
Acting
Anna Lisyanskaya
Born 1917-11-01 · Nikolayev, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Mykolaiv, Ukraine]
Acting credits
5.8Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid Keshka, is stealing a collection of paintings and sculptures from the abandoned estate owners. Hoping to transport her abroad, criminals wander with a circus troupe, and in their wake goes a tireless criminal investigator — Makar Ovchinnikov.
The Property of Republic
1972
5.0Alyosha Ptitsyn, a third-grader decides that he wants to improve his personality and immediately starts to act.
Alyosha Ptitsyn Develops Character
1953
6.2This literary adaptation was the first Soviet feature length dramatization, as opposed to documentary film, on the momentous Battle of Stalingrad.
Days and Nights
1945
5.6Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization “Young Italy”, envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and is jealous of his bride Gemma. He talks about this at a confession to a priest, as a result of which gendarmes take revolutionaries under arrest...
The Gadfly
1955
7.0A man invites people to a dinner party, but a dream and his forgetfulness get in the way.
Dinner Party
1953
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
NRPerformance based on the novel of the same name by Yuri Olesha with the participation of actors from the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater of M. Gorky.
Envy
1967
NRNo synopsis available yet.
One Night
1957
NRA biographical film about the life of Gani Muratbaev, the founder of the Komsomol in the Kazakh SSR .
My Brother
1971
NRIn this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard.
A Long Cat Tale
1965
5.0No synopsis available yet.
The Husbands and The Knives
1964
5.5The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.
Lenin in Poland
1966
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Seven Crosses in a Notebook
1983
4.3Old, rich Jew Mendel Krik falls in love with the beautiful Marusya. But their sons Levka and Bena don't share their dreams... Revolution has come.
Sunset
1990
6.8Two stories ("The feat of the soldier Mukhin", "The Last Autumn"). The events of one concern 1917, when Lenin had to hide in Finland, the second takes place in 1923-1924 during the last months of his life in Gorki.
Stories About Lenin
1957
6.3A three stories for a whole family about art and it's magic power.
Magic Power
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Exam for Rank
1969
6.3Beginning of WWII. Zinaida, a Russian woman, is taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp together with several other women. She is imprisoned with her baby son, Gena, who is learning to walk and takes his first steps in the snow, in the concentration camp. They spend a few years together in the camp until they are separated, first within Auschwitz itself, then, for good, when the Germans are losing the war and decide to evacuate.
Remember Your Name
1974
4.9Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
Twelfth Night
1955
5.0The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of small children, to break the spirit of their Soviet captives. Suffering more than most is Olena, a Soviet partisan who returns to the village to bear her child, only to endure the cruelest of arbitrary tortures at the hands of the Nazis.
Rainbow
1944
5.9The characters of the picture are a large family of hereditary shipbuilders. Three generations of the Zhurbin live under one roof: grandfather Matvei, his son Ilya, three sons of Ilya — Aleksei, Anton and Viktor. In a short time, representatives of the fourth generation are born. The share of the youngest son of Aleksei fall the most severe life tests. The background for family conflicts is the reorganization of production. All Zhurbin's have to change their profession to move on.
A Big Family
1954
4.1A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946.
Girl No. 217
1945
7.0The film shows the daily life of an architecture studio, where a young student comes to work on his dissertation.
The Executive
1974
7.5After the victory on Napoleon a hussar returns to Moscow. He is met by a desperate man who offers him a deal: marry his daughter before she turns 18 and inherit a huge fortune from her rich, eccentric aunt. There is also another condition...
The Lucky Bride
1946
