Lidiya Smirnova

Acting

Lidiya Smirnova

Born 1915-02-13 · Tobolsk, Russian Empire [now Tyumen Oblast, Russia]

Acting credits

The New Moscow poster
5.8

A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.

The New Moscow

1938

It Happened at the Police Station poster
7.5

A story about police detectives working on reuniting children and parents who got separated by WWII. Based on Izrail Metter stories.

It Happened at the Police Station

1963

It Can Not Be Forgotten poster
8.0

The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy agents. The story is pertinent due to resurgence of ultra-nationalist underground activity in Western Ukraine after World War II.

It Can Not Be Forgotten

1954

The Last Fort poster
NR

Four soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.

The Last Fort

1972

A Narym Divorce poster
NR

About the district officer Fyodor Ivanovich Aniskin, who maintains order and legality in his native collective farm.

A Narym Divorce

1972

A Fakir for an Hour poster
NR

A cheerful mix-up takes place at a provincial hotel when a newspaper reporter is mistaken for a famous hypnotist.

A Fakir for an Hour

1972

Two Friends poster
8.0

Two officers of the Red Army find themselves in a struggle against foreign intelligence agents.

Two Friends

1941

Steep Slides poster
7.0

Semyon Frolov returns to his native village of Krutye Gorki, as chairman of the Kolkhoz. The hero will have to sort out the embezzlement, convince and attract to his side the majority of proprietors, reconicle his feelings for Anna, whom he once loved, and give her the right to decide their future, when Anna's husband unexpectedly returns from prison.

Steep Slides

1956

My Love poster
4.9

When Shura's sister dies, Shura starts taking care of her newly orphaned niece. Her fiancee, Grisha thinks the child may be Shura's own, and his suspicions estrange them. This leaves the way clear for a shy neighbor who has loved her from afar to gain points as a potential mate. Stenberg's design is simple and effective - a strongly-colored portrait of the pensive heroine at a table that provides space for the title and limited credits.

My Love

1940

Welcome, or No Trespassing poster
7.6

Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp.

Welcome, or No Trespassing

1964

A Great Life, Part 2 poster
8.0

This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War.

A Great Life, Part 2

1946

Life on a Sinful Earth poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Life on a Sinful Earth

1973

The Journey Will Be Pleasant poster
6.6

A good girl, Luda, under the patronage of her father, works in a trade mission and studies in absentia at the Faculty of Economics of a Siberian university.

The Journey Will Be Pleasant

1983

The Son's Return poster
5.5

Thirty years after war's end a man in Kazakhstan contacts an old Russian woman to say he is her long-lost son.

The Son's Return

1977

Carnival poster
6.9

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.

Carnival

1981

No artwork available
NR

About the fate of a former prisoner of war, who returns to his homeland, to the Soviet Union.

Nastenka Ustinova

1934

Two Lives poster
6.0

Twenty years ago, Nastya Samokurova left the village in the city to seek happiness. Lived in the city, easy, easy life, engaged in speculation. And now she came to visit her sister Dasha, who continued to live in the collective farm and was universally respected.

Two Lives

1957

Native Shores poster
5.0

Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis.

Native Shores

1943

Silence poster
6.8

Screen adaptation of the novel by Yuri Bondarev. The demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enters the institute. Suddenly, according to the neighbor’s slanderous denunciation, his father is arrested — and Sergei, as the son of an “enemy of the people," is expelled from the party and institute. The guy goes to Kazakhstan, works at a construction site. He has many loyal friends and believes in justice...

Silence

1964

It's Not Forbidden to Live Nicely poster
8.0

A textile factory worker tries to breathe life into women's fashion.

It's Not Forbidden to Live Nicely

1982

Разноцветные камешки poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Разноцветные камешки

1960

We Await Your Victorious Return poster
6.8

The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows soldiers leaving their village for the front; in their absence, the desolate but resolute young women of the village assume responsibility for the business of the farm

We Await Your Victorious Return

1941

Three Came Out of the Woods poster
9.0

After the partisans Julia, Pavel and Sergei went out on a combat mission, the detachment was surrounded and destroyed by punishers. Years later, a document was discovered stating that one of the three was a traitor.

Three Came Out of the Woods

1958

The Marriage of Balzaminov poster
6.8

Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even a king — rich and domineering. In reality, poor Balzaminov is haunted by setbacks.

The Marriage of Balzaminov

1964