Liliyan Malkina

Acting

Liliyan Malkina

Born

1938-07-14 (88)

Place of birth

Tallinn, Estonia

Known for

Acting

Credits

40 titles

Lillian Malkina (born July 14, 1938) is a Soviet, Czech and Russian actress. Malkina was born in Tallinn. From childhood, she attended drama club, where she trained with Vladimir Korenev, Larisa Luzhina, Vitali Konyayev. In 1960 she graduated from the Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy and became an actress for Tallinn Russian Drama. She appeared in theaters in Leningrad and Moscow. She played comedic roles. Since 1992, she has lived and worked in Prague, in the Czech Republic. She appears in European cinema and Czech television series, playing in five theaters simultaneously.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

Materials Mechanics poster
NR

After Yana finds out that her best friend is trapped in the war in Ukraine, she is forced to examine the moral compasses within her family. She visits her grandparents, who seem to trust Russian TV and radio more than her own account of events. This intimate drama is based on the reality of families divided by the war in Ukraine, including the author’s own. The film explores the inevitable choices between love and politics, friends and family, silence and resistance.

Materials Mechanics

2025

Stáří není pro sraby poster
5.0

Do you have dreams? Any unfulfilled wishes? A group of retirees set out on a trip to fulfill them and reminisce about their younger years working at the municipal spa. Kňoura, Josefa, Janata, Kačera, and grandson Tomáš are in for a trip they will never forget. A helicopter flight, sleeping under the stars, dinner at a posh restaurant, a race with a Formula 1 driver, but also fun on the merry-go-round.

Stáří není pro sraby

2021

Extremist poster
6.0

A young Russian artist makes an anti-war statement by swapping food labels with pacifist messages in a Moscow supermarket, leading to her arrest and the threat of a 10-year prison sentence.

Extremist

2025

S písní v tísni poster
3.2

Thirty-something Jonas is not doing well at the moment. He has been taking antibiotics for a long time, so he is out of shape, and the trainer does not nominate him for the upcoming boxing match, he had a fight with a homosexual customer at work and is facing criminal charges because of that, and he also got a little involved with his colleague Silva, which logically does not please Jonas's friend Klařá. But Jonas hides the biggest problem by far from everyone. Although the suspicion of rectal cancer is fortunately not confirmed, the method of treatment of the damaged colon nevertheless shocks him - he has to regularly insert a dilator into his ass!

S písní v tísni

2022

Merry Grandmas! poster
6.9

Masha is eight years old, and she really wants her parents to take her to a fun New Year’s party. But instead, they send Masha off to celebrate the New Year with her grandmother.

Merry Grandmas!

2020

2010s · 3 titles

2000s · 4 titles

Hostel: Part II poster
5.9

Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it.

Hostel: Part II

2007

Grindhouse poster
7.0

Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers preceding each segment.

Grindhouse

2007

Taková normální rodinka poster
3.9

The forester's lodge in a remote area they live in sin has four generations of family Hanák. Grandmother overflowing zest for life and her passion for writing detective stories. Her daughter, Ms. Hanáková, spirited woman with a big heart, loves to sing, but because he has no talent, all his life was the cook. Mr. Hanak's dispatcher, his lifelong loves animals of all kinds and sizes, which grows in the house and its surroundings. Paul has an older daughter with husband Peter, occasional handyman who usually sleeps or her hyperactive two sons, whom no one tells you differently than blackguard. Informal family member then Mr. Kestrel, who in the house for the town to spend a lot of time suspicious! One completely normal family afternoon notify the younger daughter Kate family that is expecting a baby.

Taková normální rodinka

2008

No artwork available
NR

The story of František Stára, a recovering alcoholic, concertmaster, and composer. After returning from alcohol rehabilitation, he quickly realizes that his euphoric determination to start over is a tragic illusion. His wife has moved out of their apartment and found another man. A similar fiasco awaits him at his former job and later during his short stint at an elementary art school. At the most difficult moment, when František's private hopes and professional plans are collapsing and he resigns, he is selflessly helped by his former fellow patient from the clinic, Eda Mandík. This man, himself weak, inconsistent, and irresponsible, with unexpected and self-destructive devotion, gives up his own personal happiness and energetically spurs his flagging will to save his only friend. The price Eda pays for this act is not small, but his sacrifice was meaningful.

Hodina klavíru

2007

1990s · 6 titles

1970s · 6 titles

Series credits

Blue Code poster
6.0

A Czech medical television series that focuses on an emergency department. Each episode follows cases inspired by real-life stories and the cases of patients and healthcare professionals.

Blue Code

2017

Dobrá čtvrť poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Dobrá čtvrť

2005

Děcko poster
5.4

During her third pregnancy, a divorced mother decides on an unusual solution to her life situation. Immediately after giving birth, she wants to entrust the child to new adoptive parents of her choice.

Děcko

2025

Bezdružice poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bezdružice

2005

Metoda Markovič: Hojer poster
8.1

The Markovič Method: Hojer is a six-part series about the capture and conviction of one of the most horrific serial killers in the era of normalization in Czechoslovakia, Ladislav Hojer, by the legendary detective Jiří Markovič.

Metoda Markovič: Hojer

2024

The Invisibles poster
8.0

A businessman discovers he has a hidden gene that enables him to breathe water, threatening the existence of the secret Aquarian race, in this charming, comedic fantasy drama from the Czech Republic.

The Invisibles

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fízlárna

2017

По имени Барон poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

По имени Барон

2002

The Keepers poster
5.8

Soviet live-action film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, aired once in 1991 by Leningrad Television and then thought lost. It was rediscovered in 2021. It includes scenes of Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-wight omitted from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

The Keepers

1991

The White Robes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The White Robes

1992

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kabinet Dr. Honzáka

2020