Spetz' writer, producer, director, and star, is a Russian mobster and crime boss in what area?
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Spets Spets was a seven-part Russian TV series that aired on Ussuriysk T.V. It chronicled the day-to-day activities of a group of gangsters in a Far East Russian town. The show's writer, producer, director and star, Vitali Dyomochka, was a real life Russian mafia boss and the head of a podstava group. A lot of the events depicted on the show were based on Dyomochka's real life experiences, such as an incident where a blackmail victim turns out to be a judge.
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Vitali Dyomochka Vitali Dyomochka, also known as "Bondar", is a Russian mobster and crime boss in the Vladivostok area. He is notable for writing, directing, producing and starring in a short TV series called "Spets", which aimed to show viewers the reality of the Russian underworld.
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Carmine Tramunti Carmine "Mr. Gribbs" Tramunti (October 1, 1910 – October 15, 1978) was a New York mobster who was the boss of the Lucchese crime family.
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William Colbeck (gangster) William "Dint" Colbeck (November 17, 1890 – February 17, 1943) was a St. Louis politician and organized crime figure involved in bootlegging and illegal gambling. He succeeded William Egan as head of the Egan's Rats bootlegging gang in the early 1920s.
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Efraim Sevela Efraim Sevela (Russian: Эфраим Севела , Hebrew: אפרים סבלה‎ ‎ , pen-name of Efim Evelevich Drabkin – Russian: Ефим Евелевич Драбкин ; March 8, 1928, Babruysk, Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus – August 18, 2010) was a Soviet writer, screenwriter, director, producer, who after his emigration from the Soviet Union lived in Israel, USA and Russia.
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Rosario Gambino Rosario "Sal" Gambino is an Italian mobster in the Gambino crime family. He became nationally known when he and his brothers set up a multimillion dollar heroin cartel during the 1970s and 1980s. At the turn of the century he made headline news again when members of his family were suspected of trying to get him a presidential pardon through bribery.
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Orestes Matacena Orestes Matacena (born August 29, 1941) is a Cuban-born American film character actor, writer, producer, and director who has been active since the 1970s. His most notable appearance is in the 1994 film, "The Mask", as crime boss Niko.
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Max Pfeiffer Max Pfeiffer (1881-1947) was a Russian-born German film producer.
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Georgian mafia The Georgian mafia (Georgian: ქართული მაფია ) is regarded as one of the biggest, powerful and influential criminal networks in Europe, which has produced the biggest number of "thieves in law" in all former USSR countries and controls and regulates most of the Russian-speaking mafia groups.
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Vasily Shukshin Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Васи́лий Мака́рович Шукши́н ; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet/Russian actor, writer, screenwriter and movie director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes.
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Frank Zito Frank Zito (February 24, 1893 – August 22, 1974) was an Sicilian-American mobster who controlled criminal activities in Central and Southern Illinois for over twenty years, providing protection from law enforcement and rival competitors from his base of operations in Springfield, Illinois. It can be debated if Zito was head of his own crime family or, he may have been a powerful capo of the Chicago Outfit with his own crew based in Central Illinois. This information is unclear and it seems as though the files on Mr. Zito lack the investigatory evidence that he was in fact the "Godfather of the Prairie." In any case, Zito was a very powerful force in Springfield and the Central and Southern areas of Illinois.
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Marat Balagula Marat Yakovlevich Balagula (Russian: Марат Яковлевич Балагула ; born September 8, 1943) is a Russian American former mob boss and associate of the Lucchese crime family.
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Frank Sindone Frank Sindone (1928 – October 29, 1980), also known as "Barracuda Frank", was a loan shark and soldier in the Bruno crime family who helped plot the 1980 murder of family mob boss Angelo Bruno.
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Greenwich Village Crew The Greenwich Village Crew is a crew within the Genovese crime family, active in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. It was originally controlled by Don Vito Genovese from the early 1920s until his arrest in the late 1950s. In the early 1980s Capo Vincent Gigante, was made the "new boss" of the Genovese crime family. He continued to operate from and with the "Greenwich Village Crew" members. Today the crew is still active, but after the death of Dominick Canterino, it is uncertain who is controlling the crew.
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Aleksei Balabanov Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov (Russian: Алeксeй Oктябpинoвич Балабанoв ; 25 February 1959 – 18 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who shot mostly arthouse pictures, but gained mainstream popularity with the crime drama Brat ("Brother") and its more action-oriented sequel, "Brat-2" ("Brother 2"), both of which starred Sergei Bodrov, Jr. as a young hitman. "Brother" was successful both at the box office and in video copies, achieving wide popularity in Russia. Later, however, Balabanov became better known for his films "Cargo 200" (2007) and "Morphine" (2008).
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James Gandolfini James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. (September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013) was an American actor and producer. He was best known for his role as Tony Soprano, an Italian-American crime boss, in the HBO crime drama "The Sopranos". He garnered enormous praise for his performance, winning three Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award.
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Brother (1997 film) Brother (Russian: Брат , translit. "Brat") is a 1997 Russian crime film directed by Aleksei Balabanov. The film stars Sergei Bodrov Jr. as Danila Bagrov, a young Russian ex-conscript. The character of Danila is considered by many in Russia to be an icon of the early post-Soviet period. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. After its release on VHS in June 1997, "Brother" unexpectedly became one of the most commercially successful Russian films released in the 1990s and quickly became a cult film throughout Russia. Due to the film's popularity and fan demand, a sequel, "Brother 2", was released in 2000. "Brother 2" is notable for having a significantly higher budget, more emphasis on action sequences, and taking place in Moscow and Chicago.
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Danny Hogan "Dapper" Danny Hogan (ca. 1880 - December 4, 1928) was a charismatic underworld figure and boss of Saint Paul, Minnesota's Irish Mob during Prohibition. Due to his close relationships with the officers of the deeply corrupt St. Paul Police Department, Hogan was able to act as a go between, overseeing the notorious
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David Petrovsky David Petrovsky (Lipetz) (also Max Goldfarb, Bennett, Humboldt, Brown, born September 24, 1886, in Berdychiv, Russian Empire — September 10, 1937, Moscow, USSR) — a member of the Central Committee of the Jewish Socialist Federation of America, a member of the Socialist Party of America, the editor of the "Jewish Daily Forward" newspaper, journalist, political and economic scientist, a member of the Central Committee of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Bund) until 1919, the statesman of the Soviet Union.
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Evsei Agron Evsei Borisovich Agron (Russian: Евсей Борисович Агрон , "Yevsei Borisovich Agron" ; 25 January 1932 – 4 May 1985) was a thief in law ("Vor v zakone") and boss of New York City's Russian Mafia during the 1970s and 1980s. Known for his cruelty, he was called the "Godfather" of the Russian American mafia.
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Peter Milano Peter John Milano (December 22, 1925 - April 21, 2012) was a Los Angeles based, Italian-American mobster, and former boss of the Los Angeles crime family. Milano was active in organized crime from the 1950s until his death. His legitimate businesses were in real estate properties and a vending company called "Rome Vending Company".
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Philadelphia Greek Mob Philadelphia's Greek Mob, or the Greek Mafia, are a low-profile criminal organization of ethnic Greek Americans in Philadelphia with alleged connections to the Italian Philadelphia crime family. They were formed in southern Greece by the original boss Steve Kondonyanis. Kondonyanis also had strong ties with the Efthimiades family of Macedonia in Northern Greece. When the Efthimiades family was run out of power in the 1960s, Kondonyanis decided to move his operations to the culturally diverse America. When Kondonyanis was sentenced to jail to serve life for murder, mobster Chelsais Bouras took over.