Yelena Solovey

Acting

Yelena Solovey

Born 1947-02-24 · Neustrelitz, East Germany

Elena Solovey (born 24 February 1947) is a Russian film actress. She has appeared in 55 films since 1966. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Faktas at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Acting credits

The Lost City of Z poster
6.4

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

The Lost City of Z

2017

We Own the Night poster
6.7

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

We Own the Night

2007

Paper Tiger poster
NR

Two brothers become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world of the Russian mafia, family bonds begin to fray with life-altering consequences.

Paper Tiger

2026

The Immigrant poster
6.3

1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

The Immigrant

2013

A Slave of Love poster
6.2

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

A Slave of Love

1976

Oblomov poster
6.3

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?

Oblomov

1980

Anna Karamazoff poster
5.1

The story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless.

Anna Karamazoff

1991

Fortieth Day poster
NR

A man died. Right near his home – he got hit by a car. On the fortieth day, his family and friends gather to honor his memory. A familiar situation – division of inheritance. Everyone is given the right to show their best and worst qualities. Not everyone gets out of this situation with honor. Suddenly, the process of division is interrupted by the arrival of the very driver under whose wheels the man died.

Fortieth Day

1988

King Stag poster
5.5

A story of court intrigues, love, and betrayal. A vain king is turned into a stag and only true love can save him

King Stag

1970

Fact poster
5.7

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context.

Fact

1981

Friend poster
5.7

Looking for the money for a drink, an alcoholic gets a Newfoundland dog as a present from a stranger at a bird fair. He'll soon find out that the animal is not only able to speak, but to get him to give up drinking as well. Now he's determined to get rid of the dog, but that won't be an easy task.

Friend

1988

Under a Stone Sky poster
7.1

In the autumn of 1944, contrary to the order of the Nazi command to evacuate to the south, residents of the Norwegian town of Kirkenes took refuge in an abandoned mine. The command of the Soviet Army became aware of the intentions of the Nazis to blow up the old tunnels of the city, but the Soviet soldiers managed to prevent the tragedy.

Under a Stone Sky

1974

What Would You Choose? poster
7.0

Four third-grader friends live in an old Leningrad house, study in the same class and try to understand their parents and teachers.

What Would You Choose?

1981

Dearest Daughter poster
NR

Yuri Stepanovich Ipatov, who once held a high-ranking position, is dismissed from his post due to financial misconduct. Coming to terms with his guilt and deeply remorseful, he decides to return to the factory where he began his working life — this time as an ordinary laborer. However, in making this choice, Ipatov did not expect that his beloved daughter Natasha would not only disapprove, but would see it as humiliating to be the daughter of a "small" man...

Dearest Daughter

1987

The Diaries of a School Principal poster
5.3

The everyday life of a Soviet high school principal, a WWII veteran and an unfulfilled writer, whose vocation is teaching kids.

The Diaries of a School Principal

1975

Lonely Woman Seeks Life Companion poster
5.0

Klava, a lonely woman who is bored with her life, posts an advertisement seeking a male companion. Valentin, a retired circus performer, responds to her message and the two enter a dubious relationship.

Lonely Woman Seeks Life Companion

1986

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano poster
7.0

On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

1977

The Guest poster
6.0

On New Year's Eve, a small company gathered. An unexpected call interrupted the fun. Behind the door stood a neighbor whom the owners did not like. They turned off the light, pretending that there was nobody at home. After some time, shame seized everyone.

The Guest

1980

Лишний билет poster
10.0

A month after the wedding, the newlyweds began to quarrel. And then a kind but unhappy wizard appeared, whose credo is to make others happy.

Лишний билет

1983

Charlotte Necklace poster
6.7

While investigating a murder KGB detectives discover a criminal group which transfers a stolen artworks abroad .

Charlotte Necklace

1984

Until the Snow Fell poster
7.5

Preparing for a meeting of former classmates, a woman recalls her school years and her first love.

Until the Snow Fell

1984

Legend of Pawiak Prison poster
NR

About the courage and resilience of two Tajik pilots who were captured by the fascists at the beginning of the war and ended up in the Pawiak political prison in Warsaw. At the first opportunity, the heroes make their escape.

Legend of Pawiak Prison

1971

Unexpected Joy poster
4.7

Unfinished and lost film directed by Rustam Khamdamov, shot in 1972-1974.

Unexpected Joy

1972

Vanyushin's Kids poster
6.2

On the surface, everything appears respectable in the Vanyushin family; life flows as it does in any merchant household. But a deep, insurmountable chasm separates the parents from their children—and just as wide a gulf lies between the children themselves. A candid conversation with the youngest son, Alyosha, forces Vanyushin to face the truth…

Vanyushin's Kids

1974