Lyudmila Chursina

Acting

Lyudmila Chursina

Born — Died

1941-07-20 — 2026-06-10

Place of birth

Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR [now Dushanbe, Tajikistan]

Known for

Acting

Credits

90 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 9 titles

Pure Art poster
5.3

Contemporary Russia. Sasha, a beautiful, young photographer, finds her lover, a successful artist, murdered. The police suspect her and the killers want to silence her. She goes on the run from all as she tries to solve this mystery.

Pure Art

2016

Happiness Is... Part 2 poster
5.5

Another seven good-ending stories for a whole family.

Happiness Is... Part 2

2019

The Honored Priest: Confession of a Samurai poster
7.1

An Orthodox priest, Father Nikolay, the brother of a Yakuza boss, is drawn into in a mob war in Japan. He escapes to the small Russian village of Glubokoe, where he finds that war has found him again.

The Honored Priest: Confession of a Samurai

2015

7 Main Wishes poster
4.1

On a New year Eve Masha gets a bird which is ready to fulfill her 7 wishes...

7 Main Wishes

2013

Crowned Species poster
4.0

A journalistic investigation, built not on rumors and assumptions, but on direct evidence, revealing the true mechanisms of podium coronations. Hidden camera footage of negotiations with the owners of the largest national beauty contests and an attempt to answer the question of why these people are not yet in prison. Famous people on the jury are not a guarantee of fair judging. Irrefutable evidence of the corruption of the so-called “stars” who elect the next Miss and Mrs. The collection and subsequent theft of funds for charity is a side business of the owners of fraudulent shows. What actually awaits the titled Misses after purchasing the prize? And what do children's beauty pageants turn out to be like for young participants?

Crowned Species

2013

The Tragedies of Stalin's Grandchildren poster
NR

The plot of this documentary is dedicated to the tragic fate of Joseph Stalin's grandchildren.

The Tragedies of Stalin's Grandchildren

2014

Olympic Village poster
5.0

August 1980. The Soviet authorities are preparing Moscow for the Olympic Games and expelling unreliable citizens from the city. One such citizen is the talented cellist Arseny Chaika, who ends up in the village of Protasovo with his rabbit. Meanwhile, in Moscow, foreign journalist William Smith is looking for him for an interview.

Olympic Village

2010

One That's Not Expected poster
NR

An extraordinary Wanderer comes to a crumbling house, a dying family, where there are children, where there is prosperity, but there is never loud laughter or children making noise. Who is she? Who did she come for? What does he want? With her arrival, everything in the house is gradually changing.

One That's Not Expected

2012

Grandma Ada poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Grandma Ada

2011

2000s · 4 titles

Secret Power poster
NR

The Mistress of the Copper Mountain, Poloz, and other spirits of the Ural Mountains communicate with modern people who interfere with fairytale life.

Secret Power

2002

My Husband Is A Genius poster
NR

The life of a brilliant scientist who managed to live in the era of “developed” socialism in accordance with his own ideas about freedom and morality did not leave indifferent either his colleagues or the authorities.

My Husband Is A Genius

2008

The Vaccine poster
NR

Mysterious and terrible events take place at the Russian Pearl beauty contest from year to year. The first winner of the contest tragically died, the second was splashed with boiling resin in her eyes. And now the participant who reached the semifinals, Natasha Titrova, who came from Tomsk, has disappeared without a trace and mysteriously.

The Vaccine

2007

No artwork available
NR

Stas, a successful businessman, has his favorite business, his own store, his friends, his wife - everything goes as it should. But one day, He gets on a train, where he is beaten, robbed, and thrown into a roadside ditch. Fortunately, he doesn‘t die, but ends up in the hospital. His wife Svetlana, sorting through her husband's things, unexpectedly finds pictures of a woman and a girl in a wheelchair. Sveta finds out that this is her husband's first family, from which he left before meeting her, not wanting to bring up a cripple. However, the young woman is not going to refresh her husband's memory - she hopes to establish a relationship with him, which recently gave a serious crack. Nevertheless, Stas feels that the truth is hidden from him... Having revealed all the secrets of his own past, having learned that he was beaten on the tip of a friend, our hero completely rethinks his life. All that remains is to make the right choice...

