
Acting
Natalya Tenyakova
Born 1944-07-03 · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Natalya Tenyakova was a Soviet and Russian actress. Despite some early success as the lead of a few high-profile films, she quickly lost interest in the filmmaking process and focused her attention on live theatre, starring in dozens of plays on stage and television to great acclaim. Her signature roles in film include Lida in Elder Sister (1967) and Shura in Love and Pigeons (1985), where she formed a memorable comic duo with her husband and frequent co-star, Sergei Yursky.
Acting credits
NRNo synopsis available yet.
This Queen of Spades
2004
7.6In a remote Siberian village, a work injury sends Vasily Kuziakin on a paid trip to a Black Sea resort as compensation. There, he meets femme fatale Raisa Zaharovna and decides to stay with her. Such is the beginning of a new life for him, exciting and strange, but lacking his home, his wife and children, and his pigeons.
Love and Pigeons
1984
NROn the uniqueness and significance of I.S. Turgenev's theater, and the connection between his dramaturgy and prose.
The Theater of I.S. Turgenev
1986
NRA television adaptation of a short comedy of the same name by George Bernard Shaw.
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
1966
NRAbout a friendly class and their new teacher, Dina Borisovna, who breaks the rules of teaching, making it much more interesting for the children to learn...
Explosions in the Classroom
1969
6.8A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.
Banquet
1986
NRA film about how the poet's own failures give rise to his creativity.
UNWRITTEN PLAY. One day in the life of a playwright
2025
NRThe film is dedicated to the heroines of Ostrovsky’s plays—wives, cooks, actresses, matchmakers. For the most part, these are composite characters, but many of them have real-life prototypes. The author was a keen observer and recorded everything interesting in his diary. This is how the gallery of images from his native Zamoskvorechye, where Ostrovsky was born, came into being. Later, after traveling along the Volga, portraits of residents from small towns along the river were added. Alexander Nikolaevich never overlooked the details. When the playwright described daily life, the details of clothing, or the manner of speaking of a character, the hero would literally come to life.
Heroines of Ostrovsky's Plays
1983
9.0Based on the works of Alexander Pushkin ("Roslavlev", "The Tales of I.P. Belkin", "We Spent the Evening at the Country Estate...", "A Novel in Letters", "A Duel", etc.).
Ball
1979
NRThe heroine of the comedy is Frosya, a mother of five children and a calf-maiden, who lives in a run-down village and doesn't want to leave her native home, her "stove on wheels." The lead role is played by Natalia Tenyaeva. The true city dweller is remarkably natural in the role of a simple village girl. The actress borrowed her manner of speech from a local villager whose house was near the summer house Tenyaeva rented.
The Stove on Wheels
1985
NRIn this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard.
A Long Cat Tale
1965
NRBased on the pamphlet "They Don't Talk About It" by Finnish writer Martti Lärni.
One-Two… And King Me!
1968
NRA television play based on stories by Alexander Grin. Five sailing ships are blocked in the port of Lissa by an enemy privateer. The captains of four of these ships gather around a hotel table, pondering how to set sail and outsmart the privateer's vigilance...
Ships in Lissa
1965
7.0Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.
Uncle's Dream
1981
NRFive stories depicting five different kinds of love, from childhood to old age.
Handmade Clouds
2015
NRA comedy based on the vaudeville by the Yugoslav playwright Miroslav Mitrovic "A Thief in Position, or a Robbery at Midnight".
A Robbery at Midnight
1978
8.0The film is set in 1919. The film tells about an episode of the Civil War, when the troops under the command of M. V. Frunze took the city of Ufa away from the White Guards.
Thunderstorm Over Belaya
1968
NRAbout the complicated relationship of spouses.
The Wife
1977
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Али-Баба и сорок разбойников
1983
5.9In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional one, but the underground one as well. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.
The Frenchman
2019
NRA porcupine, a jerboa, and a turtle build a wooden ship in the desert.
Ship of the Desert
1985
NRFree variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.
Regarding the Bald Singer...
2009
NRWhile on a business trip to Leningrad, engineer Sergei Gushchin meets a young woman and quickly falls for her. Acutely aware of the age difference between the two, the man decides against pursing the relationship.
White Hair Urgently Required
1970
7.3Inspired by the life of Varvara Asenkova, a 19th-century actress who earned great acclaim on St. Petersburg stage before her death at the age of 24.
The Green Carriage
1967