Episode list

American actress Joan Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925.

French actress Danielle Darrieux was one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career was among the longest in movie history.

Russian actor Evgeny Samoylov is known for youthful heroic parts.

Russian actor and film director Rolan Bykov is known for his roles in movies Trial on the Road (1986), Dead Man's Letters (1986), Shinel (1959), Priklyucheniya Buratino (1976).

Russian actor Leonid Kharitonov played in the movies Soldat Ivan Brovkin (1955), Ivan Brovkin na tseline (1959) and Tam, na nevedomykh dorozhkakh... (1983).

Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal and elemental virility" in numerous critically acclaimed movies both in Hollywood and abroad.

Japanese film director and screenwriter Akira Kurosawa is regarded as one of the most important and influential film directors in the history of cinema.

American film director George Cukor mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major movies.

Swedish film director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman is master made existential and soul-searching films that constitute one of the richest bodies of work in the history of cinema.

American singer and actor Frank Sinatra is one of the greatest musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold an estimated 150 million records worldwide.

Russian actress Inna Makarova is known for roles in movies The Girls (1962), Molodaya gvardiya (1948), Zhenitba Balzaminova (1964).

Russian actress Alla Larionova was one of the most popular stars of the Soviet cinema of the 1950s.

Russian actor Mikhail Zharov was a popular soviet actor who starred in silent movies.

Russian film director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk is known for Oscar-Winning movie War and Peace (1965). He was one of the leading figures of Russian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s.

Russian actor Ivan Pereverzev appeared in 70 soviet movies between 1940 and 1979.

German film director and screenwriter Georg Jacoby was known for his works between 1920s - 1940s.

Russian actor Anatoly Kuznetsov is known for his role of the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov in White Sun of the Desert (1970).

Italian actor and film director Alberto Sordi was known for satirizing his country's social mores in pungent black comedies, farcical tales and grim drama.

Russian actor Leonid Obolensky is known for his roles in soviet movies.

Russian actor Georgy Yumatov appeared in 75 movies between 1946 and 1994.

Russian actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov is known his roles as Bolkonsky in the epic War and Peace (1965) and as Stierlitz in the TV-series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973).

Russian actor Georgy Vitsin is one of popular soviet comic actors.

Russian actor Oleg Efremov is known for his most notable roles were in the melodramas Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street (1968), Gori, gori, moya zvezda (1970), comedies Aybolit-66 (1967) and Beregis avtomobilya (1966).

American actress Barbara Stanwyck was known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional for her strong, realistic screen presence.

Russian actress Valentina Karavayeva played in nine soviet movies.

Russian actress Vera Maretskaya is known for her roles in soviet movies.

Russian actor Rostislav Plyatt is known for his roles in soviet movies.

Russian-Polish actress Yanina Zheymo appeared in more than 30 movies between 1925 and 1955.

Russian actress Nadezhda Rumyantseva was a popular soviet actress in the 1950s.

Russian actress Tatyana Pelttser is known for her roles in soviet movies.

Russian film composer and conductor Isaak Dunayevsky is known for his works of the 1930s and 1940s.

Russian actor Lev Sverdlin appeared in more than forty movies from 1936 to 1969.

Russian film director Leonid Gaidai is as "the king of Soviet comedy". His movies broke theatre attendance records and were some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia.

Russian film director Emil Loteanu is known for movies - Moy laskovyy i nezhnyy zver (1978), Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven (1976), Lautarii (1972), Pavlova: A Woman for All Time (1983).

Russian actor and film director Vladimir Basov is known for his popular starring episode roles in movies and as a film director made 18 movies. Among his most acclaimed a spy thriller Shchit i mech (1968).

Russian actor Zinovy Gerdt was among Russia's most beloved and respected character actors.

Russian actress Tatyana Samoylova is known for her lead role in The Cranes Are Flying (1957). She received a number of awards for the film, including a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival. She had several major roles in the 1960s.

Russian actor Erast Garin was one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of the Soviet movies.

Russian actress Izolda Izvitskaya was a shining star of the Soviet cinema in the late 1950's.

Russian actor Yefim Kopelyan performed the bright characteristic roles in the soviet movies.

Russian actor Vladimir Druzhnikov appeared in 50 movies between 1945 and 1992. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR and the winner of two Stalin Prizes.

Russian actor Boris Babochkin was one of the first internationally recognized stars of the Soviet cinema.

Russian comic actor Sergey Filippov is known as "the king of episode". He was a master of both large and complex roles and episodes. Its fleeting appearance on the screen easily transformed into a masterpiece.

French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant is thoughtful and enigmatic actor whose watchful screen presence and skill at portraying troubled characters has been used to great effect in some of the most intelligent and morally complex movies.

British actress and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Georgian-Russian film director and screenwriter Georgy Daneliya was one of the most popular soviet film directors, whose gently satirical films managed to poke fun at just about everyone without offending anyone.

Russian actor Boris Chirkov appeared in 50 movies between 1928 and 1975. He was awarded four Stalin Prizes for his roles in movies.

Russian actor Sergei Gurzo is known for role in movie Molodaya gvardiya (1948). He died very early.

Russian actor Evgeny Evstigneyev is one of popular soviet actors. The founders of the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre.

American actress Jane Russell is known as one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s.