To Make God Laugh

2006

1990s · 6 titles

Grafinya poster
4.5

Удивительная романтическая история случилась под Новый год в старинной графской усадьбе, в которой расположился сегодня Дом Творчества. Здесь работает писатель над романом. В покои, где когда — то обитала красавица графиня, поселилась молодая женщина с детьми, удивительно похожая на бывшую хозяйку. Но старые стены хранят память о былом и хозяйка является сюда из прошлого… Так кто же эта женщина, в которую влюбляется писатель?

Grafinya

1991

Khagi – Tragger poster
5.7

According to ancient legend, the artist found a mineral that can revive any inanimate thing. To hide the mineral, he inserts it into a doll named Hagi. A century later, Hagi falls into the hands of a puppeteer, and he with horror discovers that the old doll is alive. Moreover, she also has a nasty character. Criminals try to take possession of it in order to use it for mercenary purposes. But they do not know the secrets of this doll - no one can take possession of it, but it has a destructive effect on any person who falls within its influence.

Khagi – Tragger

1994

Murder of a Witness poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Murder of a Witness

1990

The Codex of Disgrace poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Codex of Disgrace

1993

Not Afraid to Die poster
7.5

The tragic story of a Russian family forced to make life and death decisions during the Stalinist purges.

Not Afraid to Die

1991

Love of a Middle-Aged Man poster
10.0

Volodya, a man of about fifty, is traveling south with his charming mistress Olya. At the same time, he tells his wife that he is going fishing on Solovki. And she also goes south...to her lover Givi. Having accidentally seen an unfaithful wife, the first couple takes her under surveillance - and the serene love of the heroes takes on an adventurous character.

Love of a Middle-Aged Man

1991

1980s · 12 titles

To Remember or to Forget poster
9.0

Nina and Nikolai Jansoni seem to have everything: successful careers, a comfortable home and a car. When Nina gives birth despite doctors’ warnings, a tragic mix-up leads her to believe that her baby has died. Afraid to tell her husband the truth, she accepts another child as her own. When the mistake is eventually uncovered, Nina rejects her biological child, who is taken in by a nurse, Inta. Years later, her dormant maternal feelings awaken, and Nina sets out to reclaim the child she once gave up.

To Remember or to Forget

1981

Facts of the Past Day poster
9.0

The action takes place in the early 1980s, in the Arctic, at a mining plant. The long-overdue issue of radical restructuring of production has caused heated debate between the opposing parties. How to ensure the safe work of miners and not reduce labor productivity? There is a conflict between the director and the chief engineer of the enterprise...

Facts of the Past Day

1981

Jewelry Case poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jewelry Case

1984

On the Garnet Islands poster
7.7

Oil reserves have been discovered in the Republic of the Garnet Islands, which have become a subject of US interests. A naval landing is organized against a sovereign state, and CIA agents are sent in. However, one of the foreign journalists manages to learn about the upcoming military action.

On the Garnet Islands

1981

Such a Strange Evening in a Small Family Circle poster
8.0

Twenty-seven years after the war, former radio operator Dina Aleksandrovna reunites with her comrades in an attempt to establish the true cause of the death of the commander and commissar of her partisan unit.

Such a Strange Evening in a Small Family Circle

1985

Primary Russia poster
5.2

The film takes place in pre-Christian Russia, when Ratibor united the East Slavs into one army against the nomadic Khazars.

Primary Russia

1986

Brothers Rico poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Brothers Rico

1980

Demidovy poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Demidovy

1983

Long Road in the Dunes poster
5.9

The action of the film takes place in Latvia and spans the period from 1939 to the early 1970s. The events that occurred in the country had various effects on the fates of the characters. But throughout it all, love guided them — it scattered and gathered, made them suffer terribly, and made them the happiest people in the world...

Long Road in the Dunes

1982

The Mercedes Man File poster
8.2

A professional intelligence officer Ingmar Ross, an employee of one of the embassies, is tasked with recruiting a specialist from a Moscow classified company. But, having fallen in love with a Russian woman

The Mercedes Man File

1986

Monomakh's Cap poster
6.6

A life of eight-grader suddenly changes after he is officially declared genius in his school.

Monomakh's Cap

1982

Battle at the Crossroads poster
NR

Soviet propaganda film. The first years of the VChK formation. Nurse Yunna Ruzhich and poet Lafar, who became Chekists, take an active part in uncovering a counter-revolutionary conspiracy in Moscow in 1918.

