
Acting
Raisa Kurkina
Born
1927-10-07 (99)
Place of birth
Pokrovka, Tulskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Known for
Acting
Credits
56 titles
Known for
7.6Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
Fuse
1962
7.2The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, only to be caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander, Rahimov, "convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the protection of abandoned women of the Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, Rahimov and his cavalry unit set out to pursue fleeing Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem return to a nearby shore town. Soon, looking for a seaway across the border, Abdullah and his gang come to the same town...
The White Sun of the Desert
1969
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Короли российского сыска
1994
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Conscience
1974
7.7Afonya Borshev is a plumber who drinks a lot, flirts a lot and doesn't care too much about tomorrow. His wife left him, his boss placed him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. When Afonya met Katya at a dance club he didn't pay her much attention, yet she may be the only one who can help him.
Afonya
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Picture
1985
Film credits
2000s · 1 titles
1980s · 11 titles
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Three People on a Highway
1983
6.3A beautiful man, husband, father and worker Pavel Ivanovich Vasin got into the eye with a shard of the mirror of an evil wizard. And the world for him appeared in a gloomy light. He began to insult and offend everyone at home and at work. Anger and suspicion overwhelmed Vasin's heart.
Tears Were Falling
1983
6.5Once a famous singer Valentin Ozernikov, returning from another tour, thinks about his fast flowing life and tried to formulate his criteria for figs further existence.
A Small Favor
1984
NRThe father, the captain of the merchant fleet, had three sons: Cyril - an artist, Yuri - a sailor, Gerka - a musician. It would seem that nothing can interfere with their friendship. But the older and middle brothers are in love with one girl - Svetlana. Rivalry makes them enemies. Yuri can not forgive betrayal, and between the brothers there is a big quarrel. Suddenly, misfortune falls on the family - during a fire on the ship, their father dies. Grief brings the brothers closer together.
Father Had Three Sons
1981
4.8Young Nadezhda after graduating college starts working in the orphanage.
Good Intentions
1984
7.0History teacher Nikolay Echevin on his sixtieth birthday receives an anonymous letter in which he is called the "center of public infection" and threatened with murder.
Black Corridor
1988
NRThe funeral of the next General Secretary K.U. Chernenko. Sergey Eremin, an editorial worker, decides to finally publish the story of his friend, whom he once betrayed. But the manuscript has disappeared, and Sergei decides to have a frank conversation with the author.
Прямая трансляция
1989
NRKatya's life is darkened by a tragic secret: her mother died when her daughter was very young. Suddenly, the girl learns the shocking truth: her mother is alive. The meeting between mother and daughter becomes an emotional challenge for both. On the one hand, intense feelings of joy and love. On the other hand, there is burden and resentment that has accumulated over many years of separation.
Scenes from Family Life
1980
5.4In the middle of the 17th century, a Cossack named Almaz Bitiy saves an alien from a certain death. In gratitude, he gives the Earthman an elixir of youth.
Chance
1984
10.0The alarm sound of a siren broke the silence. There is an accident at the Gradovskaya mine! There are people down there! The miners who did not manage to get up were in danger. The mountain rescue team, led by Alexander Trigorin, went to the scene...
Sudden Release
1984
NRA young boy is suffering after a cruel divorce of his parents.
No One Can Replace You
1982
1970s · 17 titles
7.7Afonya Borshev is a plumber who drinks a lot, flirts a lot and doesn't care too much about tomorrow. His wife left him, his boss placed him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. When Afonya met Katya at a dance club he didn't pay her much attention, yet she may be the only one who can help him.
Afonya
1975
7.5A West German concern is conducting secret negotiations on the production of an atomic bomb with an interested state. The son of the head of the concern, realizing the monstrosity and scale of his father's activities, interrupts the negotiations and returns home with the intention to publicize his father's activities.
The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce
1977
8.0It was 1927. Philip Kasatkin, the son of a farm laborer, joined the Komsomol and began a whirlwind of activity, full of worries, victories, and defeats.
