Russia

Director: Yuri Pavlov (I) Writers: Vladimir Maslov (I), Vitali Moskalenko Saulius Balandis Andrei Sergei Vinogradov (I) Phillip Irina Metlitskaya Nina

On the same day, Andrei's wife Nina asks for a divorce, his colleague Natasha tells him she's attracted to him, he's assigned a new project under the direction of Philip (a well-dressed, authoritative, and even arrogant stranger who keeps touching him), and he fights a gang of homophobes to protect a young gay man, Oleg.

	Birth : 26 September 1889, Penza, Russia Death : 18 January 1939, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (tuberculosis) Birth Name: Ivan Ilyitch Mozzhukhin
Filmography: Deti vanyushina Komediasmerti Mirele Efros

Ivan Mozzhukhin was a legendary actor of Russian silent films, who escaped from execution by the Soviet Red Army and made a stellar career in Europe.

Director: Sergei Solovyov Writers: Sergei Solovyov, Leo Tolstoy Tatyana Drubich Anna Arkadyevna Karenina Oleg Yankovsky Aleksei Aleksandrovich Karenin Sergei Bezrukov Count Aleksei Kirillovich Vronsky

The film is based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Drubich) is a young and beautiful wife of Mr. Karenin (Yankovsky), who is 20 years older. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky (Bezrukov), and they fall in love with each other. Anna is torn between her love to Count Vronsky, and her loveless marriage to Mr. Karenin.

	Birth : 28 August 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russia Death : 20 November 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan, Russia (heart failure) Birth Name: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Filmography: Vlast tmy Voyna i mir "Resurrezione"

Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in his ancestral estate Yasnaya Polyana, South of Moscow, Russia. He was the fourth of five children in a wealthy family of Russian landed Gentry. His parents died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his elder brothers and relatives.

	Birth : 31 July 1921, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Russia Death : 6 June 2001, Moscow, Russia (heart attack) Birth Name: Lyubov Sergeyevna Sokolova Nickname: Mama
Filmography: Povest o nastoyashchem cheloveke Varvara Tikhiy Don Nochnoy gost

Liubov Sergeevna Sokolova (Lyubov Sokolova) was born on July 31, 1921, in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, USSR. Her father was an artisan furniture maker, and her mother was a saleswoman. Young Sokolova was fascinated with acting and became involved in the drama class at her school.

	Birth : 27 March 1921, Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), Russia Death : 18 March 2004, Perth, Scotland, UK Birth Name: Alexander Molchanoff-Sacha
Filmography: Lilli Marlene SS Colonel (unconfirmed) The African Queen Second Officer of Shona Appointment with Venus German corporal #2

A Russian-born stage and screen actor who usually plays a military man in lots of spy thrillers and war films, Alexander Molchanoff was born in Petrovgrad in 1921. He was the eldest son of Colonel Paul Molchanoff, of the Semionovsky regiment. In 1924 his family left Russia via Finland and Germany finally ending up in London,where Alexander's grandmother had a house in Harley Street.

	Birth : 18 April 1903, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 8 September 1998, Fountain Hills, Arizona, USA (complications from a stroke) Nickname: Mad Russian
Filmography: The Big Broadcast Ivan Trouble in Paradise Radical (uncredited) Duck Soup Sylvanian Agitator (as Leonid Kinsky)

Leonid Kinskey, originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, performed across Europe and much of Latin America before his arrival in the United States. By 1932 he landed a small role as a radical in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy, Trouble in Paradise (1932). The next year he played an agitator in Duck Soup (1933).

	Birth : 10 October 1900, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 23 August 1993, Studio City, California, USA Birth Name: Gregory De Gay Height: 183
Filmography: Tempest (uncredited) The Black Watch Bit Part (uncredited) The Case of Lena Smith (uncredited)

Character actor in US films.

	Birth : 5 May 1895, St. Petersburg, Russia Death : 12 September 1993, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (pneumonia) Birth Name: Charles Fred Lamont Height: 165
Filmography: Bachelors' Babies Come to Papa The Fixer

One of the more prolific American directors, Charles Lamont entered films as an actor in 1919 and became a director in 1922. He churned out numerous one- and two-reel comedies for various producers, including Mack Sennett and Al Christie, and began directing features in the mid-'30s.

	Birth : 6 October 1907, Saratov, Saratov Oblast, Russia Death : 11 December 1994, Sankt-Petersburg, Leningradskaya Oblast, Russia Birth Name: Vera Andreyevna Kuznetsova
Filmography: Svadba Shchedroye leto Bolshaya semya Agafya Karpovna Zhubrina

Vera Andreevna Kuznetsova was born on October 6, 1907, in Saratov, Russian Empire (now Saratov, Russia). In 1928 she made her stage debut, while being a student of Theatre Workers' Acting Studio in Leningrad. In 1933 Kuznetsova was one of the founders of the Lensoveta theatre in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad). Her staged career spanned over 45 years.