Acting
Yelena Izmailova
Born September 23, 1920 · Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipro, Ukraine]
Died March 13, 2005 · aged 84
No biography available.
Known For
Man of Music · 1952Man of Music
★ 4.71952
MovieHistoryMusic
The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.
The White Fang · 1946The White Fang
★ 5.91946
MovieAdventureDrama
According to the story by Jack London. The history of the wild wolf, who picked up the boy and raised an Indian. After falling to the evil man - the owner of the bar, White Fang turned into a ferocious evil beast, coming out victorious from all the dog fights, which suited his enterprising owner. But once it strangled, snatched from the jaws of the bulldog engineer Weedon Scott. His kindness has transformed the beast.
A Captain at Fifteen · 1946A Captain at Fifteen
★ 5.81946
MovieAdventureFamily
A classic movie based on a famous "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen" novel by Jules Verne.
Main Avenue · 1956Main Avenue
1956
MovieDrama
Secret Agent · 1947Secret Agent
★ 5.61947
MovieThrillerWar
Soviet agent Fedotov is air-dropped into Nazi occupied land. He changes over into Mr. Ekhert, a German entrepreneur wishing to take advantage of eastern worker slave labor in occupied Ukraine. Ekhert (Fedotov) enters into a partnership with a German entrepreneur who's son, Willie, is a high ranking Nazi. Together they go to Vinnitsa, Ukraine and start a factory. Fedotov begins seeking contacts with headquarters, but faces problems when a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator manages to infiltrate the Soviet partisans.
The Mystery of the Eternal Night · 1956The Mystery of the Eternal Night
★ 4.81956
MovieScience FictionAdventure
At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, an explosion occurred, as a result the underwater vegetation started to grow rapidly in size and a part of the coast was flooded by a tsunami.
It Happened in the Donbass · 1945It Happened in the Donbass
★ 7.51945
MovieWarAction
The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbass and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.
A Thousand Souls · 1971A Thousand Souls
1971
MovieDramaTV Movie
Based on the eponymous novel by A.F. Pisemsky. A play about the all-powerful influence of money and the morals of the bureaucratic world that destroy everything honest, good, and humane.
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Main Avenue · 1956Main Avenue
1956
MovieDrama
Olga Gritsenko
Lullaby · 1959Lullaby
★ 4.51959
MovieDrama
Pilot Losev, who lost his family during the war, learns that his daughter Aurika was saved during the bombing, and sets off in search of her. The former pilot will survive many fates and stories before a familiar chorus of a lullaby helps him to recognize his daughter in a random fellow traveler.
Employee of the Department of investigation (uncredited)




