Mira Katherine Sorvino is an American actress. She won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995).
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 410 competitors, 285 men and 125 women, took part in 189 events in 22 sports. As the country hosted the next Olympics in Moscow, a Soviet segment was performed at the closing ceremony.
Norma Jean & Marilyn is a 1996 American biographical drama television film directed by Tim Fywell, based on the 1985 book Goddess, the Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers. The film stars Ashley Judd as Norma Jean Dougherty and Mira Sorvino as Marilyn Monroe. It premiered on HBO on May 18, 1996.
WiseGirls is a 2002 crime drama film directed by David Anspaugh and starring Mira Sorvino, Mariah Carey and Melora Walters. The film was produced by Lions Gate Films, Leading Pictures and Intermedia Films. The story centers around Meg Kennedy, a medical school dropout who gets a part-time job as a waitresses working at an Italian restaurant in New York City. Befriending other waitresses, Kate and Raychel, Meg slowly learns that the restaurant is run by mobsters as she delves deeper into their dangerous world.
Like Dandelion Dust is a 2009 drama film directed by Jon Gunn and based on the novel by the same name by Karen Kingsbury. The film won 26 awards at 23 film festivals.
Piotr Filipovich Alberti was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Galakhov is a Russian artist. He is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists. Living and working in Saint Petersburg, he is regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, and is most famous for his landscape paintings.
Leningrad Secondary Art School was established in 1934 as the first art school for gifted children.
The year 1960 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
First National Art Exhibition "Soviet Russia" was one of the largest Soviet art exhibitions of the 1960s. The exhibition took place in Manezh Exhibition Hall.
The Fine Arts of Leningrad retrospective exhibition became the largest showing of Leningrad artists in the Soviet History outside the city, as well as in total one of the most important art exhibitions in USSR of the 1970s. The exhibition took place in the Moscow Manezh.
Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1961 was opened on September 13, and become one of the largest Art Exhibition of 1961 in the USSR. The Exhibition took place in State Russian Museum.
Olga Aleksandrovna Sutulova is a Russian theater and film actress.
Trotsky is a Russian biographical eight-episode television mini-series about Leon Trotsky directed by Alexander Kott and Konstantin Statsky. The series stars Konstantin Khabensky in the title role. It debuted on Channel One in Russia on 6 November 2017 for the centenary of the Russian Revolution. The series is a rare high-budget artistic representation of Trotsky in post-Soviet Russia, as his name was a taboo during most of the Soviet period.
Carnival is a 1981 Soviet romantic comedy film directed by Tatyana Lioznova.
Leningrad Symphony is a 1957 drama film directed by Zakhar Agranenko.
