Lyudmila Gurchenko
Birthday: Born in 1935-11-12 in Kharkov, USSR (Ukraine)
Deathday: 2011-03-30
TV Credits
Высшая мера
Character: глава крымской мафии
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Виват, гардемарины!
Character: Ioganna
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Взять Тарантину
Character: Anna Vasilievna
Two rich people of steppe blood of Kalmykia are going to marry their children. They intend to surprise the guests with the newest Tarantino film, a copy of which should be obtained before the world premiere. To buy this film, ambassadors from the head of the groom's family are sent to America with a bag of diamonds....
Шукшинские рассказы
Character: Малышева
Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people “of the people”, contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life’s ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - the Soviet Union of the 60s-70s. The main thing that unites both the works themselves and the films made is a whole gallery of the brightest images and characters, a story about such different destinies and differently meaningful lives, a story i...
Соломенная шляпка
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Movie Credits
Summer Dreams
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Love and Pigeons
Character: Raisa Zakharovna
One of the most favorite Soviet comedies, a screen version of the play of the same name by Vladimir Gurkin. Each of us knows the story of Vasily, who went to the resort, succumbed to the charms of a femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, but could not withstand two weeks of urban life, and returned to his family, where he waited for love and pigeons....
Station for Two
Character: Vera Nefyodova
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's fiancé, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedo...
Old Songs about the Main Thing 4: Postscript
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Candidate
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Based on novel "The Great Man" by Al Morgan. Ted Stevens receives a task to prepare a TV special about his colleague Tony Bradley, recently died in car accident. But the further he studies this case, the more suspicious this accident is becoming....
The Magic Lantern
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A musical program about the history of the development of the art of cinema....
Бенефис Савелия Крамарова
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Бенефис Ларисы Голубкиной
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Бенефис Сергея Мартинсона
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Burn
Character: Анна Тимофеевна Румянцева
The protagonist of the film - Vasily Derzhakov - is a skilled worker. Accustomed to "double morality" as the norm of life, he succumbs to the persuasion of Anna's mistress to hide the stolen things, and becomes an accomplice in crime. After the pre-trial detention, Vasily is released from prison ... Thus, life itself warned him against further mistakes, to which the immoral "norms" of existence inevitably lead....
The Straw Hat
Character: мадам Клара Бокардон
A musical comedy based on the classic play by Eugène Labiche....
Carnival Night
Character: Lena Krylova
It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports...
The Man from Nowhere
Character: Lena
In a young anthropologist's dream, he brings a member of the imaginary mountain tribe called Tapi to Moscow, in order to save him from being eaten by other tribesmen as well as to prove the tribe's existence to academia. The main character is probably based on Yeti....
Mama
Character: Rada the Goat
Mrs. Rada the Goat tells her five children to behave while she goes to the fair, and under no circumstances open the door to anyone except her. But the Big Bad Wolf, Kostika (Titi) Suru, and his nephew, the Little Bad Wolf, along with friends Rassul the Lynx and Petrika the Donkey has made a plan to kidnap the children while their mother is away. And when the eldest child, Matei, decides to disobey his mother and visit the fair himself, things start to go badly for the goat-family....
The Tobacco Captain
Character: The hotel keeper
Set in beginning of 1700's, when tsar Pyotr was raising from ashes Russian fleet and sent dozens young people overseas to become navigators, story tells us about proud man who changed his stars. Taking place of his lazy master, he graduates from university and comes back to be judged by the one who send them....
When Leaving, Leave
Character: Алиса Сулина
An inconspicuous, modest accountant, Sulin often finds himself in half-funny, half-sad situations - he is often timid, afraid to cross at least someone. Until one day an incident helped him remember that he, too, was once decisive and brave....
Five Evenings
Character: Tamara Vasilyevna
Based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Volodin "Five Evenings". The end of the 1950s. Aleksandr Petrovich Ilyin travels to the city where he lived before the war. Visiting the telephone operator Zoya, he sees a familiar house through the window and decides to go there for only fifteen minutes. So Aleksandr gets into a communal apartment, where the love of his youth Tamara Vasilyevna lives. They met twenty years ago and fell in love, but the war separated them. Now Ilyin and Tamara Vasi...
