Mariya Kapnist

Acting

Mariya Kapnist

Born — Died

1914-03-22 — 1993-10-25

Place of birth

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 8 titles

1980s · 18 titles

Fantastic Story poster
6.0

An old puppet maker tells his little friend the story of his first love.

Fantastic Story

1988

Gypsy poster
6.0

A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life and the difficult love to Russian woman.

Gypsy

1980

Smiles of Nechiporovka poster
NR

A long time ago, in a certain village, a tired traveler was resting. His name was Nechipor. And then Nechipor saw in a dream how the girls gave him a box. And along the box there was a treble clef. He became the symbol of Nechiporovka. And the village was named in honor of its creator - Nechiporovka...

Smiles of Nechiporovka

1982

The Husband of Young Woman poster
10.0

The film is about man falling in love with young girl and his wish to be young too.

The Husband of Young Woman

1988

‎Two on the Island of Tears‎ poster
9.0

A love story which happened in the small village during a visit of two rich city boys.

‎Two on the Island of Tears‎

1986

The Story of One Billiard-Room poster
8.0

The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.

The Story of One Billiard-Room

1988

The Comic Lover, or The Amorous Adventures of Sir John Falstaff poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Comic Lover, or The Amorous Adventures of Sir John Falstaff

1984

The fairy-tale world of Aleksandr Ptushko poster
7.0

The wizard Finn sends Masha and Vanya on a journey through the fairy tale films of Aleksandr Ptushko, many dangers await them there.

The fairy-tale world of Aleksandr Ptushko

1988

Ivanko and Tsar Poganin poster
NR

A story about the boy Ivanko forced on an adventure to rescue his mother and all the villagers held captive by the evil King, who on his side has a wicked witch.

Ivanko and Tsar Poganin

1984

No artwork available
10.0

Comedy based on S. Altov's feuilleton. Instead of a bribe, the official received a newspaper in the envelope... And it saved everyone.

Chance

1988

Farewell, Punks of Zamoskvorechye... poster
NR

Moscow outskirts, spring 1956. In memory and soul of the sixteen-year-old hero of the movie, the son of the political prisoner, this time will remain forever. He meets and loses his first love, encounters with blunt brutality of the criminal world, to bid farewell to childhood, to regain his father...

Farewell, Punks of Zamoskvorechye...

1987

Full Moon. Nocturne poster
NR

Étude, a free interpretation of motives from the phantasmagorical prose of Valerii Shevchuk.

Full Moon. Nocturne

1986

Premiere in Sosnivka poster
NR

Institute of Culture graduate, a young film director Konstantin Sirotkin, arrives in the village Sosnovka and in the local country club he is trying to put the Schiller's drama "Intrigue and Love". This young director’s work has identified villagers’ talents, their genuine love for the arts and discovered their spiritual beauty.

Premiere in Sosnivka

1986

Andrey and Evil Wizard poster
8.0

Young guy Andrey tries to save the daughter of Sun from the evil wizard.

Andrey and Evil Wizard

1981

The Circus Boy poster
7.5

This story is about the events of the beginning of the century, the circus, in which the favorite of the troupe Alesha grew up. After the mother - acrobat Maria-Louise died, his childhood was over. Revolutionary events influenced the fate of a small circus - and the boy was left alone. But when in his life appeared Bolshevik Stepan Ratushny, Alyosha again began to perform in the circus.

The Circus Boy

1980

Overcoming poster
NR

Ukraine, 1919. Bolshevik counter-intelligence agents work to stop an uprising by White Russian nationalist-monarchist counterrevolutionaries. A young countess finds herself caught between her family and class allegiance and burgeoning Communist sympathies inflamed by a chance meeting with a handsome young Ukrainian chekist.

Overcoming

1984

Chance poster
5.4

In 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

Glade of Fairy Tales poster
6.0

By chance, Kuzma Lichikov, a resident of the fairy-tale town of Veliky Guslar, found himself in a cave where a sleeping princess lay. She awoke from Kuzma's kiss and fell in love with the hero. Love awakened Lichikov's talent as a woodcarver, and he decorated the forest glade where he settled with the princess in a hut with amusing figures. Batyev, the "head of city culture," took an interest in his work. Deciding to use the craftsman and his fairy-tale glade for mass events, he promised to give Lichikov and the princess a separate apartment in return. Lichikov, having received the position, quickly became bureaucratic, and in a fit of official zeal, he did not notice how love disappeared from his life...

