Acting
Vera Alentova
Born February 21, 1942 · Kotlas, Arkhangelskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Died December 25, 2025 · aged 83
Vera Valentinovna Alentova (February 11, 1942 – December 25, 2025) was a Soviet and Russian actress famous for her leading role in Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980).
Known For
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears · 1980Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
★ 7.61980
MovieDramaComedy
Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.
Flying Days · 1966Flying Days
★ 5.31966
MovieDrama
All the years spent behind the school bench, they were devoted to the dream of flying. And now they are again students, but they are solving completely different problems. Three young daredevils conquer the sky, forgetting about earthly problems and disputes. But the everyday life of test pilots of supersonic fighters is unpredictable and dangerous. A routine training flight overnight can be a harsh test of courage for them. Today, future aces will face a difficult exam, for which life itself will put a mark.
Days of Our Life · 1971Days of Our Life
1971
MovieDramaTV Movie
Forgive Us, Garden · 1989Forgive Us, Garden
★ 8.01989
MovieDramaTV Movie
In the years of his Komsomol youth, the first builders of the city laid out a public garden. And now they strongly object to the decision of the city council to divide the garden into garden plots...
Empire V · 2023Empire V
★ 4.72023
MovieDramaThriller
In modern-day Moscow, disaffected former journalism student Roman follows a cryptic invitation to join “the elite” and finds himself forcibly transformed into a vampire. But not your typical creature of the night. Thanks to a parasitical worm known as the Tongue, Roman (now called Rama) has become part of a ruling class of vampires who exercise an “anonymous dictatorship” over humans based not on a thirst for blood but the hunger for money. As various instructors school him in the ways of their elite breed, and Rama explores his new supernatural abilities, he begins a tentative relationship with another newly turned vampire, Hera. His desire for more knowledge about this intoxicating new world also leads him into potentially deadly conflict with Mithra, his mentor who becomes his nemesis.
The Zykovs · 1970The Zykovs
1970
MovieDramaTV Movie
The play “Zykovs” was written in 1912, during a time of confusion and depression in Russian society, a period of pre-war spiritual and moral decline. The state of the world is depicted here with a single phrase: “there was confusion of concepts”... The film-performance based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky, directed by the Moscow Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.
Tomorrow Was the War · 1987Tomorrow Was the War
★ 6.41987
MovieDrama
This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The main characters of the film are ordinary Soviet high school students. They study in the Soviet school, try to be correct and ideological Komsomol activists. But not always the “correctness” suggested by the teachers coincides with the inner convictions of young souls - it is difficult for them to come to terms with the fact that their relatives and loved ones are suddenly “enemies of the people”.
What a Mess! · 1995What a Mess!
★ 6.71995
MovieComedy
A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.

















