Elena Safonova

Acting

Elena Safonova

Born

1956-06-14 (70)

Place of birth

Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

86 titles

Known for

Father Matteo poster
6.3

Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.

Father Matteo

2000

To Remember poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

To Remember

1993

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson poster
7.8

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm for the Soviet Central Television, split into eleven episodes, starring Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson. They were directed by Igor Maslennikov and filmed in Russia (the then Soviet Union) between 1979 and 1986, and the series was one of the most successful in the history of Russian television.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

1980

Empire is Under Attack poster
7.1

In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.

Empire is Under Attack

2000

Zhurov poster
1.0

Ivan Ivanovich Zhurov — unlucky, but very experienced detective. He travels everywhere on his old "Pobeda", one brings up a daughter, loves to drink and has very troubled amur relations with his colleague. All this does not prevent him from masterfully disclosing the most complex and tangled loud criminal cases, for which, besides him, no one more risks to take.

Zhurov

2009

Memories of Sherlock Holmes poster
7.1

Detective television series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Five films about Sherlock Holmes, shot by Igor Maslennikov earlier, were remounted in 2000, a connecting story about Conan Doyle's literary secretary, Mr. Wood, who is preparing an anniversary collection of stories about Holmes for the beginning of the coming XX century. Sir Arthur receives huge mail every day, addressed not to him, but to Sherlock Holmes. And then one day a letter arrives with a plea for help, and Doyle begins an investigation...

Memories of Sherlock Holmes

2000

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2000s · 7 titles

Tycoon's Interpreter poster
7.4

Ira is Russian. Ivan Tashkov, too. She is 23 years old, lives in Geneva with her mother and knows very little about her homeland. Tashkov is a supposed gangster of the Russian mafia, and is in jail waiting to be judged. Ira, who is searching for her roots and her own path in life, happens to be the interpreter of Tashkov's defense lawyer, and gets instantly captivated by of this powerful, cultured and manipulative man.

Tycoon's Interpreter

2006

A Hare over the Abyss poster
6.7

Once upon a time, in the seventy-first year of the last century, the relived two bureaucrats in Moldova: the First Secretary and the Second Secretary of the Communist party. The Second Secretary was more important than the First Secretary, since he had befriended the Tsar of the whole Soviet Union - Leonid Brezhnev. The Moldovan Republic is preparing for a visit from the great Brezhnev when Lautar, a poor musician, finally gets up the nerve to ask the local gypsy Baron for his daughters hand in marriage. To everyone surprise, the baron gives the couple his blessing, but on one condition: that Lautar acquire Brezhnev's personal limousine as a gift for the bride, and that Brezhnev come to the wedding

A Hare over the Abyss

2006

The Sky Is Falling poster
5.4

1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about 10. An orphan, she must watch over her little sister when they go to live with her aunt and uncle. Penny's a Catholic, and worries about her uncle's soul. He's Jewish, progressive and a free thinker, a fair boss, and devoted to his family. He can be stern, so Penny also worries that she'll never please him and that he won't love her. Then, after the Allied forces land in Sicily and the Germans begin their retreat, Penny must worry about her uncle's life. She tries logic and appeals to human decency. Can a child keep the sky from falling?

The Sky Is Falling

2000

Your Will Not Leave Me poster
2.3

The film takes place in 1951 in a large provincial city. The young wife returns from the resort, and after her comes the “spa card” from the man with whom she somehow walked along the shore, listening to the surf under the starry night sky. A husband receives a postcard ... He does not arrange a scene of jealousy and, experiencing pain inside himself, decides to write him an answer on behalf of Vera.

Your Will Not Leave Me

2006

Мой осенний блюз poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Мой осенний блюз

2008

Не привыкайте к чудесам… poster
NR

Full of irony melodrama about a long history of love, which received an unexpected continuation after many years. About her hero, trying to guess his future and, to his own surprise, sometimes guessing it.

Не привыкайте к чудесам…

2003

Crawfishlike poster
4.3

Michal Michalych who almost felt like "had it all" suddenly meets a young girl who never ate "crawfishlike"...

