Elena Drapeko

Acting

Elena Drapeko

Born

1948-10-29 (77)

Place of birth

Uralsk, Kazakhskaya SSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Yelena Grigorevna Drapeko (Russian: Еле́на Григо́рьевна Драпе́ко, born 29 September 1948) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1972. She is also a member of the State Duma since 2003.

Known for

Secret For a Million poster
NR

«Secret for a Million» is a game show for celebrities. Guest stars win money for disclosing personal secrets. Guest has to answer 10 hardball questions from the host. The last question is the hardest one and a truthful answer will be awarded by 1 million rubles. Only the most honest and brave of the guests dare to answer it telling the ugly truth they hid from their fans for years.

Secret For a Million

2016

Gangster's Petersburg poster
8.3

A Russian detective series, based on 8 works of Andrei Konstantinov ("lawyer", "Justice / Attorney-2", "The Thief / Journalist-2", "Writer", "Inventor / Writer-2", "The prisoner "," Cop "," Scavenger ") and four works by other writers.

Gangster's Petersburg

2000

Hello, Andrey! poster
NR

Guests are invited to the studio to have conversations with Andrey Malakhov, where they talk about their personal and professional successes, as well as anything else that interests them. Through these open discussions on air, viewers get a complete impression of the guest's life and their perspective on various issues.

Hello, Andrey!

2017

The Dawns Here Are Quiet poster
7.0

In a remote village in Karelia, Sergeant Vaskov commands an anti-aircraft unit that protects a rail depot. While his men are transferred to the front line, he is reprimanded for their unruly behavior. He retorts that he wants replacements that aren't drunks or womanizers. In response, he is assigned a unit made up entirely of young women, fresh from training.

The Dawns Here Are Quiet

1972

Silence poster
NR

Demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enrolls in a university. His father is arrested based on a slanderous denunciation. The hero himself, as the son of an “enemy of the people,” is expelled from the party and the university...

Silence

1992

Мужество poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Мужество

1981

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

1990s · 7 titles

New Scheherazade poster
6.5

Marina met a charming man at the resort, who gave her an unforgettable two hours of love, which remained with him until departure from the airport. Time passes and Marina comes to Leningrad to visit her prince, but he is not at home. Wandering around an unfamiliar city, she ends up with the police. What awaits a beautiful lonely girl in a huge foreign city?

New Scheherazade

1990

Window to Paris poster
6.3

Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?

Window to Paris

1993

7 Days with a Slavic Beauty poster
4.5

A parody of lawlessness and organized crime, terrorism and murder, violence and sexual assault, adventurous ups and downs.

7 Days with a Slavic Beauty

1996

The Initiated poster
5.0

Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets a pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa. Reading it, Vladimir realizes that he became an owner the supernatural gift – he can kill people by his own will.

The Initiated

1990

Wedding Kisses poster
8.0

While the bride is late for the wedding, the guests tell various marriage stories, which confuse the groom.

Wedding Kisses

1998

Varenyi's Last Job poster
6.0

After four years, a young freight forwarder Sizuhin suddenly learns that under the guise of shipments of baby food his firm is involved in drug smuggling. Deciding to understand this case, he begins to fight the mafia and seeks help from a professional thief named "Varyoniy".

Varenyi's Last Job

1994

In the Surf poster
8.0

An armed attack on cash messengers is undertaken near a trade center in a small provincial town, an agent of Ministry of Internal Affairs dies in crossfire. A crime investigator major Rovnin (V. Kuznetsov), who appeared to be a close friend of the deceased, comes from Moscow to assist in the investigation. He is astonished at how savagely his friend was shot, as if someone was revenging. Local investigating bodies are convinced that they can manage this and arent too satisfied with the arrival of Moscow expert. They try to handle this as soon as possible, even at the cost of mistake. But the majors task is to find the killer, in spite of the fact that he is left nothing but to hold the investigation by himself.

In the Surf

1990

1980s · 15 titles

Offered for Singles poster
6.1

Vera Golubeva, a textile worker, lives in a hostel. In her spare time, she arranges the fate of her friends. Although the class is disinterested and informal, Faith comes up to him professionally: working with the press, send out wedding announcements across the Soviet Union carefully selects and grooms. Vera herself is lonely, walking at other people's weddings, forgot to dream of her own family happiness. In a purely female team of the hostel there is a new commandant Viktor Petrovich. At first, he tries to fight with the established order and close the marriage office of Faith. But soon Victor begins to realize that Faith is the very woman he sought all his life…

Offered for Singles

1983

I Will Never Forget You poster
7.0

Saving the soldier, nurse Polina gives her blood, after which both are sent to the hospital. A week later, Fyodor calls Polina his wife and goes to the front. Returning home many months after the Victory, Fedor learns that Polina gave birth to a daughter, lived in his house for a while and left without waiting. Unable to find her, Fyodor marries someone else. And Polina continues to search for her husband.…

I Will Never Forget You

1984

A Photo‎ for the ‎Memories poster
NR

A boy falls in love with the girl whose injuries he is responsible for...

A Photo‎ for the ‎Memories

1985

First Cavalry poster
5.7

The movie takes us back to the times of the Civil War, when the young Soviet power was defended by the first heroes of this terrible internecine war. Red commanders Semyon Budyonny and Kliment Voroshilov managed to gather an entire army of "red cavalrymen" - thus began the history of the campaigns "through valleys and up hills" of the legendary First Cavalry Army.

