Natalya Tenyakova

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

This Queen of Spades poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

This Queen of Spades

2004

Love and Pigeons poster
7.6

In 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

The Theater of I.S. Turgenev poster
NR

On 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

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets poster
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A television adaptation of a short comedy of the same name by George Bernard Shaw.

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

1966

Explosions in the Classroom poster
NR

About 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

Banquet poster
6.8

A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.

Banquet

1986

UNWRITTEN PLAY. One day in the life of a playwright poster
NR

A film about how the poet's own failures give rise to his creativity.

UNWRITTEN PLAY. One day in the life of a playwright

2025

Heroines of Ostrovsky's Plays poster
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The 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

Ball poster
9.0

Based 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

The Stove on Wheels poster
NR

The 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

A Long Cat Tale poster
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In 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

One-Two… And King Me! poster
NR

Based on the pamphlet "They Don't Talk About It" by Finnish writer Martti Lärni.

One-Two… And King Me!

1968

Ships in Lissa poster
NR

A 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

Uncle's Dream poster
7.0

Energized 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

Handmade Clouds poster
NR

Five stories depicting five different kinds of love, from childhood to old age.

Handmade Clouds

2015

A Robbery at Midnight poster
NR

A 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

Thunderstorm Over Belaya poster
8.0

The 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

The Wife poster
NR

About the complicated relationship of spouses.

The Wife

1977

Али-Баба и сорок разбойников poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Али-Баба и сорок разбойников

1983

The Frenchman poster
5.9

In 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

Ship of the Desert poster
NR

A porcupine, a jerboa, and a turtle build a wooden ship in the desert.

Ship of the Desert

1985

Regarding the Bald Singer... poster
NR

Free variations on a theme by Eugène Ionesco.

Regarding the Bald Singer...

2009

White Hair Urgently Required poster
NR

While 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

The Green Carriage poster
7.3

Inspired 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