Crawfishlike

2009

1990s · 15 titles

Taxi Blues poster
6.2

Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi stiffs Ivan for the fare, so Ivan tracks him down and a love-hate relationship ensues. When Alexi lets the bath water run over in Ivan's flat and Ivan must pay 500 rubles for repairs, he tries to force Alexi into day labor to repay him. It's hopeless. Then, suddenly, Alexi is discovered, goes on a jazz tour of America, becomes a celebrity, and returns in triumph. Ivan longs to renew the friendship, and it looks as if he may get what he wants.

Taxi Blues

1990

The Telegraph Route poster
6.0

This French film chronicles the amazing-but-true story of Lisa Alling who in 1928 successfully walked from New York City to Siberia via the Bering Straight by following telegraph poles. It was shot entirely in the Ukraine. Lisa, a chambermaid, has had enough of American life and wants go home to Siberia. Because she had no money, she decided it was better to walk than stay in the U.S. any longer. An opportunist, she takes whatever food, warmth and even romance that is offered along the way.

The Telegraph Route

1994

The Princess and the Beans poster
5.1

A wealthy businessman tries to change his not so good sounding last name by marrying the heir of aristocratic family.

The Princess and the Beans

1997

East Wind poster
5.2

The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.

East Wind

1993

Winter Cherry 3 poster
4.6

The main character, whose life seemed to have lost all meaning, suddenly receives an inheritance abroad. This leads to the most unexpected consequences, the most important of which is a new, this time happy, meeting with your beloved.

Winter Cherry 3

1995

Alissa poster
5.9

The son of an editor discovers that one of his father's writers is a former criminal from the Eastern bloc.

Alissa

1998

Butterflies poster
7.7

In an abandoned apartment there are former spouses. Barricaded, the husband, thus, trying to escape from the criminals who hunt for compromising photos. But the ex-wife is there not by chance — she is the mistress of one of the kidnappers. But with an unusual date, the former feelings take over, the lovers decide to deceive the bandits and go on the run.

Butterflies

1991

The Admirer poster
5.7

Parents of thirteen years old Lena just got divorced. Lena wants to prove that they live nicely even with her mother alone and that she is independent. The girl goes to work at post office utilizing there her resourcefulness and charm. At work everyone talks about a serial killer who keeps the entire region in terror. One night a stranger defends Lena from some hooligans and as Lena thinks, he continues assisting her incognito. The girl is ready to believe and convince others that her protector is that horrible maniac. At first, these relationships with her odd admirer seem as a gamble for Lena, but then she gets convinced that this game became deadly dangerous...

The Admirer

1999

Woman's Own poster
5.0

A student is trying to build a career in theater using not his talent but looks and sexuality.

Woman's Own

1999

Philipp Traum poster
5.1

A story based on "The Mysterious Stranger" novel by Mark Twain.

Philipp Traum

1990

Winter Cherries 2 poster
4.5

Olga, married to a reach American businessman, returns to Russia after six years.

Winter Cherries 2

1990

The Accompanist poster
7.3

In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, taking on the role of maid as well as accompanist, living life vicariously through Irene's triumphs and affairs.

The Accompanist

1992

Music for December poster
5.0

This beautifully photographed Russian drama set in St. Petersburg centers on Alexander Larin, a Russian native who has spent the last six years living in the US. He went there to escape a relationship before it developed into an unhealthy love triangle between himself, his fiancee Anna, and her lovely daughter Masha. Now a successful businessman, Alexander has returned to bring Masha back with him. Unfortunately, she is already engaged to Mitia, a photographer. Anna, also does not approve of Macha going with Alexander.

Music for December

1995

The President and His Woman poster
8.0

A future president must have no secrets from the voters — not even in his personal life. Intimate details can become powerful weapons in the hands of political opponents. And so, the presidential candidate is forced to publicly introduce his first wife — a woman he once loved passionately… and then betrayed.

The President and His Woman

1996

Mademoiselle O poster
10.0

About a young boy growing up to become a great artist. Set basically in St. Petersburg and a country dacha in Vyra during the aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution.

Mademoiselle O

1994

1980s · 20 titles

Dark Eyes poster
6.7

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

Dark Eyes

1987

Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century poster
7.1

This film version was released before the premiere of the full two-part television version (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches). In this version the entire plot of the story Bruce-Partington Drawings was deleted.

Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century

1987

When They Become Adults poster
NR

Volodya Kuznetsov, a factory worker, entered the institute. Hoping to have more free time to study, he went to work as a master-mentor in a vocational school. Soon Volodya realizes how responsible and interesting his work is. He can no longer think of himself without his students.

When They Become Adults

1985

The Gambler poster
5.6

The story of a player who entered the environment of professional gamblers in the hope of breaking a big jackpot.

The Gambler

1989

The Confrontation poster
NR

In the apartment of Anna, who, judging by her testimony to the investigation, was on a business trip, a fire broke out at night. The son was saved, but as a result of a nervous shock he was speechless. The investigation, the mother and father of the child will find out the true cause of the tragedy.

The Confrontation

1986

Assuage My Sorrows poster
5.0

After his marriage with Lyuba breaks down, Boris begins to search for an apartment of his own. He locates an apartment for couples which is being inhabited by a lone old lady who is supposed to move in with her sister. The old lady doesn't want to go, and tries to stave off the inevitable by taking in a young woman Elya as a flat-mate.

Assuage My Sorrows

1989

The Spy poster
3.8

1916: on the verge of being evicted from his apartment, unable to find a job, with a desperate wife and a sick child, a man wrestles with his conscience about whether to turn police informer for money.

The Spy

1987

A Stranger's Call poster
8.0

Natalia Kuznetsova, a young, outwardly prosperous and successful woman artist, lives in the centre of Moscow. A plumber comes to fix a clogged sink in her bathroom, who turns out to be a man from her distant past... The meeting evokes memories of her first love: in her youth she was friends with Igor Turbin, who was from a large family, and although he had abilities and talent, he did not go to university, but went to work for the sake of his two younger brothers. She married Makarkin, a carefree and successful classmate. She, the daughter of the creative intelligentsia, was self-assured a place in the art academy and a secure career and future, and the husband should have been appropriate. But happiness did not turn out. Years later she realised that she had betrayed her love and married a complete stranger....

A Stranger's Call

1985

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1 poster
6.8

The final film of the television series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson." It is based on the late and little-known stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, united by the theme of the approaching world war and the struggle of the legendary detective with foreign spies.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1

1988

Where Is Enohp Located? poster
5.9

An unmarried shy 40-year-old can’t find the courage to ask a woman on a date, so his womanizer friend, who promised to his friend’s parents he’d find him a girlfriend, sets out to find the perfect match.

Where Is Enohp Located?

1987

Lucky Man poster
8.0

23-year-old Vanya Nechkin was a great driver, and a car mechanic from God. He loved life, and women, provided vigorous joke and elegant conversation. He could pretend to be an Italian tenor and a traffic inspector, understood human weaknesses and forgave a lot. But if he saw injustice, he was ready to tear the bastard’s throat out. He came up with a risky trade for himself: he destroyed cars.

Lucky Man

1988

Two Under One Umbrella poster
6.0

‎Juggler Dan is beautiful and carefree and not too eager to become the circus main star. However, the meeting with Olga, who has no doubts about his talent, makes Dan think about a creation of anew circus show.

Two Under One Umbrella

1983

The Return of Butterfly poster
NR

Dedicated to the life and work of the Ukrainian singer Solomiya Krushelnytska (1873-1952), the owner of a voice of extraordinary beauty and strength. In 1893-1939 she performed in opera theaters in Europe and America, in 1939 she returned to her homeland. The film is based on the real facts of the singer's life and is constructed as her memoirs.

The Return of Butterfly

1983

Thanks to All! poster
7.0

Young mathematician Dmitry hard going through the care of his wife. Having accidentally got to the shooting of the film, the hero suddenly begins to realize that the plot is based on the memories of his ex-wife.

Thanks to All!

