Zinaida Kirienko

Acting

Zinaida Kirienko

Born July 9, 1933 · Makhachkala, Dagestanskaya ASSR, RSFSR, USSR

Died February 12, 2022 · aged 88

Zinaida Kirienko is a recognised Soviet actress, who played vivid roles in the films Poem of the Sea, The Fate of a Man and others. She gained all-Union fame after playing the role of Natalia in the film of her teacher Sergei Gerasimov, Quiet Don.

Known For

The Enchanted DesnaThe Enchanted Desna · 1964
The Enchanted Desna
5.41964
MovieDramaWar
Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.
Morning of the Doomed MineMorning of the Doomed Mine · 1985
Morning of the Doomed Mine
8.01985
MovieAction
In the summer of 1918, Andreyev, a mining engineer, is sent by the Bolshevik Party to the closed gold mines in Transbaikalia to establish gold mining. On his way, he saves Captain Lange from death, unaware that he is his main enemy.
Quiet Flows the DonQuiet Flows the Don · 1957
Quiet Flows the Don
6.31957
MovieDramaHistory
Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.
Fate of a ManFate of a Man · 1959
Fate of a Man
7.51959
MovieDramaWar
The story of a man whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory...
The Salvos of the Aurora CruiserThe Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser · 1965
The Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser
9.01965
MovieDramaHistory
Meet BaluyevMeet Baluyev · 1963
Meet Baluyev
7.01963
MovieDrama
In 1960-ies, Baluev, the head of the construction site of the main gas pipeline, decides to lay the track straight through the swamp, not giving a damn about the approved project. In addition to his basic boss duties, Baluyev actively engages in educational work among his subordinates.
The MagpieThe Magpie · 1959
The Magpie
10.01959
MovieDrama
Aneta, the serf actress of Knyaz Skalinsky, amazes with her beauty and talented performance of Shchepin. After the performance, a frank conversation ensues between them. The interlocutor learns that Skalinsky, pursuing the actress for a long time, gave her lover — a young actor of the troupe — to the soldiers for twenty-five years. After much deliberation, Shchepin decides to help the girl, but is too late...
Love You. Waiting. LenaLove You. Waiting. Lena · 1983
Love You. Waiting. Lena
9.01983
MovieRomance
The former paratrooper, and now the worker of the geological party Sergey Krutov, hurries to the station to meet a stranger girl and take a note from her for his friend - Having delivered the cherished message, he gladly learns about the arrival of the one he was thinking about, saving someone else's love.

Filmography

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Love in Russian 2Love in Russian 2 · 1996
Love in Russian 2
5.01996
MovieActionRomance

Зинаида Георгиевна Широкова, прокурор

In the azure steppeIn the azure steppe · 1971
In the azure steppe
7.01971
MovieDrama
Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) “Koloverť”. Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to their White-held stanitsa, their third brother betrays them, sealing their fate by handing them over for execution. (2) “Chervotočina”. Idealistic Stepan joins the Komsomol against his wealthy Cossack family’s wishes, but when two oxen he lends to a poor neighbor vanish, his enraged father and brother beat both Stepan and the neighbor to death. (3) “Prodkomissar”. Commissar Ignat Bodiagin is charged with requisitioning grain for the Red Army, only to find his own father condemned for hoarding; he must preside over his execution and soon dies himself leading the resisting Cossacks away from the grain convoy.