Galina Petrova

Acting

Galina Petrova

Born 1956-12-22 · Tambov, RSFSR, USSR

Acting credits

Compartment No. 6 poster
7.0

A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.

Compartment No. 6

2021

About My Mom and Me poster
1.0

USSR, 1970s. Lena has a real talent for writing - her school essays reflect with incredible precision and warmth not only the world around her and her loved ones, but also her personal experiences, dreams, and hopes. Her mother works in documentary film, and she has her own problems and dreams. It so happened that the daughter's adolescence coincides with her mother's midlife crisis. The story of their touching relationship is told with a kind smile and notes of sadness.

About My Mom and Me

2024

The Return poster
7.3

Two young brothers in contemporary Russia are reunited with a father they know only from an old photograph after his sudden return from a long absence. With their mother’s reluctant consent, they set out on a remote trip that quickly becomes an uneasy test of authority, trust, and masculinity. As the journey moves deeper into the wilderness, the fragile bonds between father and sons are pushed to their limits.

The Return

2003

The Man With the Accordion poster
9.0

Dmitry Gromtsev was a volunteer to go the front where he was wounded. He couldn't get back to his beloved profession of musician. The movie tells us about difficult destiny of a person who couldn't become an artist because of war.

The Man With the Accordion

1985

Jonah, or the Artist at Work poster
NR

A painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story.

Jonah, or the Artist at Work

1984

God's Smile poster
5.3

A determined student from Chicago is forced to fulfill the last wish of his ailing grandfather. He has to travel to Odessa, Ukraine, and bring back his grandfather's cat.

God's Smile

2009

An Imperfect Woman poster
6.0

Lyubanya, a hairdresser who has lost her job, and her eleven-year-old son find themselves in a difficult situation. She tries to borrow money from his girlfriend Simkina. She agrees to help, but only on the condition that Lyubanya will help her regain the man she loved, a certain Valeriy. Lyubanya must "accidentally" get acquainted with him and pretend to be his ideal, and when he falls in love with the "woman of his dreams" — leave him. Then Simkina will appear to "glue" Valeriy's broken heart, and at the same time their broken relationship. Out of desperation, Lyubanya joins in this game, but very quickly realizes that she has fallen in love. The heroine faces the question: how to tell Valeriy the truth about himself and their "casual" acquaintance?

An Imperfect Woman

2008

Eyes poster
5.0

They can't see, but they really must... Because they love each other!

Eyes

1992

The Thief poster
7.0

Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...

The Thief

1997

Интим не предлагать poster
3.2

No synopsis available yet.

Интим не предлагать

2016

A Driver for Vera poster
6.1

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's disabled daughter Vera. Viktor is oblivious to the hidden agenda of the KGB agent Saveliev, who manipulates everyone behind the scenes in the old rivalry between the Army and KGB.

A Driver for Vera

2004

Гардеробщица poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Гардеробщица

2016

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin poster
6.6

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

1994

Echelon poster
NR

The story takes place in the autumn of 1941. On a train slowly heading east, evacuated families of workers and employees from one of Moscow's factories are traveling. Gradually, fear and alienation give way to the warmth of human involvement and solidarity...

Echelon

1988

And the Wind Returns... poster
4.0

The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films.

And the Wind Returns...

1992

Déjà vu poster
6.8

After Mick Nich, a 1930's Chicago gangster, sells out his own gang to the police, the Mafia hires the best hitman in town, Johnny Pollack, to follow him to Odessa, USSR. Upon arrival, Pollack loses his memory and goes on various adventures with a group of thick-headed Odessa locals who think he is a harmless butterfly collector.

Déjà vu

1990

An Umbrella for Lovers poster
5.7

Kraskov and Vera have long loved each other. They are unable to part, however, and connect their destinies can not and have already accepted the circumstances of life: he has a family, three children. A chance meeting in Moscow with a young couple, familiar with the rest in the South, pushes them to a decisive step…

An Umbrella for Lovers

1986

Night Shift poster
5.0

Max loses his job at the plant and to feed his family, is forced to accept an unexpected offer former classmate to work as a stripper. Hiding the new profession from his wife, Ani, Max gets into a lot of amazing and ridiculous situations and end up losing the trust of the woman he loved. In an effort to return peace and harmony to the family, he appealed for help to colleagues from the strip club, that all leads to fun chaos...

Night Shift

2018

Васильки для Василисы poster
NR

Romance, in Russian

Васильки для Василисы

2012

A Gift with a Character poster
6.4

Being a panda is fun! But not Misha, who is forced to work in a panda costume at children's parties. He is thirty years old, lives in a tiny one-room apartment on the outskirts of Moscow, and has no serious job. Everything was like that until he was invited to the birthday party of the son of an oligarch. Artyom is nine years old, and he has a secret plan that only Misha can help implement. The boy and the panda go on a journey across the country, constantly getting into incredible situations.

A Gift with a Character

2014

No artwork available
1.0

A lyrical comedy based on the play by E. Radzinsky. A musical comedy about an ordinary woman with the cosmic name Aelita, who resembles a famous singer and tries to emulate her in everything. She is no longer young, but yearns for love, a family, and a meeting with one and only man. It would be easy to deceive her. But she stubbornly continues to believe that happiness will smile upon her.

С Новым Годом, С Новым Счастьем!

2003

Down with Commerce on the Love Front, or Reciprocal Services poster
5.3

Comedy based on the story of M. Zoshchenko "Do Not Speculate." The story of how the wife "sold" her own husband.

Down with Commerce on the Love Front, or Reciprocal Services

1988

The Wedding poster
5.9

The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.

The Wedding

2000

Sons of Bitches poster
4.4

The story about actors who will never agree to betray their theatre, even if they will have to burn themselves. And other instructions on how to behave if a whiskered man breaks into your house and wants you to leave it.

Sons of Bitches

1991