1981

Clinic poster
NR

"Era Consultant": The former driver of the Council of People's Commissars was invited to shoot a film about the 30s. Regarding his chauffeur career had began precisely at that time, he agreed, although he perfectly understood that he was invited because of the old Emka, which he still drives and which is unlikely to be driven by anyone else. "Owner": Tractor driver, who is keenly concerned about the collective farm business, drives around the fields at night, loads rotting straw into a trailer and takes it to an abandoned public young farm. "Clinic": Fearing for the patient’s life, surgeon offers his services to a protégé of the hospital head, who is preparing to defend her dissertation. But the patient dies...

Clinic

1987

The Voice poster
4.8

An actress needs to dub her voice after the production of her movie has wrapped. At the same time, she is facing a life crisis that alters her plans: just released from the hospital, she realizes that her illness is more than she can emotionally handle. Overwhelmed, she has to look at the simple task of dubbing from a completely new perspective.

The Voice

1982

Sofia Kovalevskaya poster
5.5

A film about the remarkable life of Russian mathematician Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), the first woman to become a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Sofia Kovalevskaya's life was full of complex and dramatic twists and turns. These included a fictitious marriage that allowed her to obtain a higher education abroad; a period when she and her husband embarked on a commercial venture; and, finally, her breakup with him. The film's drama is built on the fact that Sofia Kovalevskaya's grown-up daughter, Fufa, several years after her mother's death, tries to understand who she was not only as a mathematician and public figure, but also simply as a person.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

1986

Extension of the Family poster
8.0

Not far from the military airfield there is a looted and dilapidated ancient monastery. A group of local enthusiasts and metropolitan restorers are trying to restore the destroyed monastery by all means...

Extension of the Family

1989

Chosen by Fate poster
NR

One day Napoleon falls in love with a charming lady, who turns out to be a clever adventuress and easily deceives the great man.

Chosen by Fate

1987

Winter Cherries poster
5.1

Olga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family.

Winter Cherries

1985

1970s · 3 titles

Series credits

Father Matteo poster
6.3

Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.

Father Matteo

2000

To Remember poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

To Remember

1993

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson poster
7.8

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm for the Soviet Central Television, split into eleven episodes, starring Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson. They were directed by Igor Maslennikov and filmed in Russia (the then Soviet Union) between 1979 and 1986, and the series was one of the most successful in the history of Russian television.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

1980

Empire is Under Attack poster
7.1

In this TV-series the events of the beginning of the 20th century in Russia are highlighted. Revolutioners, terrorists, spies - and investigator Putilovskii and his team fight them as best they can.

Empire is Under Attack

2000

Zhurov poster
1.0

Ivan Ivanovich Zhurov — unlucky, but very experienced detective. He travels everywhere on his old "Pobeda", one brings up a daughter, loves to drink and has very troubled amur relations with his colleague. All this does not prevent him from masterfully disclosing the most complex and tangled loud criminal cases, for which, besides him, no one more risks to take.

Zhurov

2009

Zhurov poster
1.0

Ivan Ivanovich Zhurov — unlucky, but very experienced detective. He travels everywhere on his old "Pobeda", one brings up a daughter, loves to drink and has very troubled amur relations with his colleague. All this does not prevent him from masterfully disclosing the most complex and tangled loud criminal cases, for which, besides him, no one more risks to take.

Zhurov

2009

Memories of Sherlock Holmes poster
7.1

Detective television series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Five films about Sherlock Holmes, shot by Igor Maslennikov earlier, were remounted in 2000, a connecting story about Conan Doyle's literary secretary, Mr. Wood, who is preparing an anniversary collection of stories about Holmes for the beginning of the coming XX century. Sir Arthur receives huge mail every day, addressed not to him, but to Sherlock Holmes. And then one day a letter arrives with a plea for help, and Doyle begins an investigation...

Memories of Sherlock Holmes

2000

Dinosaur poster
9.5

The elderly criminal authority Semyon Timofeevich Babushkin, about whose thieving talent legends were made up at the time, has not left prison for the last 35 years, preferring it to freedom, where he has no friends or relatives left.

Dinosaur

2018

Black Room poster
6.2

The black room. Enclosed space. The action unfolds as if slowly. You understand that every word, every gesture of the heroes have a special, secret, as yet absolutely incomprehensible meaning. But you feel: you can't miss a single nuance. There are two or three heroes in each novel. There is a real drama between them, which ends with an explosion. Sometimes figuratively, and sometimes literally. Time is continuous: there is no yesterday and tomorrow.

