or not to be a Vysotsky concert at the institute’s club is being solved. The management is categorically against it, but all employees have already been notified and are looking forward to the performance of their favorite artist...

The Passion According to Vladimir

1990

7 Days with a Slavic Beauty poster
4.5

A parody of lawlessness and organized crime, terrorism and murder, violence and sexual assault, adventurous ups and downs.

7 Days with a Slavic Beauty

1996

Death macaroni, or Professor Buggensberg's mistake poster
NR

A surreal fairy tale for adult viewers, mixing animated and live performances. Wasn't finished due to budget problems.

Death macaroni, or Professor Buggensberg's mistake

1992

Red Island poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Red Island

1991

Russian Business poster
4.9

An old tamer uncle Vasya with an old bear Gosha and their friends manage "Russian safari" for strangers where the bear must stay alive.

Russian Business

1993

The Parrot Speaking Yiddish poster
3.1

About amusing adventures of the young blunderer Yankel during World War II who survives thanks to the sluggishness. The hired legionary he is taken prisoner, will pass across Sicily with the army of allies and it will appear in Indochina. And everywhere he will be accompanied by glory.

The Parrot Speaking Yiddish

1990

Joy Ride poster
10.0

A wealthy and elderly husband hires two people to watch over a young and windy wife who is sailing with her friends on a Mediterranean cruise. A sea voyage brings together by no means accidental passengers who find themselves in unpredictable - difficult and comic - situations.

Joy Ride

1994

No artwork available
NR

Alexander Podbolotov is called the "Russian Pavarotti." He sings wherever he can — in the park by the pond, in the museum among the statues, in small living rooms. Nature and seasons change. And the voice still sounds light, strong and beautiful.

We're Just Acquaintances

1992

"Nippel" System poster
NR

Senya Rodimtsev is released on bail from a psychiatric clinic. His goal is to kill a bureaucrat nicknamed Bamboo - Lazar Fomich and, thus, solve his housing problem. After all, as is well known: if you have a certificate that you are crazy, then you are off the hook. But things take a completely different turn.

"Nippel" System

1991

Sin poster
10.0

Sergey Sergeyevich, a retired KGB colonel, has been enjoying his long-standing retirement. He remains fit and energetic, with little to complain about in life—he has everything he needs, even a mistress who dreams of marrying him. But one winter evening, two visitors arrive at his door.

Sin

1992

1980s · 29 titles

Magicians poster
7.0

In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to marry not Ivan Puhov, but Ivan Kivrin, whom Shemahandskaya is going to marry herself. Enraged, Shemahandskaya, who is a powerful witch, orders Sanina to forget about her Ivan and marry Sataneev instead. And this will be final unless Alyona kisses Puhov before midnight on New Year. Alyona's friends call Puhov to the rescue.

Magicians

1982

To Kill a Dragon poster
7.1

Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's multiple personalities, ranging from a "dragon" to a "samurai" to a "Nazi", scare the hell out of all people, except Lancelot. Finally Dragon drops all his masks, to become the most dangerous of his incarnations - "himself". And the battle begins

To Kill a Dragon

1988

Formula of Love poster
7.4

A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his "magic", he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life...

Formula of Love

1984

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines poster
7.1

Mr. Johnny First goes to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph, and the lives of everyone in the frontier town of Santa Carolina change as a result of this.

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines

1987

The Secret of Gretha Villa poster
7.4

Members 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

Exceptions Without Rules poster
6.8

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".

Exceptions Without Rules

1986

My Friend Ivan Lapshin poster
6.7

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985

The House That Swift Built poster
5.7

An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism.

The House That Swift Built

1985

No artwork available
NR

Peter Petrovich Belkin, a lazybones, drifts from one job to another in search of a "cushy job." Eventually, he ends up in a workplace where his colleagues decide to teach the slacker a lesson...

Wherever You Work...

1987

The Hat poster
6.2

The hero of the movie is a popular composer and jazz performer. He is certainly a gifted man. However, his character is... to put it mildly, uncomfortable. He lives by emotions, he cares little about the fate of people who love him. Some will think that he is right in his own way; some will think that he missed something important in life. But anyway, one thing is certain: God is helping him.

The Hat

1981

Before We Part poster
6.0

Stuck due to bad weather at a tiny Far Eastern airport, several random travel companions become witnesses of an amazing meeting. As it turns out, one of the passengers was brought here not by chance. He is the son of an American pilot who ended up at the airfield during the war years, which was built to transfer planes from Alaska to Russia. And here he meets a woman who saved his father's life forty years ago.

Before We Part

1984

Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation poster
5.7

The first private enterprises are started in the Soviet Union in the late 80s. A gang of bad guys, owners of a private restroom, kidnap a good guy - owner of a toy store. Private eye Dmitri's first job is to try and free the store owner.

Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation

1989

The Right People poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Right People

1986

The Story of One Billiard-Room poster
8.0

The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.

The Story of One Billiard-Room

1988

One, Two - Woe, Never Mind! poster
6.5

Defeating the terrible dragon, the soldier Ivan returns from the war. The Far Far Away rejoices. The king, also Ivan, is very pleased. He awards the namesake with an order with pearls, appoints a field marshal and offers his wife his own daughter Maria Louise. But the soldier suddenly refuses everything.

One, Two - Woe, Never Mind!

1989

Be My Husband poster
7.0

Natasha, a woman struggling to find housing in a crowded resort town with her young son. She forces a stranger, Viktor, to pretend to be her husband to secure accommodation that bans children, leading to unexpected romantic developments.

