Acting
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 Flying · 1957The 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 Sent · 1960Letter 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 Karenina · 1967Anna 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 Retreat · 1964Attack 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 Karamazoff · 1991Anna 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.
Nirvana · 2008Nirvana
★ 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 Joy · 1972Unexpected Joy
★ 4.71972
MovieDrama
Unfinished and lost film directed by Rustam Khamdamov, shot in 1972-1974.
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend · 1961Leon 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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