Aleksandra Denisova

Acting

Aleksandra Denisova

Born — Died

1904-09-23 — 1987-04-13

Place of birth

Moscow, Russian Empire

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Known for

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Fuse

1962

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears poster
7.5

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

1980

The Elusive Revengers poster
6.9

Danka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village brutally ends when their father is killed by a White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge, they join forces with Valerka, an intellectual from big city, and the gipsy Yashka, but before they can get close to their enemy they have to help their village and the advancing Red Army.

The Elusive Revengers

1967

Viy poster
6.9

A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.

Viy

1967

Quiet Flows the Don poster
6.3

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

Quiet Flows the Don

1957

Nylon 100% poster
5.7

An adventures of a 100% nylon "fur" coat traveling between various people.

Nylon 100%

1973

Film credits

1970s · 10 titles

Nylon 100% poster
5.7

An adventures of a 100% nylon "fur" coat traveling between various people.

Nylon 100%

1973

Kysh and TwoBriefcases poster
7.0

The heroes of the film are first-graders Snezhana and Alyosha Seroglazov, who received the nickname "TwoBriefcases" because of his small stature on the first day of attending school, as well as a small puppy Kysh.

Kysh and TwoBriefcases

1974

Life on a Sinful Earth poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Life on a Sinful Earth

1973

Bridges Over Oblivion poster
7.0

Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”

Bridges Over Oblivion

1970

Telegram poster
5.3

Six-graders Tosha and Kostya are trying to deliver the WWII telegram they accidentally find.

Telegram

1972

The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya poster
6.4

A tavern on Pyatnitskaya street is a meeting place for all kind of criminals. The only way for police to infiltrate the criminals is to send an undercover agent to the tavern.

The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya

1978

The Potter's Wheel poster
NR

A film crew arrives for a three-day shoot in a village in the Yaroslavl region to film a documentary about an old master potter, Mikhail Lukich Bolotnikov.

The Potter's Wheel

1974

Obelisk poster
7.0

During the German occupation, Belarusian teacher Ales Moroz does not abandon his students, instilling in them a sense of determination and courage. One day, the students disobey their teacher and decide to avenge their parents. As a result of a failed attempt on the lives of Nazi henchmen, the children are taken prisoner. Unable to find support from the partisans, Ales decides to share the fate of his students and surrenders to the enemy, which after the war is considered treason. Only one of his students, Pavel Miklashevich, miraculously survives until Victory Day. Continuing his teacher's work, Pavel devotes his life to restoring the good name of Ales Moroz.

Obelisk

1977

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Мячик и мальчик

1971

Происшествие poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Происшествие

1974

1960s · 16 titles

The Elusive Revengers poster
6.9

Danka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village brutally ends when their father is killed by a White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge, they join forces with Valerka, an intellectual from big city, and the gipsy Yashka, but before they can get close to their enemy they have to help their village and the advancing Red Army.

The Elusive Revengers

1967

Viy poster
6.9

A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.

Viy

1967

Come Back to Baikal poster
6.0

Television crews arrive in a fishing area to film a report about fishermen and the advanced farm of Chairman Kalach. On the way, they are intercepted by Senka Lapin and his friends. Their goal is to show the beauty of the amazing Lake Baikal and the monstrous working and living conditions of the fishermen...

Come Back to Baikal

1966

A Shot in the Fog poster
7.0

The very first work of a young scientist Igor Panteleyev caused a sensation. Not surprisingly, they are interested in foreign intelligence. Soviet security officers are taking measures to protect the scientist. The name of Panteleyev disappears from the pages of newspapers and magazines. The scientist is transferred to work in another research institute, changing his surname to Evdokimov. But due to chance, foreign spies found a researcher.

A Shot in the Fog

1964

Tashkent, City of Bread poster
5.5

Beautifully shot in black and white, and scripted by Tarkovsky's collaborator Andrei Konchalovsky, this powerful melodrama tells the story of a young boy who undertakes the perilous journey to Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent, to earn some money for his hungry family. Filming in the periphery of the Soviet Union, in a time of relative political relaxation, director Shukhrat Abbasov actually dared to depict the poverty and famine that resulted from the Bolshevik Revolution.

Tashkent, City of Bread

1968

Come Tomorrow... poster
6.5

Frosya Burlakova, a talented young woman from a remote Siberian village comes to Moscow with dreams of becoming a professional singer.

Come Tomorrow...

