Jews all over the world are celebrating the Holday of Light: Hanukkah at this time of the year! Moscow is celebrating Hanukkah as well. In the center of Moscow just by the Kremlin’s walls on the Red Squire they put a big Menorah and every day one more candle gets lid up! Jews and Russians are celebrating together! What a wonderful video of joy and happiness!
This weekend we started to watch Soviet movie about Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. And today we will watch a cartoon version about Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson. This cartoon was made in 2005. It won Best Writing and 3rd-best-rating at the 2006 Open Russian Festival of Animated Films. So today we’ll watch an example of Russian modern cartoons and one more interesting story (parody) about Sherlock Holmes with English subtitles as always.
To be continued or not – depends on us. The director of the cartoon Alexander Bubnov is willing to make the second part of the cartoon – the scenario is already done I’ve myself personally read it in Russian in his blog. Now he is trying to collect money to make the sequel. You can also read an article in Sherlock Holmes LiveJournal Community.
Best wishes for everyone, Russian Video from Russia Svet and Kyle
Do you like detectives? I love them. Every day when I am riding metro to work and back home I am reading detective stories. And if I don’t have a new one I think that I just waste my time in metro. But tastes are different and may be you don’t like detectives that much, but I am sure that you still love Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. And today we will watch the best screen version of his stories. How do I know that the movie is the best screen version that’s because when you visit museum of Sherlock Holmes in London on Baker Street on the second flour you will see pictures of all actors who’ve ever played Sherlock Holmes and the biggest portrait in the middle of wall is a picture of Vasiliy Livanov (who played Sherlock Holmes in this movie) and everybody (even cinematographers from Great Britain) admits that he was the best. So now we have a chance to watch a real story of real Sherlock Holmes.
Today we are watching a movie: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979), First episode: “Acquaintance” (based on A Study in Scarlet and The Adventure of the Speckled Band).
==================== Crew: Written by Yuly Dunskoy and Valtry Frid Directed by Igor Maslennikov Director of photography Yury Veksler Production designer Mark Kaplan Music by Vladimir Dashkevich
Cast Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson Rina Zelyonaya as Mrs. Hudson Gennady Bogachov as Stanford Maria Solomina as Elen Stouner and Julia Stoner Fedor Odinokov as Dr. Roilott (voiced by Igor Yefimov) Borislav Brondukov as Inspector Lestrade (voiced by Igor Yefimov) Igor Dmitriyev as Inspector Gregson Nikolai Karachentsov as Jefferson Hope Viktor Aristov as Josef Stangerson Adolf Ilyin as Enoch Drebber
Readers who are with us for a long time already knows that New Year is the most important holiday in Russia. Russians celebrate New Year the same way as Western peoples celebrate Christmas. New Year is the most joyful holiday kids wait for it whole yearlong, looking forward what kind a gift Ded Moroz/Дед Мороз (Grandfather Frost) will bring and put under fur tree. There are very nice videos about preparing to New Year Feast on Russian TV. Russia Today put a very cute video. Lets watch:
For our readers who wants to know more about New Year and Christmas in Russia, if Russians have a Santa Clause and who is Grandfather Frost and his Granddaughter Snegurochka(Снегурочка) I’ll put some links to our last year articles:
We already told you about one citizen of Great Britain who loves Volga. Today we’ll watch another video shows us another people now from Israel who love Russian cars Volga and Lada:
By the way we have Volga 24, and we just adore her. Kyle wrote three articles about history, technical and beauty of Volga:
Today we are watching one of the best Russian cartoon: Vinni Puh (Russian version of Winnie the Pooh). Part 1 with English subtitles. Yes, we already published all cartoons about Vinni Puh: All of Vinni Puh!. But we did not have the 1st an 3rd parts with English subtitles. Today we found a good translation of Vinni Puh (Part 1) and are glad to show it for you.
Fot our readers who wants to know more we are glad to introduce our the other articles about Vinni Puh:
Be honest we are not too much in all these beauty contests. But the video what we found about the Miss World 2008 contest must be shown! Today we are watching “Miss World 2008 Top 5 Interview”:
I don’t really know if Ksenia Sukhinova was the most beautiful one on this contest, I am not specialist to judge. But her interview is the thing what I am really proud about: She told that the reason why she should have this crown is because she likes and wants to help people, and to be Miss the World could help her to do it better!
Bravo Ksenia!!!
That’s what is Russia (Russian people) about!
Best wishes, Russian Video from Russia Svet and Kyle
As usual at the weekends Russian Video from Russia presents Soviet or Post-Soviet full-length movies. Today we will watch a very good movie (and we never show bad movies) “The Amphibian Man” (“Человек Амфибия”), 1961. This beautiful movie is based on science-fiction novel by Aleksandr Belyayev (first published in 1928).
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Directors: Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadi Kazansky. Writers: Aleksandr Belyayev (novel), Akiba Golburt (writer).
Cast * Vladimir Korenev as Ichtyandr Salvator * Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Gutiere Baltazar * Mikhail Kozakov as Pedro Zurita * Anatoly Smiranin as Old Baltazar * Nikolai Simonov as Prof. Salvator * Vladlen Davydov as Olsen, the reporter
Since we don’t have snow in Moscow let’s look at snow in Arkhangelsk (Архангельск) – one of the main Russian ports on the Arctic Ocean! They I bet have enough snow:
Best wishes, Russian Video from Russia Svet and Kyle