Crown of Russian Empire, or the Elusives Again
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The Russian Civil War is over and the White Guard are all dead or abroad. Some of the exiled nobles are attempting to crown a new Tsar/Emperor abroad, and a couple of impostors are vying for the position. At the same time, some of the Elusive Avengers' old foes are trying to return to Russia, for mysterious reasons. The avengers are assigned the task of finding out what's going on. Turns out the bad guys are after the Russian Crown, which is encrusted with many diamonds and jewels. It is not cle...
Siberiade
Character: Older Taya Solomina
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil....
Shukshin's Stories
Character: Малышева ( Бессовестные, фильм №1)
Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people “of the people”, contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life’s ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - the Soviet Union of the 60s-70s. The main thing that unites both the works themselves and the films made is a whole gallery of the brightest images and characters, a story about such different destinies and differently meaningful lives, a story i...
The Pretty Man
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A story about a married man who suddenly decides to leave his wife and marry rich woman....
The Mechanic Gavrilov's Beloved Woman
Character: Соловьева Маргарита (Рита)
Story of 38-years-old Rita whose fiance didn't show up at their wedding....
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Character: Larisa Yurevna
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves......
Vacation at Your Own Expense
Character: Ada Petrovna
A young girl from the Siberian province arrives in Moscow for her beloved, whom she met during his business trip. He is a test designer for buses and will be on a business trip to Hungary. It was at this point that Katya set her vacation time. But it seems that they didn’t really wait for her... However, a meeting with László changes all her plans......
Applause, Applause...
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Lyudmila Gurchenko's brilliant performance in a musical drama about a life of the struggling singer....
Particularly Important Task
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Strategical factory should be evacuated. The movie shows how destinies of those working on the factory and their families are being broken. And yet - they have no choice, but to live....
Old Hags
Character: Liza
Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia....
The Marriage of Balzaminov
Character: Устинька
Based on the trilogy of Aleksandr Ostrovsky. Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even a king — rich and domineering. And in reality, poor Balzaminov is haunted by setbacks......
Heavenly Swallows
Character: Corinne
Denise de Flavigny, a young convent student, discovers a double-life of the organist Célestin, who teaches her music at the convent. He secretly composes popular operettas for his mistress Corinne. Célestin visits the city to witness the premiere of his latest effort; Denise escapes the convent as well. Following a quarrel with Célestin, Corinne walks out and instead, Denise appears in her role, taking the name Mam'zelle Nitouche. Denise falls in love with Fernand, a handsome young soldier. Both...
My Seawoman
Character: Lyudmila Pashkova, entertainer
At a popular vacation destination in Crimea every evening the entertainer Lyudmila Pashkova hosts "Where are you, talents?" - a friendly competition designed to amuse vacationers. Michael Gudkov, a vacationer from the northern Russian city of Murmansk, takes up the challenge performing his favorite song "My Female Sailor". In spite of a well-received performance the host did not award a victory to him. Feeling slighted Michael decides to compete every evening with his song until he gets his well...
White Explosion
Character: Вера Арсенова
1942, the German Wehrmacht is trying to capture the Baku oilfields at the Black sea. Their biggest obstacle are the Caucasian Mountains and few Russians soldiers to stop them. The story revolves around an important Mountain Pass, that is heavily contested by both sides....
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
Character: Людмила Гурченко
The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive mess in the same House of Culture, where they celebrated the New Year 50 years ago. Now the institution is named after Ogurtsov and is headed by Mr. Kabachkov. A young enthusiast Alyona Krylatova and a young man Denis Kolechkin work in the recreation center. Alyona, as she can, opposes the "arts" of the bureaucrat and opportunist Kabachkov, and Denis helps her....
Happy New Year, Eldar Alexandrovich!
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A humorous New Year's TV show dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Eldar Ryazanov. The plot parodies the 1956 film Carnival Night. The role of Ogurtsov is being tried on by Ryazanov himself....
