Nadezhda Kosheverova

Directing

Nadezhda Kosheverova

Born — Died

1902-09-23 — 1989-02-22

Place of birth

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Film director Nadezhda Kosheverova is mostly famous for her fascinating fairy tale movies, which have become classics of the Russian cinema. Nadezhda Nikolaevna Kosheverova was born in Saint Petersburg on September 23rd (Gregorian Calendar), 1902. In 1923 she graduated Actor's School at Petrograd Theater Free comedy and till 1928 performed as an actress on stages of Leningrad theaters, including the N. P. Akimov Leningrad Theater of Satire. The future film director also studied at the film studio of the Factory of Eccentric Actor from 1925 to 1928. Since 1929 Nadezhda Kosheverova worked at Lenfilm, where she started her career as the assistant of the film director Maxim Trilogy. She made …

Known for

Cinderella poster
6.6

In the fairy kingdom live stepmother, her evil daughters — Anna and Maryana, a limp husband-forester and his daughter from his first marriage — Cinderella. The stepmother exploits the poor girl as a housekeeper. With the help of her godmother-fairy, Cinderella gets to the royal ball, where a beautiful and very kind prince falls in love with her. At midnight, the magic ends, and poor Cinderella has to return to her former life. But on the crystal shoe that Cinderella lost while fleeing the palace to the battle of the palace chimes, the prince searches for the bride.

Cinderella

1947

The Nightingale poster
6.6

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes.

The Nightingale

1980

How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder poster
7.0

A story about Ivanushka the Fool based on classic Russian fairytales.

How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder

1977

Be Careful, Grandma! poster
4.2

Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her grandmother and her 'old guards'. Look out Lena's enemies. Here's her grandma coming!

Be Careful, Grandma!

1961

Donkey's Hide poster
6.4

At the festivities marking the christening of princess Theresa, daughter of King Gaston IX, a wicked fairy made a mysterious prophecy about the girl's life. Seventeen years later, Theresa falls in love with a poor prince named Jacques. Then the prophecy starts coming true...

Donkey's Hide

1982

A Very Old Story poster
6.4

Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the film is a puppeteer who lives in a poor and gray world. He composes a fairy tale in which he himself, in the guise of a brave soldier, finds a flint and is helped by a kind wizard. The soldier falls in love with a spoiled, capricious princess who, as befits a princess, poses riddles to her numerous suitors. Her father, the king, is eager to see the soldier as her husband, as he believes the soldier has a great deal of gold. In the fairy tale, everything ends well, but in real life, not so much. "But life is not a fairy tale," his beloved girl says to him as she bids him farewell.

A Very Old Story

1968

Behind the camera

Cinderella poster
6.6

In the fairy kingdom live stepmother, her evil daughters — Anna and Maryana, a limp husband-forester and his daughter from his first marriage — Cinderella. The stepmother exploits the poor girl as a housekeeper. With the help of her godmother-fairy, Cinderella gets to the royal ball, where a beautiful and very kind prince falls in love with her. At midnight, the magic ends, and poor Cinderella has to return to her former life. But on the crystal shoe that Cinderella lost while fleeing the palace to the battle of the palace chimes, the prince searches for the bride.

Cinderella

1947

The Nightingale poster
6.6

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes.

The Nightingale

1980

How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder poster
7.0

A story about Ivanushka the Fool based on classic Russian fairytales.

How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder

1977

Be Careful, Grandma! poster
4.2

Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her grandmother and her 'old guards'. Look out Lena's enemies. Here's her grandma coming!

Be Careful, Grandma!

1961

Donkey's Hide poster
6.4

At the festivities marking the christening of princess Theresa, daughter of King Gaston IX, a wicked fairy made a mysterious prophecy about the girl's life. Seventeen years later, Theresa falls in love with a poor prince named Jacques. Then the prophecy starts coming true...

