
Acting
Zhanna Prokhorenko
Born — Died
1940-05-11 — 2011-08-01
Place of birth
Poltava, USSR (Ukraine)
Known for
Acting
Credits
50 titles
Zhanna Prokhorenko (11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Soviet actress, best known for her role in Grigory Chukhray's film Ballad of a Soldier. She was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. She was also a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour and of the Medal "For Labour Valour".
Known for
8.0During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Ballad of a Soldier
1959
6.3A Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika.
Entrance to the Maze
1990
6.7Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Attack and Retreat
1964
7.1The film is set in the 1970s Leningrad, Russia. Fugitive Brunov is a dangerous criminal, who escaped from jail. He is after the treasure that was hidden by him years ago at his former country-house. He is having plastic surgery to hide his identity, while preparing for his next crime. He is trying to kill another man, who is also after the same treasure. Investigators Zarubin, Kromkin and Lebedeva are untangling the case.
Golden Mine
1977
6.9The struggle of Soviet and American intelligence agencies during the Cold War era
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
1984
7.1A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
The Red Snowball Tree
1974
Film credits
1990s · 4 titles
5.7An interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet. Despite the fact that creatures from various Earth time periods inhabit the world, the natives possess metal swords, even though they should have no knowledge of such weaponry.
The Witches Cave
1990
4.7The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika.
Entrance to Labyrinth
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
No Foreign Land
1990
NROleg and Vera wanted to start their lives beautifully. To do this, they chose their own path: Oleg's fictitious marriage for the sake of registration, Vera's necessary, albeit dubious, acquaintances. It seemed to them that this should lead them to success...
Fictitious Marriage
1992
1980s · 9 titles
7.7A story about a two schoolboys who are having a lot of fun and adventures during vacations time.
Lyalka-Ruslan and His Friend Sanka
1980
6.7While investigating a murder KGB detectives discover a criminal group which transfers a stolen artworks abroad .
Charlotte Necklace
1984
3.01945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls. The last days of the war are coming... In one of the battles, Lieutenant Volynin’s attack aircraft, damaged by a shell fragment, landed in territory occupied by the Germans. Air gunner Shchepov carried the wounded commander out of the burning plane. With the help of the Polish teacher Anna, they managed to get to theirs. And everyday life at the front began again. A few days before the Victory, Dima Shchepov died. Volynin took the death of his friend seriously. But it was even harder for him to learn about the death of Anna, whom he loved and whom he promised to find after the war...
You Should Survive
1981
5.7Moscow militia detectives are investigating a death of a young girl whose body was found in the construction site.
Loop
1984
NRTurkestan, 1919. The prominent Bolshevik Valerian Kuybyshev is appointed commander of the Turkestan Front. The film tells the story of the establishment of Soviet power in Central Asia.
Authorized by the Revolution
1987
8.0An oil tanker flying the Liberian flag is sunk in the open ocean as a result of a collision with a Soviet dry cargo ship. The company sues the Black Sea Shipping Company and insists on a trial in New York. American lawyer Eugene Bogart and Soviet expert Ekaterina Kravchenko manage to find out that the steamship company, which owned the tanker, on the eve of bankruptcy. But it is not only that...
Two Versions of the Same Collision
1985
7.0The film depicts the adventurous life of the civil war hero Vasil Kikvidze.
Stray Bullet
1980
7.0The happy days of the first love of eighth graders dimmed when they learned that Nadina's mother and Serezha's recently widowed father were going to live together. The youthful maximalism of adolescents hurts parents.
We Lived Next Door
1982
9.0The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from Soviet Information Bureau, compiled maps showing the strategic objects of the enemy, and supplied the partisans with medicines. On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground members died from enemy bullets — they were shot on the outskirts of the city.