A Girl with Guitar
Character: Tanya Fedosova
A romantic story about the girl working in the musical instruments store....
Naval Cadets III
Character: Ioganna
There is a seven-year war, Russian soldiers are forced to fight for the interests of France and Austria against Prussia. The midshipmen continue to selflessly serve the Motherland. One is on an expedition, the other is at court, and the third is sent to Venice to hand over a jewelry box. In fact, there is a message in the box, on which the future fate of Europe and Russia depends!...
Heart Beats Again
Character: Tanya
A drama about a daily life of a doctors in a military hospital....
Step Forward
Character: Valentina Stepanovna
Five sad and funny romantic stories about love......
Vivat, Naval Cadets!
Character: Ioganna - Fike's mother
In the second movie the Naval Cadets are guarding the princess coming from Germany to marry a Russian prince....
An Ideal Husband
Character: Mrs. Cheveley
British MP Sir Robert Chiltern is known for his honesty and integrity. To match his wife, Lady Chiltern, who is an example of high morality. However, the past of Sir Robert, as it turned out, is not at all perfect. Famous socialite adventurer Laura Cheveley, with evidence of his long-standing dishonorable act, is trying to blackmail Chiltern. Not only Sir Robert's reputation and career are at stake, but also family happiness. His best friend comes to the rescue — Lord Goring....
Recipe of Her Youth
Character: Emilia Marty
The beginning of the 20th century. Famous singer Emilia Marty arrives on tour in a European city. At the same time, the Supreme Court intends to close the Gregor-Prus case, a lawsuit that lasted several decades. Albert Gregor unsuccessfully tries to seize the inheritance of Baron Joseph Prus, but cannot prove that he is his heir. Emilia Marty unexpectedly intervenes in the process, reporting the whereabouts of documents proving the family kinship of Albert Gregor and Prus....
Twenty Days Without War
Character: Nina
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war....
What Is to Be Done?
Character: woman in black
TV adaptation of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel about Vera Pavlovna, a woman who escapes the control of her family and arranged marriage to seek economic independence....
The Diaries of a School Principal
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The everyday life of a Soviet high school principal, a WWII veteran and an unfulfilled writer, whose vocation is teaching kids....
Crime: Intolerance
Character: Люба
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Our Friend Read'n'Write 3
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Kolya puts the words together incorrectly and calls Queen Typo. The third issue of the animated series about the basics of grammar....
Imitator
Character: певица
The young man decides to go into business. The main advantage of "novice businessman" is a great ability to mimic other people's voices....
Stars Meet in Moscow
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Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum....
Vanyushin's Kids
Character: Клавдия Щёткина
On the surface, everything appears respectable in the Vanyushin family; life flows as it does in any merchant household. But a deep, insurmountable chasm separates the parents from their children—and just as wide a gulf lies between the children themselves. A candid conversation with the youngest son, Alyosha, forces Vanyushin to face the truth…...
Roman and Francesca
Character: Francesca
A Soviet trading ship sank into the Italian port. Sailor Roman went ashore. In one of the squares he heard singing. It was sung by Francesca. The sailor was delighted with her voice and beauty. They wandered for a long time that day on ancient streets and squares. And the next morning the war began. The Soviet ship had to urgently return to their homeland. It was difficult to part in love, but they believe that they will definitely meet....
Road to Hell
Character: Marta Cholman
Police detectives are investigating a pharmaceutical institute for possible drugs manufacturing and distribution....
Prohindiada or running on the spot
Character: Екатерина Ивановна
Comedy of manners with elements of grotesque. The hero of the tape - an employee of a solid research Institute San Sanych lubomudrov - an extraordinary personality. Charming trickster and subtle psychologist, he is fluent in the art of communicating with the "right" people....
