Tatyana Samoylova

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Tatyana Samoylova

Born May 4, 1934 · Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Died May 4, 2014 · aged 80

Tatiana Yevgenyevna Samoilova (Russian: Татья́на Евге́ньевна Само́йлова; 4 May 1934 – 4 May 2014) was a Soviet and Russian film actress best known for her lead role in The Cranes Are Flying. She received a number of awards for the film, including a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival. Samoilova had several major roles in the 1960s before largely disappearing from public life. In 1993, she …

Known For

The Cranes Are FlyingThe Cranes Are Flying · 1957
The Cranes Are Flying
★ 7.91957
MovieDramaRomance
Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
Letter Never SentLetter Never Sent · 1960
Letter Never Sent
★ 7.21960
MovieDramaAdventure
Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.
Anna KareninaAnna Karenina · 1967
Anna Karenina
★ 5.41967
MovieDramaRomance
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Attack and RetreatAttack and Retreat · 1964
Attack and Retreat
★ 6.71964
MovieDramaHistory
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Anna KaramazoffAnna Karamazoff · 1991
Anna Karamazoff
★ 5.11991
MovieDrama
The story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless.
NirvanaNirvana · 2008
Nirvana
★ 4.92008
MovieDramaRomance
Young Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfriend Valera the Dead Man. First they fight, but soon the two women form a friendship. Together they even go after the Petersburg underworld when Dead Man is abducted because he can't pay his debts.
Unexpected JoyUnexpected Joy · 1972
Unexpected Joy
★ 4.71972
MovieDrama
Unfinished and lost film directed by Rustam Khamdamov, shot in 1972-1974.
Leon Garros Is Looking for His FriendLeon Garros Is Looking for His Friend · 1961
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
★ 9.51961
MovieComedyDrama
During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalist, and his friends came to the USSR to make a report and find Boris in the meantime. In Moscow he doesn't found, and for the sake of meeting with a friend, Garros has to travel around the country by car... The foreigners are accompanied by Nikolai, the translator, who, in turn, is looking for his brother's runaway bride, Natasha.

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Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the ProletariatDiamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat · 1976
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
★ 4.21976
MovieCrimeAction
In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.

Olenetskaya

Far from Sunset BoulevardFar from Sunset Boulevard · 2006
Far from Sunset Boulevard
★ 8.52006
MovieDramaRomance
The thirties, the heyday of Soviet film production. The story of the famed couple's glory — a filmmaker and actress, behind the external well-being of which were hidden strange contradictory relationships and a sense of fear that they carried through their whole lives. The prologue to this story is the 85th anniversary of Lidiya Polyakova, the formerly brightest star in Soviet cinema, who played the main role in all the films of her own husband, director Konstantin Dalmatov. Now in the courtyard there are other times, Dalmatov’s movies are called ideological agitation, and the director himself and his wife are hiding from the world in the country, trying not to let anyone in.

Lidiya Polyakova in old age