Nina Ruslanova

Acting

Nina Ruslanova

Born 1945-12-05 · Bogodukhov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Soviet and Russian theatre and film actress, Nina Ivanovna Ruslanova, made her on-screen debut in Kira Muratova's 1967 film "Brief Encounters" after studying at the Kharkiv Theatre Institute for a year. In 1998, she was honored with the "People's Artist of Russia" award. She appeared in over 150 films throughout her nearly 50 year career. She died in 2021 due to COVID-19 complications.

Acting credits

Forbidden Empire poster
5.9

Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.

Forbidden Empire

2014

The Vultures on the Road poster
3.3

The Vultures on the Road - an organized gang of robbers and murderers, which includes even the police. They kill the truck driver's friend, whose wife is expecting a baby. The police (which is cooperating with the bandits), of course, does nothing, so he begins to take revenge on the scum, crushing their cars by his truck.

The Vultures on the Road

1990

Branded poster
4.7

In a dystopian future, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy leads to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.

Branded

2012

My Love poster
7.1

In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.

My Love

2006

Waiting for a Miracle poster
5.5

The story of a young girl who believes in miracles. The guys do not pay any attention to her, at work, her ideas are stolen and used, friends consider her a little strange, but the young girl does not lose heart and continues to believe in a prince on a white horse. And one day he appears. Handsome, young, he is subject to magic, and henceforth her feelings. How now not to believe in a fairy tale when she herself was in it?... The long-awaited prince will make her life truly magical.

Waiting for a Miracle

2007

Big Trap, or solo for cat under full moon poster
7.0

A large government official from Moscow, having come to rest at home, falls into a trap organized for him by two sisters working in the former state house. Sincerely falling in love with one of them, he does not suspect that he is becoming the object of blackmail ...

Big Trap, or solo for cat under full moon

1992

A Family Affair poster
10.0

After fifteen years of wandering, Ivan Shalnev returned to his native village for the summer. Autumn arrived quickly. He hadn't managed to accomplish everything he had planned. But he realized where his happiness lay, and he stayed forever...

A Family Affair

1980

Return of Budulai poster
6.5

A continuation of a saga about Budulai started in "Gypsy" (1979).

Return of Budulai

1986

Gypsy poster
6.0

A story about old Gypsy man Budulay, his troubled life and the difficult love to Russian woman.

Gypsy

1980

Heart of a Dog poster
7.9

In 1920s Moscow, shortly after the October Revolution, a stray dog named Sharik is taken in by Professor Preobrazhensky, a wealthy and respected surgeon. The professor performs a daring medical experiment on the dog that changes him into a human being. As the newly transformed Sharikov begins to navigate life in the professor’s apartment, his crude behavior and revolutionary ideas turn the household upside down.

Heart of a Dog

1988

Mother poster
NR

The film "Mama" is one of Gennadiy Karyuk’s first directorial works. It tells the story of two women who meet while on vacation. One lost her daughter long ago; the other bears a striking resemblance to her. Is it a mirage, a mistake, or fate? The director tells the story not through dialogue, but by prioritizing visual imagery and editing.

Mother

1968

Afonya poster
7.7

Afonya Borshev is a plumber who drinks a lot, flirts a lot and doesn't care too much about tomorrow. His wife left him, his boss placed him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. When Afonya met Katya at a dance club he didn't pay her much attention, yet she may be the only one who can help him.

Afonya

1975

Chinese Grandma poster
5.3

The life of two old people Katya and Pasha is turning upside down after arrival of Katya's sister Mila who is definitely not an ordinary average person...

Chinese Grandma

2010

Brief Encounters poster
5.9

Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya's apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell in love with her currently absent husband, a geologist named Maksim, when he had visited Nadia's village during a recent expedition.

Brief Encounters

1967

Chekhovian Motifs poster
4.4

The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.

Chekhovian Motifs

2002

The Tuner poster
6.5

A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.

The Tuner

2005

Afghan Breakdown poster
5.2

During the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under the command of Major Bandura are joined by Steklov, the son of a high-ranking officer.

Afghan Breakdown

1991

An Amazing Find, Or the Most Ordinary Miracles poster
10.0

A young boy suddenly finds a magic bolt which makes him incredibly brave.

An Amazing Find, Or the Most Ordinary Miracles

1986

Tomorrow Was the War poster
6.4

This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The main characters of the film are ordinary Soviet high school students. They study in the Soviet school, try to be correct and ideological Komsomol activists. But not always the “correctness” suggested by the teachers coincides with the inner convictions of young souls - it is difficult for them to come to terms with the fact that their relatives and loved ones are suddenly “enemies of the people”.

Tomorrow Was the War

1987

The Black Monk poster
3.8

Man who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy.

The Black Monk

1988

Until We Meet Again! poster
NR

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. The fates of two friends, Lyusia and Lyuka, unfold in different ways. Lyusia is a person of strong character and constancy in her affections. Lyuka, relying solely on her beauty, sought by any means to achieve her chosen goal — to become an actress. The friends meet again after the war. Lyusia finds her true happiness, while Lyuka never manages to find her place in life.

Until We Meet Again!

1973

Khrustalyov, My Car! poster
6.0

Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".

Khrustalyov, My Car!

1999

The Irony of Fate: Continuation poster
4.8

Thirty years have passed since Zhenya and Nadya met—they broke up, and Nadya moved to Leningrad. The friends still go to the bathhouse, and now they are joined by Konstantin, Zhenya's son. Uncle Pasha and Uncle Sasha persuade Kostya to arrange a New Year's miracle for his father and send him to St. Petersburg. Nadya's daughter lives at that very address, and on the same day, her fiancé, Irakli, is planning to propose to her.

The Irony of Fate: Continuation

2007

Fighter's Night poster
5.0

Crazy? A maniac? Or the devil, clothed in the flesh of a cyber fighter, dreamed of by sixteen-year-old Lisa, who is obsessed with computer games? The cast-iron manhole cover is shifted, and Someone comes out of the infernal depths of the basement… That night, in the walls of the old confectionery factory, the virtual becomes real… That night, the deserted workshops turn into labyrinths of a tough game that Lisa has to play ... games without rules. GAMES WHERE "EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE"…

Fighter's Night

2009