Old Walls
Character: Anna Georgievna Smirnova
Anna Georgievna Smirnova is a serious, businesslike and judicious person. It was these strengths of her character that helped the woman achieve high career results. Anna is a deputy and director of a textile factory in the Moscow region, who has long put an end to her personal life. She lives with her elderly mother. Her husband died, and her only daughter, Irina, is married. But suddenly, in a sanatorium in the southern resort of Anna, she meets a man named Volodya. He is a Muscovite, a former ...
Listen, Fellini!..
Character: Vera
An actress is recording a screen-test for Federico Fellini who, as she's heard, is looking for a Russian actress for his new film. For an hour she's reflecting on the nature of art, the fate of artists, the destiny of Russian people, history of her country and its present day....
SexStory
Character: Диана
A young man meets a woman on Christmas Eve. She notices his rich gift of imagination and encourages him to remember his unfulfilled dreams and dreams. To fulfill their desires, they come up with an exciting game in which they easily involve lovely women - the heroines of the sweetest flights of a modest young man......
The Worker's Settlement
Character: Mariya
Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem an...
Was There Karotin?
Character: Курнатова-Борджиа
The beginning of the 30s of the last century. A leak of classified information was found at the Soviet shipbuilding plant. Arriving under the guise of a scientist, the legendary chekist Karotin begins to unravel the threads of the conspiracy of the fascist spy organization. He is helped by inexperienced but active local detectives. Mastering the basics of the counterintelligence, they fall into a situation the other one funnier....
The Benefit. Lyudmila Gurchenko
Character: himself
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Country House
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Having saved money for a summer cottage and having chosen a suitable house, the couple of Petrovs decided without hesitation to enter into ownership rights. Right from the savings bank, the wife goes to the garden plot, and the husband has to pay the owners in Moscow. However, a thick bundle of money disappears from his pocket ......
The Highway
Character: Gvozdeva
The film takes place during one day of operation of a railway line, the capacity of which is lower than necessary. A disaster occurs: a passenger train crashes into a tank train, the driver's assistant is killed, and traffic on the section is delayed. The film explores the patterns that led to the accident....
Getting to Know the Big Wide World
Character: Unknown Woman
On a rough and tumble construction site for a new factory, the conversation flows and love blooms for trio Lyuba, Misha, and Kolya. In the liminal space of their workplace, they build material and intangible connections....
Feedback
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Open Book
Character: Глафира Сергеевна Рыбакова
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Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
Character: почетная гостья
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My Good Dad
Character: Мама, Валентина Николаевна Иванова
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A Bridge is Being Built
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Family Melodrama
Character: Valentina Barabanova
A story of a former stage singer who now works as a hairdresser and tries to raise her teenage son. Her teenage son is entering the adult world and tries to find his place in it. Her ex-husband tries to manage his relationships with his new family, his ex-wife and his son....
Прохиндиада 2
Character: Ekaterina Ivanovna Lubomudrova
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Цирк зажигает огни
Character: Лолита
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Door Without Lock
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Peter married and was immediately appointed captain of the ship. In his first flight, the hero went with his wife — really wanted to introduce her to her mother. But mother offended on him…...
Exploded Hell
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Second world war. In one of the German intelligence schools are preparing sabotage groups of Russian prisoners of war for casting in the USSR. Among them — Nikolai Verezhnikov, who, not being a professional scout, was able to impose their own game and interfere with the plans of the enemy…...
The Bicycle Tamers
Character: Rita
A comedy about a young inventor girl, a brave veterinarian, his athletic friend and funny cycling races, where not strongest wins, but true friendship and love....
The Loose Woman
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Khrystia, a peasant woman from a provincial village, decided to leave for the city in search of a better life. But, having not found there either a better life or happiness, she perishes ......
Прощальные гастроли
Character: Нина Владимировна
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Shurochka
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First Express
Character: Raisa Zakharovna
New Year's Eve 2006. Our days, the place is a certain town, where famous artists are brought by chance. The film is based on sketches from popular films....
Inhuman
Character: Zoya Sherstobitova - predsedatel gorispolkoma
Criminals kidnapped the son of the chairwoman of the city administration. Feelings of helplessness and fear follow. A series of checks, mocking calls, humiliating requests for help to colleagues in the "shadow business" goes on and on....