First Cavalry

1984

Wormwood is a Bitter Herb poster
7.0

After the war, Trofim returned to his native village from Germany with a girl who had lost her memory in a concentration camp. The care and compassion of the villagers helped the girl to return to a full-blooded life.

Wormwood is a Bitter Herb

1982

Mushroom Rain poster
6.5

The staff of the printing house went to the whole team for mushrooms. As they set out on their way back, they noticed that one woman was missing. Colleagues easily believed that she had left earlier in a passing car, and drove home themselves. In fact, the woman stayed in the forest.

Mushroom Rain

1982

Let Him Perform poster
NR

A group of thieves plans a daring heist to steal a valuable diamond from a wealthy businessman.

Let Him Perform

1981

Karakum, 45° in the Shadow poster
6.2

A movie about the gas mine workers in the scorching hot desert of Karakum, Turkmenistan.

Karakum, 45° in the Shadow

1983

A Second Spring poster
9.0

The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. These searches began his friend before the war, in remote taiga places. Yevdokiya Perevalova — the widow of a deceased friend decides to help Nesterov get to those deaf places...

A Second Spring

1980

Turksib poster
8.0

A historical drama set during the 1929 construction of the Turkestan–Siberian Railway, contrasting modernization with traditional life in the Kazakh steppe.

Turksib

1986

Punchy Man poster
NR

The new young director of the car depot shows energy and the ability to come to an agreement with everyone for the common good, but his principle “you - for me, I - for you” has not yet been approved by the car depot team...

Punchy Man

1980

Parents are not Chosen poster
8.0

Nikolai Burlakov was raised by his grandmother in the village. His mother always promised to take him with her, but she always broke her promise. His first love, Masha, didn't even promise to wait for him to return from the army and left with her best friend for the North. After completing his military service, Nikolai also left for the North and began working on an oil rig. Upon learning that his mother had given her daughter to an orphanage, Nikolai took his little sister and returned with her to the village. After the tragic death of her husband, Masha also returned to the village with her son...

Parents are not Chosen

1983

The Iron Rain poster
7.0

An old man lives in memories of the war — of that morning on June 22, 1941, when a Nazi soldier spared his life. Many years later, he is taken from the home his son abandoned. Around him, life goes on: people fall in love, laugh, dance. But for him, the war is not over.

The Iron Rain

1987

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Cry of a Loon

1980

Traces Remain poster
NR

On the legal and moral education of youth.

Traces Remain

1984

1970s · 15 titles

The Dawns Here Are Quiet poster
7.0

In a remote village in Karelia, Sergeant Vaskov commands an anti-aircraft unit that protects a rail depot. While his men are transferred to the front line, he is reprimanded for their unruly behavior. He retorts that he wants replacements that aren't drunks or womanizers. In response, he is assigned a unit made up entirely of young women, fresh from training.

The Dawns Here Are Quiet

1972

And We Had Silence... poster
6.2

An adult man is recalling his childhood years in North Russia during WWII.

And We Had Silence...

1977

Live in Joy poster
5.4

A kolkhoz machine-operator is a local inventor who has tensions with his wife over his hobby. He invents a useful appendage for a grain harvester combine and an article about his invention is printed in a local paper. Kolkhoz chairman then entrusts him with a mission to get equipment from a nearby city for building a bridge, but the machine-operator is duped by crooks.

Live in Joy

1979

I Serve at the Border poster
10.0

At the border outpost, discipline and a sense of collectivism are instilled. Major Grebnev and Lieutenant Borodin help the soldier Sedykh overcome his egoism and understand the value of comradeship, leading to his inner transformation.

I Serve at the Border

1974

A Circle poster
5.4

Police captain Alyoshin is investigating a case related to the theft of opium at a chemical factory warehouse and everything suggests that the offender must be sought among the employees. One of them is familiar to Alyoshin in another matter but despite being confident in his honesty, Alyoshin suspects something is wrong.

A Circle

1972

White Road poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

White Road

1975

The Warmest Month poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Warmest Month

1974

Colonel Zorin Version poster
5.9

Shortly after a daring jewelry store robbery, two murders occur in the city. An experienced investigator suspects that there is a connection between these crimes. But there is no proof. At the same time, the gang leader not only does not think of hiding, but calmly communicates with the investigator in the vacation home. He is sure that he has subtly calculated all the moves, and therefore he is invulnerable.

Colonel Zorin Version

1979

Step Forward poster
6.2

Five sad and funny romantic stories about love...

Step Forward

1975

Zwischen Nacht und Tag poster
8.0

Episodes from the life of German poet and communist Erich Weiner: his stay in Paris, participation in the Spanish Civil War, years of exile in Russia. Moscow, May 1941. Children play in the sun, young people fall in love, make plans for their future. German emigrants, including 50-year-old Erich, are concerned about events in their homeland and sense impending disaster...

Zwischen Nacht und Tag

1975

Chorister poster
9.0

The noble wife of a noble husband comes to his ignoble mistress.

Chorister

1978

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Old Friends

1976

Аварийное положение poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Аварийное положение

1973

Without Father poster
7.0

After the death of her husband, Tamara gave her daughter Olya to an orphanage and left for the North. There she creates a new family and, years later, calls the matured girl back. Not finding love in her mother's house, Olga left for a Siberian construction site with the plumber Roman. But the first difficulties frightened him, and he left her, never knowing that Olga was expecting a child.

Without Father

1977

Homeboy poster
7.7

A young girl known for being "Homeboy" for everybody is dreaming to become more feminine.

Homeboy

1974

Series credits