Zinaida Kirienko

Acting

Zinaida Kirienko

Born — Died

1933-07-09 — 2022-02-12

Place of birth

Makhachkala, Dagestanskaya ASSR, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Zinaida Kirienko is a recognised Soviet actress, who played vivid roles in the films Poem of the Sea, The Fate of a Man and others. She gained all-Union fame after playing the role of Natalia in the film of her teacher Sergei Gerasimov, Quiet Don.

Known for

To Remember poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

To Remember

1993

Fate of a Man poster
7.5

The story of a man whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory...

Fate of a Man

1959

Quiet Flows the Don poster
6.3

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

Quiet Flows the Don

1957

Главное с Ольгой Беловой poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Главное с Ольгой Беловой

2019

The Enchanted Desna poster
5.4

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.

The Enchanted Desna

1964

Love You. Waiting. Lena poster
9.0

The former paratrooper, and now the worker of the geological party Sergey Krutov, hurries to the station to meet a stranger girl and take a note from her for his friend - Having delivered the cherished message, he gladly learns about the arrival of the one he was thinking about, saving someone else's love.

Love You. Waiting. Lena

1983

Film credits

1980s · 7 titles

Love You. Waiting. Lena poster
9.0

The former paratrooper, and now the worker of the geological party Sergey Krutov, hurries to the station to meet a stranger girl and take a note from her for his friend - Having delivered the cherished message, he gladly learns about the arrival of the one he was thinking about, saving someone else's love.

Love You. Waiting. Lena

1983

No artwork available
NR

About the work of the Soviet film director S. F. Bondarchuk.

Sergey Bondarchuk

1982

Mr. Veliky Novgorod poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mr. Veliky Novgorod

1984

Morning of the Doomed Mine poster
8.0

In the summer of 1918, Andreyev, a mining engineer, is sent by the Bolshevik Party to the closed gold mines in Transbaikalia to establish gold mining. On his way, he saves Captain Lange from death, unaware that he is his main enemy.

Morning of the Doomed Mine

1985

Just Life... poster
7.0

About the creative path and pedagogical activity of the Soviet film director and actor S.A. Gerasimov.

Just Life...

1987

Pigeon's Milk poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pigeon's Milk

1986

They Were Actors poster
9.0

The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from Soviet Information Bureau, compiled maps showing the strategic objects of the enemy, and supplied the partisans with medicines. On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground members died from enemy bullets — they were shot on the outskirts of the city.

They Were Actors

1981

1970s · 7 titles

In the azure steppe poster
7.0

Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) “Koloverť”. Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to their White-held stanitsa, their third brother betrays them, sealing their fate by handing them over for execution. (2) “Chervotočina”. Idealistic Stepan joins the Komsomol against his wealthy Cossack family’s wishes, but when two oxen he lends to a poor neighbor vanish, his enraged father and brother beat both Stepan and the neighbor to death. (3) “Prodkomissar”. Commissar Ignat Bodiagin is charged with requisitioning grain for the Red Army, only to find his own father condemned for hoarding; he must preside over his execution and soon dies himself leading the resisting Cossacks away from the grain convoy.

In the azure steppe

1971

Heaven is With Me poster
7.0

Test pilot Ivan Gribov was seriously wounded in battle, captured, and escaped from the camp. He returned to his city after the war and found out that his wife had buried him, got married and was living well. He stopped flying, got married, and tried not to think about the sky...

Heaven is With Me

1974

The Cure Against Fear poster
5.6

A police detective is trying to find a murderer who uses a new recently developed drug for his crimes.

The Cure Against Fear

1978

Destiny poster
6.6

A war comes to the life of the heroes of "Earthy Love" (1975).

Destiny

1977

Earthy Love poster
6.3

A life of a few people during the years before WWII before the events shown in "Destiny" (1977).

