Yuriy Borisov

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Yuriy Alexandrovich Borisov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Бори́сов; born December 8, 1992; Reutov) is a Russian actor. Winner of the Golden Eagle Award – 2021. He was nominated at the European Film Awards (2021) as Best European Actor for "Compartment No. 6" (2021). Borisov was born in Reutov, Moscow Oblast near Moscow. In 2013 he graduated from the Shchepkin Higher Theater School (course of Vladimir Mikhailovich Beilis and Vitaly Nikolayevich Ivanov), and won the Golden Leaf award in the Best Actor category for the role of Alexander Tarasovich Ametistov in the play Zoykina's Apartment. Yura started working as a film actor in 2010, and played main roles in various television series. In 2013–14 he worked at the Moscow theater "Satyricon". In 2019, he starred in the film The Bull, for which he was nominated for the 18th Golden Eagle Awards 2020 in the category Best Leading Actor, and also received an award "Event of the Year" from the magazine "Kinoreporter" in the category "Discovery of the Year". He also played minor roles in the films T-34 (2019 film), Union of Salvation (2019 film), and Invasion (2020 film). In February 2020, the film AK-47 was released, in which Yura Borisov played the main role – Mikhail Kalashnikov, and received positive reviews from film critics. For this role he was awarded the Golden Eagle Award – 2021. 2021 was a very busy year for Yura Borisov – he played in 8 feature films released in 2021. In 2021 Yura played the lead role in Finnish-Russian film Compartment No. 6 directed by Juho Kuosmanen, which won the Grand-Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

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Anora

Movie2024

Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Invasion

Movie2020

Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?

Kalashnikov AK-47

Movie2020

Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47.

Silver Skates

Movie2020

1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.

The Red Ghost

Movie2020

December 30, 1941. Vyazma ('Vyazemsky cauldron') is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. However, none of them think about giving up. Each of them was ready to sacrifice his life in order to protect his native land. None of these brave people was born a hero. The myth of the red ghost is a heroic deed without a soldier's Soviet soldier in the Great Patriotic War who instilled in the animals, deadly fear of German soldiers. In place of one of the dead hero was inserted another, and the born myth of the invincible Soviet soldier. The film 'The Red Ghost' is about the hope that each soldier will have.

The Blackout

Movie2019

Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.

T-34

Movie2018

In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.