
Acting
Elza Lezhdey
Born 1933-02-19 · Sevastopol, Crimean ASSR, RSFSR, USSR
Acting credits
8.0During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Ballad of a Soldier
1959
7.5Filmed in the context of the fortieth anniversary of the creation of the Komsomols, the League of Young Communists, tells the story of three youth delegates from the League in 1918, who must make the dangerous journey to Moscow during the civil war to participate in League’s congress.
The Wind
1959
Tikhov, a lecturer, arrives from the city along a rain-washed road to a construction site. To beat the rain, he stops at a house where a young woman and her child live. The awkwardness of the unexpected guest quickly passes, and Lyuba tries to persuade him not to go to the club, which is surely empty due to the bad weather. But Tikhov leaves, confident that they are waiting for him...
On the Highway
1964
6.7Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Attack and Retreat
1964
NRFour soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.
The Last Fort
1972
7.0Soldiers of the Russian-Mongolian Joint Special Detachment, who are carrying out a special mission, went to the front line of the war and assumed the responsibility of conducting a sharp emotional and ideological battle with words and sounds. Therefore, the contribution of these people in the battle of Khalkh River was huge. This film shows the Khalkh River War and its scope through the actions of the "Little Squad" and the thoughts of its heroes.
Listen, on the Other Side
1972
7.5The story of a talented woman who dedicated her life to surgery. Patients from all over the country go to her orthopedic laboratory — the doctor’s unique methods of treatment are so effective. However, an anonymous complaint is received by the metropolitan commission. Now experts have to figure out whether Kalinnikova really creates innovative healing techniques...
Every day of Dr. Kalinnikova
1974
8.0A few days from the life of a young scientist responsible for the failed trail.
Direct Line
1967
9.0A biographical film about the famous Russian pilot Sergei Utochkin, about the first conquerors of the sky who paved the way for Russian aviation.
In Death's Noose
1963
5.2In one of the steppe regions of Kazakhstan arrives on Komsomol youth squad. Severe frosts, spring mud flows, exhausting work than their specialty - the development of virgin land does not come easy. But the young are young - they work, enjoy life, fall in love. In the center of the story - the touching romance secretary of the Komsomol organization and tractor driver Anne.
The First Echelon
1955
6.5The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.
An Extraordinary Assignment
1966
3.4A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".
Pavel Korchagin
1956
NRThe action takes place in Odesa in 1918-1919. At the request of General Denikin, a French squadron arrives in Odesa to restore order in the city. Odesa Bolsheviks are trying to convince the sailors to leave the city. At the center of the story is the heroic fate of Frenchwoman Jeanne-Marie Lyabourb (1877-1919), shot by French interventionists.
The Squadron Turns Westward
1966
6.7The thirty-year-old decathlete leaves the big sport and becomes a stunt performer in the cinema. About how the movie is shot, and about the development of personal relationships between the main characters.
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
1977
6.7A man's corpse is found on the seashore. Conducting a thorough investigation, the young investigator Kovalev establishes the identity of the murdered man and his pursuer - in the past a provocateur, who gave the Hitlerites a group of underground fighters. At one of the interrogations the criminal recognizes in the prosecutor Skurchikhin former SS Oberleutnant and begins to blackmail him, not suspecting that he worked for the Soviet intelligence...
Dissenting Opinion
1967
4.7Propaganda film about Soviet inventor Igor Krymov and his entrapment by foreign spies.
Death at the Start
1983
6.0The Second World War has ended. With the victory in Moscow, front-line friends, Antonina, Fyodor and Alexey, move into Fyodor’s huge apartment, which was empty in the first years of the war, when his wife left him. Alexey loved Antonina all his life, but when he found out that she loved Fedor, he immediately left for his homeland, and Fedor’s wife unexpectedly returned.
Life Anew
1962
8.0Thirty-year-old captain of the hockey team Duganov, a famous and experienced player, decides to fight for the sporting longevity of "old men" like him. Acutely experiencing a quarrel with his favorite girl, Duganov achieves participation in the decisive final match between the two strongest teams and achieves victory.
The Hockey Players
1965
6.5Several commercial fishermen were attacked by sea pirates and were forced to spend more than one year on a desert island. Many considered them dead - but almost all of them managed to survive ...
The Frigid Sea
1955
7.0No synopsis available yet.
At the World's Limit
1976
7.0October 1917. Russian and German soldiers, exhausted by three years of war, began to fraternize. But officers' bullets shot the fraternizers. The survivors - Ilya, Matvey, nurse Olga and German soldier Jakob - swore in front of the fallen soldiers to reach St. Petersburg and achieve peace for all.
Soldiers Were Walking
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Three Seasons
1966
5.4Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. It's summer, and their main goals are swimming in the Black Sea and wooing the girl all three of them love. However, they are asked to become officers in the military, and slowly their worlds begin changing forever. Their parents oppose them, they begin fearing losing each other and their families, and the military tricks and maneuvers them into joining the army instead of the navy.
Goodbye, Boys!
1966
NRAn elderly man takes in his orphaned niece after the death of his younger brother. On the way home, on the train, in communication with various people, the true traits of his character are revealed.
In Transit
1961