They Were Actors
1981
1970s · 17 titles
7.1The film is set in the 1970s Leningrad, Russia. Fugitive Brunov is a dangerous criminal, who escaped from jail. He is after the treasure that was hidden by him years ago at his former country-house. He is having plastic surgery to hide his identity, while preparing for his next crime. He is trying to kill another man, who is also after the same treasure. Investigators Zarubin, Kromkin and Lebedeva are untangling the case.
Golden Mine
1977
7.1A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.
The Red Snowball Tree
1974
4.2The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.
Sokolovo
1975
7.0A lyric comedy about eight-graders, their life and first love...
Point, Point, Comma...
1972
7.0A lyric comedy about eight-graders, their life and first love...
Point, Point, Comma...
1972
8.5Sergei Bukreyev arrives with a team of meliorators in another village and immediately draws attention to the director of the farm Anna Talnikova. Her dedication to work scares Sergei, he even wants to persuade her to leave the farm, but understands that Anna will never be happy without her work, and he – without it.
Close Afar
1979
8.0Korney Korneevich Polunin is a career military officer, a retired colonel. His wife died when his son was one and a half years old, Alexey had already grown up, became independent, and they rarely see each other. Unable to stay at home, Polunin goes to the factory as a locksmith - in his old specialty. Friends perceive this as an oddity, and they look at him warily at work. But a group of teenagers comes to the plant's personnel department, and Polunin undertakes to lead this team, instilling in it respect for work and awareness of his need to achieve the final result of work.
The Retired Colonel
1977
7.5Soviet power was only established on the Don, and a conflict broke out in the first commune: the wife of the commune’s leader Arseniy Klyukvin, having believed the promises of the white officer, fell in love and went to live with him with the child. She doesn't want to hide her feelings, but unable to withstand the bestial attitude of a white officer, she returns back to the Bolshevik.
Deadly Enemy
1971
7.0The main character of the film is an ordinary chauffeur Pavel, whose life is not very successful, despite the fact that he is a very kind and fair person. Finally, fate smiles at Pavel, he meets true love, but more and more tests fall to his lot, as if testing a simple guy for strength.
If You Are a Man
1972
10.0This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. The events in it are developing in 20 years during the Civil war, when he sent a geologist searching for copper in the coal mines of the merchant Stasova, and in the 70s, when the head of the Institute. His thoughts and actions as if he reconciles his past, revolutionary romanticism 20-h his life's work was the discovery of a new chemical element. He believes in getting it even when the explosion in the laboratory takes the life of his closest friend and colleague, when his grown-up adopted son, becoming also a chemist, suffered during the experiments. Believe when testing on military ground again fail…
Discovery
1973
NRInspector Sergey Baev arrives at a fishing collective farm for a new job and begins to fight poaching. This does not please both poachers and the head of the artel Fetisov. Having failed to reach a compromise solution, Fetisov sends the Ermakov brothers to "deal" with the new inspector. But the intervention of the police stops the fight, and the criminals receive the punishment they deserve.
In a New Place
1979
9.0Boxer Mikhail Marchenko quarrels with the guys from his brigade. And tomorrow they were going to set another record for coal production. The brigadier decides to replace Marchenko with Nikolai Mironov, who returned from prison and caused an accident at the mine five years ago. However, the brigade is against this decision.
Anthracite
1972
8.0On the day of a brilliant dissertation defense, a young scientist unexpectedly dies. Investigation of the facts indicates an accident. However, the discrepancy in the testimonies of colleagues leads the investigator to think about the uncleanness of the hero, who simply used the unpublished results of other people's work.
Fear of the Height
1976
7.4The love story of Fedor, the village chauffeur and Mari, a local school teacher.
Newcomer
1977
9.0Story about one of the leaders of the partisan movement Nestor Kalandarishvili during Russian Civil War in Siberia.
Siberian Grandfather
1974
7.5Peter married and was immediately appointed captain of the ship. In his first flight, the hero went with his wife — really wanted to introduce her to her mother. But mother offended on him…
Door Without Lock
1973
7.0The film tells about the events of one day, lived by the collective farm foreman Fyodor Rozhnov. This day turned out to be filled to the limit with work, worries, joys, sorrows, difficult relationships with people and memories of the war years.
