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Sergei Maratovich Guriev (Russian: Серге́й Мара́тович Гури́ев, Ossetian: Гуыриаты Мараты фырт Сергей, romanized: Gwyriaty Maraty fyrt Sergej; born 21 October 1971) is a Russian economist, who is the dean and a professor of economics at the London Business School, prior to which he was the provost of the Institut d’études politiques in Paris ...
His mother, Anne Treisman, and father, Michel Treisman, [3] were experimental psychologists, while his stepfather was the Nobel Prize-winning social psychologist and pioneer of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman. Treisman’s older sister, Jessica, is a Professor of Cell Biology at New York University, [4] and his younger sister, Deborah, is ...
Sergei has survived, and orders his Bolshevik troops to put down the revolt. Yuriy's family and the villagers are imprisoned in the church, now their torture chamber and prison cell. In the northern Kyivan forests Yuri meets Lubko, a desperately hungry boy.
One of the first actors signed onboard was Omar Sharif, who had played Lawrence's right-hand man Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia. Sharif loved the novel, and when he heard Lean was making a film adaptation, he requested to be cast in the role of Pasha (which ultimately went to Tom Courtenay ).
In a nursing home, elderly Irish-American World War II veteran Frank Sheeran recounts his time as a hitman for the Italian-American Mafia.. In 1950s Philadelphia, Sheeran works as a union delivery truck driver, where he starts selling some of the meat shipments to a local Philadelphia Italian-American gangster known as "Skinny Razor", a member of the Philadelphia crime family headed by Angelo ...
The main cast of Watchmen (from left to right): The Comedian, Silk Spectre II, Doctor Manhattan, Ozymandias, Nite Owl II, and Rorschach. Production for Watchmen began casting in July 2007 for look-alikes of the era's famous names for the film—something director Zack Snyder declared would give the film a "satirical quality" and "create this '80s vibe."
Gettysburg is a 1993 American epic war film about the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.Written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, [3] the film was adapted from the 1974 historical novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. [4]
Much like in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ryder’s Lydia is the mortal woman whom the horror movie’s supernatural and deceased villain Betelgeuse is obsessed with, and even keeps her photo as a token of his obsession. Likewise, both Bellucci’s undead soul-sucker Betelgeuse's ex-wife Delores and Dracula's vampire bride are already the dead wife ...