Battle at the Crossroads

1982

1970s · 13 titles

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment poster
5.3

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment

1971

Are You Kidding? poster
4.3

The film almanac of VGIK's graduates, consisting of films for children: "Otherwise We Are Lost," "Vanderbul Runs Over the Horizon," and "Are You Kidding?"

Are You Kidding?

1971

Personal Opinion poster
7.0

Psychologist Petrov and sociologist Burtsev are invited by Basov, the director of a factory, to study the basic problem of production.

Personal Opinion

1976

Privalov's Millions poster
6.7

A young heir of a big fortune Sergey Privalov is coming back to his native town after a long absence. Having visited his owned plants, he breaks out with the idea to rebuild the industrial processes, improve the life of workers, and build schools and hospitals. Though, his interests collide with the interests of local big wigs, to whom the existing situation suits perfectly

Privalov's Millions

1973

The Blackamoor of Peter the Great poster
5.8

Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a wealthy boyar. Peter the Great insists the two be married, but Ibrahim goes against the tsar's wishes, refusing to force her to marry him since she doesn't consent. When another man tries to marry her, however, Ibrahim's loyalties and generous nature are put to the test.

The Blackamoor of Peter the Great

1976

Lyubov Yarovaya poster
4.8

The years of civil war. Teacher Lyubov Yarovaya is on the side of the revolution. Her husband Mikhail is a White Guard officer. Mikhail fiercely fights against Soviet power. The struggle in the woman's soul between her love for her husband and her revolutionary duty ends with the victory of the latter. She passes a harsh and merciless sentence on Mikhail...

Lyubov Yarovaya

1970

Olesya poster
5.7

A young man from the city falls in love with a girl from the country side. She is not accepted by the village community: people think she is a witch.

Olesya

1971

The Diary of Carlos Espinola poster
NR

International boarding school for the children of independence fighters, underground activists, and emigrants. The tender friendship of a classmate helps the teenager Carlos cope with a heavy blow - the news that his father has been sentenced to death.

The Diary of Carlos Espinola

1977

Open Book poster
6.2

The protagonist of the film is a female microbiologist and inventor of penicillin. The discovery of this life-saving drug was preceded by many years of scientific research, which Dr. Lebedev conducted in his laboratory in a small provincial town at the beginning of the century... Tanya, a girl from the neighborhood, accidentally finds herself in the doctor's house, where she first encounters the mysterious world of science...

Open Book

1974

Promise of Happiness poster
NR

It consists of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky's three short stories about the origin of feelings, the expectation of happiness and love...

Promise of Happiness

1974

The Fight poster
NR

Soviet intelligence officer Kraft has a new assignment. This time, acting under the name of engineer Grubbe, he must find and transfer to the center the secret drawings of a new submarine codenamed "Walter".

The Fight

1972

At the Corner of Arbat and Bouboulina poster
NR

Soviet journalist Ksenia Troitskaya meets Greek film director Memos Yanidis in Moscow, where he is working on an anti-fascist film. As they stroll along the Arbat, they dream of one day meeting again at the corner of Arbat and Bouboulina Street in Athens. But upon returning to his homeland, Memos is imprisoned.

At the Corner of Arbat and Bouboulina

1973

Pursuit Race poster
4.8

A life of a driver Stephan Chekmenev turns out to be very lucky: healthy children, loving wife, solid loghouse. But once his fellow-villager perishes in a forest. And Chekmenev, considering himself to be the one to blame, in expectation of an imminent retribution, tries to understand: why and when did he, once having so many friends, become so indifferent towards other peoples lives.

Pursuit Race

1979

1960s · 16 titles

The Shield and the Sword poster
NR

The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Russian military command suspects hostile intent from Germany and so arranges for its spies to infiltrate ranks of the German military and the SS. Alexander Belov is a Russian spy, who travels from Soviet-held Latvia to Nazi Germany under an alias of Johann Weiss. His mastery of the German language, steel nerves and an ability to manipulate others help him to use his connections in the SS to ascend the ladder of the German intelligence. He uses his position to identify sympathetic Germans, who help him to procure vital intelligence, and to help local resistance movements in their collective fight against Nazism.

The Shield and the Sword

1968

Ugryum-River poster
5.2

Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become his own man. He takes his fathers order and goes trough the woods to deliver the furs to the byer in the nearest town. He tries to take the shorter way and get`s lost. At the highest point of this, his fathers servant, Abdulla, who is sent with him to guard him almost shoots him driven by hunger, but comes to the senses and saves his life by continuing to go on.