The Great Beggars
1973
5.5A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge of the special group of partisans. His group is absorbing other small groups of Russian soldiers, who managed to survive from the attacks of the overwhelming Nazi forces. The Nazi Armies are advancing to Moscow. Major Mlynsky is organizing the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazis, behind the enemy lines.
Front Without Flanks
1975
6.0Muscovite Sasha Trofimov returns home after serving in the army. In the absence of his father, his uncle, who works as a photographer, helps him decide on his profession. He takes the boy on as an intern, meaning that he will follow in his footsteps. Sasha, who has shown a great interest in photography, does not like his mentor's way of life very much, and he seriously thinks about "what to do?".
Intern
1977
6.7Four former soldiers reunite 25 years after the war. Last time they saw each other on the Byelorussian railway station in the summer of 1945. Now they've come together to mourn the death of a friend.
Byelorussian Station
1971
6.8Three Soviet prisoners of war escape from a fascist concentration camp at the end of the war. One of the guards helps them and runs with them. Many years later, this former German henchman meets one of the escapees and comes up with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe destruction of all the fugitives with whom he once escaped from a concentration camp; they abandoned him wounded during the escape. He begins to put his cruel plan into action, deciding to take revenge and thereby getting rid of witnesses to his crimes in the concentration camp...
Conscience
1974
NRTenth-graders from one of the city schools came for a two-week internship at a neighboring timber industry enterprise. At first the guys felt like tourists. But participation in forest planting under the leadership of forester Yuri, a true enthusiast of his work, awakened in them a feeling of love for their native nature.
The Forest You'll Never Enter
1978
NRTraveling along the Volga River, a worker from Kaunas, Jonas Budris, while stopping the ship in one of the Volga towns, searched for the house where his old friend Petr lived. After learning that after Peter's death his wife was hospitalized, his eldest son was serving time for theft, and his youngest had dropped out of school, Jonas decided to interrupt the trip and stayed at his friend's house.
Parking - Three Hours
1975
5.6In the first movie colonel Zorin is trying to find a stolen "Saint Luke" painting.
The Return Of The 'Saint Luke'
1970
NRThe film is dedicated to the working class. On the example of the fates of the main characters, their biographies and characters, it reveals such urgent problems as the attitude of a working man to labor, the conformity of his inclinations to his chosen profession. The obsession of the heroes and their complete dedication to their favorite work is the core of the script's dramaturgy. For both Nyurka and Mikhail Antonovich, the factory is their home, with which their entire lives are connected.
The Life of Nyurka
1971
NR1941. Army commander Kapitonov takes the brunt of the German forces, striving to Rostov. Well aware of the tactics of the German General Leynts, Kapitonov brilliantly conducting an operation that was incorporated into the history of the war under the name "Dyakovo defense."
Comrade General
1974
8.0Andryusha and his fifth-grade comrades in a pile of scrap raw materials found poorly bound typewritten pages with the inscription "Attack." The guys enthusiastically read this collection of frontline stories. Their author Bukin, it turns out, lives nearby, in the next quarter. The man is middle-aged and sickly; however, he does not succumb to the blows of fate. He devotes all his strength to the preservation of forest wealth, and in his free time from these worries he continues to write stories, recalling certain episodes of a rich front-line life ...
Birds Over the City
1974
7.0Based on the novel of the same name by Daniil Granin. Engineer Chizhegov often travels on business to a small town, where he meets a woman who reciprocates his feelings. The protagonist faces a difficult problem: he is married, and his family lives in Leningrad. Unable to make a final decision and afraid of losing his beloved, he commits a despicable act. His remorse comes too late—Chizhegov loses the woman who was truly dear to him forever.
Rain in a Foreign City
1979
NROne day the gamekeeper Peter Dyakonov found himself in the forest near the place where a moose was killed by a high-ranking official and could not pass by, despite the strong pressure on him. After his dismissal, the hero returns to his father's house, to his father, a river cormorant, and even there continues to fight poachers.
