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The 1977 film The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training uses a portion of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Also, the movie's theme song, James Rolleston's "Life is Lookin' Good," uses a variation of the music. Canadian progressive rock band Rush adopted the famous brass theme of 1812 Overture in their suite 2112, from their album of the same name ...
The Battle of Britain is about to begin, after which the Aces High or Luftwaffe March begins. The main titles were made by Maurice Binder . The German commanding officers inspect the fictional II./KG 545 bomber unit or kampfgeschwader (part of 2.
The lyrics were written by Vasily Zhukovsky, and the music of the British anthem "God Save the King" was used. In 1833, "The Prayer of Russians" was replaced with "God Save the Tsar". The two songs both have identical incipits: «Боже, царя храни». [1]
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Films about the War of 1812 (1812-1815). Pages in category "War of 1812 films" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Russian: Васи́лий Андре́евич Жуко́вский; 9 February [O.S. 29 January] 1783 – 24 April [O.S. 12 April] 1852) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century.
He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous works included Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron, Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple films, and Frenzy. Born in Plymouth, Devon, England, [1] Goodwin learned to play the piano and trumpet from the age of five which allowed him to join the school band.
The original version of the song, written by Vasily Zhukovsky and Egor Fyodorovich Rozen, [1] [2] praised the Tsar and the Russian Tsardom, while the latter version by Sergey Gorodetsky was one of a patriotic form and is even sometimes regarded as a patriotic anthem of the Russia in the 20th century and today. It is one of the more popular ...