
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
7.6The 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
6.6In 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
6.0An old puppet maker tells his little friend the story of his first love.
Fantastic Story
1988
5.6A 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
8.5A miniseries about the Cheka's destruction of an underground organization led by Boris Savinkov.
Sindikat-2
1981
8.0A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life, and the difficult love to a Russian woman.
Gypsy
1980
Film credits
1990s · 8 titles
5.7After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.
Dark Waters
1993
5.1The story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless.
Anna Karamazoff
1991
NRKazakhstan. 1954. Copper mines. Concentration camp. In the center of the plot - a revolt which prisoners raised in protest against the inhuman treatment.
The Cannibal
1991
3.0Due to a brain injury received in a street fight, Gera Romanov begins to fall into parallel worlds, where he dies painfully every time.
The Psychic
1991
5.4The plot of the movie is based on books of Isaak Babel about Jewish criminals in city of Odessa before and after the Russian revolution.
Art of Living in Odessa
1990
4.0The film tells about the engineer Gorelikov, who, together with his disabled friend, opens a salon with computers for children and students. And suddenly they are attacked by a gang of racketeers.
Dude - Water Winner
1991
3.4In the Ukrainian village of Konotop, the chief Centurion wants to marry a beautiful girl and asks for the help of a young witch.
The Witch
1990
4.0Two friends, having no hope for law enforcement agencies, decide to fight the mafia on their own. One of them dies in an unequal fight.
Marked
1991
1980s · 18 titles
6.0An old puppet maker tells his little friend the story of his first love.
Fantastic Story
1988
6.0A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life and the difficult love to Russian woman.
Gypsy
1980
NRA 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
10.0The film is about man falling in love with young girl and his wish to be young too.
The Husband of Young Woman
1988
9.0A love story which happened in the small village during a visit of two rich city boys.
Two on the Island of Tears
1986
8.0The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.
The Story of One Billiard-Room
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Comic Lover, or The Amorous Adventures of Sir John Falstaff
1984
7.0The 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
NRA 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
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
NRMoscow 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
NRÉtude, a free interpretation of motives from the phantasmagorical prose of Valerii Shevchuk.
Full Moon. Nocturne
1986
NRInstitute 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
8.0Young guy Andrey tries to save the daughter of Sun from the evil wizard.
Andrey and Evil Wizard
1981
7.5This 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
NRUkraine, 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
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
6.0By 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
6.6In 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
5.6A 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
7.8Folk 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
5.7A 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
4.0The 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
5.8Murad 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
6.4Three friends in a summer camp are looking for a treasure hidden in a old mansion.
The Bronze Bird
1975
NRThree 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
6.0A musical based on Russian folklore and fairytales.
Fear of Misery - No Happiness
1973
1960s · 8 titles
7.6The 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
3.0The 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
9.0The 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
NRThe 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
2.01914, 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
7.0Based 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
5.8Soviet 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
8.0The 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
Series credits
8.5A miniseries about the Cheka's destruction of an underground organization led by Boris Savinkov.
Sindikat-2
1981
8.0A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life, and the difficult love to a Russian woman.
Gypsy
1980
9.3Three friends in a summer camp are looking for a treasure hidden in a old mansion.
The Bronze Bird
1975

