
Acting
Mariya Barabanova
Born — Died
1911-11-03 — 1993-03-16
Place of birth
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Known for
Acting
Credits
43 titles
Known for
6.6The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.
Yeralash
1974
6.0A sequel to the well-known story about a Little Red Riding Hood (Krasnaya Shapochka). This time, a family of a slain wolf decides to avenge his death. So they falsely inform Little Red Riding Hood that her grandma is sick and prepare to eat her on her way.
About the Little Red Riding Hood
1977
6.6Russian folk tale about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the youngest brother, Ivanushka, brings home a frog from the marshes. His father finds this most curious, but what he does not know was that the frog was actually a beautiful girl named Vasilisa who was cursed by a magical serpent whom she refused to marry. Now Ivanushka must overcome tremendous obstacles to restore Vasilisa to her true form and free her from the serpent's spell.
Vasilisa the Beautiful
1940
6.0A little girl is dreaming about what would happen if her dad would be her age...
The Adventures of a Little Dad
1979
10.0A lot of funny stuff is going on in a far way village located between forests and lakes.
Organized Trip to the Theatre
1982
7.0A story about Ivanushka the Fool based on classic Russian fairytales.
How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder
1977
Film credits
1990s · 4 titles
5.5Двое приятелей Вова и Боб ограбили квартиру Нины - любовницы директора рынка. Всю вину молодчики свалили на бывшего любовника и сутенера Нины Стаса Шапкина. Шеф не стал впутывать в эту историю милицию, он поручил заняться этим делом своим людям. Бандиты пытают Стаса, требуют отдать пропавшую сумму. В конце концов, бедняге приходится занять деньги у всех своих проституток и отдать вымогателям.
Hunting for a Pimp
1991
7.0A criminal story which started when a young bartender Mikhail lost all his money and decided to robe a private diamonds collection.
Shakh's Diamonds
1992
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Swindlers
1990
NRSomewhere on the coast, away from the village, a team of road workers lives and works - several families. Their work is hard and meaningless - the road they are constantly repairing leads nowhere and is not needed by anyone. The monotony of this life is broken by a couple who have settled next to each other in a tent, traveling by car. These are people of a different social stratum, a different culture. Their relationship, lifestyle attract the hero of the film - twelve-year-old Yurka. The boy gets closer to the visitors. This leads to a serious conflict with parents and makes them think about their lives.
Memories Without A Date
1990
1980s · 11 titles
10.0A lot of funny stuff is going on in a far way village located between forests and lakes.
Organized Trip to the Theatre
1982
6.7Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.
Secret of the Blackbirds
1983
6.3Young aspiring artist gets a place as a teacher of painting on the estate of land-owner Fairlie, where his sisters Marian and Laura become his students. Returning home late in the evening, he unexpectedly meets a strange woman, dressed head-to-toe in white on a deserted road.
The Woman in White
1981
6.5Defeating the terrible dragon, the soldier Ivan returns from the war. The Far Far Away rejoices. The king, also Ivan, is very pleased. He awards the namesake with an order with pearls, appoints a field marshal and offers his wife his own daughter Maria Louise. But the soldier suddenly refuses everything.
One, Two - Woe, Never Mind!
1989
6.6Based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's Nightingale and The Emperor's New Clothes.
The Nightingale
1980
7.3A funny adventures of Alyosha Sidorov in summer camp.
This Scoundrel Sidorov
1983
4.4The former director of a large deli Pavel Shorokhov, having returned from prison and not received the expected reception from his wife, who forbade him to see his son, temporarily settles with Kotov, the owner of the lists of participants in the unaccounted goods movement system. Kotov, who is near death, transfers lists to Shorokhov and thereby puts him at risk from former accomplices. But Shorokhov breaks the pledge circle...
Snake Catcher
1986
4.4Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks upon a succession of encounters with increasingly powerful officials, gradually persuading them to look at the case anew. But the highest authorities are not so easily outmanoeuvered, and Sedov becomes canonised as a Stalinist zealot, with the film building inexorably to its chilling triple climax.
Defence Counsel Sedov
1988
6.7A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the changeling grew up as a prince, and his mother has been elevated to the highest position in the state for "saving" the prince, but losing her own child. Then the brothers escape, the changeling prince departs to fight an immortal wizard and vanishes, and the brothers have to deal with the wizard. Which includes stealing a bird-woman from a Mid-Eastern khan and figuring where the wizard's death is.
After the Rain, on Thursday
1986
6.5A very old man comes to the provincial town where he spent his youth. The flood of memories takes him far from reality, to which a little girl returns him, like two peas in a pod like his first love.
Katenka
1988
7.7Once upon a time, a young and cheerful painter named Makar was invited to the king's palace... There he saw a beautiful woman trying on a crown. Makar fell in love, but was expelled from the palace. After undergoing all kinds of trials and heroic deeds, the former painter came to the palace to ask for the princess's hand in marriage, but saw before him a capricious ugly woman—and realized that he had been enchanted by the servant Katya.
