Elza Lezhdey

Acting

Elza Lezhdey

Born — Died

1933-02-19 — 2001-06-12

Place of birth

Sevastopol, Crimean ASSR, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 7 titles

Listen, on the Other Side poster
7.0

Soldiers 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

The Last Fort poster
NR

Four soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.

The Last Fort

1972

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained poster
6.7

The 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

At the World's Limit poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

At the World's Limit

1976

Every day of Dr. Kalinnikova poster
7.5

The 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

Responsible for Everything poster
5.0

The main character of the film, Nikolai Alekseevich Kurylenko, works as a master mentor at a computer factory. He helps his students not only to master the basics of mastery, but also to get out of difficult life collisions...

Responsible for Everything

1979

To Be a Brother poster
NR

About workers whose fate is inextricably linked to the factory and the problems of factory life.

To Be a Brother

1976

1960s · 12 titles

No artwork available
NR

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

Life Anew poster
6.0

The 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

The Squadron Turns Westward poster
NR

The 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

In Death's Noose poster
9.0

A 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

Goodbye, Boys! poster
5.4

Goodbye, 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

Direct Line poster
7.5

A few days from the life of a young scientist responsible for the failed trail.

Direct Line

1967

The Hockey Players poster
8.0

Thirty-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

Dissenting Opinion poster
6.7

A 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

In Transit poster
NR

An 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

Three Seasons poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Three Seasons

1966

An Extraordinary Assignment poster
6.5

The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.

An Extraordinary Assignment

1966

Pause poster
NR

A short feature television film based on Valentin Kataev's "New Year's Story". An episode in the life of a Soviet intelligence officer during the Great Patriotic War: On New Year's Eve in an occupied city, risking her life, a young woman hides a wounded underground fighter...

Pause

1967

1950s · 7 titles

Ballad of a Soldier poster
8.0

During 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

Pavel Korchagin poster
3.4

A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".

Pavel Korchagin

1956

Six O'Clock at the Airport poster
8.5

The nine-year-old Prague boy Pepiček flies to Moscow as an involuntary stowaway on an airplane. Together with the Soviet pioneer Mischa, he pursues an alleged agent in the hustle and bustle of the World Festival and is flown back to Prague in the evening.

Six O'Clock at the Airport

1958

The First Echelon poster
5.2

In 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

The Wind poster
7.5

Filmed 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

The Frigid Sea poster
6.5

Several 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

Soldiers Were Walking poster
7.0

October 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

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