Когда расходится туман
1972
5.5The film comprises four novellas: (1) “From Boredom”. A wealthy matron, bored with life, embarks on a romance with her children’s romantic tutor. (2) “Nerves”. Haunted by tales of the supernatural, Vaksin can’t sleep and is found in the morning napping on the governess’s chest. (3) “The Avenger”. A husband plans to kill his unfaithful wife but abandons the plot when he dreads the punishment to come. (4) “The Proposal”. A tragicomic matchmaking tale of landowner Lomov wooing his neighbor’s daughter.
Family Happiness
1970
6.1In the second movie colonel Zorin is trying to find a stolen "Black Prince" diamond.
Black Prince
1973
1960s · 16 titles
7.2The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, only to be caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander, Rahimov, "convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the protection of abandoned women of the Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, Rahimov and his cavalry unit set out to pursue fleeing Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem return to a nearby shore town. Soon, looking for a seaway across the border, Abdullah and his gang come to the same town...
The White Sun of the Desert
1969
NRA dramatic story of a progressive journalist in America, whose professional honor depends entirely on a handful of political gangsters.
The Trap
1965
5.5Beautifully shot in black and white, and scripted by Tarkovsky's collaborator Andrei Konchalovsky, this powerful melodrama tells the story of a young boy who undertakes the perilous journey to Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent, to earn some money for his hungry family. Filming in the periphery of the Soviet Union, in a time of relative political relaxation, director Shukhrat Abbasov actually dared to depict the poverty and famine that resulted from the Bolshevik Revolution.
Tashkent, City of Bread
1968
5.0Antonina Vasilyevna, as a member of the bureau of the district committee of the party, was instructed to save the Leningrad children, whom the war overtook in the suburban camps. She took them to the Kirov region. After twelve days of hard travel, the children arrived in the village of Supryadki...
The Rescued Generation
1960
6.0A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man.
The Alive and the Dead
1964
8.3The young architect Severin Sereda receives a telegram with a message about his father’s serious illness. But he does not intend to go. Zhenya, his beloved girl, is outraged by such callousness, however, Severin explains that he gave the word to his deceased mother to never see his father who left her. Nevertheless, Zhenya manages to persuade Severin. He goes, but he doesn’t catch his father alive ...
The Search
1967
7.0Fantastic cosmopolite ‘nouvelle vague’ film from Soviet Russia about the lives of students living in a dormitory at Moscow State University. The story focuses on the relationships between roommates: Russian students Andrey and Sergey, African student Jules, and Belgian Albert. Tensions arise due to Albert's racist prejudices against Jules, creating conflicts among the group. Meanwhile, Andrey navigates his feelings for Marina, who initially prefers Sergey but eventually reevaluates her choices as the characters confront their differences and personal growth.
Thousand Windows
1968
NRIn Dzhezkazgan, to work in the mines, come Sapar and Sharip, just that graduated from school, but did not enter the institute. Sapar - a hot, enthusiastic and responsive young man, and Sharip - a style and cynic. About how their further fate, about how both of them found their place in life and became good miners, and tells the film.
My Dream
1966
8.0Twelve-year-old Pavlukha lives on a fishing farm with his mother. His father left his family long ago, in which, apart from Paulukha, he has two other children. To help his mother somehow, the boy goes to town to earn money...
Pavlukha
1962
NROne day, a young woman with a child gets off a passenger train that has made an unscheduled stop at a small railway station called Tishina in the middle of the steppe. No one is there to meet her. She has been put off the train because her child is ill. The stationmaster, Ospanov, realizing that the newcomer is going through a difficult time, takes her into his apartment and offers her his help. Olga gradually gets used to the dull life of the station and its people. The child recovers. But Olga does not leave. Instead, she stays at the station...