The Tale About the Enamored Painter
1987
1970s · 10 titles
6.0A sequel to the well-known story about a Little Red Riding Hood (Krasnaya Shapochka). This time, a family of a slain wolf decides to avenge his death. So they falsely inform Little Red Riding Hood that her grandma is sick and prepare to eat her on her way.
About the Little Red Riding Hood
1977
6.0A little girl is dreaming about what would happen if her dad would be her age...
The Adventures of a Little Dad
1979
7.0A story about Ivanushka the Fool based on classic Russian fairytales.
How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder
1977
7.5Schoolgirl Masha gets into the fabulous city cheerful workers, which with the help of servants and cap of invisibility inhibits the evil Korol Kropodin I. Before the townspeople finally get rid of oppressors, Masha is a party to the exciting events and adventures.
While the Clocks Are Ticking
1977
6.1This fairy tale film is dedicated to the memory of the great film director Aleksandr Rou, the founder of the genre. Once upon a time there lived a brave and kind hero named Finist the Bright Falcon. He was famous for his strength, courage and a heart of gold. But one day the Russian land was attacked by an evil enemy, Kartaus, who turned our hero into a forest monster. This spell was cast on a condition that Finist might become a man again, should a beautiful girl, Alyonushka, fall in love with him while he was a beast.
Finest, the Brave Falcon
1975
10.0A television film based on the stories by Ivan Turgenev from the "Notes of a Hunter" collection.
The Hamlet of Shchigry District
1975
5.0The hero of the film is an ordinary driver of a Moscow taxi, a kind and decent man. Each new working day promises him new meetings, acquaintances — sometimes joyful and pleasant, and sometimes demanding from him severe determination and courage.
Townspeople
1976
4.7A young boy is trying to arrange money in order to build aircraft.
Accept a Telegram for Credit
1979
6.5After serving in the army, Nikolai Semenov, nicknamed Kurai Tumbleweed by his fellow villagers, returns to the fishing collective farm and goes to work as a mechanic on a seiner.
With Fun and Courage
1974
3.3The hypochondriac Argan wants his daughter to marry a doctor so he can save on his medical bills.
The Imaginary Invalid
1979
1960s · 2 titles
7.5Masha Barashkina has extraordinary organizational skills. She helped open a children's hospital, a stadium, and an atelier. And now Barashkina is set to head the consumer services complex "Everything for You."
Everything for You
1965
10.0Olga is a seventh-grader who has a brilliant gift - she writes a beautiful poems...
Adolescence
1968
1940s · 8 titles
6.6Russian folk tale about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the youngest brother, Ivanushka, brings home a frog from the marshes. His father finds this most curious, but what he does not know was that the frog was actually a beautiful girl named Vasilisa who was cursed by a magical serpent whom she refused to marry. Now Ivanushka must overcome tremendous obstacles to restore Vasilisa to her true form and free her from the serpent's spell.
Vasilisa the Beautiful
1940
6.2No synopsis available yet.
How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
1941
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Schweik is Preparing For Battle
1942
6.5A story about two teenagers and their life during WWII in Urals district of Russia.
We from the Urals
1943
6.7Two look-alike boys, one a poor street kid and the other a prince, exchange places to see what the other's life is like.
The Prince and the Pauper
1942
10.0During the "Winter War" between Finland and the USSR, Galya's father goes to the front and she's left behind to take care of grandma and the house. Despite toeing the party line, the film was still banned by censors for being insufficiently patriotic.
Galya
1940
4.8It is the story of an American journalist who spends time in Russia and sees socialism in action. Upon his return to the U.S., a prestigious editor asks him to write a book about his experience. He receives a handsome advance for the project and he and his fiancée are able to buy a house, a car, and other symbols of the American dream. But the editor’s generosity comes with a caveat: the book must present a negative picture of Soviet society. Will he simply keep the money and do what is expected of him, or will he instead tell the truth?
The Russian Question
1948
6.6No synopsis available yet.
Youth of Commanders
1940
1930s · 4 titles
5.8A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.
The New Moscow
1938
7.0Arriving on a resort muscovites - circus artist Gurov and professor Fedorov are forget the houses of passport. Girl-dispatch on mail, hurrying on an appointment, mixes up envelopes, that entails the row of the comic misunderstanding.
Late for a Date
1936
7.0After graduating from college, a young doctor leaves his beloved girlfriend behind in the city and returns to his native village, where he energetically sets to work. The hospital is in complete disrepair. But the hero does not despair and even makes a scientific discovery that helps restore the sight of his old teacher and his former fiancée's sister.
Doktor Kalyuzhnyy
1939
8.0Arinka, a young girl who lives near the railroad, discovers a ring of spies who are preparing the terror act.
Arinka
1939
Series credits
6.6The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.
Yeralash
1974
NRA story about a Soviet reporter Pyotr Gromov who lives and works in Washinton, DC.
Washington Correspondent
1973