The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin
Character: Lyuba, Viktor's mother
During the flight, the hero of the film, the boxing champion, recalls his life's journey. The hero’s childhood was in the first post-war years. He grew up without a father, his mother was busy with work, his older brother was in prison, the relationship with the new stepfather did not work out, and the boy was brought up on the street. There he learned to fight, and this led him to the boxing ring. Over time, the stubborn street boy became the champion of Europe....
Ten
Character: Yuliya Julie
The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king. But unlike many “suitors”, selfish thoughts are alien to Christian-Theodore. He is sincerely fascinated by her beauty and releases his Shadow, hoping to get a faithful helper in his quest to marry the Princess. But the Shadow is the embodiment of egoism, greed and...
Наша дача
Character: Людмила Козлова
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A Sentimental Romance
Character: Mariya Petrichenko
The film is set in the 1920s. Shura Sevastyanov is an aspiring journalist in a small newspaper, with two-classes of a parochial school behind him. In the spirit of building communism, he is an ardent fighter against philistinism in all its forms. He denies the phenomenon of love, believing that it does not exist and that there is only friendship and sexual desire of man to woman....
Baltic Skies
Character: Sonya
Based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Chukovsky. The end of August 1941. At night, a truck rushes along the last road not yet occupied by the enemy to Leningrad. In the back of two — civil aviation pilot Lunin and commissar of the air division Uvarov. Lunin, a man no longer young, experienced, but had not yet been in battle, was sent to the legendary squadron of fighter pilots under the command of Captain Rassokhin. This squadron fought from the first day of the war and has already los...
Moscow in Notes
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A promotional concert film made for promoting and introducing Moscow to foreigners....
Karpukhin
Character: Ovsyannikova
The driver Karpukhin came under investigation because of a tragic accident, as a result of which a person died. The young investigator, believing Karpukhin, undertook to defend the defendant, but at some point yielded to someone else's opinion, after which the accused had to prove his innocence himself......
The Strogovs
Character: Kapitolina
In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Anna and his parents. Through the fate of this peasant family, a picture of the life of the Siberian region during major historical events — the Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War is outlined....
One of Us
Character: Klava Ovcharova
April 1941. According to intelligence received by the Chekists, a fascist sabotage group plans to blow up one of Moscow's defense plants. To find out the plans of saboteurs working under the auspices of the German embassy, the NKVD sends one of its best employees, Sergei Biryukov, to the plant. He finds contact with the fascist agent Keller and finds out that the explosion is scheduled for June 21......
The Road to Rübezahl
Character: Solovyova
The German anti-fascist Max in 1939 emigrated to the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought in the Soviet partisan detachment and died, performing a responsible mission. After many years, her companion in guerrilla warfare, Lyudmila, was able to realize their common dream — to climb to the top of Mount Rübezahl....
Islands in the Stream
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TV version of a play based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel....
Road of Truth
Character: Lyusa
An optimistic drama about an ordinary Moscow worker who, thanks to her integrity, intelligence and justice, won everyone’s trust and was elected as a people’s judge....
Forgive Us Mother Russia
Character: Natalya Fyodorovna Zimina
A criminal story about how a KGB investigator tries to rehabilitate an innocent-convicted Red Army soldier and when she manages to prove his innocence - the power in the country changes and it is removed from further investigation....
Experiment
Character: Mayor militsii
A musical comedy about a pedagogical experiment that succeeded thanks to the kindness and generosity of its participants....
Legend. Lyudmila Gurchenko
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TV-movie documentary about the life of Lyudmila Gurchenko created by Kvartal-95 studio for Ukrainian TV channel "Inter" in 2011....
One at Home
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Famous actors and TV presenters Nikolai Fomenko and Ivan Urgant want to celebrate the holiday quietly and calmly, but, having lost their way, they end up in an enchanted house that does not let them out until the heroes believe in the New Year, a real fairy tale and a miracle, immersing themselves in the atmosphere of popular films....
The Music of Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work....