1962

A Leap Year poster
10.0

On the streets of the regional city, a cheerful holiday bustle reigns. The apartment of the Kupriyanovs is also noisy — friends of their youngest daughter Yulka are preparing for the New Year. The old driver Leonid Kupriyanov will not have to celebrate the holiday with his family, he should go on the next trip. Preparing for the New Year, none of the heroes imagined what dramatic events would fall on them, how difficult and unexpectedly the destinies of three families would intertwine, how difficult it would be to recover from their experiences ...

A Leap Year

1961

Strange People poster
4.6

A comedy based on three short novels by Vasiliy Shukshin.

Strange People

1969

Yurka, the Pantsless Team poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yurka, the Pantsless Team

1961

My Dream poster
NR

In Dzhezkazgan, to work in the mines, come Sapar and Sharip, just that graduated from school, but did not enter the institute. Sapar - a hot, enthusiastic and responsive young man, and Sharip - a style and cynic. About how their further fate, about how both of them found their place in life and became good miners, and tells the film.

My Dream

1966

Rasplyuev's Days of Fun poster
7.0

A clerk fakes his own death in order to get a big fortune.

Rasplyuev's Days of Fun

1966

Southern Cross is Above Us poster
10.0

In a small seaside town lived two friends—the feisty Fedka Boiko and the thoughtful, quiet Vovka. One day, the boys called a doctor to visit a sick person and began to visit him. That is how an extraordinary person entered their lives — polar pilot Pavel Ivanovich Fedoseenko, who turned out to be a shortwave radio amateur. From him, the boys learned about distant Antarctica for the first time — and vowed to become polar explorers. In the Antarctic village of Mirny, polar explorers Vladimir Sazonov and Fyodor Boyko meet—old friends who haven't seen each other in many years, who reminisce about their childhood in a southern coastal town and the romance of long-distance radio communications on short radio waves.

Southern Cross is Above Us

1965

The Royal Hares poster
NR

Based on the eponymous fairy tale by Peter Asbjørnsen, this is the story of a young man named Hans, who is given a magical flute that can shepherd any living creature. The King's daughter wishes for hares, and Hans agrees to help. However, soon he finds himself in trouble when the royal family wish for the flute itself. With quick thinking and a few tricks up his sleeve, Hans must navigate the whims of the royal court and protect himself from their avaricious intentions.

The Royal Hares

1960

Mister Twister poster
NR

The screenplay is based on the short story of the same name by Vil Lipatov. It tells the story of a man with a difficult past who comes to a village in search of happiness, hoping to do good for others to the best of his abilities and talents.

Mister Twister

1969

Love of Serafim Frolov poster
7.0

The first post-war years. Serafim Frolov visits a girl he knows by correspondence. But she still remembers and loves her fiance, who died at the front. Serafim does everything to win her love...

Love of Serafim Frolov

1969

Key Witness poster
8.5

Vasily Kapluntsev, a burgher, died suddenly. Experts found poison in his body, and now his young wife Maria Kapluntseva is accused of murder. The main witness at the trial is the Kapluntsevs' neighbor, Vasily's friend and Maria's lover.

Key Witness

1969

1950s · 17 titles

Quiet Flows the Don poster
6.3

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

Quiet Flows the Don

1957

The Captain's Daughter poster
5.5

A tale based on a classic novel by Alexander Pushkin.

The Captain's Daughter

1958

The Quarrel in Lukashi poster
6.1

Victor Ace loves to sing, but is forced to become a car mechanic. Lisa dreams of urban life, but lives in a village. Kostya Lastochkin is an excellent mechanic, but he serves in the army and comes home only on vacation.

The Quarrel in Lukashi

1959

Incident in the Taiga poster
8.0

Young scientist is going to taiga for his experiments but meets poachers on the way.

Incident in the Taiga

1954

Mumu poster
8.0

The film tells about the dumb serf and his faithful dog Mumu.

Mumu

1959

Other People's Relatives poster
4.3

The young machine operator Fyodor Soloveikov marries Stesha from a neighboring village and moves to live with her parents in a house. Young and energetic, he suffocates in the petty bourgeois world of the family, living away from collective farm life. Quarrels arise between young people, where old men pour oil of discord. Not receiving proper support from his wife, Fyodor leaves home.

Other People's Relatives

1956

Happiness Must Be Protected poster
NR

Returning to his native village at the end of his military service, Victor (Yuri Sarantsev) brought his bride into the house - and soon they got married. Victor works on the collective farm with great enthusiasm, he is appointed a foreman, but the happiness of old Danila, Victor’s father, is overshadowed by dirty gossip - as if Victor’s father is not he, but Shandybovich, whose unseemly deeds were recently exposed by Victor.