From Dawn Till Sunset
1976
1960s · 15 titles
6.7Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Attack and Retreat
1964
4.3In German-occupied Crimea during WWII, a group of Russian soldiers employ unusual tactics to steal classified documents from their enemies.
One Chance in One Thousand
1969
5.4High school students Ksenya and Boris are in love but all the world is against them.
But What If This Is Love?
1961
5.7An important event is taking place in a small provincial town, an elderly rich prince arrives. The local "lioness" Maria Alexandrovna Moskaleva decides to marry him to her daughter Zinochka. But the "noble" Mordassov society is by no means inclined to voluntarily give up its positions: after all, in the head of every mother who has a marriageable daughter, the dream is to get a rich man as a son-in-law.
Uncle's Dream
1967
7.1Two strangers meet in an ambulance train during WWII.
Mercy Train
1965
6.8Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even a king — rich and domineering. In reality, poor Balzaminov is haunted by setbacks.
The Marriage of Balzaminov
1964
4.5Sergei Krylov and Oleg Tulin, are promising young physicists in the field of thunderstorms. They dream of weather control. But later their ways in science parted - Oleg is ready to tradeoff his standpoints for personal success, but Sergei knows that the truth is more critical.
Going Inside a Storm
1965
9.5About the first Komsomol members.
Twenty Years Later
1966
NRAbout four patients in the same hospital room, about different personalities, different worldviews...
Ward
1965
7.5Spring, 1944. The Great Patriotic war. The German fascists are still in Sevastopol. A fierce combat is taking place there. At the same time in Yalta, which has already been freed, life goes on peacefully. People believe that the war has left them, that it is far away and no longer dangerous… But the torpedo motor-boat squadron stationed in Yalta is still having a hard time. Every day Soviet marines undertake dangerous sorties towards the German-occupied Sevastopol.
Farewell
1966
NRThese days, the streets of Vienna were especially noisy, cheerful, and festive. Young people from different countries came here to hold their traditional festival. New acquaintances, unexpected meetings, heated arguments... There was a heated discussion in the club. Peter, the envoy from Germany, expressed his point of view. The audience was indignant, the audience was indignant. But Peter saw only the Soviet girl Katya, he listened only to her words, angry, resolute, condemning his position.
The Vienna Forest
1963
6.8The youth construction team celebrated Anatoly and Varya's wedding with fun. Without giving importance to the first quarrel, Varya, however, once admitted to herself that she did not understand Anatoly's aspirations for a cozy furnished life. She tried painfully to understand her husband, who was jealous not only of her work, but also of her friend Kostya. When the spats became more frequent, Varya took little Vasilk with her and traveled to the Urals together with the installers.
An Unrealistic Story
1964
7.0The first post-war years. Serafim Frolov visits a girl he knows by correspondence. But she still remembers and loves her fiance, who died at the front. Serafim does everything to win her love...
Love of Serafim Frolov
1969
8.0No synopsis available yet.
First Snow
1965
6.5The modest shop assistant in a grocery shop Nastya dreamed about happiness. She dreamed about miracle, which would have made her beautiful. She dreamed all day and all night. And one day the miracle happened ...
The Incident Which Nobody Noticed
1967
Series credits
6.3A Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika.
Entrance to the Maze
1990
6.9The struggle of Soviet and American intelligence agencies during the Cold War era
TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
1984
NRAn unexpected tragedy befalls ballerina Ekaterina Orlova: her husband is shot in the head before her very eyes.
A Place in the Sun
2004
6.0The body of a young woman is found in a construction quarry. The deceased is Vera Topilina, secretary to the head of the Main Directorate, Menshutina. Moscow Criminal Investigation Department inspectors Vasilyev and Losev investigate the causes of the woman's death. Ultimately, the investigation leads the operatives to major players in the shadow economy.
Loop
1984