Ugryum-River

1969

When the Trees Were Tall poster
6.8

The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.

When the Trees Were Tall

1961

Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show poster
4.7

Young detective investigates a complex crime starting with two movie tickets found in the pocket of one of the criminals.

Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show

1967

Andromeda Nebula poster
5.6

Humans on spaceship named "Tantra" are exploring the unknown part of the Universe. The spaceship gets trapped by the mysterious Iron Star, and the Iron Star's powerful force of gravity is to hold the spaceship for 20 years. The humans are facing a very tough survival challenge.

Andromeda Nebula

1967

A Tale of Don poster
5.0

Wife of the Red cossack Yakov Shibalok turns out to be a spy of the Whites, as she confesses to him during childbirth. Now Yakov is faced with a difficult choice between revolutionary duty and love for his wife. Based on short stories by Mikhail Sholokhov.

A Tale of Don

1964

Year as Long as Life poster
7.0

The film takes place in Europe in the 19th century. The film shows the popular uprisings that took place there, as well as the search for truth and the confrontation of Karl Marx and opponents of the revolution.

Year as Long as Life

1965

Two Lives poster
7.0

In the center of the film - two lives, two destinies. A simple, illiterate soldier Vostrikov of the Tsar's Army during the years of Soviet power grew into a devoted fighter of the revolution, he became a general of the Soviet Army, respected by all. A guards officer, a brilliant prince Naschyokin, who fought against Soviet power, emigrated from his native country and eventually became a lackey in a port restaurant.

Two Lives

1961

Morning Trains poster
7.5

The film is about the working youth of a giant factory in Moscow - the story of a young girl Asya, who had to endure a lot of disappointments before she found true friends

Morning Trains

1963

Virinea poster
7.2

A life of a countryside woman Virineya during the October Revolution in Russia in 1917.

Virinea

1969

Spring on the Oder poster
7.7

The action unfolds in the last months of the WWII in Germany. Major Lubentsova meets a military doctor Tanya Koltsova, with whom once, in 1941, they once got out of the encirclement together. After that, their paths diverged. But in April 1945, during the forcing of the Oder, they found themselves together again.

Spring on the Oder

1968

No artwork available
NR

Based on the novel of the same name by E. Hemingway.

A Farewell to Arms

1967

Chase poster
NR

Screen adaptation of Yuri Nagibin's novel of the same name about a gamekeeper who pursues a poacher.

Chase

1966

Four Winds of Heaven poster
5.3

A young girl Svetlana just arrived to the small town when a war begun. Her fiancé Igor did not meet Svetlana so she stayed alone to wait for him.

Four Winds of Heaven

1962

A Little Crane poster
5.6

About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life. After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's husband, whom she had been waiting for for so many years, would never return. Marfa, a beautiful and proud woman, remains true to her only love.

A Little Crane

1969

Across Rus' poster
7.0

Based on Maxim Gorky's early autobiographical short stories "One Day in Autumn", "Konovalov", "Twenty Six and One", "My Companion", "The Conclusion", "On the Salt", "Woman".

Across Rus'

1968

Series credits

The Private School poster
6.1

An elite private school conceals dark secrets. When a teacher disappears, students embark on a perilous journey, facing obstacles and revelations before the gripping conclusion.

The Private School

2011

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

1971

Legends of Cinema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Legends of Cinema

2016

Legends of Cinema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Legends of Cinema

2016

Горячев и другие poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Горячев и другие

1993

Black Room poster
6.2

The black room. Enclosed space. The action unfolds as if slowly. You understand that every word, every gesture of the heroes have a special, secret, as yet absolutely incomprehensible meaning. But you feel: you can't miss a single nuance. There are two or three heroes in each novel. There is a real drama between them, which ends with an explosion. Sometimes figuratively, and sometimes literally. Time is continuous: there is no yesterday and tomorrow.

Black Room

2000

The Adjutant of His Excellency poster
7.7

Yuri Solomin in the military-adventure film about the fate of red scout Koltsov, who in 1919 was sent with the special sssignments into Denikin's army headquarters, where he became adjutant of the commander. The film not only tells about the operations brilliantly conducted by Koltsov, but also reveals the complex inner world of characters who lived in the controversial and tragic time.

