A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
B. Blank
Boris Leibovich Blank
Борис Бланк
Борис Лейбович Бланк
Birthplace:
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Born:
October 2, 1938
Boris Leibovich Blank (born October 2, 1938) is a Soviet and Russian film actor, film director, screenwriter and artist. President of the Guild of Film and Television Artists of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. Former chief artist of the State Film Actor Theater (2008-2017). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991).
Art Direction:
1967 Adventures of a Dentist
1970 Ordinary story
1979 A Glass of Water
1990 The Suicide
Director:
1967 Adventures of a Dentist
1970 Ordinary story
1979 A Glass of Water
1990 The Suicide
1991 Kremlin secrets of the XVI century
1993 Forgive Me, Christian People
1993 If Only I Knew...
1993 Shylock
1993 The Fool's Revenge
1996 The Career of Arturo Ui
1997 Oh, Why This Night...
1997 The Mystery of the Wife and the Beast
1999 True Gift
2000 The Frog Princess
2004 Tairov's Death
2007 Sin
2009 Dept
Production Design:
1964 Welcome, or No Trespassing
1967 Adventures of a Dentist
1967 Arena
1967 Uncle's Dream
1968 The Sixth of July
1969 Shine, Shine, My Star
1970 Ordinary story
1972 The Seagull
1973 A Man at His Place
1977 Practical Joke
1978 My Tender and Affectionate Beast
1979 A Glass of Water
1980 Who Will Pay For Luck?
1983 Anna Pavlova
1984 Success
1987 The End of Eternity
1989 The Stairway
1990 The Suicide
1991 Death in Cinema
1991 Kremlin secrets of the XVI century
1991 Mother of Jesus
1993 Forgive Me, Christian People
1993 If Only I Knew...
1993 Shylock
1993 The Fool's Revenge
1994 Простодушный
1996 The Career of Arturo Ui
1996 Why?
1997 Oh, Why This Night...
1997 The Mystery of the Wife and the Beast
1999 True Gift
2000 The Frog Princess
2004 Forest Guard
2004 Tairov's Death
2005 The Attic Story
2007 Sin
2009 Dept
Writer:
1964 Welcome, or No Trespassing
1967 Adventures of a Dentist
1967 Arena
1967 Uncle's Dream
1968 The Sixth of July
1969 Shine, Shine, My Star
1970 Ordinary story
1972 The Seagull
1973 A Man at His Place
1977 Practical Joke
1978 My Tender and Affectionate Beast
1979 A Glass of Water
1980 Who Will Pay For Luck?
1983 Anna Pavlova
1984 Success
1987 The End of Eternity
1989 The Stairway
1990 The Suicide
1991 Death in Cinema
1991 Kremlin secrets of the XVI century
1991 Mother of Jesus
1993 Forgive Me, Christian People
1993 If Only I Knew...
1993 Shylock
1993 The Fool's Revenge
1994 Простодушный
1996 The Career of Arturo Ui
1996 Why?
1997 Oh, Why This Night...
1997 The Mystery of the Wife and the Beast
1999 True Gift
2000 The Frog Princess
2004 Forest Guard
2004 Tairov's Death
2005 The Attic Story
2007 Sin
2009 Dept
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
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