Semyon Farada

Acting

Semyon Farada

Born 1933-12-31 · Nikolskoe, Moskovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

Acting credits

Crazies poster
4.8

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

Crazies

1991

The Musicians from Bremen poster
3.0

The classic story about a musicians from Bremen is told in not so classical way.

The Musicians from Bremen

2000

The Duenna poster
5.7

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

The Duenna

1979

Fandango for a Monkey poster
NR

Musician Leonty, artist Fyodor, and ensign Mashchenko live in the same building. They always find a reason for conflict and for cheerful jokes: a broken kitchen faucet or a canceled trip to Japan. The main thing is the mood, and the reason is always at hand...

Fandango for a Monkey

1992

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

Formula of Love poster
7.5

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

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 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

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

After the Rain, on Thursday poster
6.5

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 Year of the Good Child poster
7.0

Roma Rogov was a talented and gifted boy — something that becomes clear by blowing up his teacher. A girl from Germany named Rosy casually fixes her dad’s scooter. Such exceptional children are sent to the International Festival of Gifted Kids, held in honor of the Year of the Good Child. Criminals plan to kidnap the crown prince of a wealthy kingdom, but by mistake, they end up with little Roma Rogov — already known to us as the young demolitions expert…

The Year of the Good Child

1991

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

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

Ladies' Man 2 poster
5.3

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

Ladies' Man 2

1992

Iceberg's Surface Part poster
NR

Tristan, Henry and Pavlova manage to defeat a flying monster that appeared from a melted iceberg and thereby help people.

Iceberg's Surface Part

1989

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

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

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

Mikko, Pavlova's Son poster
NR

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

Mikko, Pavlova's Son

1989

7 Days with a Slavic Beauty poster
7.0

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

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

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

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