Earthy Love

1975

The Fall of the Empire poster
NR

1917. The eve of the October Revolution. Having returned to St. Petersburg from exile, the Bolshevik Vaulin, despite police persecution, joins the Bolsheviks.

The Fall of the Empire

1971

Living Water poster
NR

The love story of the beautiful Danko and the forester Anton, their struggle for their love and for the old grove – the beauty and pride of the Carpathian village, where the sound of axes is heard more and more often.

Living Water

1972

1960s · 8 titles

The Enchanted Desna poster
5.4

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.

The Enchanted Desna

1964

Meet Baluyev poster
7.0

In 1960-ies, Baluev, the head of the construction site of the main gas pipeline, decides to lay the track straight through the swamp, not giving a damn about the approved project. In addition to his basic boss duties, Baluyev actively engages in educational work among his subordinates.

Meet Baluyev

1963

Such a Big Boy poster
3.7

In the first days of the Second World War, a young woman with three children is evacuated from the front-line zone to the Urals. After some time, she receives a funeral for her husband. But she has her little sons with her. The eldest son Kolya becomes a reliable assistant to his mother.

Such a Big Boy

1967

Chronicle of Flaming Years poster
5.2

Once again, director Yulia Solnsteva directs a movie that her late husband Alexandre Dovchenko scripted but did not live long enough to shoot. In this wartime drama, the emphasis is on the heroics of both the civilians and the soldiers during times of severe stress in World War II. At the core of the action is one man in particular, whose sacrifices and heroics speak for a much larger group.

Chronicle of Flaming Years

1961

Far from the Motherland poster
5.8

Soviet intelligence officer, Lieutenant Goncharenko, under the name of Baron Heinrich von Goldering is thrown into the deep German homeland on a mission to find out the location of the secret underground plant that produces new types of weapons.

Far from the Motherland

1960

The Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser

1965

The Cossacks poster
5.2

Junker Olenin, a representative of St. Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master.

The Cossacks

1961

The Slowest Train poster
6.0

Spring, 1943. A military train is heading from a city, just liberated from the fascists. A special carriage with divisional printing-works is hitched to the train. Manager of the printing-works and correspondent expects he will travel alone, and even makes a prudent sign on the door - mines. But gradually the carriage starts to get filled with uninvited fellow travelers. The first were an injured soldier with a girl, then - a pregnant woman with escort, two communist party members, an actress, aunt Pasha, and others. The correspondent has nothing but to put up with it, because he cant turn out people, who suffer from the war, each in his/her own way.

The Slowest Train

1963

1950s · 5 titles

Fate of a Man poster
7.5

The story of a man whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory...

Fate of a Man

1959

Quiet Flows the Don poster
6.3

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

Quiet Flows the Don

1957

Nadezhda poster
10.0

Nadya Vakhmistrova, the daughter of a collective farmer from the Volgo-Don agricultural artel, works honestly and conscientiously on her collective farm. But then, like all the young people in the country, she hears the news: the party is calling on young men and women to develop virgin and fallow lands. Nadya, a member of the Komsomol, believes that her place is where the party calls her. But her beloved, Grigory, the collective farm foreman, does not share this decision. He is overcome with doubts: is it worth leaving his native village if he is needed here on the collective farm; wouldn't it be better to get married and build a personal happiness here? But Nadezhda is adamant. She leaves, leaving Grigory behind...

Nadezhda

1955

Poem of the Sea poster
5.2

A Soviet dam project means that many old Ukrainian villages will end up under water. There are conflicts between the dam engineers and villagers who don't want to move.

Poem of the Sea

1958

The Magpie poster
10.0

Aneta, the serf actress of Knyaz Skalinsky, amazes with her beauty and talented performance of Shchepin. After the performance, a frank conversation ensues between them. The interlocutor learns that Skalinsky, pursuing the actress for a long time, gave her lover — a young actor of the troupe — to the soldiers for twenty-five years. After much deliberation, Shchepin decides to help the girl, but is too late...

The Magpie

1959

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