Valentina Sperantova

Acting

Valentina Sperantova

Born — Died

1904-11-24 — 1978-01-06

Place of birth

Zaraysk, Zaraysk uyezd, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire [now Zaraysky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia]

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Valentina A. Sperantova (1904-1978) — was a Soviet theater and film actress. She was the People's artist of USSR (1970) and a member of the CPSU since 1953.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 14 titles

When a Man is Around poster
8.0

Dina is 32 years old. She is a brilliant surgeon, works in a maternity hospital, and lives alone with her sister Marga. Once in the hospital, a woman refused a child. Dina adopted a baby, and unexpected troubles changed the lives of both sisters. Meanwhile, the conscientious Marga, secretly from Dina, began to look for Seryozha's father — what if they rushed to adopt, because the father knows nothing about his son. And soon Dmitry Savich began to visit their house often. He had actually met Seryozha's mother once and was now ready to take an active part in raising his son.

When a Man is Around

1978

The Page of Life poster
NR

The young worker Boris learned a lot in his profession, but the development of technology and meetings with people who have received special education convince him of the need to continue his studies.

The Page of Life

1972

Responsible for Everything poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Responsible for Everything

1972

Long Journey To The Sea poster
NR

"He is going to the sea with Her to spend their holidays and celebrate the wedding. An old woman is in the compartment with them. She tells them about her son, whom she is going to visit. The young people decide to celebrate the wedding right now, on the train. When they come to the sea, they see the old woman again not far from the beach. She says to Him: "Hello, son! It's me, your mother... "

Long Journey To The Sea

1976

The Long Recess poster
7.3

A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.

The Long Recess

1972

Letter from Youth poster
9.0

Like all teenagers during the Great Patriotic war, Vasya was eager to go to the front. He enters diving school, but upon graduation, the guy is sent to help clear the lake of driftwood. Vasya, who dreams of the front, finds it difficult to get used to the “rear prose”...

Letter from Youth

1974

Pushkin's Fairy Tales poster
NR

A.S. Pushkin's fairy tales "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" and "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Heroes" staged by the actors of the Central Children's Theater.

Pushkin's Fairy Tales

1973

A Long, Long Case... poster
5.5

A murder just happened and it seems the answer is simple on who and how did it. But a casual talk between suspect's mother and prosecutor sets a different point of view on a just opened case.

A Long, Long Case...

1977

The Cool Guy poster
6.0

Soviet engineer Viktor Loginov, who came to one of the East as a technical representative of the Minsk Automobile Plant, had to take part in an international rally due to the illness of a professional racer. Among the experienced aces from other countries, Victor was a beginner. Many representatives of foreign firms are interested in losing in the most difficult struggle. This would give an occasion to close the path to the world market for the new Soviet machine. But courage, mutual assistance and self-confidence help Victor overcome all stages of the most difficult path, where the danger came from both nature and people.

The Cool Guy

1972

What a Smile You Got poster
7.5

Sergey Savinov, a yesterday's schoolboy, who failed at his entry exams, is at the crossroads. Where to go to work? After working as a stand-by in a local recreation-and-entertainment park, he tries himself as a proof-reader in typography, a laboratory assistant in a plant and exhausts all his stock of photos for passes. To replenish it, he heads for a nearest photo saloon, and makes a conclusion, that his calling, which he long considered as a hobby, is photography. A work which brings so much happiness both to him and to other people.

What a Smile You Got

1974

No artwork available
NR

Literature teacher Dmitry Alekseevich has a free hour between classes. But even during this time, he continues to worry about his students' problems and their relationships with their parents. A real teacher has no free time.

The Free Hour

1972

The Grandfather of the Left Winger poster
NR

Trofim Bessarab has been working as a house painter for all his life. He is a pensioner now and it seems that he can let himself have a rest. But idleness is not for Trofim. His nature is to be a working man and he looks for the way to apply his irrepressible energy, he possesses despite his age.

The Grandfather of the Left Winger

1973

Three Days in Moscow poster
7.7

A romantic comedy about young provincial policeman Ivan Fedotov's advenures in Moscow.

Three Days in Moscow

1975

Merry Magic poster
8.0

Funny adventures of a young girl Katya and her friends in a land of magic.

Merry Magic

1976

1960s · 18 titles

The Adventures of Full Stop and Comma poster
6.5

The revived punctuation marks stand guard over fair play.

The Adventures of Full Stop and Comma

1965

The Grey Illness poster
6.0

One day, doctors Speransky and Nikulin made an outstanding scientific discovery: they discovered the bacillus of indifference and ignorance. To describe its action, one of them selflessly instills it in himself.

The Grey Illness

1966

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

Uncle Stepa is a Policeman poster
7.0

Cartoon about Uncle Stepa-a policeman — a valiant, friendly and very high defender of law and order. The film adaptation of the poem of the same name by Sergei Mikhalkov.

Uncle Stepa is a Policeman

1964

Lenusya poster
NR

One-man show based on Anatoli Aleksin’s story “The Night Before the Wedding.”

Lenusya

1968

Next To You poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Next To You

1967

Last Month of Autumn poster
5.7

An older couple have four children who left them long ago. Tired of waiting for letters which never arrive, the father takes a trip to see how the children are doing.