Be My Husband

1981

A Canary Cage poster
5.5

The film follows the chance encounter between two teenagers in crisis - Olesya and Victor. They both feel trapped and are looking for their way out. Olesya ran away from home and is waiting for her father to step off the train from Riga, while Victor desperately wants to get to Riga, or to some other place where people are truly good.

A Canary Cage

1983

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

Doctor Aybolit poster
6.5

A funny comedy about doctor Aybolit and his assistants and patients - all animals.

Doctor Aybolit

1986

After the Rain, on Thursday poster
6.7

A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.

After the Rain, on Thursday

1986

The Lake at Bottom of Sea poster
NR

Pavlova, Tristan, Henry and the boy Mikko find a city built by a mysterious ancient civilization at the bottom of the ocean. The discovery of the wonders of the underwater city and meeting with an embrasure terrorist make up the plot of the film.

The Lake at Bottom of Sea

1989

What is Yeralash? poster
NR

A musical and television performance film dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the children's film magazine Yeralash.

What is Yeralash?

1986

How to Become Happy poster
4.2

Once on New Year's Eve, Gosha met a strange old man who called himself an inventor. He kept his last invention in a suitcase and willingly determined with the help of this device the area and degree of giftedness of each person. He predicted the career of a clown to Gosha, but Gosha did not believe it and, contrary to the recommendations, became a journalist.

How to Become Happy

1986

From Pay to Pay poster
7.0

The shoe factory is undergoing production reform. Poor quality shoes no longer bring savings, the company began to suffer only losses. To get out of this crisis, the factory management decided to produce normal products designed for the wishes of the consumer. To do this, you must cope with new technologies.

From Pay to Pay

1986

Frenchman poster
5.0

Two years after the end of the war, Anna is raising her two sons all by herself. After her husband suddenly comes back from captivity, the boys struggle to get used to the father they have nearly forgotten.

Frenchman

1988

Adventures of Captain Vrungel poster
7.6

An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.

Adventures of Captain Vrungel

1980

Constellation Goattour poster
5.0

The action takes place in one of the Transcaucasian republics in the sixties, where a campaign was launched to breed a new animal, the goat, descended from the mountain tour and the domestic goat.

Constellation Goattour

1989

Mikko, Pavlova's Son poster
NR

Dolphines Tristan and Pavlova adopt a boy, Mikko, left behind after a shipwreck.

Mikko, Pavlova's Son

1989

Trainers poster
NR

Grisha Utochkin once told the guys that his nondescript-looking dog, Palma, knows how to catch criminals. And Grisha had to urgently teach her all sorts of dog tricks. But Palma did not want to run on a log, jump over barriers, and even more so follow the "face" command. The training finale was unexpected!

Trainers

1987

1970s · 8 titles

The Very Same Munchhausen poster
7.6

A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and behavior is what sets him apart from others. He becomes alienated from the society that failed to grasp his brilliance. In fact, his brilliance is what underlines the faults with the society itself. It's a beautiful yet tragic story that is filled with dense and intellectual dialogue.

The Very Same Munchhausen

1979

Romance for Lovers poster
5.2

A Marine's presumed death leads his fiancée to marry another, only for him to return, leading to a tragic, symbolic end for him despite his physical survival.

Romance for Lovers

1974

The Duenna poster
5.7

A funny musical based on the comedy "The Duenna" by British dramatist Richard B. Sheridan.

The Duenna

1979

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained poster
6.7

The thirty-year-old decathlete leaves the big sport and becomes a stunt performer in the cinema. About how the movie is shot, and about the development of personal relationships between the main characters.

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

1977

One Fine Day poster
8.5

A film almanac consisting of two short stories, united by a common idea of the need to maintain harmony between private and public interests: “Suite” and “One Fine Day”. The hero of the story ”Suite" is a lifeguard on the shore. The events taking place at sea do not bother him at all. To the music of Bizet, he dreams of Carmen, her exploits, valor and strong love... The hero of the short story “One Fine Day”, a promising researcher, one morning saw a spaceship from his balcony. Do this a little restlessly to his mother-in-law, neighbors, acquaintances, boss and, finally, to a psychiatrist...

One Fine Day

1977

Between Sky and Earth poster
NR

It's time for the reckless guy Simion Cook to join the army. Having joined the airborne troops under the command of petty officer Petro Golovko, who is not indifferent to music, who organizes the vocal trio "Sineva", named after the initial letters of its participants: Moldovan Simeon, Armenian Nerses and Russian Vasily. And now the day has come when a new musical director, who turned out to be a charming girl Sasha, should arrive at the military unit. Who would have guessed that after the service, Simion would return home with a pretty bride...

Between Sky and Earth

1976

The Garage poster
7.3

An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...

The Garage

1979

Stop Potapov! poster
4.0

A film based on the story of the same name by Grigory Gorin. An employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things.

Stop Potapov!

1974

Series credits

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Fuse

1962

Yeralash poster
6.6

The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.

Yeralash

1974

Entrance to the Maze poster
6.3

A Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika.

Entrance to the Maze

1990

Adventures of Captain Vrungel poster
7.6

An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.

Adventures of Captain Vrungel

1980

Naval Cadets, Charge! poster
7.6

Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev, a vice-chancellor of Russia. If this diary ever gets abroad, the consequences for the country would be grave. The cadets are trying to return the papers to their owner, but there are others who want to get the papers...

Naval Cadets, Charge!

1988

Magicians poster
7.6

A New Year's fairy tale about how true love can work wonders. At the NUINU Institute (Scientific Universal Institute of Unusual Services), work is in full swing on the creation of a magic wand. The presentation of the invention is scheduled for December 31, New Year's Eve.

Magicians

1982

Doctor Aybolit poster
7.4

An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.

Doctor Aybolit

1984