The Adjutant of His Excellency

1970

Drop Dead Diva poster
10.0

Russian-Ukrainian remake of the US-series.

Drop Dead Diva

2013

Long Road in the Dunes poster
7.5

The action of the film takes place in Latvia and spans the period from 1939 to the early 1970s. The events that occurred in the country had various effects on the fates of the characters. But throughout it all, love guided them — it scattered and gathered, made them suffer terribly, and made them the happiest people in the world...

Long Road in the Dunes

1982

Дыши со мной poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Дыши со мной

2010

Чужая кровь poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Чужая кровь

2018

He's All That poster
7.0

The story takes place in one of the Siberian timber enterprises, where investigator Prokhorov from Moscow arrives to look into the murder of a young worker—tractor driver Evgeny Stoeletov.

He's All That

1978

Так не бывает poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Так не бывает

2018

Анатомия убийства poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Анатомия убийства

2019

Personal Happiness poster
NR

The distinctive traits of the Doroshin family are hard work, courage, and principledness. Pavel Nikolaevich is a war veteran and the chief engineer of a factory, while Anastasia Mikhailovna is the head of a university department and an active participant in the partisan movement. Their eldest son, Ilya, a sanitary doctor, demands the closure of one of the city's enterprises. However, war criminals, who are hiding from retribution, know that the Gestapo archives are hidden in the building's basement and fear that the documents might be discovered. Terrified of exposure, they try to prevent Ilya from carrying out this action and attempt to discredit the Doroshins.

Personal Happiness

1977

Ugryum-River poster
6.4

Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become his own man. He takes his fathers order and goes trough the woods to deliver the furs to the byer in the nearest town. He tries to take the shorter way and get`s lost. At the highest point of this, his fathers servant, Abdulla, who is sent with him to guard him almost shoots him driven by hunger, but comes to the senses and saves his life by continuing to go on.

Ugryum-River

1969

The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin

1991

Застава poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Застава

2007

Потерявшие солнце poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Потерявшие солнце

2005

Hunting the Gauletier poster
1.0

In 1941 Minsk is overrun by the Germans and social order is obliterated. Choices must be made - cooperate with the occupying forces or resist? A mini-series about surviving in the most uncertain times.

Hunting the Gauletier

2012

Orlova and Aleksandrov poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Orlova and Aleksandrov

2015

The Trap poster
8.0

A box of jewelry belonging to a woman murdered two decades ago is found in a drain pipe. While reporting the story, Vera, the newscaster, begins to have flashbacks. Did she know this woman? Both she and the police want to know.

The Trap

2009

Детектив на миллион poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Детектив на миллион

2020

No artwork available
NR

17th century. In the dense Siberian taiga, lives the Shlykov family of Old Believers. They guard an ancient, miraculous icon that has saved them from harm on numerous occasions. The icon formerly belonged to the boyar Morozov and came into their possession after his arrest. Rumors of the numerous miracles performed by this icon spread far and wide. The memory of the icon has endured for centuries.

Miraculous

2025

V.I.Lenin. Pages of Life poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

V.I.Lenin. Pages of Life

1983

A Place in the Sun poster
NR

An unexpected tragedy befalls ballerina Ekaterina Orlova: her husband is shot in the head before her very eyes.

A Place in the Sun

2004

Другая жизнь poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Другая жизнь

2003

No artwork available
NR

Based on the novel of the same name by Anna Knyazeva. The comfortable, orderly life of a Zamoskvoretsky VIP atelier is shattered overnight. Its owner, Nadezhda Raukh, finds herself embroiled in a mysterious incident: an important client's briefcase disappears from the fitting room, followed by her disappearance. Due to confidentiality, security officer Lev Astrakhansky investigates the incident. Accusing Nadezhda of all mortal sins, he soon discovers that the crime has historical ramifications…

Ghosts of Zamoskvorechye

2019

Mockumentary poster
5.0

Yulia Zaitseva has been dreaming of world recognition since childhood, but she is not lucky with roles in any way — the girl is offered to star only in cheap soap operas. She is sincerely convinced that her talent is worthy of an Oscar, but how can famous directors pay attention to her? Julia blames her troubles on the wayward acting agent Misha, who has been working with her for many years and is trying to find a worthwhile role for her.

Mockumentary

2022

Купель дьявола poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Купель дьявола

2018