Last Month of Autumn

1966

Главный звёздный poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Главный звёздный

1966

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man poster
7.2

On September 1, the first day of school, a happy young boy named Fedya draws a picture of a little man on a white wall using coal.

It Was I Who Drew the Little Man

1960

The Most, the Most, the Most poster
9.5

Many different birds and animals have long settled on the shores of Lake Chad. One day they decided to choose a king for themselves and chose Lion. They called him the bravest, the strongest, the wisest and the most beautiful. Then a son was born to the Lion and the Lioness - a little Lion Cub. When the Lion Cub could walk by himself, he met a hyena who told the Lion Cub that he was a Lion, which means he was the king of animals, which means he was the bravest, strongest, wisest, most beautiful.

The Most, the Most, the Most

1966

Eaglet poster
NR

Based on the famous Soviet song "Orlyonok" about a young trumpeter - a hero of the Civil War.

Eaglet

1968

Half A Hour For Miracles poster
8.0

The boy Fedya met mysterious The Wall Painter, who gave him his magic brush, with which anybody could do good deeds. But only for a half of hour. The agents of the evil king - The Gray and Abricadabr - hunt for boy. They want to destroy the magic brush and cancel all good deeds in the world

Half A Hour For Miracles

1968

Golden Feather poster
NR

The sorceress decides to teach the princess a lesson, who played an evil joke on her. Cartoon based on an Italian fairy tale.

Golden Feather

1960

Lyubushka poster
6.7

Bandits took away a beautiful horse from peasant Nikita Lykov and left him a nag instead. The peasant began to nurse the horse, which turned out to be a famous Oryol trotter named Lyubushka.

Lyubushka

1961

Тихая семейка poster
NR

A writer who wants to see and display the life of an ordinary bourgeois settles in the house. Having learned about the true goals of the guest, the family members decide to play a prank on him, making him believe that a gang of crooks and gangsters is hiding in the depths of the "quiet family".

Тихая семейка

1969

A Noisy Day poster
5.9

On an ordinary Moscow street, a family lives together in an unremarkable house: a mother and four children. But one "fine" day in this family there is a violent conflict over the furniture with which the apartment is packed. However, furniture is just an excuse. In fact, two worldviews collide, different ideas about life values...

A Noisy Day

1961

A Case from Investigative Practice poster
5.8

Makartsev, who is serving a sentence for theft, suddenly confesses to a murder he once committed. The case is entrusted to investigator Sukhareva, who in the course of the investigation becomes convinced that many of the possible participants in the murder have put an end to their criminal past. However, some of them deny their involvement in the murder, which, as it turns out, and was not. The victim of the crime, whom everyone thought was murdered, is alive. The court must find out the degree of guilt of people who have long repented for the crime they committed.

A Case from Investigative Practice

1968

Two Comrades Were Serving poster
6.9

Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day.

Two Comrades Were Serving

1968

1950s · 11 titles

The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights poster
6.8

Animated film based on the story of Alexander Pushkin. The new king's wife wants to get rid of their stepdaughter and expels it to certain death in the forest. Princess finds refuge in the forest in the seven bogatyrs. The queen, finds out about it and poisons her...

The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights

1951

The Tale About Malchish-Kibalchish poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Tale About Malchish-Kibalchish

1958

Petia and Little Red Riding Hood poster
7.7

A boy finds his way into the Little Red Riding Hood cartoon in order to save the girl from the Big Bad Wolf.

Petia and Little Red Riding Hood

1958

The Enchanted Boy poster
7.4

An animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf and goes through many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese.

The Enchanted Boy

1955

The Golden Antelope poster
7.1

It is a screen version of an Indian national fairy tale. Malicious and greedy rajah wishes to get a wonderful antelope who strikes gold coins by hoofs. The country boy rescues an antelope, but rajah, threatening the boy, compels the antelope to serve him but he is severely punished for it.

The Golden Antelope

1954

The Birthday Party poster
NR

The boy fights the demon to save the shepherd brother and the flock. Animated version of the Dagestan fairy tale.

The Birthday Party

1959

A Magic Saving Stick poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

A Magic Saving Stick

1956

Alyosha Ptitsyn Develops Character poster
5.0

Alyosha Ptitsyn, a third-grader decides that he wants to improve his personality and immediately starts to act.

Alyosha Ptitsyn Develops Character

1953

Flight to the Moon poster
6.3

A boy is by an accident a member of a crew that is going to travel to the moon.

Flight to the Moon

1953

Adventures of Murzilka poster
7.0

The fabulous journalist Murzilka, while on vacation, receives a telegram from the magazine's editor-in-chief in which Murzilka is instructed to make a photo portrait of a good boy or child inventor for the cover of the new issue.

Adventures of Murzilka

1956

The Secret of the Far Away Island poster
NR

The adventures of the pioneer Petya, the islander Doom and the scientific Soviet submarine in the southern seas. The boy Doom lived on the island, he was looking for pearls in the sea. Grandfather showed him the knife of their ancestor, Chief Batuallo. On the handle was scraped an island, and on it a mountain with two peaks. The grandfather said that there are many pearls around this island, and Doom sailed for a search. A thunderstorm began, and the boat dumped once to this island, but there a large shark attacked him.

The Secret of the Far Away Island

1958

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