
Acting
Lidiya Smirnova
Born — Died
1915-02-13 — 2007-07-25
Place of birth
Tobolsk, Russian Empire [now Tyumen Oblast, Russia]
Known for
Acting
Credits
59 titles
Known for
7.6Fitil 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
To Remember
1993
7.6Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp.
Welcome, or No Trespassing
1964
NRFour soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.
The Last Fort
1972
NRA second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.
Aniskin and Fantomas
1974
7.0A 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
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
NRThe struggle among the interested parties will intensify. Additionally, the blackmailer Evgeny threatens to publish the diary entries of the artist Ivanitsky, which could compromise all members of his family if they do not pay him for his silence.
Heiresses 2
2005
8.5It is a documentary story about five legends of russian cinema: Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Tatyana Samoylova, Lidiya Smirnova and Vera Vasileva. These wonderful women tell about their lifes and careers in hour interview.
There is No Death For Me
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Heiresses
2001
1990s · 3 titles
4.4The story is about how a metropolitan writer, concerned about the “fifth point of his questionnaire,” instead of the noble or, at worst, rabbit fur assigned to him by rank, was given a “medium fluffy domestic cat” at the Literary Fund, and how he, previously quiet and inconspicuous, ventured to a “mutiny on a ship” confidently cutting through the waters of “socialist realism.”
The Hat
1990
3.0The life of the former actress Nelly Evgenievna and her neighbor Klim Efremovich passed by the sea. Now they live old age in a small resort town, spending days in memory of past youth, quarreling, reconciling, philosophizing ... But suddenly the granddaughter of Nelly Evgenievna comes to their humble abode ..
Shelter comedians
1995
7.0Autumn, 1968. Nadia, a young woman with strict views on life, a methodologist at the regional House of Culture, goes to the cinema with her friend Sasha. The premiere of the film "Three Poplars on Ivy" took place in their city. Suddenly it turns out that there are no tickets, and you can only buy one with your hands.
The Totalitarian Novel
1998
1980s · 7 titles
7.0A 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
NRThe film tells about the main stages of the history of the country's largest studio "Mosfilm", about the work of the creative team, introduces the viewer to the outstanding masters of Soviet cinematography, with such unique groups such as the Theater-Studio of Film Actors, with the workshops of the studio.
One Day of Mosfilm
1985
8.0A textile factory worker tries to breathe life into women's fashion.
It's Not Forbidden to Live Nicely
1982
4.7The reason for serious reflection by the staff of one of the typical enterprises in the country was the lack of powder necessary for production and the money to purchase it. The employees came up with a reason to get money from the director’s fund. Having issued a loan for a fictitious marriage between the only man in the department and an unmarried employee, the team thereby organized a completely happy marriage...
Loan for a Marriage
1988
10.0The film is a fantasy about how the destinies of Sergei and Varya Lukonin, a brave tanker and theater actress, could have turned out.
I Believe in Love
1987
6.6A 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
Sergeant Nikolai Gorovoy returns to his native village after serving in the Army and, overcoming all sorts of difficulties, raises the collective farm amateur art organization to a proper height. His intentions, persistence and enviable patience were not in vain: when the TV group "Hello, we are looking for talents" came to the village, a bright musical spectacle unfolded in front of the TV cameras.
Calm is Cancelled
1983
1970s · 11 titles
NRFour soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.
The Last Fort
1972
5.0The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov…
Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
1972
NRA 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Life on a Sinful Earth
1973
5.4A second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.
Aniskin and Fantomas
1973
5.4Makhonin buys dissertations from people who sell their knowledge and intellect, preparing candidate and doctoral dissertations for false scientists, because to defend themselves, you need connections, and they do not have them. Journalist Prosov exposes a group of adventurers from science.
Foam
1979
6.1In the house of Daria Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, former beauty and lioness of the capital, who even far from civilization still organizes her salon, a certain Baron, erudite and expert in philosophy, who promised to introduce his scientific research, is waiting. Instead of the expected celebrity arrives Dmitri Nikolaevich Rudin, whom the Baron instructed to deliver his article. Rudin charms everyone with his erudition, originality and logical thinking. Lasunskaya is determined to make the ornament of his salon. During the two months that Rudin spends at Lasunskaya's, he becomes indispensable to her. But Rudin's misfortune is that while he inflames others, he himself remains as cold as ice, never thinking that his words "may confuse and destroy a young heart".
Rudin
1977
5.5Having saved money for a summer cottage and having chosen a suitable house, the couple of Petrovs decided without hesitation to enter into ownership rights. Right from the savings bank, the wife goes to the garden plot, and the husband has to pay the owners in Moscow. However, a thick bundle of money disappears from his pocket ...