Silence
1961
9.0The action takes place in the early 20s in a mountainous village in the Pamirs, where people live in almost primitive poverty and scarcity. A detachment of Red Army soldiers comes here. The commander tells the residents that from now on they will live according to the laws of the Soviet government. The squad soon leaves, leaving only one person. He organizes a school for the children and becomes its first teacher. For the first time, children see the globe and learn that the earth is round. And they are learning to read and write for the first time... Based on Mirsaid Mirshakar's poem "Lenin in the Pamirs".
Children of the Pamirs
1963
NRThe test pilot arrived in his native village disappointed, emotionally traumatized, and physically exhausted. Meeting with people dear to him, visiting places close to his heart, and touching his native soil revived him and restored his strength and self-confidence.
This Solid Ground
1967
8.0The 1950s. The construction of the Karakum Canal is underway in Turkmenistan. The fate of this large construction site is closely linked to the fate of many of the film's characters: correspondent Koryshev, who reveals the lies of his colleague Zurabov's ostentatious, slanderous articles; talented young engineer Karabash, whose advanced construction methods are supported by the construction site chief Ermasov; embittered old engineer Khorev, who, out of envy for Karabash, writes denunciations to the Central Committee of the party against him and Ermasov..
Quenching the Thirst
1968
8.0Brother and sister Danya and Valya move with their mother to a northern seaside town and immediately become participants in an exciting but dangerous adventure.
Sorcerer Island
1965
7.0A young milkmaid Liza becomes an outcast of society in one of the Kuban collective farms. An honest and hardworking girl finds protection from the brave and sensitive party organizer Prokhor, who stood up for her.
Our Mutual Friend
1962
7.7Engineer-geologist Svetlana Panyshko in the far northern land dreams of summer, southern sky and warm sea, but instead of vacation she is forced to take into her own hands unprofitable oil field in order not to let down her comrades and fulfill the plan.
Summer Vacations Time
1961
1950s · 5 titles
6.7Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated in a psychiatric clinic. On the train, on the way to St. Petersburg, the prince meets Parfyon Rogozhin, who tells him of his passionate love for Nastasya Filippovna, the former containment woman of the millionaire Totsky. In St. Petersburg, the prince finds himself in the house of his distant relative – Lizaveta Yepanchina (General's wife), meets her husband, their daughters, as well as the Secretary of General – Ganya Ivolgin. The portrait of Nastasya Filippovna, accidentally seen on the general’s table, makes a great impression on the prince...
The Idiot
1958
NRThe first months after the October Revolution. A small Red Army detachment stops at the Aksai farmstead, thereby causing discord in the family. Old Aksai treats his daughter-in-law Dinseme and her little brother Abido like slaves. But the Red Army soldiers treat them very differently. For the first time, a sense of dignity awakens in their souls. Meanwhile, Dynseme's husband, Gylik, together with another White Guard soldier from Ataman Semenov's gang, learns that the Red Army detachment is about to continue on its way and prepares a plan to destroy it.
Time of Taiga Snowdrop
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Vanya
1958
10.0The Far East. A tugboat with six sailors was swept out into the open ocean. After unsuccessful search efforts, young Captain Yelagin presents a series of evidence pointing to deliberate criminal activity and declares it an act of treason. Meanwhile, stranded without fuel and supplies, the sailors build a mast, stitch a sail from blankets, and head towards their home shores...
On a Distant Island...
1957
NRA family of collective farmers arrives in Kazakhstan. The husband, who had persuaded his wife to come in search of an easier life, is frightened by the very first difficulties and goes back home. But the woman stays, because she has fallen in love with a local man. There are no optimistic declarations—only a timid hope that she will take root in this new place, together with the birch trees she planted near the house.
Birches in the Steppe
1957
Series credits
7.6Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
Fuse
1962
7.6Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".
Fuse
1962
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Короли российского сыска
1994
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Conscience
1974
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Picture
1985
NRSeveral old friends—employees of the USSR Prosecutor's Office and Ministry of Internal Affairs, whom fate scattered across different republics of the Union—gather once a year to commemorate their deceased comrade and share unusual cases from their practice.
Proceed to the Investigation. Film 1: Version
1986

