Nonna Mordyukova

Acting

Nonna Mordyukova

Born 1925-11-25 · Константиновка, УССР

Nonna (Noyabrina) Viktorovna Mordyukova was a distinguished Soviet and Russian actress, born on November 25, 1925, in the village of Konstantinovka, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. Mordyukova graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1950 and became known for her powerful performances and strong screen presence. She starred in numerous acclaimed films, including "The Commissar" (1967), "The Red Snowball Tree" (1974), and "Kinship" (1981). She was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and received various honors for her contributions to cinema. Nonna Mordyukova passed away on July 6, 2008, in Moscow, leaving a lasting legacy as one of Soviet cinema's most iconic actresses.

Acting credits

War and Peace poster
7.6

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

War and Peace

1968

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova poster
7.2

As 1809 nears its end, Natasha attends her first ball, where Andrei falls in love with her with the intent of marriage. However, as her father demands they wait, the prince travels abroad, leaving Natasha in desperate longing. But she meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets Andrei. Part two of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

1966

Incognito from St.Petersburg poster
6.0

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

Incognito from St.Petersburg

1978

The Diamond Arm poster
7.7

A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.

The Diamond Arm

1969

Restricted Area poster
NR

Central Russia. The deputy chairman of the district executive committee, Tretyakova, was instructed to organize work to eliminate the consequences of a tornado that suddenly hit the village. She has to come to terms with the indifference of summer residents from a neighboring village, untouched by the disaster. Relying on her own experience and the will of the victims, Tretyakova will do her best...

Restricted Area

1988

The Commissar poster
6.5

Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.

The Commissar

1967

The Polynin Case poster
5.0

A story about a love between a Soviet Army officer and an actress set during the WWII.

The Polynin Case

1970

Young People poster
8.5

She is smart, surrounded by parental attention and therefore not completely independent, and he is one of those who cannot imagine himself without creation, since he is a builder. They are very different people, but the young are united by a keen sense of responsibility for everything that happens around. And so, having parted, they will definitely meet again...

Young People

1971

They Fought for Their Motherland poster
7.0

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

They Fought for Their Motherland

1975

Étude for Dominoes and Grand Piano poster
NR

Life in an apartment house changes dramatically when a new lodger arrives with his grand piano.

Étude for Dominoes and Grand Piano

1983

Dearest Daughter poster
NR

Yuri Stepanovich Ipatov, who once held a high-ranking position, is dismissed from his post due to financial misconduct. Coming to terms with his guilt and deeply remorseful, he decides to return to the factory where he began his working life — this time as an ordinary laborer. However, in making this choice, Ipatov did not expect that his beloved daughter Natasha would not only disapprove, but would see it as humiliating to be the daughter of a "small" man...

Dearest Daughter

1987

Pavlukha poster
8.0

Twelve-year-old Pavlukha lives on a fishing farm with his mother. His father left his family long ago, in which, apart from Paulukha, he has two other children. To help his mother somehow, the boy goes to town to earn money...

Pavlukha

1962

Station for Two poster
7.3

Platon is travelling by train to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch where he meets Vera, a waitress. He refuses to pay for the food after which a series of unfortunate events unfold for the pair.

Station for Two

1983

The Return of Vasili Bortnikov poster
5.0

A veteran of World War II returns to civil life and the collective farm he once led, only to find his wife has re-married.

The Return of Vasili Bortnikov

1953

What a Mess! poster
6.7

A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.

What a Mess!

1995

Two Days of Anxiety poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Two Days of Anxiety

1973

By Faith and Honor poster
9.0

The question is what to build — palaces designed to last for centuries, or cheap concrete blocks that offer a quick fix to the housing crisis. Behind each of these choices stand scholars, architects, and Party officials.

By Faith and Honor

1979

Kin poster
6.1

The story follows Maria Konovalova who travels from her rural village to visit her daughter Nina in the city. Maria's arrival exposes the stark contrasts between rural and urban lifestyles and reveals deep-seated family tensions. Interestingly, Родня (Rodnya) in Russian sounds very similar to the word Родина (Rodina), which means "Motherland." The film features three generations of women — Maria, her daughter Nina, and her granddaughter Irina — symbolizing three different Russias: one from the past, one modern, and one representing the future.

Kin

1982

The Russian Field poster
7.3

Avdey, the husband of the tractor forewoman Fedosya leaves her for another woman. Their 18-year-old son Filipp can not forgive his father and on the day of the new wedding even tries to run over a tractor car in which the father is driving with a new wife. Shortly after the wedding, Avdey realizes that he made a fatal mistake and is trying to return to Fedosya, but she cannot forgive. Filipp was taken into the army, on the border where Filipp serves, an armed violation of the border occurs, during which he dies.

The Russian Field

1972

The Running Target poster
10.0

The story of how two lonely people met — a student Sanzhar, hiding from the authorities after student unrest, and baba Zina, who sheltered him in the house where she has been living since 1937.

The Running Target

1991

I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman poster
6.0

This glasnost-era documentary, which incorporates footage from films from the 1920s through the 1980s, looks at the history of women in Russian cinema through the eyes of Russian women directors, actors, and scriptwriters. The film’s title refers to a WWII slogan about women doing the work of absent men in the fields and at home. Featuring Kira Muratova, Natalia Ryazantseva, Inna Churikova, Nonna Mordyukova, and others.

I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman

1988

A Home for Tanya poster
5.8

The adopted daughter of Dr. Skvortsov, Tanya, having learned that her mother is alive, who was considered dead during the bombing of World War II, decides to go to her in a distant village on vacation.

A Home for Tanya

1959

Tomorrow Will Be Too Late poster
10.0

1943. Captain Ian Nalepke, Chief of Staff of the Slovak regiment, bearing protection of military facilities in the small town of Belarus contacts the partisansand passes to them the obtained information about upcoming operations of the German forces.

Tomorrow Will Be Too Late

1972

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