Black Room

2000

Doctor's Diary poster
9.0

Being slim and married to a great love, preferably before 30 - that's what Sasha Zaitseva dreamed about when she was 13. Sixteen years later, in her wedding dress, she stands on the bridge, crying and can’t decide what to do next.

Doctor's Diary

2012

Arbat Secrets poster
NR

April 1959. Tanya Meshcherskaya, who grew up in an orphanage, goes to Moscow to her father, academician Viktor Ryabinsky. She has a letter with her and an antique brooch left over from her mother, which is being stolen. Vikenty is happy to find a daughter, as he loved her mother, but his wife takes Tanya with hostility. She tries to find out the details from Vikenty's sister, but she doubts that Vikenty is Tanya's father.

Arbat Secrets

2025

Lawyers poster
7.0

Lyudmila is the firm's best lawyer and the worst mentor in the world. Therefore, when Artyom, an ambitious newcomer, becomes her assistant, both have a hard time. Together they unravel a variety of cases, choosing every day between conscience and a stable fee.

Lawyers

2026

Strings poster
3.6

The story of four Gnessin Academy students. Young and talented cellists have a new teacher who makes demands on them on a completely different level. A randomly filmed video of the four of them playing goes viral, and they form a quartet. Torn between their popularity and preparation for an international competition, the characters grow up, encountering the temptations of youth along the way.

Strings

2021

Куба poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Куба

2017

The Heritage poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Heritage

2008

Opekun poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Opekun

2016

Королева бандитов poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Королева бандитов

2013

News poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

News

2011

Where Does the Motherland Begin? poster
4.0

The end of the 1980s. The decline of the Soviet era. The wind of change swept away everyone and everything in its path. Taking advantage of the instability of the situation in the Soviet state, the CIA announced an award to anyone who reveals the names of current residents of the USSR in Western countries. The traitor was promised a million dollars and political asylum abroad. The First and Second departments of the KGB (intelligence and counterintelligence) were seriously concerned that there might be many who wanted to get this money. The KGB decided to slip the Americans a fake traitor to the Motherland, choosing an impeccable candidate among their own employees. Operation Phantom has begun…

Where Does the Motherland Begin?

2014

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins poster
7.8

The fifth and final part of the cycle of Soviet television feature films, filmed by director Igor Maslennikov based on the stories of the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. In the first part based on the works - "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Second Stain". In the second part based on the works - "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", and "His Last Bow".

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins

1988

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins poster
7.8

The fifth and final part of the cycle of Soviet television feature films, filmed by director Igor Maslennikov based on the stories of the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. In the first part based on the works - "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Second Stain". In the second part based on the works - "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", and "His Last Bow".

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins

1988

Пан или пропал (режиссерская версия) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Пан или пропал (режиссерская версия)

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Смерть в объективе poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Смерть в объективе

2020

Принцесса и нищий poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Принцесса и нищий

2005

А счастье где-то рядом poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

А счастье где-то рядом

—

Пан или пропал poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Пан или пропал

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

In a Tango Rhythm

2006

Старушки в бегах poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Старушки в бегах

2016

Molody i schastlivy poster
5.0

The talented and enterprising Anna Novobrantseva came from Pskov to conquer Moscow quite by accident: scammers posing as producers of popular TV projects and collecting money from gullible provincials gave her, as the winner of a non-existent contest called "You Are a Star," a fake Moscow address and, along with it, the hope of becoming a singer. However, His Majesty Chance did bring her into contact with the capital's show business.

Molody i schastlivy

2005

Разбитые сердца poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Разбитые сердца

2016

Великий и могучий poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Великий и могучий

2025

Winter Cherries poster
NR

Olga, a single mother in love with her married colleague Vadim, marries Herbert for a business trip abroad. Five years later, she returns to Leningrad with her family and reunites with Vadim, who realizes he still loves her. Both leave their spouses, but Olga struggles in America. Vadim inherits a fortune and a castle in Belgium, where he writes to Olga. She's thinking of returning to him.

Winter Cherries

1995