Liya Akhedzhakova

Acting

Liya Akhedzhakova

Born 1938-07-09 · Dnepropetrovsk, USSR (Ukraine)

Liya M. Akhedzhakova (born July 9, 1938, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian theatre and cinema actress. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1970) and People's Artist of Russia (1994). She became famous for her roles in Eldar Ryazanov's films, especially "Office Romance" (1977), "Garage" (1979), "Irony of Fate" (1975) and "Promised Heaven" (1991). She twice received the Nika Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Aunt Fima in "Promised Heaven" and a Japanese restaurant worker in "Portraying the Victim" in 1992 and 2007, respectively.

Acting credits

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears poster
7.6

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.

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

1980

Moscow Vacation poster
4.3

Rich Italian Luciana Farini goes to Russia to her ancestral homeland, where she wants to bury her beloved dog. A light detective intrigue, the absurdities of Russian life and love at first sight.

Moscow Vacation

1995

Leto poster
7.4

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

Leto

2018

Secret, for All the World Only poster
5.0

Based on the book of Viktor Dragunsky "Deniskin's Stories". Once upon a time there lived in Moscow the 1950's an October school student Deniska Korablyov. Every day he was terribly busy with the most ordinary children's activities: he did not prepare lessons, quarreled and put up with classmates, helped around the house and dabbled. He also planned a real murder, crossed paths with the criminal Fantômas, exposed the adult liars and thieves, participated in the selfless rescue of man...

Secret, for All the World Only

1977

I Wanted to See Angels poster
6.6

Twenty-year-old Bob rides 1000 km to Moscow on his vintage motorbike to collect a bad debt for his boss; the city chews up and spits out this naive country boy, whose head is full of Easy Rider dreams.

I Wanted to See Angels

1992

Old Hags poster
4.8

Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia.

Old Hags

2000

Sinner poster
9.0

The story of a turner and locksmith, whose talented work did not fit into the system of the planned economy and the mentality of the Soviet Union. A turner with golden hands works at a factory, where he is disliked by colleagues and the boss for exceeding the norm. A film about a talented person who wants to work and create, but the system forces him to blend in and be like everyone else.

Sinner

1988

Sofia Petrovna poster
7.0

Sofya Petrovna, a typist from a publishing house in Leningrad, has her only son repressed. In her publishing house, managers and ordinary employees were repressed. And Sofya Petrovna begins walking around the offices, trying to explain that a mistake has occurred.

Sofia Petrovna

1989

No artwork available
10.0

The group of immigrants who depart to the United States, by chance finds itself in a deserted forest. Cut off from the civilized world, they begin to build their "own America".

Seven-Forty

1992

A Gentle Creature poster
6.0

A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.

A Gentle Creature

2017

Office Romance poster
7.8

Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..

Office Romance

1977

Chameleon Games poster
4.0

Paris, 1955. Fraudster Georges de Valera, hiding from the police, with the help of a correspondent for the reactionary newspaper Sibilo, poses as Minister Dubov, who allegedly escaped from the Soviet Union. Sibilo's daughter explains to Georges the purpose of the planned action: to slander progressive journalists with the help of the false Dubov. De Valera, not wanting to become a participant in the provocation, goes into hiding. But instead they find another candidate for the role of Dubov...

Chameleon Games

1987

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! poster
7.3

A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

1976

Alice Through the Looking Glass poster
7.3

The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.

Alice Through the Looking Glass

1982

Thumbelina poster
NR

Based on famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Thumbelina

2007

A Boy as a Boy poster
NR

The boy possessed an ability to turn into different animals and birds with the help of his imagination. Adults react in different ways: parents worry, and the doctor considers it to be absolutely healthy. His teacher managed to find mutual understanding with him.

A Boy as a Boy

1986

White Lilacs poster
7.0

From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer Serguei Rachmaninov. This film is based on the legend that Rachmaninoff received a bouquet of lilacs from an unknown admirer after every performance. He emigrated to the United States, and after an interval, began to receive the mysterious lilacs again.

White Lilacs

2008

A Small Favor poster
6.5

Once a famous singer Valentin Ozernikov, returning from another tour, thinks about his fast flowing life and tried to formulate his criteria for figs further existence.

A Small Favor

1984

Eighth World Wonder poster
6.0

The heroines of the film are Soviet basketball players who take part in international competitions for the Hera Cup. Exciting basketball matches, the nobility of a Soviet athlete who saved the life of a Greek basketball player, the anxiety of first love-all these and other events make up the plot of the film.

Eighth World Wonder

1981

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Галина Волчек. Любовь и заблуждения

2013

Ferocious Bambr poster
7.0

The cartoon tells the story of a fabulous creature named Bambre. He lived completely alone and frightened everyone who was approaching him, and his tail was kind and prevented him from doing dirty tricks. Once Bambre found friends and became kind.

Ferocious Bambr

1988

Zigzag poster
NR

Not as she would like, a young woman’s New Year’s evening is taking place: the appointed date did not take place, and the whole night ahead. By chance, a stranger appears in her house. The good prince takes her far to the sea, and the plot of the Christmas tale repeats. But here the heroine is again alone, although still in the grip of memories of the past day.

Zigzag

1980

Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf poster
6.1

With a cheeky wolf as a travel companion, a prince from a faraway kingdom embarks on a quest to win a princess's heart.

Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf

2011

Zhikharka poster
7.0

A cartoon based on a Russian fairy tale. About the adventures of girl Zhikharka living with a Cat and a Rooster.

Zhikharka

1977