Zoya Vasilkova

Acting

Zoya Vasilkova

Born — Died

1926-05-04 — 2008-06-01

Place of birth

Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

An Essay for Victory Day poster
6.2

The heroic crew of the fighter jet reunites a quarter of a century later. Fate has separated these comrades-in-arms, significantly altering their characters and worldviews. One became a radical communist, another became the chairman of the Veterans Fund, and the third lived in exile for many years. At first, the former comrades-in-arms find it difficult to understand each other, but when one of them gets into trouble, the others devise a plan to rescue him.

An Essay for Victory Day

1999

Entrance to Labyrinth poster
4.7

The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika.

Entrance to Labyrinth

1990

Do You Remember the Scent of Lilacs... poster
7.0

A lonely old man and a girl in need of peace and genuine feelings become friends. However, after a while, she is accused of murdering the old man.

Do You Remember the Scent of Lilacs...

1992

Black Clown poster
NR

A little tightrope walker boy named Axel crashed in a circus, but an oriental psychic brings his body back to life. Karl, obsessed with the idea of creating an ideal order in the world, the master of the psychic, buried the corpse of an orphan instead of Axel, and began to teach the boy's body Russian and train for espionage in the service of the Wehrmacht. Axel became a German intelligence officer, a professional of the highest class and soon appeared in his "native" village under the guise of the grandson of the recently deceased Pelagia...

Black Clown

1994

Thy Will, O Lord! poster
NR

The film's characters are Pavel, a successful rake journalist who writes on acute Perestroika topics, and an intelligent but free woman (a doctor by profession) who is trying to escape from unnecessary love. A chance acquaintance becomes the beginning of their long difficult relationship on the way to love and mutual understanding.

Thy Will, O Lord!

1993

1980s · 6 titles

Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov poster
3.7

The protagonist of the film, engineer Barkasov, finds himself in ridiculous and anecdotal situations all day. He is a responsible worker, the head of a large institution and is completely exhausted from pressing urgent matters. On the advice of a doctor, his deputy bought two operetta tickets for his boss and ordered secretary Sofochka to accompany Barkasov at an evening performance...

Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov

1983

Kidnapping of the Century poster
7.0

Two car mechanics friends decide to holiday on the Black Sea coast. The news of the arrival of the "famous masters" excited the residents of the southern town, followed by adventures, misunderstandings and the abduction of one of them.

Kidnapping of the Century

1982

Personality Clash poster
7.3

The psychologist Natalya by the nature of the office activity understands tangled family dramas of everyday life by the clients, finding proper words and arguments. To keep foreign families - her work. However, will of a case, falls to Natalya's lot to endure treachery, jealousy and loneliness. The husband who has fallen in love with the young circus performer has decided to leave her.

Personality Clash

1989

These Are miracles poster
NR

The plot is based on the creation of a folk dance ensemble in the Palace of culture.

These Are miracles

1982

The Extraterrestrial Woman poster
5.2

Extraterrestrial Girl visited Earth. Inventor Blinkov fe in love with her. His love has awakened in her new emotions and feelings but she realized that Blinkov can not live in a different world.

The Extraterrestrial Woman

1984

Scenes from Family Life poster
NR

Katya's life is darkened by a tragic secret: her mother died when her daughter was very young. Suddenly, the girl learns the shocking truth: her mother is alive. The meeting between mother and daughter becomes an emotional challenge for both. On the one hand, intense feelings of joy and love. On the other hand, there is burden and resentment that has accumulated over many years of separation.

Scenes from Family Life

1980

1970s · 23 titles

Ruslan and Ludmila poster
6.6

In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, daughter of Prince Vladimir, the girl is kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Chernomor and the witch Naina. Three of her past suitors set out, as does Ruslan, to rescue Ludmila.

Ruslan and Ludmila

1972

The Red Snowball Tree poster
7.1

A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.

The Red Snowball Tree

1974

Gentlemen of Fortune poster
7.8

Kindergarten teacher Evgeniy Ivanovich Troshkin is reluctantly sent undercover to take the place of an imprisoned thief who stole Alexander the Great's helmet. Evgeniy uses his striking resemblance to the thief to infiltrate his gang and learn the location of the stolen artifact. He finds the gangsters are unexpectedly similar to his students- they also need love and care.

Gentlemen of Fortune

1971

12 Chairs poster
7.6

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.

12 Chairs

1971

The Battle after the Victory poster
4.8

A third part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.