Donkey's Hide

1982

A Very Old Story poster
6.4

Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the film is a puppeteer who lives in a poor and gray world. He composes a fairy tale in which he himself, in the guise of a brave soldier, finds a flint and is helped by a kind wizard. The soldier falls in love with a spoiled, capricious princess who, as befits a princess, poses riddles to her numerous suitors. Her father, the king, is eager to see the soldier as her husband, as he believes the soldier has a great deal of gold. In the fairy tale, everything ends well, but in real life, not so much. "But life is not a fairy tale," his beloved girl says to him as she bids him farewell.

A Very Old Story

1968

And Then Came Bumbo... poster
6.5

A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin.

And Then Came Bumbo...

1984

Tiger Girl poster
6.2

The story is about heiress of the circus family who organizes show "Let's get married" right in the cage for the tigers. Famous motorcyclist Fedya Yermolaev is invited to the circus for a ‘death-defying number’ – to perform a jump on a motorcycle under the big dome! Lena, a custodian at the circus, dreams of becoming a tiger tamer. Stray tigers growl and frighten. Lena enters the cage and...

Tiger Girl

1954

New Attraction Today poster
5.9

A new girl becomes circus star despite her husband objective.

New Attraction Today

1966

Honeymoon poster
6.9

lyudmila is a medical school graduate who desperately wants to stay in Leningrad and to do so marries Aleksey, bridge engineer and city resident. To Lyudmila's dissatisfaction when Aleksey agrees to the construction of a bridge in Siberia, he demands that his wife travels there with him.

Honeymoon

1956

Cain the XVIII-th poster
5.4

A traveling musician falls in love with a princess who is betrothed to a dictator planning to defeat his enemies with the help of an exploding mutant mosquito.

Cain the XVIII-th

1963

The Tale About the Enamored Painter poster
7.7

Once upon a time, a young and cheerful painter named Makar was invited to the king's palace... There he saw a beautiful woman trying on a crown. Makar fell in love, but was expelled from the palace. After undergoing all kinds of trials and heroic deeds, the former painter came to the palace to ask for the princess's hand in marriage, but saw before him a capricious ugly woman—and realized that he had been enchanted by the servant Katya.

The Tale About the Enamored Painter

1987

Driver Involuntarily poster
5.9

A driver of a big manager is hospitalized with his boss's documents and adventures start...

Driver Involuntarily

1958

Spring in Moscow poster
9.0

The positive assessment of the work of young historian Nadezhda Kovrova went to her head. Confident in her infallibility, she makes a mistake.

Spring in Moscow

1953

Spring in Moscow poster
9.0

The positive assessment of the work of young historian Nadezhda Kovrova went to her head. Confident in her infallibility, she makes a mistake.

Spring in Moscow

1953

Arinka poster
8.0

Arinka, a young girl who lives near the railroad, discovers a ring of spies who are preparing the terror act.

Arinka

1939

Galya poster
10.0

During the "Winter War" between Finland and the USSR, Galya's father goes to the front and she's left behind to take care of grandma and the house. Despite toeing the party line, the film was still banned by censors for being insufficiently patriotic.

Galya

1940

Tsarevich Prosha poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Tsarevich Prosha

1974

The Slippers poster
NR

Film-opera based on Tschaikovsky's adaptation of Gogol's story, 'Noch' pyered Rozhdestvom.'

The Slippers

1945

The Slippers poster
NR

Film-opera based on Tschaikovsky's adaptation of Gogol's story, 'Noch' pyered Rozhdestvom.'

The Slippers

1945

Shadow poster
6.4

The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king. But unlike many “suitors”, selfish thoughts are alien to Christian-Theodore. He is sincerely fascinated by her beauty and releases his Shadow, hoping to get a faithful helper in his quest to marry the Princess. But the Shadow is the embodiment of egoism, greed and meanness. Quickly betraying the scholar, he marries the Princess himself and takes the royal throne.

Shadow

1971

Shadows poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shadows

1954