Elena Lyadova

Acting

Elena Lyadova

Born 1980-12-25 · Morshansk, Tambov region, USSR [now Russia]

Elena Igorevna Lyadova (Russian: Еле́на И́горевна Ля́дова; born 25 December 1980; Morshansk) is a Russian actress. In 2002, she graduated from Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School in Moscow, Russia. Her film credits include Elena (2011), The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013), Leviathan (2014) and Orlean (2015). Elena Lyadova was born in on 25 December 1980 in Morshansk, Tambov Oblast. When Elena turned six, the family moved to Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast. She graduated from the Higher Theatre School named after MS Shchepkin in 2002 and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Theatre for Young Audiences.

Acting credits

Leviathan poster
7.4

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

Leviathan

2014

Pavlov's Dog poster
4.5

Two twenty-year-olds meet each other in the sanatorium and fall in love. Ksenia is an alchoholic, Maxim is suicidal. Gradually it becomes clear that the characters, betrayed by their relatives, kept inside the sanatorium, constrained by regimes and the cult of work therapy, are healthier and freer than many of those who live outside.

Pavlov's Dog

2005

Air poster
7.0

Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and lose their closest ones as well as take their place in the world of men. The air has become their home. However, at war no one knows whose fate is to live and who is doomed to die.

Air

2024

Elena poster
7.2

After suffering a heart attack, a wealthy elderly Russian man plans to will most of his estate to his estranged daughter. However, his wife has other plans.

Elena

2011

The Geographer Drank His Globe Away poster
6.7

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

The Geographer Drank His Globe Away

2013

Dovlatov poster
5.9

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

Dovlatov

2018

Not Like Dad poster
7.0

The story of the journey of an adult hero to his Bata, a stern Russian peasant who became a father at the dawn of the nineties and raised his son the way all Soviet people did.

Not Like Dad

2021

Frontier poster
5.3

Michael's perfect life changes dramatically when he discovers a portal wich allows him to travel in time. He travels back to the World War II to go through the quest of time and find his one and only beloved.

Frontier

2018

Stray poster
4.8

Igor is ready for anything for the sake of Polina’s happiness, and in order to compensate for the loss of her son, the couple opens up to a new child. But instead of an ordinary boy from a shelter, a mystical creature that can recreate the memories gets into their family ... There has not yet been found a recipe for centuries of suffering, but perhaps the key to salvation in selfless love for each other ... Open your heart! Let her in ...

Stray

2019

The Banishment poster
7.1

While vacationing in the countryside at his childhood home, a woman suddenly reveals to her husband that she is expecting a child – but not his.

The Banishment

2008

The Day Before poster
4.5

Since the morning, the entire population of the planet has been concerned about one news: a red comet is approaching the Earth. A year ago, scientists only assumed this collision, a month ago they tried to establish the exact date - and finally, it was just announced by all communication sources: the end cannot be avoided. Moreover, it will happen tomorrow. There is one day left until... People of different classes, nationalities and faiths in different parts of a large country - each in their own way - are trying to spend this last day of their lives.

The Day Before

2016

Clean Sheet poster
4.0

Rita is a poetically gifted girl who is just beginning to search for her place in this world. To realize her dreams and escape from her father, who began dictating his rules to her after her mother's death, Rita gets a job as a nurse for the daughter of a former teacher. Faith in herself will help her gain independence from the people and circumstances around her and go towards her dream.

Clean Sheet

2025

Experiment №4 poster
NR

Egor meets at the bus stop with Marina. She is much older, more experienced, and for some reason immediately invites the guy to her home. Romantic date promises sex. But from the threshold everything goes according to plan.

Experiment №4

2019

Pigeon's Milk poster
1.0

16-year-old Andrian lives in Transnistria. At school he has problems with his peers, and at home with his parents. Andrian, who used to sing in the church choir, secretly dreams of ditching everything and going away with a friend to Italy, which he sees as a symbol of freedom from the present hopelessness. But there comes the Holy Week which will forever change his life.

Pigeon's Milk

2021

No artwork available
NR

Old friends Zoya, Tosya and Marusya secretly meet in a hotel room to burn a suitcase with mysterious contents. But they have three problems at once — one does not remember the lock code, the other lost the key to the padlock, and the third managed to lose the suitcase itself. A strange Porter and Bellboy are trying to return the suitcase to the heroines, overcoming a series of accidents and troubles. Inside the found suitcase are artifacts from the heroines' past lives, in which they were men, real boys and valiant warriors. Is it enough to burn your memories to close the door to the past? Can a woman nowadays do without a steely character? The past catches up with our heroines, crashing a burning suitcase onto the hood of their car.

Suitcase

2019

Orleans poster
4.5

Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate affairs, followed by numerous abortions; Rudik the doctor enjoys an endless supply of women, thanks to his position, neglecting his paralyzed father who lives with him and hoping the old man will die soon; the local officer of the law has no qualms about committing murder; a magician from the local circus might actually be sawing women in half on stage... One day, a mysterious man appears in this quiet backwater town. He goes by the title of the Executor: at least that's what it says on his business card...

Orleans

2015

Teens: First Love poster
NR

Oleg is a high school student who, together with his friends, engages in petty theft. Olga is the daughter of a military man who controls her every move.

Teens: First Love

2024

Rowing for Gold poster
5.8

Young survivor of the siege Yura Tyukalov came to sports after the war, when it seemed he had no strength to live, let alone to conduct grueling training in academic rowing. But after meeting coaches Mikhail and Vera Savrimovich, Yura gets a second wind and starts life anew. Fates, burned by the war, unite in a team where everyone supports and inspires each other. Victories are not easy, but Yura has love, talent and a native team that is unstoppable: their goal is the Olympics in Helsinki.

Rowing for Gold

2025

Dreaming of Space poster
5.3

A story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.

Dreaming of Space

2005

No artwork available
NR

Making of documentary featured on Leviathan (2014) Blu-ray

Leviathan - The Making Of

Soldiers Decameron poster
1.0

A bunch of funny and romantic stories from the life of a military base in Russia.

Soldiers Decameron

2005

No artwork available
NR

A film dedicated to the work of doctors in extreme conditions, both revealing the everyday life of medical workers and emphasizing their dedication and willingness to go to any ordeal to save lives.

Snowstorm

Field of Miracles poster
NR

A friendly group of children spends their summers in an old dacha village year after year. The kids have their own headquarters hidden from prying eyes in a corn field and a legend that says that a treasure trove of treasures of a princess who fled from Napoleon is hidden not far from the village. When a new girl Katya comes to the village with her mother, she becomes a bone of contention for best friends Sonya and Dasha. But it is not only friendship that will have to endure a test of strength. A certain businessman is going to buy a field with a hut and organize a construction market in its place. The children decide not to allow this to happen at any cost and after failed negotiations, they move on to active actions.

Field of Miracles

2025

Tambourine, Drum poster
5.2

A mining town in Russia at the end of the nineties. A miners' strike has paralysed the place, corruption and fraud are flourishing in the transitional period from a socialist economy to a market economy. In this world of lost souls lives Yekaterina Artemovna (Katya). This unconspicuous woman has, in the words of her future lover, a "heart of gold". The only bright spots in her lonely life in a meagre communal apartment are literature and her work in the town library. The only bright ray flashed in the life of the heroine is a visiting sailor. But he turns out to be a gigolo and leaves the poor woman. The tense string inside the heroine bursts, the iron nerves lose, and restrained Yekaterina at this point loses all patience with life and ready for the most desperate and cruel revenge...

Tambourine, Drum

2009