
Acting
Tamara Sovchi
Born — Died
1941-06-18 — 2011-02-01
Place of birth
Simferopol, Crimean ASSR, RSFSR, USSR
Known for
Acting
Credits
41 titles
Tamara Sovchi was born on June 18, 1941 in Simferopol, Crimean ASSR, Russian SFSR, USSR (now Crimea, Ukraine) as Tamara Yakimenko. She was an actress, known for Karmen (2003), Zhazhda nad ruchyom (1968) and Afonya (1975). She died on February 1, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.
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
7.7Afonya 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
6.1In Pavel Olevantsev’s family suddenly comes news that his daughter by another woman was orphaned. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, nor could his wife know about it... It is not easy to decide to take the child to his house. But it will be much more difficult to endear the girl to them, to return her the joy of childhood and the belief that she is not alone...
The Stepmother
1973
4.2She's not so young, not so pretty and has a weird name - but she still believes in founding her happiness.
Aelita, Do Not Pester Men
1988
7.3Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.
I Am Twenty
1965
4.5Miner Yegor Ikonnikov comes to the South, hoping to have a good rest and, as they say, to unwind. The meeting with Sonya was the beginning of a serious love that changed the life of Yegor and a married woman who at first did not take Yegor seriously.
White Crow
1981
Film credits
1980s · 8 titles
4.2She's not so young, not so pretty and has a weird name - but she still believes in founding her happiness.
Aelita, Do Not Pester Men
1988
4.5Miner Yegor Ikonnikov comes to the South, hoping to have a good rest and, as they say, to unwind. The meeting with Sonya was the beginning of a serious love that changed the life of Yegor and a married woman who at first did not take Yegor seriously.
White Crow
1981
6.8A retired air force colonel comes on summer vacation to the Crimea. He comes as a non-official holiday-maker, so the main problem is to find night quarters. There is a brim-full of holiday-makers here at holyday season, and for locals the main business is to rent a bunk. And if one also manages to make money on sending pears, apples, grapes, the whole winter will be supported. Thus many locals survive, others become callous, cynical cold fish, concerned only about gains. Anna Ivanovna, the flat owner, renting a bunk to the colonel, starts reminding of the latter. Looking over a photo in a hall, the colonel suddenly recognizes himself in youth with a friend, who died of consumption and who turned out to be the Annas son.
Farewell of a Slav Woman
1985
7.0The parents of six-year-old Pavlik want to make an erudite out of their beloved son. They constantly force the boy to read a lot, study and achieve success. Mom and dad so want their son to be the first in everything. One day Pavlik comes to visit his grandmother in the village. Grandmother allows her grandson to go out alone for a walk. The walk turns into a fun journey for the young hero to Moscow...
I Don't Want to Be a Grown-Up
1982
7.6Boyars are trying to marry their tsar in a country of far far away.
Help Me, Bros!
1989
4.9At the beginning of the 1941 war, a young talented artist Igor and his theater were evacuated to Tashkent. Here he meets music teacher Olga, who is seriously ill with malaria. Igor understands that only treatment in the capital will save the girl. But they are allowed into Moscow only on special passes. And then Igor almost by force drags Olga to the registry office. Feeling responsible for the girl, Igor begins to patronize her more and more...
A Legal Marriage
1985
9.5Maria joins a Pentecostal sect. A young worker, Ivan, who has fallen in love with the girl, tries to save her from the sect's influence, but he is hindered by the head of the sect, the cruel and insidious Laguta, who plays a fatal role in Maria's fate.
Captured by the Ghosts
1984
4.8The meeting between the chief physician of the sanatorium Rodion Nikolayevich and the patient Lydia Vasilievna begins with a conflict: the woman managed to break the sanatorium regime in the very first days of her stay. However, soon the acquaintance of two middle-aged people turns into friendship, and then into mutual sympathy.
An Old-Fashioned Comedy
1980
1970s · 16 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
6.1In Pavel Olevantsev’s family suddenly comes news that his daughter by another woman was orphaned. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, nor could his wife know about it... It is not easy to decide to take the child to his house. But it will be much more difficult to endear the girl to them, to return her the joy of childhood and the belief that she is not alone...
The Stepmother
1973
5.7An adventures of a 100% nylon "fur" coat traveling between various people.
Nylon 100%
1973
4.7Zhamin, a member of a geological expedition and a former criminal, receives a strange letter, after which he quits his job and hurries through the taiga to a nearby station. In the city it is necessary to leave and his main enemy Legostaev, whom Zhamin has long threatened to kill. Zhamin comes to the station alone. He‘s found to have a bloody knife and a large sum of money with him.
SOS from the Taiga
1976
7.0The heroes of the film are first-graders Snezhana and Alyosha Seroglazov, who received the nickname "TwoBriefcases" because of his small stature on the first day of attending school, as well as a small puppy Kysh.
Kysh and TwoBriefcases
1974
7.0Test pilot Ivan Gribov was seriously wounded in battle, captured, and escaped from the camp. He returned to his city after the war and found out that his wife had buried him, got married and was living well. He stopped flying, got married, and tried not to think about the sky...
Heaven is With Me
1974
5.3A young girl Marina suddenly meets an evil witch so adventures start...
Upright Magic
1975
6.2On 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
6.0A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.
Incognito from St.Petersburg
1978
6.0A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.
Incognito from St.Petersburg
1978
NRAn employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things. It’s easiest to be cruel in life.