The Battle after the Victory

1972

Crime and Punishment poster
6.0

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1970

Starling and Lyre poster
6.0

Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.

Starling and Lyre

1974

Nylon 100% poster
5.7

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

Nylon 100%

1973

Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair poster
6.7

One day, King Yeremei decides to go on a long hike in order to consider all his areas and compile their register. A well appears on his way home, but as soon as the sovereign bent over him, he was seized by the underwater king Chudo-Yudo and demanded an unusual ransom for his release — that which is in the state of Yeremei, but which he does not know about. The tsar is forced to agree to these conditions, because he thinks that each blade of grass was taken into account in the inventory — he still does not suspect that in his absence the Queen gave birth to him an heir.

Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair

1970

Responsible for Everything poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Responsible for Everything

1972

Olga Sergeevna poster
4.0

The film tells the story of Olga Sergeevna, a renowned oceanographer. Throughout her life, Olga Sergeevna loved only one man, with whom she was never destined to find happiness.

Olga Sergeevna

1975

A Taste of Bread poster
5.0

An exploration of “virgin soil” in Kazakhstan through the stories of a party worker, a agronomist, and the director of a state farm.

A Taste of Bread

1979

No Return poster
6.2

According to the story of the same name by Anatoli Kalinin. The love story of Antonina and the battalion commander Nikitin, whom she sheltered after a severe wound. Antonina Kashirina is wanted to be excluded from the party, accusing the Don Cossack woman living in the territory occupied by the Germans during the war. They don't believe that she hid and treated a wounded Soviet officer. Unable to withstand insulting suspicions, she leaves the party committee bureau. On the way home, Tonya recalls how she picked up a bleeding artillery — the battalion commander Nikitin, she hid him and treated him as she fell in love...

No Return

1974

Shores poster
10.0

The heroes of the cheerful story, consisting as it were of three novellas, dentist Lenochka, lecturer Gudoshnikov and projectionist Sasha sail on a small boat on the northern river Yuve past beautiful places and taiga settlements, where they stop and get acquainted with the locals - kind, cheerful and soulful.

Shores

1973

Incognito from St.Petersburg poster
6.0

A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.

Incognito from St.Petersburg

1978

Deadly Enemy poster
7.5

Soviet power was only established on the Don, and a conflict broke out in the first commune: the wife of the commune’s leader Arseniy Klyukvin, having believed the promises of the white officer, fell in love and went to live with him with the child. She doesn't want to hide her feelings, but unable to withstand the bestial attitude of a white officer, she returns back to the Bolshevik.

Deadly Enemy

1971

Waterdrop in the Sea poster
7.0

About the first school day of the first-grader Vitya Sinitsyn, who withstood with honor all the trials and vicissitudes of fate that befell him on this special day.

Waterdrop in the Sea

1973

With Fun and Courage poster
6.5

After serving in the army, Nikolai Semenov, nicknamed Kurai Tumbleweed by his fellow villagers, returns to the fishing collective farm and goes to work as a mechanic on a seiner.

With Fun and Courage

1974

Birds Over the City poster
8.0

Andryusha and his fifth-grade comrades in a pile of scrap raw materials found poorly bound typewritten pages with the inscription "Attack." The guys enthusiastically read this collection of frontline stories. Their author Bukin, it turns out, lives nearby, in the next quarter. The man is middle-aged and sickly; however, he does not succumb to the blows of fate. He devotes all his strength to the preservation of forest wealth, and in his free time from these worries he continues to write stories, recalling certain episodes of a rich front-line life ...

Birds Over the City

1974

And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning poster
7.3

A drama based on Boris Lavrenev's play "The Rift", telling about the participation of Baltic Fleet sailors in the Bolshevik coup of 1917.

And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning

1971

Belated Flowers poster
4.7

Princess Mariya fell in love with doctor Toporkov, who was treating her, in the recent past the serf of her family. Now he has become a celebrity and is only concerned about buying a new home profitably. He does not notice her love and marries a rich merchant. The princess in love comes to see Toporkov and opens to him. Her strong feeling touches Toporkov’s hardened heart, he leaves his wife and leaves the princess abroad.

Belated Flowers

1970

Earthy Love poster
6.3

A life of a few people during the years before WWII before the events shown in "Destiny" (1977).