Happiness Must Be Protected

1958

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

Knock on Any Door poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Knock on Any Door

1958

Little Friend poster
7.8

Funny adventures of two best friends Mishka and Kolya and their dog called Little Friend.

Little Friend

1958

The Variegateds Case poster
5.7

Sergey's girlfriend desperately wants him to quit dangerous police job. But Sergey doesn't want to abandon his new case which proves to be quite difficult.

The Variegateds Case

1958

A Weary Road poster
6.0

The station keeper Kruglikov was exiled to a remote Siberian village many years ago for shooting his superior, a general, who demanded that he go with him as a matchmaker to Kruglikov's favorite girl, Raya. A political exile is brought to the station. She turns out to be Raya. For a few minutes the former bride and groom were together, and then she was taken away again.

A Weary Road

1956

On the Other Side poster
8.0

1921, Far East. Two Komsomol members, Matveyev and Bezais, must cross the front line near Khabarovsk to give the partisans money and a coded message. In Khabarovsk, Matveyev wants to meet a girl, Liza, with whom he is in love, but a serious injury disrupts his plans...

On the Other Side

1958

The Parasite poster
4.5

After a long absence from St. Petersburg, a young landowner Yeletskaya comes to her estate with her husband.

The Parasite

1953

Strict Woman poster
5.0

Khrystyna Zhalyuk, the chairman of the village council, has had many difficulties from the very first days of her work. The first session of the village council is disrupted due to the fault of the collective farm chairman Spyridon Zhilinka, who pretended to be sick and did not show up at the meeting. Khristina's daughter Yulka is accused of calf death and suspended from work. Makar Shulga, the former chairman of the village council, who has now settled in the district center, is weaving intrigues against Khristina. Zhalyuk discovers that Zhilinka and Shulga were engaged in eyewash, overestimating the yields of some crops.

Strict Woman

1959

Stubborn Dough poster
NR

The grandmother is torn at home and does not have time to do several things at once. She urgently needs to go to the store, and she put the dough. So that the dough does not run away, the grandmother asks to take care her granddaughter Zhenya. It would seem that nothing complicated, but Zhenya has more important things, such as to take a walk, play with her friends, and therefore she puts the grandmother's request on a dog. The dog also does not want to guard the dough, and therefore he delegates this important task to the cat. The cat is even more lazy to engage in such nonsense, and she has to ask the mouse to look after the household. As a result, the stubborn dough ran away, and now you need to know where to look for it.

Stubborn Dough

1955

The Lesson of Life poster
6.4

On falling in love with Sergey, Natasha gives up studies at a pedagogical institute and accompanies him to a construction site. In a course of time she realizes that her husband is interested only in his work. She leaves him, graduates from the institute and works as a teacher. But Sergey is fired for authoritative style of work and Natasha realizes that she must be near to him in his hour of need.

The Lesson of Life

1955

1940s · 7 titles

Native Fields poster
6.5

November 1941. One by one, the men leave, leaving only old men, women and children in the village of Bykovka. Ivan Vybornov, the chairman of the collective farm, is also raring to go to the front, but, obeying party discipline, remains in the village and continues to skillfully and energetically lead the collective farm, mobilizing fellow villagers to send bread for the front and starving cities.

Native Fields

1945

The Old Jockey poster
4.7

About Trofimov, a well-known rider who goes on taking part in races in spite of the advanced age, until he realizes his time has gone and passes his experience on to his granddaughter’s fiance

The Old Jockey

1941

The Train Goes East poster
5.9

On the evening of May 9, 1945, when Moscow is noisily and cheerfully celebrating the Victory Day, a young girl agronomist Zina Sokolova and a sailor officer Lavrentyev meet in the compartment of the Moscow-Vladivostok train. The sailor takes the lively, direct character of the girl for windiness and frivolity. Sokolova also reacted frowningly and mockingly to the satellite. To get to know each other better, travelers are helped by nuisance: they are behind the train, and the rest of the way they are together, getting to know people and the life of the country along the way.

The Train Goes East

1948

The Miraculous Bell poster
5.6

Soviet animation film based on the Russian folk tale " Daughter and stepmother".

The Miraculous Bell

1949

The Taras Family poster
6.2

A semi-sequel to Donskoi's Raduga (1944), the story is set in Nazi-occupied Kyiv. The drama focusses on the travails of a typical Soviet family and on the efforts by the Germans to force the reopening of a local munitions factory.

The Taras Family

1945

Actress poster
5.4

Zoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded major Peter Nikolayevich Markov.

Actress

1943

Geese-Swans poster
6.2

With a help of good nature a young brave girl goes to the dark forest for saving her youngest brother abducted by Baba Yaga.

Geese-Swans

1949

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