Stop Potapov
1975
7.5This little-seen and little-discussed film combines animation with self-reflexive, live action segments to embody the anarchic, satiric spirit of the poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930). The film also showcases Sergei Yuktevich's fondness for formal experimentation. It is nominally adapted from Mayakovsky's play "The Bedbug" and his screenplay "Forget All About the Fireplace."
Mayakovsky Laughs
1976
5.4Chess player Sergei Khlobnikov never set winning as his goal in the game. Emotional and averse to pragmatism, he rarely won tournaments. But eventually, his time came.
Grandmaster
1973
9.0World-famous geneticist Professor Hülsenbeck is a man of integrity who refuses to mix science and political gain. When his findings are being used to harm humanity, he immigrates to the USA in 1933 in protest against Nazi racial politics.
Janus Head
1972
7.4The love story of Fedor, the village chauffeur and Mari, a local school teacher.
Newcomer
1977
6.5During the WWII, veteran Panas Petrovich Baida lost his son. Many years passed, and Panas Petrovich came to terms with his loss, hiding his grief deep in his heart. But one day, he heard news about children who had been saved by soldiers from the military. All the boys who did not remember their names were named Ivan Immortal. They are still alive today, but fate has scattered them to different corners of the country. Panas Petrovich sets out to visit each of them, hoping to recognize his son among them.
Your Home Address
1973
1960s · 14 titles
7.3Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.
I Am Twenty
1965
6.51943 year. On the instructions of the military newspaper, the photojournalist Varvara Knyazhich goes to the front line to take some pictures of the knocked-down powerful German tank "Tiger". In a combat situation, she has to face a difficult relationship between officers and subordinates. During the execution of a journalistic assignment, Varya is literally two steps from death. But it is here that she is destined to find her love...
Wild Honey
1967
NRNew Year's musical film with the participation of VIO-66 (Vocal and Instrumental Orchestra at the RosconcertSaulsky), the Accord quartet, Marcel Marceau, A.Raikin, E.Shavrina, V.Makarov and other popular pop performers and actors of that time.
Two Hours Earlier
1967
NRIn search of an interesting life, Lisa goes not to the south, but to the tundra, and there gets a job as an assistant to the hydrologist of the search party, Lyosha. Soon the young people decide to get married. Due to a long snowstorm, no guests come to them, from time to time the newlyweds bicker, Lisa’s blues return - and the young wife decides to leave...
Thirst Over the Stream
1969
5.7A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of responsibility to those whom he was obliged to protect...
The Journalist
1967
5.4The action takes place in Siberia where a mysterious wall appears from time to time. Scientists are dispatched to study it and some of them believe that the wall is produced by some sort of alien intelligence, "the Martians", as they call them. The scientists attempt to communicate with the Wall, but all they experience in return are hallucinations about their past experiences. In those visions they are faced with some unresolved issues, repressed memories, and absurd dream-like situations. They meet people – messengers – from their past who reveal to them some simple truths about their own lives, which may be hard to accept, so they dismiss those messengers as the Martians and stubbornly continue attempting to "understand" the Mysterious Wall using their rational minds.
The Mysterious Wall
1967
NRThe Russian guys - Viktor, Masha, and Zhorik - arrived in distant Dushanbe on Komsomol vouchers. Tajikistan became their second homeland, and in the wonderful people Guliam, Alim, and Aziz, they found like-minded individuals. They had to endure many difficulties. But no matter how hard it was, they did not back down and did not lose faith in their just cause.
Peaceful Time
1964
4.8The small town is asleep. Only the young wife of the elderly pharmacist Chernomordik, the owner of the pharmacy, is awake. She has already gone to bed three times, but sleep stubbornly refuses to come to her. Suddenly, footsteps can be heard in the silence of the night. A short while later, two figures in white officer's tunics appear outside the window: one is large and fat, while the other is smaller and thinner. A moment later, a bell rings in the pharmacy, and the worried pharmacist opens the door to the officers. The young officer, Obtesov, orders 15 kopecks worth of mint cakes. Meanwhile, the more experienced doctor strikes up a casual conversation. Soon, a bottle of wine appears on the table, and the young pharmacist agrees to have a sip...
Pharmacist
1964
NRThe screenplay is based on the short story of the same name by Vil Lipatov. It tells the story of a man with a difficult past who comes to a village in search of happiness, hoping to do good for others to the best of his abilities and talents.
Mister Twister
1969
8.0New teacher arrives to the remote village Krinitsy and not everybody are happy about what he's doing.
Krinitsy
1965
9.0Back in the village, Galya Makarova starts working on the farm. After the dismissal of the negligent manager, she, together with other milkmaids, tries to restore order.
Встречи на рассвете
1969
NRHaving very skillfully organized the food production of "worse quality, but more quantity", the Tonap share partnership began to gain power. Khristoforov, the underground organization's head, is concerned about the spoiled products' sale, and he developed an operation to get closer to the city industrial council: asked for a meeting, and by Monday he ordered Stryapkov to find a gift. However, an incident occurred: the crown from the gold watch of Evlampius Kokin, a master of the sausage shop, was found in the sausage. Kokin, who had long been tormented by fear, without consulting with the leadership, came to the police himself.
A Hard Day's Monday
1964
7.0Based on Maxim Gorky's early autobiographical short stories "One Day in Autumn", "Konovalov", "Twenty Six and One", "My Companion", "The Conclusion", "On the Salt", "Woman".
Across Rus'
1968
6.0A famous country lover finally decides to get married and sends matchmakers to the bride, but gets turned off “at the gates“.
Зареченские женихи
1967