Earthy Love

1975

Two Smiles poster
8.0

The first story takes place in February 1945 in Budapest. In the basement of one of the houses, a platoon commander named Kapustin — a former circus performer — meets a Hungarian actor who doesn't speak Russian. Yet they quickly find a common language. The clown Karandash appears in the story. The second story is about a grandmother who didn’t like the circus, but went there for the sake of her grandson…

Two Smiles

1971

1960s · 21 titles

The Tale of Tsar Saltan poster
6.8

Driven from the court by her sisters' scheming, the young Tsarina is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son. Surviving the storm-tossed voyage, the mother and her now magically-adult son land on a remote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form, and longs for reunion with his estranged father, Tsar Saltan. Merchants come to the island with news of the tsar, and the prince sends word back to him, but the sisters continue their campaign of lies and trickery to keep them apart.

The Tale of Tsar Saltan

1967

Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka poster
7.2

The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.

Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka

1961

Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes poster
6.2

Fairytale about heroic Vasya and beautiful Alenushka.

Through Fire, Water and... Brass Pipes

1968

My Younger Brother poster
5.9

School is over, final exams are behind — and Dima was the first to think of waving away from home. The convictions of his elder brother Viktor about a serious attitude to the future life only more “warmed up” the four friends, and for the first time they went to Tallinn for the first time without the bored care of adults...

My Younger Brother

1962

The Gypsy poster
8.0

Based on the story of the same name by Anatoliy Kalinin. A young village woman, Klavdiya Pukhlyakova, the mother of a newborn girl, finds a gypsy boy at the crushed kibitka under the tanks. Having pity on the child, she takes him home and raises him as her own son. 17 years pass. Once in the village appears a lonely gypsy Budulai, who has experienced a lot. He very quickly gained the sympathy of Pukhlyakova's adoptive son. Suspecting that Budulai is the father of her gypsy boy, Klavdiya fears that the peace of the family will be disturbed...

The Gypsy

1967

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors poster
6.9

Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya: where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality.

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors

1963

Big "Wick" poster
8.0

A satirical express train sets off on its way. The driver S. Mikhalkov gives a farewell beep ... On the first carriage an inscription - "Summer cottage". The following are 8 short stories ...

Big "Wick"

1964

When Cossacks Do Cry poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

When Cossacks Do Cry

1964

The End of 'Saturn' poster
4.9

A second part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.

The End of 'Saturn'

1968

A Tale of Lost Times poster
6.3

Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to their real age.

A Tale of Lost Times

1964

The Road to 'Saturn' poster
4.9

A first part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.

The Road to 'Saturn'

1967

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

Children of Don Quixote poster
7.4

A film about the large family of the head of a maternity hospital. Living by very strict moral standards and nicknamed Don Quixote for this, he brings up his sons in the same spirit. And the sons turn out to be worthy of their father, although they often have to overcome various, both serious and comic, difficulties in life.

Children of Don Quixote

1966

Third Time poster
5.0

The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team of Soviet prisoners of war, former "Dinamo". It happened in Kiev on June 22, 1942. Anticipating the possibility of losing, the Germans made a condition — defeat or death. If the Germans won, the Soviet footballers were promised freedom...

Third Time

1963

Clean Ponds poster
8.0

Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events.

Clean Ponds

1965

Trails of Altai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Trails of Altai

1964

Devil With a Briefcase poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Devil With a Briefcase

1966

When the Harpsichord Plays poster
NR

A student falls in love with a girl detained on a false suspicion of speculation.

When the Harpsichord Plays

1966

Your Son and Brother poster
6.8

Old Yermolai lived all his life in one village. He has four sons, each with their own problems. The youngest foolishly ended up in jail and, three months before his release, greatly missing his family, escaped.

Your Son and Brother

1966

The Invincible Battalion poster
NR

The film is about events which has happened with the "Potyomkin" ship.

The Invincible Battalion

1965

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

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

Yeralash poster
6.6

The children's humorous film magazine "Yeralash" is a one-of-a-kind work of cinematography that ironically approaches the solution of everyday problems, focusing on the views and needs of modern society, allowing different generations to achieve mutual understanding.

Yeralash

1974

Open Book poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Open Book

1980

Entrance to the Maze poster
6.3

A Russian mystery miniseries set both in medieval times and in the days of Perestroika.

Entrance to the Maze

1990

Olga Sergeevna poster
6.0

The story of Olga Sergeevna, a renowned oceanographer. Throughout her life, Olga Sergeevna loved only one man, with whom she was never destined to find happiness.

Olga Sergeevna

1975

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

Бедная Маша poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Бедная Маша

1982