Valentina Kovel

Acting

Valentina Kovel

Born 1923-01-23 · Petrograd, Russian SFSR

Acting credits

Heart of a Dog poster
7.9

In 1920s Moscow, shortly after the October Revolution, a stray dog named Sharik is taken in by Professor Preobrazhensky, a wealthy and respected surgeon. The professor performs a daring medical experiment on the dog that changes him into a human being. As the newly transformed Sharikov begins to navigate life in the professor’s apartment, his crude behavior and revolutionary ideas turn the household upside down.

Heart of a Dog

1988

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds poster
NR

In a small house that used to be a vegetable shop, there is a mother with two daughters and an old, sick woman in her care. The mother's life has not been easy. At her father's request, she married someone she did not love.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

1979

The Wheel of Love poster
3.7

A romantic comedy about a twenty three years old Kirill who suddenly decides to become a gigolo.

The Wheel of Love

1994

Russian Symphony poster
7.1

Ivan Mazaev finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of The Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, accompanied by the terrible suspicion that the things going on are some kind of a performance or theatrical production.

Russian Symphony

1994

Are You Kidding? poster
4.3

The film almanac of VGIK's graduates, consisting of films for children: "Otherwise We Are Lost," "Vanderbul Runs Over the Horizon," and "Are You Kidding?"

Are You Kidding?

1971

Energetic People poster
10.0

The heroes of Shukshin's play are indeed energetic people in the full sense of the word. Jacks of all trades, quick-witted and dishonest, grabbers and thieves, who can be called businessmen of the era of socialism, for whom there was no use for their practical acumen and intelligence. Tovstonogov and the actors breathed true life into these characters.

Energetic People

1989

Short Breath of Love poster
10.0

Having been captured, an Afghan officer decided not to return to his homeland. He settled in Finland, met Rita, a tourist from St. Petersburg, and lost his peace. Everything was against him: his beloved was older than him, had a sick son, the doctor treating his son loved her, and he himself, on top of everything else, was the son of this doctor...

Short Breath of Love

1992

Three Times About Love poster
6.3

Former soldier returns to his village only to discover that his girlfriend married another man.

Three Times About Love

1981

Next to Us poster
5.9

The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just completed the institutions and are confident that the future is in their hands. At the plant, all relations are formed around the dubious glory of the Turner Milovidov. A fresh look, self-confidence and each other help friends to expose the "record holder".

Next to Us

1957

A Funny Dream, or Laughter and Tears poster
6.2

A student and chess lover Andrey Popov, while getting sick the night before a chess game with a chess world champion Karpov, falls asleep and is having a dream. In this dream, he finds himself in a kingdom ruled by chess figures and playing cards. Chess figures (who are in power) are in a state of sadness due to a misterious disease that struck their young prince. While Andrey attempts to help them, the cards are preparing a coup...

A Funny Dream, or Laughter and Tears

1976

In Broad Daylight poster
7.2

A group of friends, including Mukhin, a furniture factory worker, with his wife and son, go out on a day off. There are four drunk young men in the neighborhood. They pester vacationers and start a fight. They are rebuffed only by Mukhin. Protecting his wife and child, he hit the leader of a hooligan gang. Death was instantaneous. The rowdies turn out to be locals. They pretend to be victims, blaming the "tourists" from the city.

In Broad Daylight

1983

The Year of the Dog poster
3.9

Former criminal Sergei meets Vera - an elderly unhappy woman who lives in a dormitory. After Sergei commits another crime, they run together and along the way they accidentally get into a zone contaminated by radiation. Sergei decides to stay there, but Vera does not leave him. At that moment three looters come to the territory.

The Year of the Dog

1994

Life of Galileo poster
NR

A televised play based on the work of Bertolt Brecht.

Life of Galileo

1965

Криминальный талант poster
NR

Several crimes are committed in the city, similar in style and so unusual that the investigation team suspects that the perpetrator, or rather the perpetrator, has a kind of criminal talent. Based on the novel of the same name by Stanislav Rodionov.

Криминальный талант

1986

The Scoundrel, or Running On the Spot poster
5.0

Comedy of manners with elements of grotesque. The hero of the tape - an employee of a solid research Institute San Sanych lubomudrov - an extraordinary personality. Charming trickster and subtle psychologist, he is fluent in the art of communicating with the "right" people.

The Scoundrel, or Running On the Spot

1984

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

The Pickwick Club poster
NR

A middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and absurd situations in which he and his friends constantly find themselves turn the play into a rare and truly timeless bestseller that entertains millions of viewers.

The Pickwick Club

1986

I Wish to Speak poster
6.4

The mayor of a village sees her son killed in a gun accident. A successful, dedicated bureuacrat, she must reconcile her desire to build a bridge - and the new housing that will come with it - with the reality of resistance from the townspeople and her own grief.

I Wish to Speak

1976

The Highway poster
6.7

The film takes place during one day of operation of a railway line, the capacity of which is lower than necessary. A disaster occurs: a passenger train crashes into a tank train, the driver's assistant is killed, and traffic on the section is delayed. The film explores the patterns that led to the accident.

The Highway

1983

Spawn of Hell poster
5.3

Late-Soviet screen adaptation of the novel "A Pale Horse" by Boris Savinkov. A group of anti-tsarist revolutionary terrorists plot to assassinate the governor of a provincial town.

Spawn of Hell

1992

The Truth! Nothing But the Truth! poster
NR

About the trial of the October Revolution, which was organized in 1919 by the US Senate.

The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!

1969

Good Luck, Gentlemen! poster
9.0

Oleg, a veteran of the German Army, arrives in St. Petersburg at the call of his old comrade-in-arms Vladimir. Instead of the expected well-paid job and decent accommodation, he finds himself in a pine forest, where former army captains and majors live in tanks (their tank column, which the putschists sent to Leningrad, was stopped halfway and forgotten) and earn their living by dressing up as gypsies, while his friend is obsessed with private entrepreneurship. Moreover, both of them fall in love with Olga, a provincial girl who has come to study at a theater school.

Good Luck, Gentlemen!

1993

Khanuma poster
5.3

A classical romantic comedy set in Tbilisi, Georgia in the beginning of XX century.

Khanuma

1978

Maigret and the Man on the Bench poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maigret and the Man on the Bench

1981