Country House
1973
NRAbout the district officer Fyodor Ivanovich Aniskin, who maintains order and legality in his native collective farm.
A Narym Divorce
1972
5.3Third and final part of the comedies about the funny adventures of countryside cop named Aniskin.
Aniskin Again
1977
5.5Thirty 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
1960s · 12 titles
7.6Children rebel against the strict rules and regulations they face during their time in a Communist Young Pioneer camp.
Welcome, or No Trespassing
1964
6.8Screen 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
5.7An important event is taking place in a small provincial town, an elderly rich prince arrives. The local "lioness" Maria Alexandrovna Moskaleva decides to marry him to her daughter Zinochka. But the "noble" Mordassov society is by no means inclined to voluntarily give up its positions: after all, in the head of every mother who has a marriageable daughter, the dream is to get a rich man as a son-in-law.
Uncle's Dream
1967
5.4It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasily Panin, a junker of a school of naval engineers, is one of those entrusted with this dangerous task.
Midshipman Panin
1960
6.8Moscow, 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
7.5A 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Разноцветные камешки
1960
7.0The vacation ends, and the secretary of the regional committee, Vasily Denisov, assumes his former duties. On this day, I had to delve into the very difficult case of the old communist Chernogus, the head of the museum, who was prosecuted for possession of weapons.
Secretary of the Regional Committee
1964
6.2Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate.
The Village Detective
1969
9.01918. After the death of the mother, the father decides to take the children to Moscow to see a distant relative. On the way, the guys experience a raid by a White Guard gang on a train, the death of their father, and meet the homeless child Yashka, who brings a plan to Lenin - how to destroy all the bourgeoisie and all the counter-propaganda in one day. The boys become involved in revolutionary events, and ahead is Moscow, a chance meeting and conversation with Lenin and Dzerzhinsky, the fight against counter-revolution...
In the Name of the Revolution
1964
8.0In the difficult post-war years, Evsei did not want to work in the ruined collective farm and, leaving his family, went to the city. However, after many years the hero began to agonize over the separation from his native place and decided to establish relations with his first family.
Заблудший
1966
4.5Many years ago, the geologist Ilya, together with his friend Peter, came to the island of Olkhovy near Sakhalin. Here they were searching for iron ore. Peter died during the prospecting work, while Ilya successfully continued the search.
Остров Ольховый
1962
1950s · 6 titles
7.0Semyon 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
6.0Twenty 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
7.3A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.
The Miners of Donetsk
1951
8.0The 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
9.0After 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Телеграмма
1957
1940s · 12 titles
8.0This 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
6.8The 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
5.0In the summer of 1932, Sergei Lukonin, a young man from Saratov, leaves his hometown for the distant city of Omsk to attend tank school. His fiancée, Varenka, who soon became an actress, remained in Saratov. In 1936, Sergei went to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He was wounded, taken prisoner, escaped, and returned to training battles, with June 1941 looming ahead.
Lad from Our Town
1942
4.9When 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
8.0Two officers of the Red Army find themselves in a struggle against foreign intelligence agents.
Two Friends
1941
5.8The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before her eyes. She and the other villagers leave to go into the woods. Pasha leads the villagers to fight some German troops. Coming out victories, the partisans become a feared opponent of the Germans, with the leadership of Comrade P.
No Greater Love
1943
5.8The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before her eyes. She and the other villagers leave to go into the woods. Pasha leads the villagers to fight some German troops. Coming out victories, the partisans become a feared opponent of the Germans, with the leadership of Comrade P.
No Greater Love
1943
5.0Three soldiers make their way into a city occupied by the Nazis.
Native Shores
1943
6.3Andrei Latonin had jumped with a parachute many times before, but on the day of the holiday he got scared and stayed in the cockpit of the plane. Deeply upset by his failure, Latonin decides to leave his homeland forever and joins a steamship as a sailor. On the way, Andrei meets an expedition group heading for the crater of an active volcano and joins the scientists.
Incident on a Volcano
1941
8.0Soviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.
Naval Battalion
1946
9.5No synopsis available yet.
New Home
1947
6.5In one of the regions of Latvia occupied by the Nazis, the Germans arrest a peasant boy named Janis. His first escape ends in another arrest. This time, he is detained by his younger brother, who has become a policeman. After his next escape, his wife Ilga and daughter are sent to a concentration camp. Now Janis is ready to do anything to save them.
The Road Home
1946
1930s · 2 titles
Series credits
7.6Fitil 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
To Remember
1993
NRA second story about countryside cop named Aniskin.
Aniskin and Fantomas
1974