Glade of Fairy Tales

1988

1970s · 9 titles

Ruslan and Ludmila poster
6.6

In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, daughter of Prince Vladimir, the girl is kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Chernomor and the witch Naina. Three of her past suitors set out, as does Ruslan, to rescue Ludmila.

Ruslan and Ludmila

1972

Savage Hunt of King Stakh poster
5.6

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends…

Savage Hunt of King Stakh

1979

The Lost Letter poster
7.8

Folk comedy that tells the adventures of Ukrainian cossacks Vasyl and Andriy as they set out on a long journey to deliver a letter from their leader to the Russian empress in St. Petersburg.

The Lost Letter

1972

Olesya poster
5.7

A young man from the city falls in love with a girl from the country side. She is not accepted by the village community: people think she is a witch.

Olesya

1971

Soft-Boiled Boots poster
4.0

The film is based on the stories Anton Chekhov. It is a tribute to the actor Boris Andreyev. He plays a major role that keeps up for the duration of the film. Lively and intelligent Valery Spout largely mitigates underline the drama of the protagonist, while Michael Sveta's role, though small, is bright and memorable.

Soft-Boiled Boots

1978

Love at First Sight poster
5.8

Murad Rasulov, a simple 16-year-old Azerbaijani, raised in Tbilisi, and a passionate fan of football, falls in love for the first time in his life with Anya, a Belarusian girl who is studying at the same institute in Baku, two years older than him. The difference in age and the conflict of cultures becomes an obstacle in the way of a young man whom no one helps, in a hopeless, desperate struggle for love.

Love at First Sight

1975

The Bronze Bird poster
6.4

Three friends in a summer camp are looking for a treasure hidden in a old mansion.

The Bronze Bird

1975

Soldiers poster
NR

Three women who were evacuated during the war are returning to their homeland, carrying with them a heavy chest with spare parts for tractors.

Soldiers

1978

Fear of Misery - No Happiness poster
6.0

A musical based on Russian folklore and fairytales.

Fear of Misery - No Happiness

1973

1960s · 8 titles

War and Peace poster
7.6

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

War and Peace

1968

Sons Go Into Battle poster
3.0

The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Tolya and Aleksey, the sons of Anna Korzun, became partisans and fought against the invaders in the BSSR.

Sons Go Into Battle

1969

We, Two Men poster
9.0

The village teacher asks the driver Gorlov to take her son, a first-grader, to the city and buy him a school suit. Reluctantly yielding to the woman, the driver will make friends with the boy during the trip. He will change the attitude not only towards this boy, but also towards people in general...

We, Two Men

1962

Lushka poster
NR

The taxi driver Lushka falls in love and, for the sake of that love, is ready to change her life just to be close to the man she loves. It turns out that her chosen one is a criminal. Yet she does not rush to lose hope. Now she understands that, for the sake of love, she must change another person – and she's going for it.

Lushka

1964

Tavria poster
2.0

1914, Imperial Russia. A group of Ukrainian peasants searching for a better life in the Taurida steppe end up working at the landholding of the aristocratic Falz-Fein family. Friends Vustya and Hanna are courted by a revolutionary and the landowner's son, both rising their hopes and dreams.

Tavria

1960

Dmitro Goritsvit poster
7.0

Based on the novel by Mikhail Stelmakh “A Big Family”. The second film of the trilogy (“Human Blood is Not a Water”, “Dmitro Goritsvit”, “People Don’t Know Everything”) tells about one of the first collective farms of Ukraine, the fight against the kulaks and the love of the communist Dmitro Goritsvit for Marta, the Petliurist's daughter, who guilty of the death of Dmitro's father.

Dmitro Goritsvit

1962

Far from the Motherland poster
5.8

Soviet intelligence officer, Lieutenant Goncharenko, under the name of Baron Heinrich von Goldering is thrown into the deep German homeland on a mission to find out the location of the secret underground plant that produces new types of weapons.

Far from the Motherland

1960

Ivanna poster
8.0

The film tells the story of the tragic fate of a young girl - the daughter of a clergyman, the Soviet partisan. The action takes place in Lviv on the eve of and during World War II.

Ivanna

1960

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